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This Week on Marvel Omnibus

This week on Marvel Omnibus, Captain America lives! Don’t miss it! By Ed Brubaker featuring the return of Steve Rogers, this book collects Captain America # 43-50, #600-601 and Captain America Reborn #1-6 and continues Brubaker’s Eisner winning saga. Also this week, don’t miss the Atlantis Attacks omnibus. In the collection: Silver Surfer Annual #2, Iron Man Annual #10, Marvel Comics Presents #26, Uncanny X-Men Annual #13, Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23, Punisher Annual #2, Spectacular Spider-Man Annual #9, Daredevil Annual #4, Avengers Annual #18, New Mutants #76, Annual #4, X-Factor Annual #4, Web of Spider-Man Annual #5, Avengers West Coast #56, Annual #5, Thor Annual #14, and Fantastic Four Annual
#22. This late 80s book deals with Atlantis attacking the surface, and
not only that… they are taking the women with them! This one features
work from the likes of Bob Layton, John Byrne, Peter David, Rob Liefeld,
Paul Smith, Roy Thomas, and Steve Englehart, amongst others.

c2e2 2011 – Day 1

Welcome, welcome to our recap of the events of c2e2 day 1. Not a lot happened on the first day so rather than a bunch of little posts we’re compiling it all into one big post. Although you’ll probably not find it too long either. To kick off the day Kevin and I and all the other registered professionals, meaning exhibitors, panelists and press were invited to walk around the sales floor for the first four hours of the day. This was fun in the fact that we had the opportunity to see the booths before the crowd and map out where everything was. A booth we spent a lot of time at was Mattel’s booth. Mattel was displaying a lot of new action figures from Ghostbusters to He-Man and WWE. The largest display though came from the Green Lantern movie. 

You Missed That Issue? Celadore #1

Vampire hunters are cool.  They are tenacious and they are armed to the teeth with all the latest Vampire technology and they know all the ways how to kill a vampire.  Usually when you think of vampires, you think of big dudes, who have nothing to lose and are very cool and calm people, and for the most part the hunters are men with the exception of Buffy. That is not what you get when you read Celadore.

You Missed That Issue! – Small Gods #1

Welcome to another You Missed That Issue! where I will talk about a comic within the past decade that is a modern classic but was unfortunately overlooked.

I wasn’t expecting much from Small Gods, but I thought I’d try this title from Image publishers since it was free. Going back I would definitely pay for more. It deserves recognition for trying something new and without the classic tight-wearing superheroes with indestructible bodies. The art also takes a creative approach. It was in black-and-white, which seemed appropriate to me and I liked the way the characters were drawn. Few comics have been drawn in black-and-white and there are even fewer that can successfully pull it off but this title did a great job. The best piece of art I saw was a collection of visions the lead character has that have less shading and are clearly different from the rest. It was composed of two stories, but only one that I believe deserves the title of a modern classic since it shows innovation and creativity. Today, a lot of creativity is lost in series since people start buying a series just to see a character rather than experience a new and original story. Some people will settle for anything as long as it has there favorite character in it – I know, I am definitely guilty of this myself when a comic features Catwoman or the Clown Prince of Crime Joker.

Alpha Flight is Back… Again!

Ironically only a few days after I professed my love for
Alpha Flight in Alpha
Flight Changed My Life on the site I found out some important news on my
favorite Marvel Team that was announced a while ago on Comic Shop News. Alpha Flight is returning in a mini-series
that will be a crossover into the Marvel event “Fear Itself.”

This new Alpha Flight mini-series will consist of eight
issues. There will be a prelude to
this new series, one of Marvel’s Point One
issues that provide the reader with the perfect starting point into the series. The mini-series will begin where Chaos
War: Alpha Flight left off with the newly reformed Alpha Flight featuring the
previously deceased members Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman and Marrina. It was suggested that Puk would also
be making an appearance in the new mini-series also.

Support Japan With Benefit at Meltdown Comics

If you live in the LA area then you need to head to Meltdown Comics for a benefit for Japan. They’ll be a lot of big names in the world of Movie, Comics and Anime/Manga there and tons of cool stuff going on. I will be on a damn plane going to Chicago and will completely miss it so someone should go for me and lend their support in my absence. In response to the calamitous events unfolding in Japan, individuals and organizations around the world are bandinghave banded  together to show their support and concern with the, and thus,  WE HEART JAPAN was born.project.  More information can be found at www.weheartjapan.com.

Threadless to Launch New Comic On Tees Noir Series at c2e2

Last year Threadless, who’s famous for making limited edition printed shirts that are submitted by the users of the site, started a line of Comic On Tee’s. The goal was to use the shirts as a panel of a story and to have different artists create one writers vision. They continue that this year with writer Brian Azzarello and artists Lee Bermejo, Dave Johnson, and Eduardo Risso creating a series of shirts. Artists and shirt creators of the site can also participate as one contestant will be chosen to have their work included in the series. So when’s the big reveal? Friday night at c2e2… might just see you there.