Hello, all--
Tom is on sabbatical this weekend, so I'll be handling the newsletter. Seems Tom threw his back out giving his roommate Jake the Heimlich Maneuver twice in a row and has been put on bed rest until further notice. Get better soon, hero!
CRUMB! Have you heard the echoes whispering down the streets of our fair city? I thought I had officially announced this a few weeks ago, I apologize. ROBERT CRUMB IS COMING TO RICHMOND! In one of only 5 stops in the USA later this year to promote his long-gestating project THE BOOK OF GENESIS ILLUSTRATED, Mr. Crumb will spend the evening with a few thousand of his biggest fans at the newly renovated Carpenter Center. And Velocity Comics is working with the University of Richmond's Modlin Center for the Arts to bring him here in style! Mark your calendars for Tuesday, October 27th! This is the kind of event that only comes around once in the bluest of moons for comix fans. For more information and updates visit
CLOSED! We'll be closed on Saturday, July 4th for Independence Day. The good news is, due to the holiday falling on a Saturday, we will likely be getting our new books the next week on the day our founding fathers intended, Wednesday. I'll confirm that by next week's newsletter.
DRAW! The idea for the next DRAW! contest came to me in a fever dream after mixing too many types of wine while watching 'The Bachelorette.' I'm not proud of it, but I value honesty. Sharpen your pencils for BAR FIGHT! Interpret fairly liberally, folks, with a couple of rules to keep in mind:
1. Your image must have at least 2 characters. They can be from comics, politics, television, that secret place in your soul you're afraid to share with people, your last prison stint, wherever.
2. They gotta be in a bar. No free floating folks, effendi. I'm challenging you to include an appropriate environment in which your selected individuals can exist.
3. There's gotta be fighting.
Did you guys know the winner of these DRAW things gets $100 in store credit? That'd get you like 1/3 of Marvel's output this past week, am I right? Bam!
ANGEL FANS! (vampire, not mutant) If you don't want IDW's ANGEL title on your pull list any longer will you PLEASE just tell me? I'm wasting valuable resources ordering this book, and the only reason it's in your box is because you told us to put it there. We are seeing an alarming number of folks leaving it behind without telling us. PLEASE JUST TELL US! We won't be mad. I don't read the book nor do I get any strange satisfaction from selling it to you. Help us stay healthy and keep unnecessary expenses low. Be a pal.
SHIPPING LIST w/ PICKS! for Wednesday, July 1st:
AGENTS OF ATLAS #7 DKR 2.99
ANGEL #23 3.99
ANGEL #23 10 COPY RUNGE VIRGIN CVR INCV
ASTONISHING TALES #6 3.99
ASTOUNDING WOLF-MAN #17 2.99
ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK THREE #3 (OF 4) 3.99
AUTHORITY #12 2.99
BANG TANGO #6 (OF 6) (MR) 2.99
BATMAN AND ROBIN #2 2.99 Oh, hey, look... the BEST SUPER HERO COMIC OF THE YEAR is out again this week. Neat.
BATMAN AND ROBIN #2 VAR ED
BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #31 2.99
BATTLESTAR GALACTICA FINAL FIVE #4 (OF 4) 3.99
BLACK PANTHER TP WHO IS BLACK PANTHER 19.99
BOYS #32 (MR) 2.99
BOYS TP VOL 04 WE GOTTA GO NOW (MR) 19.99 Maybe the best story arc so far of Garth Ennis' provocative bloody epic.
BRAVE AND THE BOLD WITHOUT SIN TP 17.99
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #26 CHEN CVR 2.99
BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #26 JEANTY CVR 2.99
CABLE #16 2.99
CALIBER TP VOL 01 FIRST CANON OF JUSTICE 14.95
CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #1 (OF 5) 3.99 Marvel's been tight lipped on this one, but Brubaker writes well, Bryan Hitch draws well, so it's probably worth looking at. Don't you think?
CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #1 (OF 5) CASSADAY VAR
CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #1 (OF 5) SKETCH VAR
CHEW #2 (MR) 2.99 Get greased up, speculators, this one's already sold out at the publisher level, too! One per customer!
CLASSIC GI JOE TP VOL 04 19.99
COMICS JOURNAL #298 11.99
CROSSED #6 (OF 9) (MR) 3.99
DAREDEVIL FATHER TP 19.99
DAREDEVIL NOIR #4 (OF 4) 3.99
DEAD ROMEO #4 (OF 6) 2.99
DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #1 3.99
DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #1 MCGUINNESS VAR
DESTROYER #4 (OF 5) (MR) 3.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #854 3.99
DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS SERIES 2 #8 3.99
DR WHO MAGAZINE #409 7.99
EL DIABLO THE HAUNTED HORSEMAN TP 17.99
ESCAPE FROM WONDERLAND #0 (OF 6) 1.99
EXILES #4 2.99
EXISTENCE 2.0 #1 (OF 3) 3.50
FANTASTIC FOUR #568 2.99
FAR ARDEN HC (MR) 19.95
FARSCAPE STRANGE DETRACTORS #4 (OF 4) 3.99
FINAL CRISIS AFTERMATH RUN #3 (OF 6) 2.99
FINDING NEMO REEF RESCUE #1 (OF 4) (C: 0-0-1) 2.99
FIRE & BRIMSTONE TP VOL 01 14.95
GENUS PRESENTS BUN BUNS #1 (A) 4.99
GOON TP VOL 08 THOSE THAT IS DAMNED 15.95
GRAVEL #12 (MR) 3.99
GRAVEL #12 WRAP CVR (MR) 3.99
GREEK STREET #1 (MR) 1.00 Vertigo's on a bit of a hot streak with their recent debuts, like Unwritten, Air and Unknown Soldier. Sample this new Peter Milligan jam for a mere dollar! Greek myth made modern with a crime angle. Sounds intriguing.
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #38 (BLACKEST NIGHT) 2.99
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #38 VAR ED (BLACKEST NIGHT)
GREEN LANTERN RAGE OF THE RED LANTERNS HC 24.99
HERCULES TP VOL 01 THRACIAN WARS 14.95
IMMORTAL IRON FIST #27 3.99
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #15 DKR 2.99
IRREDEEMABLE #4 3.99
JONAH HEX #45 2.99
JUSTICE LEAGUE CRY FOR JUSTICE #1 (OF 7) CVR A 3.99 I want this to be really good.
JUSTICE LEAGUE CRY FOR JUSTICE #1 (OF 7) CVR B 3.99
JUXTAPOZ VOL 16 #7 JUL 2009 5.99
KNIGHTS OF THE DINNER TABLE #152 4.99
LOCKE & KEY HEAD GAMES #6 3.99
MARVEL DIVAS #1 (OF 4) 3.99
MIGHTY #6 2.99
MUPPET ROBIN HOOD #2 (OF 4) 2.99
MUPPET SHOW #4 (OF 4) 2.99
NELSON MANDELA GN AUTHORIZED COMIC BOOK 19.95
NEW AVENGERS #54 BACHALO VAR 3.99
OFFICIAL INDEX TO MARVEL UNIVERSE #7 3.99
OH MY GODDESS RTL TP VOL 12 10.95
POP WONDERLAND HC VOL 01 THUMBELINA 16.95
SAVAGE DRAGON #150 5.99
SCOURGE OF GODS FALL #1 (OF 3) (MR) 5.99
SECRET SIX #11 2.99
SOLOMON GRUNDY #5 (OF 7) 2.99
SONIC UNIVERSE #5 2.50
SOULFIRE #10 MICHAEL TURNER CVR 3.99
SPAWN #193 2.95
SPAWN ENDGAME TP VOL 01 14.99
SPIDER-MAN ELECTION DAY PREM HC 29.99
SPIRIT #30 2.99
STAR WARS INVASION #1 (OF 5) 2.99
STRANGE ADVENTURES #5 (OF 8) 3.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN SER 7 AQUAMAN ACTION FIGURE 15.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN SER 7 BATMAN ACTION FIGURE (NET) 15.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN SER 7 LIVE WIRE ACTION FIGURE (NET) 15.99
SUPERMAN BATMAN SER 7 SUPERMAN ACTION FIGURE (NET) 15.99
SWORD #18 (MR) 2.99
SYNCOPATED GN 16.95
TALES DESIGNED TO THRIZZLE HC VOL 01 24.99 Arriving sooner than expected! How often does THAT happen, hmm? Hey, if Conan O'Brien and Adult Swim swear by Michael Kupperman, by golly, you should, too.
TERRY MOORES ECHO #13 3.50
TICK AND ARTHUR COMPLETE WORKS TP 29.95
TOY STORY MYSTERIOUS STRANGER #2 (OF 4) 2.99
TRANSFORMERS SPOTLIGHT METROPLEX 3.99
UNCANNY X-MEN #513 BIANCHI VAR DAX
UNCANNY X-MEN #513 DAX 3.99
UNWRITTEN #1 2ND PTG (MR) 1.99
USA COMICS #1 70TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL 3.99
WAR OF KINGS #5 (OF 6) 3.99
WAR OF KINGS #5 (OF 6) CHOI VAR
WITCHBLADE #128 SEJIC CVR A 2.99
WITCHFINDER IN THE SERVICE OF ANGELS #1 (OF 5) 2.99
WONDER WOMAN AMAZONS ATTACK SC 19.99
Tom always has something pithy here, but I ain't got it in me tonight.
PKG/VC
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