Monday, January 21, 2013

Big Planet Comics Orbit Newsletter - 21 January 2013




Big Planet Comics

21 January 2012

Best of Year! HC Sale in Bethesda!


We are open today on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. (If anyone is brave enough to venture out during the inauguration crowds!)

Our sale on all hardcovers continues in Bethesda! Tomorrow through the end of January all hardcovers will be 50% off, so come in quick if you've been waiting to pick up something, they go quick!

We have not one but THREE new podcasts for you to enjoy! We did a short one covering the few comics that came out at the end of December, and then we did our Best of 2012 Podcast - which was so long we split it into two episodes! All linked to the right, we cover 12 categories and pick our top 3 in each, then argue out our #1 pick for the year! It's a long argumentative process, but was really fun. Plus everything on our lists is already weeded down to our best of the year, so if you haven't read any of those, we recommend them highly! If you think we left off something important, or made some crazy decision, email us and let us know so we can respond on our next podcast!

Feel free to forward on our newsletter, and please send us any comments or mailing list requests to vienna@bigplanetcomics.com

Thanks!
 
- the Big Planet Comics kids


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The End Times of Bram and Ben #1

by James Asmus, Jim Festante, Rem Broo

Ignore the terrible cover art! When the rapture comes, one guy gets taken by mistake - then sent back to Earth. Will any one believe him? A very dark comedy!

The One Trick Rip-Off + Deep Cuts HC

by Paul Pope

Paul Pope's early out of print crime saga is collected and colored for the first time! Plus a bunch of his short stories are collected too, also in color. Dig up!

New Avengers #1

 
by Jonathan Hickman, Steve Epting
 

The Black Panther encounters a force that will destroy the entire Earth and our whole universe unless he assembles the might of the secret Illuminati, including his foe Namor! More epic scifi tinged superhero action from Hickman!

Savage Wolverine #1

by Frank Cho
 
Cho returns with dinos, slashing, and a guest appearance by Shanna the She-Devil as Wolverine has to fight to escape the Savage Land!

The Superior Spider-Man #1

by Dan Slott, Ryan Stegman

The insane ending to the Amazing Spider-Man #700 picks up with this all new series, and a sort-of new Spider-Man - perhaps a superior version? Hilarious dialogue as Spidey meets old friends and foes and tries to adapt, plus a crazy ending! Buy it even if (or especially) if you hated #700!

Star Wars #1

by Brian Wood, Carlos D'anda

The Death Star has been destroyed! But now the Rebels need to find a new base with the Imperial Fleet after them! Picking up right after A New Hope! Luke, Leia, Han and Chewie!

The Heart of Thomas HC

by Moto Hagio

One of the first classics from Japanese shojo comics, this romance is set in an all-boys boarding school and finally in print in English!

The Silver Darlings HC

by Will Morris
 
A deft coming of age story as a young man goes out on his family's fishing boat, determined to challenge their superstitious ways before he heads off to college.

Adventure Time Fionna & Cake #1
Batman Incorporated Vol 1 SC
Book Of Human Insects SC
Castle Waiting Vol 1 SC
Curses! Foiled Again SC
Fatale Vol 2 Devil's Business SC
Jack Jackson American History Los Tejanos & Lost Cause HC
New Avengers #1
Shako SC
Woodwork Wallace Wood 1927-1981 HC


Big Planet Comics Best of 2012 Podcast
"Part 2!"
Kevin, Nick, and Jared have selected the best of the year and are gonna decide their top 3! Download now or subscribe on iTunes!

BEST OF 2012 PODCAST CATEGORIES:

Best Reprint
Best Anthology
Best Ongoing Series
Best Writer
Best Graphic Novel

Big Planet Comics Best of 2012 Podcast
"Part 1!"
Kevin, Nick, and Jared have selected the best of the year and are gonna decide their top 3! Download now or subscribe on iTunes!

BEST OF 2012 PODCAST CATEGORIES:

Best New Series
Best Colorist
Best Artist
Best Single Issue
Best for Kids
Best Book About Comics
Best Mini-Series


Big Planet Comics Podcast #69.1
"Point One"
This week, Kevin, Nick, and Jared review a bunch of new comics! Download now or subscribe on iTunes!
 
PODCAST REVIEWS:

Amazing Spider-Man #700 by Dan Slott, Humberto Ramos, J.M. DeMatteis, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Jen Van Meter and Stephanie Buscema
Avenging Spider-Man #15.1 by Chris Yost and Paco Medina
Deathmatch #1 by Paul Jenkins and Carlos Magno
Mara #1 by Brian Wood and Ming Doyle

Send us questions to podcast@bigplanetcomics.com or leave a voicemail at 1-703-539-CAST! (1-703-539-2278)

 


5/4 Free Comic Book Day
All our stores!
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7/4 4th of July Sale!
All our stores!

New This Week 1/23

(Let us know if you want any of these!)
 
The Amazing Spider-Man #700
A Plus X #4
Answer #1 (of 4)
Army Of Darkness #9
Astonishing X-Men #58
Avengers #3
Bart Simpson Comics #79
Garth Ennis Battlefields #3 (of 6) Green Fields
Batwoman #16
Bedlam #3
Before Watchmen Minutemen #6 (OF 6)
Betty & Veronica Double Digest #209 SC
Bionic Woman #7
Birds Of Prey #16
Blue Beetle #16
The Books Of Magic: The Deluxe Edition HC
Borderlands Origins #1 (of 4) 2nd Ptg
Bride's Story Book 4 HC
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Spike #5 (OF 5)
Buffyverse Sampler One Shot
Calling Dr Laura Graphic Memoir GN
Castle A Calm Before Storm #2 (of 5)
Catwoman #16
Chew #31
Cobra #21
Conan Vol 12 Throne Of Aquilonia SC
Culling Rise Of The Ravagers SC
Dan The Unharmable Vol 1 SC
Dark Horse Presents #20
DC Universe Presents #16
Deadpool #4
Deadpool Killustrated #1 (OF 4)
Deva Zan Hc 
Doctor Strange Marvel Masterworks Vol 2 SC
Fables #125
FF #3
Frank Cho Women Book 2 HC
Gambit #8
Gambit Classic Vol 2 SC
Game Of Thrones #12
Godzilla #9
Green Arrow Vol 2 Triple Threat SC
Green Lantern #16 (Rise)
Green Lantern Corps #16 (Rise)
Green Lantern New Guardians #16 (Rise)
Harbinger #8
Hell Yeah #6
Hellblazer #299
Hellraiser Road Below #4 (of 4)
It Girl & The Atomics #6
Jennifer Blood First Blood #3
JSA Liberty Files The Whistling Skull #2 (OF 6)
Judge Dredd #3
Justice League #16
Knights Of The Dinner Table #194
Legion Of Super Heroes #16
Life With Archie #26
The Lone Ranger #12
Lord Of The Jungle #12
Mad Artist Edition HC
Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man #10
Masks #3
The Massive #8 
Mind Mgmt #7
Nightwing #16 (DOTF)
Number 13 #2
Peanuts Vol 2 #5
Prophecy #6
Prophet #33
Punisher Nightmare #4 (of 5)
Red Hood And The Outlaws #16 (DOTF)
Revival #5 2nd Ptg
Revival #6
Saucer Country #11
Secret Avengers By Rick Remender Vol 1 SC
Simpsons Comics Supernova SC
Sonic Universe #48
Sonic Universe Vol 4 Journey To The East SC
The Spider #8
The Spider Vol 1 Terror Of The Zombie Queen SC
Star Trek Countdown To Darkness #1
Star Wars Blood Ties Ol 2 Boba Fett Is Dead SC
Steed And Mrs Peel #4
Stumptown 2 #5
Superboy Annual #1
Supergirl #16
Sword Of Sorcery #4
TMNT Secret Foot Clan #2 (of 4)
Ultimate Comics Ultimates #20
Ultimate Comics Ultimates By Hickman Vol 2 SC
Ultimate Comics X-Men By Nick Spencer Vol 2 SC
Uncanny Avengers #3
Uncanny X-Force #1
Winter Soldier #14
Witch Doctor Malpractice #3 (of 6)
Witchblade #163
Wolverine And The X-Men #24
Wolverine And The X-Men: Alpha And Omega SC
Wonder Woman #16
X-O Manowar #9
Young Avengers #1
Young Justice #24

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Cartoons and holocaust exhibit designed in DC opens in NY

Excoriating the Apathy That Aided the Nazis
By SYLVIANE GOLD
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/nyregion/a-review-of-cartoonists-against-the-holocaust-in-new-rochelle.html

"Created in Washington by the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, brought to Westchester by the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center and installed at the Museum of Arts and Culture in New Rochelle High School's new wing, "Cartoonists Against the Holocaust" merits its subtitle, "Art in the Service of Humanity."..."

Friday, January 18, 2013

SEEING DOUBLE: Looking for truth, originality and plagiarism in an Internet world

SEEING DOUBLE: Looking for truth, originality and plagiarism in an Internet world

Matt Rawson interviews CEO of Ape Enertainment

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New Episode! We interview CEO of Ape Entertainment, David Hedgecock, the publisher of the massive-seller Temple Run Comic app for iOS, and the upcomicg relaunch of Poison Elves.
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Ben Hatke interview online at City Paper

Meet a Semilocal Cartoonist: A Chat with Ben Hatke
by Mike Rhode
Jan. 18, 2013

PR: Kal Kickstarter gets #1 billing

Kal writes in -

 
I wanted to alert you that my Kickstarter campaign has be selected as the #1 Project of the day on today's site.


Kevin Kallaugher 

Join my Kickstarter Campaign!
Daggers Drawn: 35 Years of KAL Cartoons in The Economist







Donkeys & Elephants exhibit reviewed

Reviewed: "Donkeys & Elephants" at Studio Gallery

Presidential caricatures cover today's Express

Artist Ryan Snook has caricatured a bunch of past Presidents for the cover of today's Express.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Jan 19 First-Term Retrospective Editorial Cartoon Exhibit

Toles, Kal, Cagle, Keefe, Telnaes, Margulies, Glez, Wilkinson and Komarnitski will have cartoons in the exhibit and Toles' band is playing.

FIRST-TERM RETROSPECTIVE: 3rd Annual Cartoonist Exhibit

Art Soiree

Saturday, January 19, 2013 at 8:00 PM - Sunday, January 20, 2013 at 2:00 AM (EST)

Washington, DC



Archer and Bob's Burgers animation tv shows cross-over tonight

Cartoon Crossover
By Rudi Greenberg
[Washington Post] Express January 16, 2013, p. 18

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Library of Congress Swann Fellowship applications due Feb. 15

 

A reminder that Feb. 15, 2013 is the deadline for receipt of applications for the Swann Foundation Fellowship, one of the few that supports scholarly graduate research in caricature and cartoon. For criteria, guidelines, and application forms, please see:

http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/swann/swann-fellow.html

 

 

Please email swann@loc.gov or call (202) 707-9115 if you have questions. We appreciate the opportunity to post this notice. Apologies for cross listing.


Thank you! 

 

Martha  Kennedy

 

 


Whats new at Game On Comics this week

Some nice "inside comics" information about sales figures included in here.


Game ON logo

Game On! Comics Weekly Digest

Come  Visit Us!
January 15th, 2013
In this issue
:: New Titles this Week
:: Game Nights
 Dear Mike,

 

Welcome to Game On! Comics
 

 

All Back Issues only $2 for the entire month of January!!  

Spidey tops 1.6 million!
Sup spidey  
 Marvel sold over $1.6 million retail worth ofAmazing Spider-Man #700 to comic stores in December, the top dollar comic in recent memory.  Sell-in of over 200,000 copies was supported by an extensive variant program, including numerous "exceed orders," 1:200, and 1:700 variants, and at a $7.99 retail price, the dollars piled up fast.  Extensive publicity about the storyline helped make this a major event book.  The lead-in book, #699, appears to have unfilled demand; #698 sold more than #699 (both #698 and #699 have second printings already released).
Marvel also had a big hit with Avengers #1 at over 186,000 copies, but the scale of the dollars wasn't even close, with less than half the dollars of the #1 book.
The books in DC's "Death of a Family" event were up and down:Batman, for example, was down around 5%, but all of the tie-in titles saw some pretty substantial bumps-- Detective Comics #15 (+31,835), Batman and Robin (+14,335), Batgirl #15 (+2127),Nightwing #15 (+23,687), Teen Titans #15 (+28,962), and Red Hood and the Outlaws #15 (+26,393).  Also of note, DC's Justice League (Part 1 of the "Throne of Atlantis" storyline crossing over with Aquaman) saw an uptick of 2% while Aquaman #15 saw orders increase over 30%.
The Walking Dead Vol. 1 mustered nearly 10,000 sales out of the direct market in December, with gifts of the first volume a great sign for the future of the franchise.

 

                           

 

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Click here to create your account and create your sub list:  

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How to sign up for the store to get credit for digital comic purchases?  Simply buy comics from our digital Comixology store front page:  Game On! Comics digital Store Front
 

 

  

 

  

 

Game On! Comics Loyalty Members:

Please remember that while we will hold comics for you every week and give you the discounts/perks, we do ask that you pick up your comics at least once per month.  Please help us out by coming in at least once per month or by communicating with us about any delays  Thanks!!

 

 

 

 

  

 

New Comic Book titles this week 1-15-13

 

Best Discounts in the area--Not just a slogan, we really do have the best price discounts when you become a Game On! Comics Loyalty Member!  Details here:  Loyalty Membership  

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Savage Wolverine #1 

   

A MUST READ THIS WEEK!

  

 

All New X-Men #6

Ame Comi Girls (Featuring Power Girl) #4

Archer & Armstrong #6

Avengers Assemble #11

Avenging Spider-Man #16

Batgirl #16

Batman #16

Batman And Robin #16

Batman: Arkham Unhinged #10

Billy Kids Oddities & Orm Loch Ness #4 (L)

Bionic Man (Kevin Smith) #15

Bionic Man Vs Bionic Woman #1

Black Beetle: No Way Out #1

Black Kiss II #6 (L)

Bloodshot #7

Caligula Heart Of Rome #2

Captain America #3

Captain Marvel #9

Comeback #3

Conan The Barbarian #12

Creator Owned Heroes #8

Crossed Badlands #21

Crow: Skinning The Wolves #2

Daredevil #22

Dark Avengers #185

Dark Shadows #12

Deathstroke #16

Demon Knights #16

Elephantmen #45

Ex Sanguine #4

Executive Assistant Assassins #7

Fashion Beast #5

Ferals #12

Fly Vol II #4

Frankenstein: Agent Of Shade #16 (L)

Freelancers #3

G.I. Joe Vol 2 #21

Garth Ennis Jennifer Blood #21 (Mr)

Green Hornet: Year One Special #1

Grifter #16 (L)

Grimm Fairy Tales #81

High Ways #1

Indestructible Hulk #3

Insurgent #1

Legion Lost #16 (L)

Li'l Depressed Boy #15

Lord Of The Jungle #11

Mars Attacks Real Ghostbusters 1-Shot

New Avengers #2

Pathfinder #4

Peter Cannon Thunderbolt #5

Punisher Nightmare #3

Ravagers #8

Saga #7 2nd Ptg

Saga #9

Savage Wolverine #1

Stitched #11

Suicide Squad #16

Superboy #16

Team 7 #4

Thor (Marvel Movie) Adaptation #1

Threshold #1

Todd, The Ugliest Kid On Earth #1

Ultimate Comics Iron Man #4 (L)

Venom #30

Warlord Of Mars: Dejah Thoris #21

Wolverine Max #3

X-Factor #250

X-Men #40

 

 

 

 

ALL AGES COMICS AND MAGAZINES

 

Green Lantern The Animated Series #10

Marvel Super Heroes Magazine #6

Simpsons Comics #198

 

 

 

COLLECTIONS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

 

Captain America By Brubaker HC Vol 4

Fables TP Vol 18: Cubs In Toyland

 

 

Game Nights 

 

Sunday Nights, 5pm-9pm

D and D

 

  

 

Wednesday Nights 7-11pm

Magic the Gathering

 

 

 

Casual Play and booster Draft.

 

Sunday Afternoons, 12:30pm

kaijudo logo  

 

Come check out Kaijudo on its new day, Sundays!!
Brand new card based game by the makers of Magic the Gathering.  Geared to be a little easier than MTG.  Want to try it out?  Come on Sundays, weekly demos. 

 

 

Friday Night, 7pm

Friday night magic logo

 Booster Draft Tournament--$15

 Return to Ravnica!

 Win promo cards and boosters from Ravnica!

 

 



Saturdays 4-7pm

Heroclix--Batman
Batman Heroclix set

 

 

 

Heroclix at Game On! Comics Saturday, January 19th, at 4 p,m, Gang Warfare! Build a 500 point Modern Age force with representation from the Batman and/or Streets of Gotham sets, bring your best Mastermind/Minions team (Batman and Batman Family, Joker and Joker Henchmen, et al). No Colossals, no Feats or BFC's; Vehicles are okay, special objects are okay including the Infinity Gauntlet and Utility Belt.
 
Each week adds cumulative points for another territory, Join your Gang and compete to claim it!
Lord of the Rings/Hobbit, Gears of War, and HALO figures can be used for this event but without the special rules that accompany them. Prize support from other venues which has not been given out yet at Game On! Comics is not eligible for play. For our venue, Modern Age is defined as anything from the Secret Invasion set forwards unless otherwise specified. Using Unicorns, Polar Bears, or Dinosaurs as objects is not required but is encouraged. 

 

Prizes for 1st, 2nd, and Fellowship!

 

 

  

Congrats to last weeks winners: 

 

1st: Mike H.

2nd: Francisco and Alex A.

Fellowship: George

 

Batman Gang won the day!! Yeah!!

 

 


 Comic Review

 Black Beetle #1

 

    

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The Black Beetle is a comic book character created by Eisner Award-winning artist Francesco Francavilla.  The character has been appearing on Francavilla's blog and in the anthology series,Dark Horse Presents.  The Black Beetle has more than a passing resemblance to DC Comics' Batman because they share conceptual DNA.

 

The Black Beetle blends the aesthetics of pulp fiction, mystery, noir, and the superhero.  The character is not only part superhero, but he is also a costumed vigilante and weird detective in the vein of such classic pulp heroes as The Shadow and The Spider, with some of Zorro and Sherlock Holmes thrown into the mix.  Black Beetle is a super-heroic sleuth, and his base of operation isColt City, a classic pulp and noir-type urban landscape.  Black Beetle debuts in his own comic book series, entitled The Black Beetle.

 

As The Black Beetle #1 begins, the Black Beetle is about to make himself an uninvited guest in a meeting of two crime families, the Galazzos and the Fierros.  In this summit, which will determine the future of Colt City's criminal empire, Black Beetle sees an opportunity to take out two major crime bosses, Don Pasquale Galazzo and Joe Fierro.  When the hero makes his move at Spencer's, the neutral sight where this crime conference is being held, he discovers that he is not the only hunter.

 

The Black Beetle: No Way Out #1 is clean comic book storytelling.  This is classic, two-fisted, masked-man comic book action.  It's gritty and pure, lacking in pretension or the goal to be the soap opera version of character drama that most superhero comic books offer.  This is the kind of pulpy mayhem that first made me fall in love with comic books.

 

I don't think that I can adequately describe just how gorgeous Francesco Francavilla's art is.  Some of the pages use a standard comic book page layout, but most of them are more imaginative and inventive.  Some pages resemble movie posters and movie theatre lobby cards; others are similar to narrative paintings.  Some pages are designed as splash pages, but with details and assorted art embedded on them.

 

The Black Beetle is pure pop comics.  Between the new Stars Wars series and The Black Beetle, Dark Horse Comics is doing their own version of Marvel NOW and The New 52.  Dark Horse is just doing a better job of making classic seem so fresh.

 

$3.99

 

 

Review by Leroy Douresseaux

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Another Brad Meltzer interview on mysterious medical museums

Brad Meltzer Hunts "The Fifth Assassin"
Kiel Phegley,
Comic Book Resources January 15 2013
http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=43191

Brad Meltzer's new book

Brad Meltzer wrote Justice League and Green Arrow and is glad to sign them both. He'll be at Politics and Prose on Jan. 16th and Mclean's Barnes & Noble on the 17th. Here's an article about his new book (and some of you may know the "government employee" who's not the President):
 

Brad Meltzer's new thriller gets Oval Office insight

Mon, Jan 14 2013

By Kurt Anthony Krug

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/14/entertainment-us-books-bradmeltzer-idUSBRE90D15P20130114

 
and some straight PR from: Brad Meltzer's wife

Here we are: the big day when Brad's new novel, The Fifth Assassin, is finally out.  It's a thriller about a serial killer who's meticulously recreating the crimes of all the Presidential assassins, from John Wilkes Booth to Lee Harvey Oswald.  And yes, as always, it's filled with obscure and amazing real details from history (you know Brad's obsessive about that).

To buy The Fifth Assassin, you can go here:
http://bradmeltzer.com/book/the-fifth-assassin/buy-the-fifth-assassin/

To see if Brad will be coming to you on book tour (and yes, this time he has decoder rings with him.  I mean it.) go here:
http://bradmeltzer.com/appearances/

Otherwise, for those in the NY area tonight, Brad (with the help of John Hodgman) is trying to break the Guinness Book World Record for "most decoder rings in one place," so please bring friends.  :-)

This has been a wild roller coaster of a year for Brad (up and down), so if you go see him on tour, give him a hug from here.

Thank you so much for all you've done for us -- personally and professionally.  For those who really know Brad, he never forgets it.

Always,

- Cori