VELOCITY COMICS NEWSLETTER 5/31/09

Hey gang, hope this finds everyone happy, rested, and prepared for all the challenges that the future will bring. And there will be challenges, oh yes there will.

THE GOOD NEWS: I'm alarmingly excited to announce that the winner of our big, exciting, DRAW X-MEN DREAM TEAM contest is NICK ARCARO. Nick somehow managed to pull himself long enough turn in a stunning entry, and for his trouble he shall be awarded 100 bucks in store credit. Thanks to everyone who bothered to participate, and hang in there for the forthcoming announcement of our next big contest. HINT: IT WILL INVOLVE RAP BATTLES.

NEW COMIC-BASED MOVIE ALERT: http://surrogates-movie-trailer.blogspot.com.

SHIPPING THIS WEEK and NOTEWORTHY RELEASES, available WEDNESDAY.

32 STORIES COMPLETE OPTIC NERVE SP DEFINITIVE ED B 19.95
AGENTS OF ATLAS #6 DKR 2.99
ALTER EGO #86 6.95
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #596 DKR 2.99
ANGEL NOT FADE AWAY #2 3.99
ANITA BLAKE LC NECROMANCER #2 (OF 5) (MR) 3.99
ASTONISHING TALES #5 3.99
ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK THREE #2 (OF 4) 3.99
ATOMIC ROBO SHADOW FROM BEYOND TIME #2 (OF 5) 3.50
AUTHORITY #11 2.99
BANG TANGO #5 (OF 6) (MR) 2.99
BATGIRL REDEMPTION TP 19.99

BATMAN AND ROBIN #1 2.99 -- Whatever you do, stay alive and out of jail until at least Wednesday, because otherwise you'll miss out on GRANT MORRISON and FRANK QUITELY ON BATMAN. The totality of human history has been building up to this. It's been described as the 60's Batman show directed by David Lynch. If that sounds appealing to you, let's party.

BATMAN AND ROBIN #1 VAR ED 2.99
BIOGRAPHIC NOVEL 14TH DALAI LAMA GN 15.95
BLACK PANTHER 2 #5 DKR 2.99
BOYS #31 (MR) 2.99

BTVS TALES OF THE VAMPIRES ONE SHOT BA & MOON CVR 2.99 -- BECKY CLOONAN and VASILIS LOLOS team up for a Buffy one-shot that's sure to be equal parts awesome and neat-o. That's my kind of math. That, and algebra. I LOVE MATH.

BTVS TALES OF THE VAMPIRES ONE SHOT JO CHEN COVER 2.99
CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI13 ANNUAL #1 3.99

CHEW #1 (MR) 2.99 -- Wild card pick of the week! This new Image series follows the adventures of a detective with a very strange power that involves eating weird things. It's like Law and Order plus Fear Factor minus being on television plus being a comic minus commercials. But there are print ads. So I guess that renders the whole equation invalid. Maybe I don't love math after all...

CONAN THE CIMMERIAN #11 2.99
DAREDEVIL NOIR #3 (OF 4) 3.99
DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS BY BRUBAKER & LARK HC VOL 01 74.99
DARK AVENGERS #5 DKR 3.99
DARK AVENGERS #5 YOUNG GUNS PHAM VAR DKR 3.99
DEAD IRONS #4 (OF 4) 3.99
DEAD ROMEO #3 (OF 6) 2.99
DEAD RUN #1 3.99
DEADPOOL SUICIDE KINGS #3 (OF 5) 3.99
DEADPOOL TP VOL 01 SECRET INVASION 14.99
DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS SERIES 2 #7 3.99
DRAGONBALL VIZBIG ED GN VOL 04 17.99
EUREKA TP VOL 01 (OF 4) 15.99
EXILES #3 2.99
FARSCAPE HC VOL 01 29.99
FARSCAPE STRANGE DETRACTORS #3 (OF 4) 3.99
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH RUN #2 (OF 6) 2.99
GI JOE MOVIE PREQUEL #4 SNAKE EYES 3.99
GIANT ROBOT #58 (C: 0-1-2) 4.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS SINS OF THE STAR SAPPHIRE TP 14.99
HALO UPRISING PREM HC (RES) (MR) 24.99
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #14 (MR) 2.99
HOUSE OF MYSTERY TP VOL 02 LOVE STORIES FOR DEAD P 14.99
IRREDEEMABLE #3 3.99
JERSEY GODS #5 3.50
JONAH HEX #44 2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA TP VOL 03 INJUSTICE LEAG 17.99
MIGHTY #5 2.99
MIGHTY AVENGERS #25 DKR 2.99
MOOMIN COMPLETE TOVE JANSSON COMIC STRIP HC VOL 04 19.95
MUPPET SHOW #3 (OF 4) 2.99
NEW AVENGERS REUNION #4 (OF 4) DKR 3.99
NEW MUTANTS #2 2.99
NEW MUTANTS #2 BENJAMIN VAR 2.99
OCEAN TP NEW EDITION 19.99
OFFICIAL INDEX TO MARVEL UNIVERSE #6 3.99

PHOTOGRAPHER GN INTO WAR TORN AFGHANISTAN 29.95 -- New from Emmanuel Guibert, him of Alan's War. Sure to be packed with all the goofball surrealist humor you would expect, based on the title.

PROTOTYPE #3 (OF 6) (MR) 3.99
PS238 #39 2.99
PUNISHER MAX HC VOL 05 (MR) 34.99
PUNISHER MAX NAKED KILL #1 (MR) 3.99
SCALPED #29 (MR) 2.99
SEAGUY THE SLAVES OF MICKEY EYE #3 (OF 3) (MR) 3.99
SECRET SIX #10 2.99
SENTRY TP AGE OF SENTRY DM ED 19.99
SHAMAN WARRIOR TP VOL 07 12.95
SHE-HULK TP VOL 09 LADY LIBERATORS 14.99
SHONEN JUMP JULY 09 4.99
SKAAR #11 2.99
SOLOMON GRUNDY #4 (OF 7) 2.99
SPAWN #192 2.95
STRANGE ADVENTURES #4 (OF 8) 3.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN FINEST WORLDS HC 19.99
SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #4 (OF 12) 2.99
SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #4 OF(12) VAR ED 2.99
SWAMP THING TP VOL 02 LOVE AND DEATH 19.99
TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE #5 (MR) (C: 0-0-1) 4.50
TERRY MOORES ECHO TP VOL 02 ATOMIC DREAMS 15.95
TIMESTORM 2009/2099 SPIDER-MAN 3.99
TORCHWOOD GN RIFT WAR (C: 0-1-2) 14.95
TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED TP VOL 09 7.99
TRANSFORMERS BEST O/T UK CITY OF FEAR #5 3.99
TRANSFORMERS MOVIE TP 17.99
TRANSFORMERS REVENGE FALLEN MOVIE TP 17.99
TRANSFORMERS REVENGE O/T FALLEN MOVIE ADAPT #3 3.99
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #133 3.99
ULTIMATUM #1 (OF 5) 2ND PTG FINCH VAR 3.99
ULTIMATUM #2 (OF 5) 3RD PTG FINCH VAR 3.99
ULTIMATUM #4 (OF 5) 3.99
ULTIMATUM #4 (OF 5) MCGUINNESS VAR 3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN LOVELORN TP 15.99
UNIVERSAL WAR ONE REVELATIONS #3 (OF 3) (MR) 5.99
UNWRITTEN #1 (MR) 1.00
WAR OF KINGS #4 (OF 6) 3.99
WAR OF KINGS #4 (OF 6) JAE LEE VAR 3.99
WARLORD #3 2.99

WEREWOLVES ON THE MOON VERSUS VAMPIRES #1 (OF 3) 3.50 --If the title of this isn't enough to get you excited, maybe the fact that it's drawn by the awesome Filibach Brothers (Maxwell Strangewell) will.

WOLVERINE REVOLVER #1 3.99
WONDER WOMAN LOVE AND MURDER TP 12.99
YOULL NEVER KNOW HC VOL 01 A GOOD AND DECENT MAN 24.99

I bumped my noggin'
Tom Batten