VELOCITY COMICS NEWSLETTER 4/13/08-4/20/08

There’s something I’ve been meaning to tell you, and it’s this—electric fish don’t eat at Applebees’s, they only go there to meet women. You can see now why I’ve been reluctant to share that information, as it is sort of hard to swallow and, to some, could be potentially life changing. Yes, in many ways I am indeed ahead of my time.

KIRBY: The time has come for the Old Gods to die and voting to begin on our opulent DRAW KIRBY! CONTEST. Voting is beginning now as I type this, so if you happen to be at the store reading this in real time, you can be amongst the first to let your voice be heard. The winner gets some free comics, everyone else will be thrown into a shallow ditch and buried alive, man-power pending.

FCBD: We’re red hot moments away from this years FREE COMIC BOOK DAY. This year to save me from tears we’ll be flinging these suckers out on MAY 3rd. So go out the night before and see IRON MAN, then get up early and gobble up all the four color savings that you can. It’s like Thanksgiving, except that everyone doesn’t secretly hate it.

ATTN STUDENTS: If you’re planning to skip town over the summer, please let us know how you would like to handle your subscription box while you are gone. You should find a form in your box this week detailing the myriad options we offer, otherwise just let us know what you’re thinking and how you’re feeling and we’ll tell you the same, and then we’ll be so much closer to one another then we were before.

PICKS

X-MEN DIVIDED WE STAND #1- The DIVIDED WE STAND era comes to an impasse as everyone’s favorite not-so-merry mutants all get jammed up in adventures of all kinds, and if you don’t think that all this is leading into the sure to be historic, line re-defying UNCANNY X-MEN 500, then you should start taking night classes at the Community College, because that’s how these things work, hombre.

PIGEONS FROM HELL #1- When I was a boy and got all riled up, as boy’s sometimes do, my mother would order my nanny Consuelo to give me a glass of hot Tab and one soda cracker that had been dipped in Nyquil. That always brought me back to Earth and I don’t want to tell anyone how to live their life but if I had problems with Hell Pigeons, I would at least consider trying this tactic with them.

DC WILDSTORM DREAMWAR- Every man has his own special dream, and you’re dreams’ just about to come true. Life’s not as bad as it may seem if you open your eyes to what’s in front of you. We’re your dreamwar, boy’s we’ll make ya happy…yeah!

CTHULHU TALES #1- Don’t you remember when you told me CTHULHU, baby?

FAKER TP- Horror impressario MIKE CAREY presents this chilling tale of fakery, and presumably how that can go badly.

ALSO SHIPPING 4/16/08

100 BULLETS #90 2.99
76 #3 2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #557 2.99
AMORY WARS TP 01 SECOND STAGE TURBINE BLADE 14.99
ANNIHILATION CONQUEST #6 3.99
ARMY OF DARKNESS #8 LONG ROAD HOME 3.99
ATOMIC ROCKET GROUP 66 #1 4.95
AVENGERS CLASSIC #11 2.99
AVENGERS INITIATIVE #11 2.99
AWKWARD & DEFINITION GN 15.00
BAD PLANET #5 2.99
BADGER SAVES THE WORLD #5 3.99
BAT LASH #5 2.99
BATMAN AND THE OUTSIDERS #6 2.99
BATMAN STRIKES #44 2.25
BOOSTER GOLD #8 2.99
BRAVE AND THE BOLD #12 2.99
CAPTAIN ACTION #0 GULACY CVR 1.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #37 2.99
CAPTAIN MARVEL #5 2.99
CATWOMAN #78 2.99
CEREBUS TP VOL 05 JAKAS STORY 30.00 CLASSIC DAN DARE HC REIGN OF THE ROBOTS 29.95
COUNTDOWN TO FINAL CRISIS 2 2.99
CTHULHU TALES #1 3.99
DAMNED PRODIGAL SONS #1 3.50
DARKNESS #3 2.99
DC WILDSTORM DREAMWAR #1 2.99
DEADWORLD FROZEN OVER #2 3.99
DMZ #30 2.99
DOCTOR WHO #3 3.99
DR WHO MAGAZINE #394 7.99
FAKER TP 14.99
FEAR AGENT #20 HATCHET JOB 2.99
FLASH #239 2.99
GHOST RIDER #22 2.99
GOTHAM UNDERGROUND #7 2.99
GREEN ARROW YEAR ONE HC 24.99
GRENDEL BEHOLD THE DEVIL #6 (OF 8)
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #26 2.99
HELLBLAZER #243 2.99
HOWARD THE DUCK TP MEDIA DUCKLING 11.99
HUNTERS MOON TP 14.99
INCREDIBLE HERCULES #116 2.99 l
INFINITE HORIZON #3 2.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN OMNIBUS HC VOL 01 99.99
IRON MAN #28 3.99
IRON MAN LEGACY OF DOOM #1 2.99
JIM BUTCHERS DRESDEN FILES #1 3.99
JOHNNY HOMICIDAL MANIAC DIRECTORS CUT SC 19.95
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #138 4.99
LEGION OF SUPER HEROES IN THE 31ST CENTURY #13 2.25
LONE RANGER #11 2.99
MAD MAGAZINE #489 4.99 4.49 DC
MANGA STUDIO FOR DUMMIES SC W/ CD-ROM 24.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES AVENGERS TP VOL 05 DIGEST 7.99
NAOKI URASAWAS MONSTER TP VOL 14 9.99 NIXONS PALS GN 12.99
NOBLE CAUSES #32 3.50
NOBLE CAUSES ARCHIVES TP VOL 01 19.99
PATH GN COMX ED 12.95
PERHAPANAUTS #1 3.50
PIGEONS FROM HELL #1 2.99
PIRATES VS NINJAS GLOBAL HARMING ONE-SHOT 3.50
POWERS ANNUAL 2008 4.95
PROGRAMME #10 2.99
PS238 TP VOL 05 EXTRATERRESTRIAL CREDIT 15.99
PUNISHER WAR JOURNAL PREM HC VOL 03 19.99
RAMAYAN 3392 AD TP VOL 02 RELOADED 14.99
RED SONJA TRAVELS TP 19.99
REX MUNDI DH ED #11 2.99
ROBIN #173 2.99
SADHU TP VOL 02 SILENT ONES 14.99
SALVATION RUN #6 2.99
SHOWCASE PRESENTS LEGION OF SUPER HEROES VOL 02 16.99
STAR TREK YEAR FOUR ENTERPRISE EXPERIMENT #1 3.99
STAR WARS EPISODE V EMPIRE STRIKES BACK 9.95
STRANGE DETECTIVE TALES DEAD LOVE #3 3.95 STRANGE GIRL TP VOL 04 GOLDEN LIGHTS 13.99
STREET FIGHTER III MANGA TP VOL 02 RYU FINAL 12.95 STUPID COMICS PHOENIX ED GN 9.99 SUICIDE SQUAD RAISE THE FLAG #8 2.99
SUPER 7 MAGAZINE THE BOOK HC #16 39.95
SUPERMAN #675 3.99
SWORD #7 2.99
TANGENT SUPERMANS REIGN #2 2.99
TEEN TITANS YEAR ONE #3 2.99
TOYFARE #130 INDIANA JONES CVR 4.99
ULTRA TP VOL 01 SEVEN DAYS 17.95
UN-MEN TP VOL 01 GET YOUR FREAK ON 9.99
UNCLE SCROOGE #374 7.99
WALT DISNEYS COMICS & STORIES #689 7.99
WAR IS HELL FIRST FLIGHT PHANTOM EAGLE MAX #2 3.99
WILDSTORM ARMAGEDDON TP 17.99
WOLVERINE ORIGINS #24 2.99
WONDERLOST #2 5.99
WORLD OF WARCRAFT #6 2.99
WORLD WAR HULK AFTERSMASH WARBOUND #5 2.99
WORLDS OF DUNGEONS & DRAGONS #1 5.50
X-FACTOR #30 2.99
X-MEN DIVIDED WE STAND #1 (OF 2) 3.99
ZOMBIES CALLING GN

love and Squalor,
Tom Batten