BEAT THE HEAT WITH COPRA!!
/COPRA #9
(W/A) Michel FiffeEmerald crime empresses from alternate dimensions. Plus, a lot of pink. These are all good things.
COPRA #9
(W/A) Michel Fiffe
COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! ep. #48!!
/It's the hottest Wednesday of the year--are you prepared to sweat it out in the Zanadu spirit lodge to obtain your precious weekly four color fix? That's right, for as hot out there as it is right now, it's doubly hot inside the store--but never fear!! We have our ever diligent (though stinky) attic monkeys who endured the white hot furnace of a still active volcano to learn the forgotten art of comic swilling at your service and we will not fail in our mission to bring you the most shiny, most lenticular and mostly dry comics of the last week of summer!!! (Insert super exaggerated, but ultimately bad ass and epic manga training sequence)
ZANADU INDY ALL STARS!!
/Joshua Chapman, creator of some of the strangest, yet most enjoyable comics to ever trickle though the door is back to bring his off brand of 90's humor, not choose your own adventure adventure books and cat gun control to our red racks!
FIELD GUIDE TO THE ALIENS OF STAR TREK TNG: SEASONS 1-7
(W) Joshua Chapman A zine written from the
perspective of an 11 year old boy in 1990 who is obsessed with the
character Data because he can’t deal with his mom’s panic attacks and
emotional outbursts. 52 pages, half-letter size. $1.50-3.00
LOVE IS NOT CONSTANTLY WONDERING IF YOU ARE MAKING THE BIGGEST MISTAKE OF YOUR LIFE
(W) Joshua ChapmanYou are an
ace starfighter pilot in the Galactic Space Force. Shot down over a
mysterious planet, you have been taken captive by a race of giant, super intelligent ants. However, the story is actually about your
relationship with a young woman named Anne, and your struggles to cope
with her alcoholism. Only with the right choices will you be able to
save your relationship and discover the secret of the Ant-Warriors! $5.00
A NOT CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE CHOOSE YOUR OWN ADVENTURE BOOK!
HOW TO TALK TO YOUR CAT ABOUT GUN SAFETY
(W) Joshua ChapmanDo I even need to write a description for this one? $2.00
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/11!!
/INHUMANS HC
(W) Paul Jenkins (A) Jae LeeThe Inhumans are one of Marvel's most enduring oddities. A race of genetic freaks living secluded in their island kingdom of Attilan, their mutations are self-endowed; as a coming of age ritual, each Inhuman exposes himself to the Terrigen Mists, a strange substance that imparts unearthly powers - some extraordinary, some monstrous. But now Attilan is under attack from without and within. Can the Royal Family, led by the mute Black Bolt, repel the foreign invaders who assail their outer defenses, as well as the internal threat of Black Bolt's insane brother, Maximus the Mad? Paul Jenkins and Jae Lee infuse one of Marvel's oldest families with a modern sensibility - including international politics, class dissension and the age-old struggle of growing up. Dark and grimly compelling, it remains one of Marvel Knights' most beloved stories. Collecting INHUMANS (1998) #1-12.
recommended by erin.
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/11!!
/MIGHTY AVENGERS #1
(W) Al Ewing (A) Greg Land INFINITY TIE-IN! new ongoing series!
FROM THE BATTLEFIELDS OF INFINITY COMES THE MIGHTY AVENGERS!
• The Avengers are light-years away in space, contending with the
Builders! Thanos' marauders ransack the Earth, doing as they please! Who
will stand in defense of mankind?
• Luke Cage! The Superior
Spider-Man! Spectrum! The White Tiger! Power Man! And a mysterious
figure in an ill-fitting Spider-Man Halloween costume! These unlikely
heroes must assemble when no one else can-against the unrelenting attack
of Proxima Midnight!
RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/11!!
/BEST OF MILLIGAN AND MCCARTHY HC
(W/A) Peter Milligan and Brendan McCarthyOne of comics' most fruitful collaborations gets its due in this deluxe collection of hard-to-find gems from Peter Milligan (Hellblazer, X-Statix) and Brendan McCarthy (Judge Dredd, The Zaucer of Zilk There is still nothing else like Freakwave, Paradax!, Skin, and Rogan Gosh, and this volume is the ideal starting place for new readers! Collecting twenty years' worth of the pair's finest work from Vanguard Illustrated, Strange Days, 2000 AD, and Vertigo.
Wake up all you drop outs and seekers, the neon psychedelic bible for the next century is here and it comes in a shiny shrink wrapped package fit for immediate consumption!! Forged in the dark, hazily lit corners of bars and back rooms of 1980s England, two art school punks set out to create a new type of comic, one that reads like a drug, injecting you with the pure desire to create--no matter what the form. This is like the first Velvet Underground album...it didn't sell a lot when it came out, but every person who bought one went on to create a band of their own. The fact that it has taken 20+ years to get this material in front of people's faces is a damn crime, so make sure you've got your supplies and get ready to go for a ride!!!
RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/11!!
/INFINITY HUNT #1
(W) Matt Kindt (A) Steven Sanders INFINITY TIE-IN!
• Hank Pym, Wolverine, and She-Hulk bring the students of the Marvel Universe together to announce a new CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS!
• This CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS pits the super students of schools all
over the Marvel U (including some you've never seen before) against each
other.
• However, the Contest is interrupted when Thanos' forces descend on Earth. What do they have to do with the young heroes?
RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/11!!
/BOXERS AND SAINTS GN
(W/A) Gene Luen YangIn two volumes, Boxers & Saints tells two parallel stories. Boxers follows Little Bao, whose village is plundered by Western missionaries. Inspired by visions of the Chinese gods, he joins a violent uprising against the Western interlopers. In Saints, Yang lays out the opposite side of the conflict. A girl whose village has no place for her is taken in by Christian missionaries and finds a home with them. As the Boxer Rebellion gains momentum, Vibiana must choose between her country and her faith. Boxers & Saints offers a penetrating insight into not only one of the most controversial episodes of modern Chinese history, but into the very core of our human nature.
Available as single volumes or deluxe box set!!
RECOMMENDED BY HOWARD!!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/11!!
/BALLISTIC #2
(W) Adam Egyt Mortimer (A) Darick RobertsonThis madcap sci-fi buddy adventure about a wanna-be bank robber and his best-friend Gun, a drug-addicted, foul-mouthed, living gun, marks Darick Robertson's return to the hard sci-fi worldbuilding of his classic Transmetropolitan mixed with The Boys' ultra-violence and the lunacy of Happy.
RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!
SMALL PRESS SPOTLIGHT
/AFTER TWILIGHT
Gary L. Watson, Richard P. Alvarez and Sandra E. Yates (w), Douglas Brown (a)
Texas, 2022 - The Lone Star State is in a bloody war with the United States to become a separate fundamentalist Christian nation. A sinister force of religious policemen carries sinners off to "Redemption Camps" for salvation...if they survive. Young librarian, Jen Frazier, really wants to be invisible to the oppressive government that has taken over Texas where reason is outlawed and blind faith rules. But her plan to isolate herself from the madness surrounding her is thwarted by her vivacious and high-spirited younger sister who embraces the underground resistance.
This is a frightening look at where we may be headed in a society where extremism (on both ends of the spectrum) has primary control of policy.
Cover of After Twilight #3 by Douglas Brown
We have the whole 6-Issue series available now at Zanadu Comics. For more information on the whole After Twilight Movie/Publishing agenda, please see their website HERE
SHIPPING LIST FOR 9/11!!
/Visit our shipping next week section for a list of new and back in stock items arriving on Wednesday, September 11th!!
ROBOCOP TP
(W) Frank Miller (A) Juan Jose RypFor the first time in years, fans will get the chance to see Robocop 2 as Frank Miller envisioned. This series adapts the famous Frank Miller Robocop 2 screenplay into an epic 9 issue run full of malicious black humor, offviolence, and insanity! This book packs all the punches that fans craved from the sequel and so much more!
COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #47!!
/While some of you may be saying that Morgan and Casey were a bit premature in their succession to the side of EVIL as this week sees the release of the first wave of DC's much touted, highly shiny and somewhat controversial Villain month! To that we say, NAY! We are just that far ahead of the curve. While you all are still on this EVIL thing, the Zanadu Monkeys have embraced that which is the infinite, that which is the nothing, that which is.. NIHILISM!!
As most of you know, due to a small print run almost every store in the country only received a portion of their order, but fear not, we have regular 'flat' edition covers as well which should keep everyone in the EVIIIILLLL all month long. (and if you argue we will cut off your johnson, so there)
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/4!!
/CONAN: RED NAILS ORIGINAL ART ARCHIVES HC
(W) Robert E. Howard, Roy Thomas (A) Barry Windsor-SmithForty years after its initial release, Genesis West brings you once again the classic 59-page Conan tale "Red Nails," as adapted by Roy Thomas and Barry (Windsor) Smith. Scanned in color and presented at the size of the original art, this oversize hardbound edition faithfully captures the appearance of the actual pages as drawn in 1973.
RECOMMENDED BY PERRY!!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/4!!
/GOD IS DEAD #1
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A) Di AmorimLike a thunderbolt from heaven, the epic launch issue of GOD IS DEAD is here! East of West and Fantastic Four author JONATHAN HICKMAN launches a fierce new series that stomps where others fear to tread. Mankind has argued over the existence of gods since the dawn of time. In modern eras it's been fashionable to mock religious believers with taunts of scientific testimony and fact. But when the gods of old begin to reappear on earth and claim the domain of man for their own, the world is thrown into a state of utter anarchy. Now Horus walks the streets of Egypt, Zeus has taken over the Sistine Chapel, and Odin is coordinating the dissection of the earth among the returned deities. Mankind held sway over the world for thousands of years and their hubris over that time has made them powerful but when faced with the divine, can mortal weapons put an end to the second coming of the gods?
Jonathan Hickman, master of the fantastically psychedelic turns his attention to one of the most debated subjects in the history of life--is there a god? gods? Well, after coming down from his last trip, Hickman clearly has the low down on the divine and is not afraid to beam it directly into your third eye!!
RECOMMENDED BY CASEY!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/4!!
/BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE #1
(W) Chip Kidd & Various (A) Michael Cho & VariousThe legendary, Eisner Award-winning series BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE returns in a brand-new six-issue miniseries featuring tales of The Dark Knight by some of comics' greatest writers and artists! This first issue kicks off with stories by Chip Kidd and Michael Cho, Neal Adams, Joe Quinones and Maris Wicks, John Arcudi and Sean Murphy, and Howard Mackie and Chris Samnee!
RECOMMENDED BY MORGAN!!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/4!!
/12 REASONS TO DIE #3
(W) Ghostface Killah & Various (A) Tyler Crook & VariousCreated by Wu-Tang Clan's Ghostface Killah and produced by The RZA, 12 Reasons To Die is a brutal tale of gangsters, betrayal, and one vengeful soul hunting the 12 most powerful crimelords in the world.
RECOMMENDED BY SAM THE VIDEO MONKEY!!
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/4!!
/TRILLIUM #2
(W/A) Jeff LemireIn the heart of the Amazon jungle, Nika, a scientist from the year 3797, and William, an explorer from 1921, struggle not only to survive but to make sense of the mind-bending events that have pulled them together across space and time. The mysteries continue to pile up as Vertigo's new sci-fi epic launches into high gear!
recommended by erin.
EMPLOYEE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR 9/4!!
/STAR WARS: LUCAS DRAFT #1
(W) J.W. Rinzler (A) Mike MayhewBefore Star Wars, there was The Star Wars! This is the authorized adaptation of George Lucas's rough-draft screenplay of what would eventually become a motion picture that would change the world.
Annikin Starkiller is the hero . . . Luke Skywalker is a wizened Jedi general . . . Han Solo is a big green alien . . . and the Sith . . . Well, the Sith are still the bad guys. High adventure and derring-do from longer ago, in a galaxy even further away!!
RECOMMENDED BY HOWARD!!
ZANADU DIGITAL 2.0!!
/We are proud to announce that our digital storefront has been upgraded to T-1000 status and is ready to serve all of your digital comic needs. One of the biggest highlights is the ability to read comics on ANY device, including iPhones and iPads!!! To break it down for you right quick..
1. HTML-only - Site functions without additional 3rd party plug-in (Flash)
2. New "Browse" menu - Allows you to browse books by series, top rated, creator, genre and story arcs.
3. Gifting
4. Pre Orders
5. Wish Lists
6. Bundles - Company starter packs, plus full runs of new and classic series!
7. Subscriptions - Never miss an issue of your favorite series!
So if you've been hesitant about digital comics, now is the perfect time to give it a shot--not as a way to replace paper comics, but to augment, to fill in those missing issues that sold out too fast or if you're just too lazy to dig the issues out, our digital storefront is there for you.
See you in Cyberspace! (click to be dematerialized)
COMICS SHOULD SMELL GOOD!! EP. #46!!
/EEEEEVIIILLLL!! Super EEEVVVIIILL!!! Feel it boiling inside you, rumbling from the very depths of your soul until it consumes the totality of your being and all your thoughts turn EEEEVIIILLLLL!!!! That's right, we're talking Earth-3 Crime Syndicate, beat up a blind old lady for a banana kind of EVIL, here. In fact, the presence of EVIL was so great this week that our Venerable Video Monkey was the unfortunate victim of Casey and Morgan's EVIL psy-magik experiments! To their horror, they had created... LADY VIDEO MONKEY!!! (and clearly the gender change affected his/her light perception, so bear with us, thank you.)
Have an EVIL Wednesday!!
