VELOCITY COMICS NEWSLETTER 7/5/09

Salutations, suckers. Hope everyone out there out a fun-tastic 4th filled with family, friends, fear, fudge, and finality. And may also those little puffy stickers that you get from the machines set outside grocery stores. Maybe ones that say "Best Friendzzzz" with a picture of a smiling bee.

ON TO THE NEWS!

We're ready, willing, and able to announce our NEW DRAW CONTEST! The theme this time: BAR FIGHT. The rules: Draw at least two characters having a fight in a bar. You must draw the bar. How hard is that? The prize? 100 bucks in store credit. Get those pencils warmed up and, in the words of Geordi Laforge, "Get to it, lads!"

By sometime this evening you should be able to access our all new, all paper-less cheat sheet on our website. I have it on good authority that as soon as the bits and bytes are in order, it'll be there waiting. Let us know what you want, we want to give it to you.

SHIPPING THIS WEEK and PICKS THEREIN:

100 BULLETS TP VOL 13 WILT (MR) 19.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #579 VILLAIN VAR 2.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #36 3.99
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY JMS ULTIMATE COLL TP BOOK 01 34.99
AMERICAN SURREAL ART OF TODD SCHORR HC 39.95
ANGEL #23 3.99
ANGEL NOT FADE AWAY #3 3.99
ANITA BLAKE LC NECROMANCER #3 (OF 5) (MR) 3.99
ARMY OF DARKNESS #22 3.50
ART OF HARVEY KURTZMAN HC 40.00

ASTERIOS POLYP GN 29.95 -- This might just be the most eagerly anticipated book of the whole ding dong year! If the creator were to wear a name-tag sticker, it would read DAVID MAZZUCHELU. if he were to wear a hat, it would be a crown, 'cuz this dude is the king. Long-awaited and sure to change the way you fasten your diapers.

ASTONISHING TALES #1 SILVESTRI VAR 3.99
BACK TO BROOKLYN TP (DIRECT MKT ED) (MR) 14.99
BATMAN #688 2.99
BOOSTER GOLD #22 3.99
BPRD 1947 #1 (OF 5) 2.99
CALL OF CTHULHU BAG OF CTHULHUS 14.95
CHEW #1 2ND PTG 2.99
DARK X-MEN BEGINNING #1 (OF 3) 60S DECADE VAR DAX 3.99

DARK X-MEN BEGINNING #1 (OF 3) DAX 3.99 -- It's most if not all that you could ever want to know about the all new Dark X-Men. What foods do they like? What time is it where they are?

DARKNESS #78 2.99
DRAFTED ONE HUNDRED DAYS ONE SHOT 5.99
ELEPHANTMEN WAR TOYS YVETTE (ONE SHOT) 3.50
EVERYBODY IS STUPID EXCEPT ME & OTHER ASTUTE OBSER 16.99
FAIRY TAIL GN VOL 07 10.99
FROM THE ASHES #2 3.99
FROM THE ASHES #2 3.99
GENEXT UNITED #3 (OF 5) 3.99
GI JOE ORIGINS #5 3.99
GOON TP VOL 08 THOSE THAT IS DAMNED 15.95
GREEN ARROW BLACK CANARY #22 3.99

GREEN LANTERN #43 (BLACKEST NIGHT) 2.99 -- It's the kick-off to the big BLACKEST NIGHT event that everyone is so excited about. Have you done enough to prepare? Anyone who comes in wearing one of those 'I Voted' stickers will receive a strange look and no discount.

GREEN LANTERN #43 VAR ED (BLACKEST NIGHT) 2.99
HOUSE OF MYSTERY #15 (MR) 2.99
HULK BROKEN WORLDS TP 15.99
HULK RED AND GREEN TP VOL 02 15.99
I AM LEGION #4 (OF 6) 3.50
JUNGLE GIRL SEASON 2 #5 (OF 5) 3.50
JUSTICE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL TP VOL 02 17.99
MARVEL ADVENTURES SPIDER-MAN #52 2.99
MS MARVEL #41 DKR 2.99
NO HERO #6 (OF 7) (MR) 3.99
NO HERO #6 (OF 7) WRAP CVR (MR) 3.99

NOBODY HC (MR) 19.99 -- New from VERTIGO, an all new tale by indy up-and-comer Jeff Lemire. The Invisible Man is looking to start over in a new town. A town filled...with people! Each image in this premiere hardcover was hand-drawn
by the creator himself and printed using cutting edge techniques previously available only in the Orient.

NORTH 40 #1 (OF 6) 2.99 -- An all new Wildstorm release brought to you by Aaron Williams and exciting new art find Fiona Staples. Something weird is going on in the North 40...I assume.

PIXU TP VOL 01 MARK OF EVIL 17.95
PRIDE & PREJUDICE #4 (OF 5) 3.99
PRINCE VALIANT HC VOL 01 1937-1938 29.99
PROOF TP VOL 03 THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO 14.99
PROTOTYPE #4 (OF 6) (MR) 3.99
PUNISHER FRANK CASTLE MAX #72 (MR) 3.99
REBELS #6 2.99
RED ROBIN #2 2.99
ROBERT JORDANS WHEEL OF TIME EYE O/T WORLD #1 3.99
SHONEN JUMP AUGUST 09 4.99
SINFEST TP DARK HORSE ED VOL 01 14.95
SKRULL KILL KREW #3 (OF 5) DKR 3.99
SOLOMON KANE TP VOL 01 CASTLE OF DEVIL 15.95
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #202 2.50
STAND AMERICAN NIGHTMARES #4 (OF 5) 3.99
STORMWATCH PHD #22 2.99
STRANGE ADVENTURES OF HP LOVECRAFT #3 (OF 4) (MR) 4.99
STREET FIGHTER II TURBO #7 A CVR CRUZ 3.95
STREET FIGHTER II TURBO #7 B CVR WANG 3.95
SUPERMAN WHATEVER HAPPENED TO MAN OF TOMORROW HC 24.99
SUPERMAN WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #5 (OF 12) 2.99
T-MINUS GN RACE TO THE MOON 12.99
THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY #1 3.50
THOR TALES OF ASGARD BY LEE & KIRBY #3 (OF 6) 3.99
TOYFARE #145 GI JOE MOVIE TOYS CVR 4.99
TRANSFORMERS MAXIMUM DINOBOTS TP VOL 01 19.99
ULTIMATE MUSCLE GN VOL 23 7.95
UNCANNY X-MEN FIRST CLASS #1 (OF 8) 2.99
UNWRITTEN #3 (MR) 2.99
WAR OF KINGS WARRIORS #1 (OF 2) 3.99
WARLORD #4 2.99
WASTELAND #25 SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE (MR) 5.99

WEDNESDAY COMICS #1 (OF 12) 3.99 -- If someone were to print up some stickers that read I AM EXCITED ABOUT WEDNESDAY COMICS and offered them for sale, I would buy the entire print run and slap them on every surface in town. PAUL POPE. KYLE BAKER. NEIL GAIMAN. MIKE ALLRED. DAVE GIBBONS. and more.

WELCOME TO FOREST ISLAND HC (MR) 30.00
WITCHBLADE #128 SEJIC CVR A 2.99
WORLD WAR ROBOT TP VOL 02 11.99
X-MEN FOREVER #3 3.99
X-MEN LEGACY #226 DAX 2.99
X-MEN SHATTERING TP 34.99
ZOMBIES THAT ATE THE WORLD #4 (MR) 3.50

The King wants an account of the caramel in the cellar,
TOM BATTEN