July 28, 2013

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/31!!

July 28, 2013/ Casey

UNCANNY X-FORCE #9

(W) Sam Humphries (A) Dalibor Talajic, Adrian Alphona

• The Fantomex Love Pentagram explodes!
• With the truth about their sordid past fully revealed, can Fantomex, Psylocke, and Cluster look each other in the eye?
• Every psychic ninja needs a vicious animal with no impulse control and a short temper to back her up...right?
• Puck! Man, does that guy love jerky. Especially buffalo and bison jerky, dipped in Canadian whiskey.
• Plus: a terrifying surprise villain from the X-past is definitely playing chess, not checkers, across Los Angeles.

Iinitially, I was completely disinterested in this new incarnation of X-Force, despite the bad-ass line up. I'll admit, it was the creative team that put me off as the only thing I knew about Humphries was 'Fanboys VS Zombies' which, well, y'know. Regardless, I finally sat down and read the first arc and let me be the first to say I was WRONG! This book is friggin' rad! Psylocke! Spiral! Fantomex x 3!!! All slicing and dicing and dancing and dealing drugs and having strange three ways with clones of themselves--this book just doesn't let up!! It's dumb, fun and filled beautiful women fighting each other. What more do you want?

RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!

July 28, 2013

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/31!!

July 28, 2013/ Casey

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY #5

(W) Brian Michael Bendis, Neil Gaiman (A) Sara Pichelli

Special guest writer NEIL GAIMAN!!
Spinning out of the dramatic conclusion of Age of Ultron, dimensions collide and Heaven's most fearsome Angel pushes the Guardians back on their heels.

RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!!

July 28, 2013

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/31!!

July 28, 2013/ Casey

THE WAKE #3

(W) Scott Snyder (A) Sean Murphy

A new species has been discovered at the bottom of the ocean, and as a result people are dying. Is it the missing link? Or a link to something even bigger? Marine biologist Lee Archer and her crew have to find out before things get much, much worse...

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/31!!

July 28, 2013/ Casey

COLLIDER #1

(W) Simon Oliver (A) Robbi Rodriguez

It started small: temporary gravity failures, time reversal loops, entropy reversals. With much fanfare a new government agency was formed with a mandate "to prevent and protect." Its official title: The Federal Bureau of Physics. Humans, if nothing else, adapt to the changing parameters of their existence. What was extraordinary soon became ordinary, a part of people's daily lives. They move on and do what people have always done: survive. But even that new status quo is now under threat. Things are getting worse, and it falls to Special Agent Adam Hardy and his FBP team to figure out what's going on, before it's too late...

recommended by erin.

July 28, 2013

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/31!!

July 28, 2013/ Casey

ANIMAL MAN ANNUAL #2

(W) Jeff Lemire (A) Travel Foreman

Still reeling from the shocking death of his son, Buddy Baker is taking his grief out on the world around him. But in this special story, learn how the bonds of family can be stronger than the forces of evil-even when that evil is a horde of massive, slavering spiders!

RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!!

July 24, 2013

SHIPPING LIST FOR 7/31!!

July 24, 2013/ Casey

Visit our shipping next week section for a list of new and back in stock items arriving on Wednesday, July 31st!!!

INFINITE VACATION DLX HC

(W) Nick Spencer (A) Christian Ward

Welcome to the INFINITE VACATION, where alternate realities are up for sale, and buying and trading your way through unlimited variations of yourself is as commonplace as checking your e-mail.
At long last the brilliant and beautiful series that turned alternate realities on its ear, collected together for the first time in a beautiful, lavish, oversized hardcover.
All five issues, plus extras - and a five-page fold-out suitable for framing.

July 24, 2013

COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #40

July 24, 2013/ Casey

SMURFCRAAASHH 2099!!! So, this week, Morgan and Casey recorded what was probably the best smurf inspired video ever, but due to our Video Monkey's ghetto ass equipment, it was totally lost to the ether, never again to be rekindled. What we bring you this week, is a tribute to the greatest comic recommendation video ever made, that your heroic comic monkeys used in their showdown against papa smurf for the holiest of all Smurf treasures...Smurfette. Dirty, dirty monkeys....

July 22, 2013

NEW FRIGGIN' AWESOME AND AMAZING INDY COMIX!!

July 22, 2013/ Casey

For all you suckers who missed the boat on the best comic currently being published, don worry none, son, we gotcha covered... Bergen St. Press and Michel Fiffe are proud to present the second compendium collecting the sold-out, super hard to find issues #4-6 of COPPPRRRAAAAAAAAA!!!! (think like Cobra-lalalalalalalala sound here)

COPRA COMPENDIUM #2

(W/A) Michel Fiffe

Issues #4-6. $12. Do I need to convince you any more?? I'm sure you are tired of hearing me ramble about this book, but, whatever, screw it.

Oh yeah, and we also have compendium #1 in stock as well, plus issue #7 which picks up directly after the 2nd compendium!!

July 22, 2013

NEW INDY COMIX!!

July 22, 2013/ Casey

Straight from the hot hot heat of Houston, TX, comes a story about a boy and his robot! Move over Iron Giant, get junked Big Guy and Rusty and make way for Robbie and Bobby, endless searchers of fun, adventure and of course, video games!!! All from the mind of Jason Poland!! Check out his website for more fun fun fun!!! (and robots)

ROBBIE AND BOBBY TP VOL 01: A BOY AND HIS ROBOT

(W/A) Jason Poland

"Imagine a world where your best friend is a robot, you spend all day playing video games and bad things only happen for the sake of a gag. I wish I could live in this book."

- Alex Robinson, Box Office Poison and co-host of the Ink Panthers Show

Contains over 150 comics about the indestructible friendship of a robot and his boy, and previously unpublished bonus materials.

ROBBIE AND BOBBY TP VOL 02: BOTTOMLESS COFFEE AND CANDY CIGARETTES

(W/A) Jason Poland

"Not since Death of a Salesman has poverty and the harsh reality of the 'American Dream' been so artfully called into question."

–Christopher Reineman, Feel Afraid Comics

Bottomless Coffee and Candy Cigarettes is the nonlinear second installment of strips from the webcomic, Robbie and Bobby.

Contains over 120 comics about the indestructible friendship of a robot and his boy, and previously unpublished bonus material.

THE FLYING CASTLE AND OTHER TALES TP

(W/A) Jason Poland

"It’s ridiculously entertaining... [Jason] should be rich and famous."

- Kevin Bramer, Optical Sloth

In The Flying Castle, Bobby and Miss Bluestocking are made the unwilling guests of a magic castle that's full of puzzling characters and rooms full of danger. How will they escape??

This book also includes two bonus stories: The Magic Bike, and Roody and Pasqual, plus bonus panels and a bonus color map at the beginning. Lots of bonuses!

July 21, 2013

EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 7/24!!

July 21, 2013/ Casey

GAMMA

(W/A) Ulises Farinas (W) Erick Freitas

Dusty Keztchemal is a pathetic coward. He failed the entire planet, and now, the only way he can make a living is by getting punched in the face for money. But when a beautiful stranger wanders into his saloon looking for help, Dusty thinks he can conjure up the man he once was-the greatest monster trainer in the world!

I know nothing about this book. In fact, I only became aware of Ulises Farinas' work last week when the mind blowing Catalyst Comix dropped and at the top of the "OH SH*T" meter was this man's story about glam rock gangsters!! That's right, we're talking some Bowie shit here, people, and from the looks of this cover, we've only seen the tip of the psychedelic monster mound.