LUCY PREVIEW DOUBLE PASS GIVEAWAY!

From La Femme Nikita and The Professional to The Fifth Element, writer/director Luc Besson has created some of the toughest, most memorable female action heroes in cinematic history.  Now, Besson directs Scarlett Johansson in Lucy, an action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic. 

Lucy also stars Academy Award^® winner Morgan Freeman and is produced by Virginie Besson-Silla for EuropaCorp.

Thanks to those wonderful people at Universal Pictures and Lucy in cinemas July 31,  we have 5 Double passes to a special Preview screening taking place on Wednesday 30th July at Village Cinemas Crown Casino from 6:30pm to give away. 

To go into the draw for your chance to win all you need to do is tell us, "If you had the ability to use 100% of you brain capacity, what great feat would you hope to achieve?"

SPECIAL NOTE: As this prize is for a specific time and date, please only enter if you make the screening. 

Terms and Conditions:

Only entries made via the the comments on the Facebook post will be included in the draw.
All entries will go into the All Star Barrel and winners will be drawn at random.
Entries close 6pm Sunday the 27th of July and winners will be announced Monday the 28th.
Passes will only be available to pick up from the store and winner must produce photo ID upon pick up. As this prize is for a specific time and date, all passes MUST be picked up no later than close Tuesday the 29th. Any remaining passes after this date will be given away at our discretion to make sure they don't go to waste. 

A huge thanks again to Universal Pictures and Lucy in cinemas July 31

BATMAN DAY 75TH ANNIVERSARY SATURDAY 26TH OF JULY

This week sees the date DC has set in place to celebrate the 75th Anniversary of one of comics and pop culture's most enduring and iconic legend, The Caped Crusader, The Dark Knight, The Batman.
It is truly a monumental milestone event and with your help we'd like to celebrate Batman's birthday in style with prizes, party treats, party games and of course YOU! Of course since Batman wants for nothing, YOU GET ALL THE PRESENTS!!!

For starters how does the gift of 15% OFF any full price BATMAN TRADE PAPERBACKS sound? Pretty good, huh?!

Secondly, DC is providing us with a FREE copy of DETECTIVE COMICS #27 SPECIAL EDITION to give away. The issue is a reimagining of the 1939 Bob Kane/Bill Finger original comic book, designed by Chip Kidd with a script by The New York Times #1 bestselling author Brad Meltzer. Any Standing Order customers that currently have Batman on their list will automatically get a copy of this, the remainer will be available to people to pick up on the day at the counter with a limit of one per person, while stocks last.

DC has also been kind enough to create four different limited edition Paper Masks, capturing four very different eras of Batman. Detective #27 Batman, Batman '66, Dark Knight Returns Batman and New DC 52 Batman masks will be available for customers to choose from at a limit of one mask per person, while stocks last.

Of course it would be nice if you could do a little something to help turn old Batsie's scowl upside down on his special day! Seeing how this character inspires and influences people so much, our thought is to create the biggest group Birthday Card to Batman we can by you telling us "What is great about Batman? Who is he and what does he mean to YOU?"

You can submit your thoughts either by email at all.star.comics@hotmail.com or private message the store Facebook page. We'll collect everyone's pieces and put them together as one big post here as well as on our Facebook page on Saturday evening for the world to see. As a reward, anyone that takes the time to send us well wishes for Batman will receive a copy of the Free DETECTIVE COMICS #27 Special Edition, one of each of the four limited edition Batman masks and the extremely EXCLUSIVE Special Edition All Star Batman Incorporated Business Card we are making especially to celebrate the day.

As an EXTRA bonus the piece we like best will also receive a $100 All Star Gift Voucher!

Still want more?! Well of course, any birthday party worth attenting needs games but Batman doesn't really DO games. Instead he prefers to spend time hitting the streets of Gotham in his sweet, sweet ride and now you can too! That's right, we'll have a scale Batman "89 Batmobile and a Batman Begins Tumbler SLOT CARS on hand for you to race against either a GCPD Squad Car or the Joker's Nascar, kindly supplied from Slot Cars Alive. You'll be able to take the car of your choice for a spin or enter our BEST LAP TIME COMP if you are up for a challenge!

Oh and what's a Birthday Party without party food? We have that covered too but can't promise there will be any left if you don't get in early enough! :D

So it's a big day planned to celebrate the creation of the larger than life mythos that is BATMAN, in this his 75th year of existence! We sincerely hope you can join us for the fun on the day! :D

New Comics For Wednesday 23rd of July

So last week we strung the news that Cazz from Nerd Burger was joining our team and we hosted a shotgun launch for stellar local books Falling Star #2 and Velocity Volume 4. This week, we've got BATMAN DAY antics planned for Saturday to celebrate the Dark Knight's 75th anniversary and the boys from RADIOACTIVE LOUNGE are back on Friday night from 6pm to cover all things Batman! Also there could be an Eisner nomination in there too. Big couple of weeks! Oh, not to forget this massive week with some absolute amazing titles!

Getting a new tale of one of the X-families favourite heroes in STORM #1. More BATMAN titles than you can poke a stick at! Origin stories of Harley and Green Arrow in SECRET ORIGINS #4. The very best and worst of barbarians in GROO VS CONAN #1. Walt Simonson has another swing at Norse legend with RAGNAROK #1. 80's cartoon have never looked more 60's in TRANSFORMERS VS GI JOE #1. Warren Ellis has a crack at reviving another classic Image title with SUPREME BLUE ROSE #1. Two separate series for two different Doctors with DOCTOR WHO 10TH #1 and DOCTOR WHO 11TH #1. The conclusion to the Death of Archie in LIFE WITH ARCHIE COMIC #37. Bone and Rasl creator Jeff Smith sneaks out a new one with TUKI SAVE THE HUMANS #1.That movie that we all loved but didn't do that well behind the scenes in DREDD ILLUS MOVIE SCRIPT & VISUALS GN. Next in the series of Jeff Brown Vader parenting books, GOODNIGHT DARTH VADER HC.  Lapham's heartbreaking and gut wrenching honesty of people's lives who are on the edge in MURDER ME DEAD TP. WALKING DEAD TP VOL 21 ALL OUT WAR PT 2 is always a crowd pleaser! Get on board with Emily Carroll's indie internet horror wonder wit her collected works, THROUGH THE WOODS GN/HC. What Lucas would have done with SW if he had carte blanche right back at the beginning with STAR WARS LUCAS DRAFT TP. Perfectly timed for the new Guardians film's release is the awesome series that set up the current book in GOTG BY ABNETT AND LANNING COMPLETE COLL TP VOL 01.
We could go on but I think we are starting to bore you. ;)
If there is anything else you need, just let us know! :D

MARVEL

100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 AVENGERS

ALL NEW DOOP #4 (OF 5)

ALL NEW INVADERS #8

ALL NEW ULTIMATES #5

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #4 SIN

DAREDEVIL #6 SIN

DEADPOOL #32 SIN

DEADPOOL DRACULAS GAUNTLET #3 (OF 7)

DEADPOOL VS X-FORCE #2 (OF 4)

MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #28 SYU

MIGHTY AVENGERS #12 SIN

ORIGINAL SIN #5.2

ORIGINAL SINS #4 (OF 5)

STORM #1 ANMN

WOLVERINE AND X-MEN #6

DC COMICS

ALL STAR WESTERN #33

AQUAMAN #33

BATMAN #33 (ZERO YEAR)

BATMAN 66 #13

BATMAN AND ROBIN #33 (ROBIN RISES)

BATMAN BEYOND UNIVERSE #12

BATMAN ETERNAL #16

CATWOMAN #33

FLASH #33

HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #15

INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US YEAR TWO #8

JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK #33

NEW 52 FUTURES END #12 (WEEKLY)

RED LANTERNS #33

SECRET ORIGINS #4

STAR SPANGLED WAR STORIES GI ZOMBIE #1

SUPERMAN #33

TRINITY OF SIN PANDORA #13

WONDER WOMAN #33

VERTIGO

DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #7

UNWRITTEN VOL 2 APOCALYPSE #7

BOOM

ADVENTURE TIME #30

AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL #2

BRAVEST WARRIORS #22

MIDAS FLESH #8 (OF 8)

DARK HORSE

AXE COP AMERICAN CHOPPERS #3

BTVS SEASON 10 #5

CONAN THE AVENGER #4

DREAM THIEF ESCAPE #2

ELFQUEST FINAL QUEST #4

GOON OCCASION OF REVENGE #1 (OF 4)

GROO VS CONAN #1 (OF 4)

HALO ESCALATION #8

MASS EFFECT FOUNDATION #13

STAR WARS LEGACY II #17

TOMB RAIDER #6

DYNAMITE

SOLAR MAN O/T ATOM #4

TOM CLANCY SPLINTER CELL ECHOES #1 (OF 4)

TWILIGHT ZONE #7

IDW

DEXTERS LABORATORY #4 (OF 4)

MONSTER MOTORS ONE SHOT

MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER #7

RAGNAROK #1

STAR TREK CITY O/T EDGE OF FOREVER #2 (OF 5)

TMNT TURTLES IN TIME #2 (OF 4)

TRANSFORMERS VS GI JOE #1

TRANSFORMERS WINDBLADE #4 (OF 4)

WILD BLUE YONDER #5 (OF 6)

WINTERWORLD #2

X-FILES SEASON 10 #14

IMAGE

REVIVAL #22

SAGA #21

SAVAGE DRAGON #196

SKULLKICKERS #29

SUPERANNUATED MAN #2 (OF 6)

SUPREME BLUE ROSE #1

TREES #3

UNDERTOW #6

VELVET #6

ZERO #9

MISC

AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #6

ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #22

ARMOR HUNTERS BLOODSHOT #1 (OF 3)

BART SIMPSON COMICS #91

DAMSELS IN EXCESS #1

DOCTOR WHO 10TH #1

DOCTOR WHO 11TH #1

LENORE VOLUME II #10

LETTER 44 #8

LIFE WITH ARCHIE COMIC #37

ORDINARY #3 (OF 3)

TUKI SAVE THE HUMANS #1

MAGAZINES

MARVEL PREVIEWS AUGUST 2014

PREVIEWS #311 AUGUST 2014

TRADES

ANDRE THE GIANT LIFE & LEGEND GN

AVENGERS PREM HC VOL 05 ADAPT OR DIE

BATMAN BLACK AND WHITE HC VOL 04

BUCK ROGERS IN 25TH CENTURY TP VOL 01 GRIEVOUS ANG

CAPTAIN AMERICA TP VOL 02 CASTAWAY DIMENSION Z BOOK 2

COMICS SQUAD RECESS GN

CURSED PIRATE GIRL HC VOL 01

DEADPOOL TP VOL 05 WEDDING OF DEADPOOL

DRAGON GIRL MONKEY KING ART OF KATSUYA TERADA HC

DREDD ILLUS MOVIE SCRIPT & VISUALS GN

ELEPHANTMEN MAMMOTH TP VOL 01

GEORGE ROMEROS EMPIRE OF DEAD TP ACT ONE

GOODNIGHT DARTH VADER HC

GOTG BY ABNETT AND LANNING COMPLETE COLL TP VOL 01

HOPE LARSON MERCURY GN NEW PTG

HOWTOONS TOOLS OF MASS CONSTRUCTION TP

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICAS VIBE TP VOL 01 BREACH (N52)

LOEG III CENTURY HC COMPLETE ED

MEMORY COLLECTORS HC

MIKE MIGNOLA HELLBOY ARTIST ED

MPD-PSYCHO TP VOL 11

MURDER ME DEAD TP

SAKAI PROJECT HC 30 YEARS USAGI YOJIMBO

SEX TP VOL 02 SUPERCOOL

SHADOW HERO GN

SHOWA HISTORY OF JAPAN TP VOL 02 1939-1944

STAR WARS LUCAS DRAFT HC

STAR WARS LUCAS DRAFT TP

STREET ANGEL HC

SUPERMAN ACTION COMICS HC VOL 04 HYBRID (N52)

SUPERMAN ACTION COMICS TP VOL 03 AT THE END OF DAYS (N52)

SWAMP THING BY BRIAN K VAUGHAN TP VOL 02

THROUGH THE WOODS GN/HC

THUNDERBOLTS TP VOL 04 NO MERCY

TMNT HEROES COLLECTION HC

TMNT ULT VISUAL HIST HC 

TMNT UTROM EMPIRE TP

TRANSFORMERS CLASSICS TP VOL 07

UNWRITTEN TP VOL 09 THE UNWRITTEN FABLES

WALKING DEAD TP VOL 21 ALL OUT WAR PT 2

WAR OF KINGS TP NEW PTG

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE JEDI DOTH RETURN HC

WOLVERINE BY AARON COMPLETE COLLECTION TP VOL 03

WOLVERINE ORIGIN II HC

WOLVERINE TP BOOK 01 THREE MONTHS TO DIE

WOLVERINE TP VOL 01 MORTAL

MERCH

DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS BLACK CANARY STATUE

BACK IN STOCK

100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 SPIDER-MAN

BATGIRL #33 BATMAN 75 VAR ED

OUTCAST BY KIRKMAN & AZACETA #1 2ND PTG

SUPERMAN WONDER WOMAN #9 (DOOMED)

WOLVERINE #8 2ND PTG

HERCULES DOUBLE PASS GIVEAWAY

Both man and myth, HERCULES (Dwayne Johnson) leads a band of mercenaries to help end a bloody civil war in the land of Thrace and return the rightful king to his throne. A tormented soul from birth, HERCULES has the strength of a God but feels the suffering of a human. Unimaginable villains will test the mythical power of HERCULES in Director Brett Ratner’s gritty take on one of the most epic action heroes of the ages.

With a massive thanks to those lovely folks at PARAMOUNT and HERCULES, in cinemas from July 24th, we have 5 Double In-Season Pass to giveaway!

To go into the draw for your chance to win all you need to do is tell us,"The size of the Rock's arms are getting bigger with each new cinematic appearance. Which is your favourite roll of the Rock's arms to date?"

Terms and Conditions: 

Only entries made via the the comments on the Facebook post will be included in the draw.
All entries will go into the All Star Barrel and winners will be drawn at random.
Entries close 6pm Tuesday the 22nd of July and winners will be announced Wednesday the 23rd.
Passes will only be available to pick up from the store and winner must produce photo ID upon pick up. 
Passes MUST be picked up no later than a week after the draw. Any remaining passes after this date will be given away at our discretion to make sure they don't go to waste.

Special thanks again to PARAMOUNT and HERCULES , Only at the movies JULY 24

For more info head to: facebook.com/HerculesMovie.AU

©2014 Par. Pics.

New Comics For Wednesday 16th of July

Lovely cold weekend just gone, perfect for staying inside and spending quality time with your most recent reading pile. This week's releases has more gems to add to that list but before we even get to that you need to mark down the following! This Saturday, July 19th from 12 midday, we invite you to join us for the Velocity & Falling Star Shotgun Launch. A mere 40 hours before the Velocity team jump on a plane for SDCC, they will be instore to sell you the same limited edition Velocity issue they will be taking to showcase both Australia and South Africa's finest comic talents in the US! Coupled with this will be the second issue release of Cristian Roux' break out hit, Falling Star!
So be there, check out some great new local reads, while meeting the creators themselves! But before all that, also new this week...

So HARLEY QUINN INVADES COMIC CON INTL SAN DIEGO #1 because cosplay! "Too soon" we hear you cry at ROBIN RISES OMEGA #1. Ben Templesmith really gets his tentacles into you with SQUIDDER #1. More wonderful Shaky Kane madness in CAP'N DINOSAUR ONE SHOT. BTVS SPIKE INTO LIGHT HC written by Spike himself, James Marsters! Outstanding storytelling and artwork in DEADLY CLASS TP VOL 01 REAGAN YOUTH. BLACK MARKET #1 crosses moral lines for the greater good. WICKED & DIVINE #2 with pretty Chip Zdarsky cover along with WICKED & DIVINE #1 2ND Prints. That little two timing, so and so gets what's coming to him with the DEATH of Archie in LIFE WITH ARCHIE COMIC #36. Latest chapter in the bending saga hits in AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 08 RIFT PART 2. The long time never collected Wachowski siblings and Steve Skroce action/sci-fi epic finally gets released in, DOC FRANKENSTEIN TP VOL 01. The creepiest cover to even appear on a Sonic comic with SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #262 TRISTAN JONES VARIANT COVER. Oh and just the first new work from Scott Pilgrim creator BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY in years with SECONDS GN!!!

Anything else there you need, you know what to do! :D

MARVEL 100TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 X-MEN ALL NEW X-FACTOR #11 AVENGERS WORLD #9 DEADPOOL DRACULAS GAUNTLET #2 (OF 7) ELEKTRA #4 MAGNETO #7 MS MARVEL #6 NOVA #19 SIN ORIGINAL SIN #3.2 ORIGINAL SIN #6 (OF 8) SAVAGE HULK #2 SAVAGE WOLVERINE #21 SECRET AVENGERS #5 SHE-HULK #6 SILVER SURFER #4 THUNDERBOLTS #28 ULTIMATE FF #4 UNCANNY X-MEN #23 SIN X-MEN #16 DC COMICS BATMAN ETERNAL #15 BATWING #33 BATWOMAN #33 GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #33 HARLEY QUINN INVADES COMIC CON INTL SAN DIEGO #1 INFINITE CRISIS FIGHT FOR THE MULTIVERSE #1 NEW 52 FUTURES END #11 (WEEKLY) RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #33 ROBIN RISES OMEGA #1 SCOOBY DOO TEAM UP #5 SCRIBBLENAUTS UNMASKED CRISIS OF IMAGINATION #7 SUPERGIRL #33 TEEN TITANS #1 VERTIGO FABLES #142 BOOM ADV TIME BANANA GUARD ACADEMY #1 (OF 6) BLACK MARKET #1 (OF 4) LAST BROADCAST #3 LUMBERJANES #4 (OF 8) SONS OF ANARCHY #11 TRANSLUCID #4 (OF 6) DARK HORSE BPRD HELL ON EARTH #121 EYE OF NEWT #2 GHOST #6 STAR WARS DARTH MAUL SON OF DATHOMIR #3 WITCHER #5 (OF 5) WITCHFINDER MYSTERIES OF UNLAND #2 DYNAMITE ARMY OF DARKNESS HITCHED #1 (OF 4) LADY ZORRO #1 (OF 4) LEGENDERRY A STEAMPUNK ADV #5 (OF 7) THE DEVILERS #1 (OF 7) THE SHADOW #0 IDW 24 #4 BORDERLANDS FALL OF FYRESTONE #1 DOBERMAN #1 JUDGE DREDD #21 MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #21 SQUIDDER #1 STAR TREK SPECIAL FLESH & STONE #1 TMNT ONGOING #36 X-FILES YEAR ZERO #1 (OF 5) IMAGE APHRODITE IX CYBER FORCE #1 BURN THE ORPHANAGE REIGN OF TERROR #3 (OF 5) CAP'N DINOSAUR ONE SHOT DARK ENGINE #1 MANIFEST DESTINY #8 RAT QUEENS #7 SIDEKICK #7 STRAY BULLETS THE KILLERS #5 UMBRAL #7 WICKED & DIVINE #2 WILDFIRE #2 MISC ATOMIC ROBO KNIGHTS OF GOLDEN CIRCLE #3 (OF 5) AUTEUR #5 CROSSED BADLANDS #57 DICKS END OF TIME #2 DKW DITKO KIRBY WOOD ONE SHOT GOD IS DEAD #16 HARBINGER #25 LIFE WITH ARCHIE COMIC #36 PRINCESS UGG #2 RITUAL THREE VILE DECAY SIMPSONS COMICS #213 SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #262 TRISTAN JONES VAR CVR UNITY #9 REG SUAYAN (AH) TRADES ALEX + ADA TP VOL 01 APHRODITE IX REBIRTH TP VOL 02 AVATAR LAST AIRBENDER TP VOL 08 RIFT PART 2 BAD DOG TP VOL 01 IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY BATMAN A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS HC BIRDS OF PREY TP VOL 04 THE CRUELEST CUT (N52) BLACK WIDOW TP VOL 01 FINELY WOVEN THREAD BRYAN LEE O MALLEY SECONDS GN BTVS SPIKE INTO LIGHT HC CHEW OMNIVORE ED HC VOL 04 CODENAME ACTION TP VOL 01 DAMIAN SON OF BATMAN DELUXE ED HC (N52) DEADLY CLASS TP VOL 01 REAGAN YOUTH DJANGO UNCHAINED TP DOC FRANKENSTEIN TP VOL 01 MESSIAH OF SCIENCE FANTASTIC FOUR EPIC COLLECTION TP INTO TIMESTREAM GATE WAY NEW WORLD TP GRINDHOUSE MIDNIGHT TP VOL 01 HACKTIVIST HC JOKER A CELEBRATION OF 75 YEARS HC LUST TP PICTURES THAT TICK TP VOL 02 POWERPUFF GIRLS CLASSICS TP VOL 04 PICTURE PERFECT SONIC UNIVERSE TP VOL 07 SPIDER TP VOL 03 CITY OF CRIME SUPERGIRL TP VOL 04 OUT OF THE PAST (N52) TALES OF THE BATMAN JH WILLIAMS III HC TEEN TITANS TP VOL 04 LIGHT AND DARK (N52) X-FILES CLASSICS HC VOL 04 MERCH GUARDIANS GALAXY EMBLEM STICKERS BACK IN STOCK GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #15 2ND PTG INHUMAN #1 2ND PTG WICKED & DIVINE #1 2ND PTG