New Comics For Wednesday 15th of February

The last week of our anniversary period before the draw on the 20th, have you dropped in yet to pick up your order and score yourself a ticket or two into our 6TH ANNIVERSARY $500 GIFT VOUCHER GIVEAWAY? All details can be found by clicking HERE.

Also we are expecting comics this week...

Where has Dave Sims' Cerebus been since the original series finished years ago? HELL apparently and to find out more about his stay there you can pick up CEREBUS IN HELL #1 this week.

Chip Zdarsky has worked with Ducks, Star-Lords and now magic and monsters with this week's addition to Marvel's Monsters Unleashed mini in DOCTOR STRANGE #1.MU.

The follow up to last year's runaway graphic novel success from author, Margaret Atwood launches this week with the cat person, superhero comedy of ANGEL CATBIRD HC VOL 02 CASTLE CATULA .

You've met the World's Greatest, now meet the World's Smallest! Superboy and Robin are destined to follow in their fathers' footsteps, but can they beat a villain hell-bent on controlling every being on the planet? Find out in  SUPER SONS #1. 

Pairing this up with the first arc new DC Rebirth Action Comics, SUPERMAN ACTION COMICS TP VOL 01 PATH OF DOOM (REBIRTH) that sees both Clark and Lex Luthor work together to defeat the might of a Doomsday.

Marguerite Bennett (DC Bombshells) and James Tynion IV (Batman) brings you Batwoman's long overdue solo series, BATWOMAN REBIRTH ! Kate's caught up taking on an entire syndicate distributing bio-weapons, but first she'll have to confront some of the darkest hours of her past.

Fed up with the Justice League, Batman finds himself a new crew; the Outsiders! Collecting classic stories these classic stories from the 80s, Batman, Katana, Geo-Force and Metamorpho take their brand of justice international in BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS HC VOL 01. GEO-FORCE, PEOPLE!!!

New up and coming artist Jon Davis-Hunt (Clean Room) get's an opportunity of a life time helping Warren Ellis (Transmetropolitan, Planetary) to re-kindle the Wildstorm universe in WILD STORM #1.

The year is still young and already MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS GN from Fantagraphics, by Emil Ferris is being mentioned as possible graphic novel of the year material. Find out why by seeing how this family drama, murder mystery unfolds.

Euro-comics at their finest, a new small town Sheriff finds his new home doesn't response well to his authority until he decides to really do his job in SNOW DAY GN

Having the opportunity to further expand Joe Hill's Locke & Key Universe recently with a new tale, it's awesome to see IDW looking after the fans that also collected the series in hardcover with the release of LOCKE & KEY SMALL WORLD DLX HC ED. 

Oh a semi-related note, taking a leaf out of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, Image writer that never seems to stop, Rick Remender introduces us to his new dark fantasy world, about a world on the brink of collapse under the control of a tyrant and what a father will do to ensure the safety of his family in Image's, SEVEN TO ETERNITY TP VOL 01.

Where, oh where is the new season of TV's Rick and Morty?! At least the latest collection of their comic adventures in RICK & MORTY TP VOL 04 can hold us over for a little while longer.

And DC merch this week is filled with amazing sculpts. Just take a look at the latest in the Bombshell Statue series with DC BOMBSHELLS KATANA STATUE and the next release of animated figures that tease the release of more Bruce Timm Superman designs with the BATMAN ANIMATED NBA GIRLS NIGHT OUT AF 5 PACK.

A great list to be sure, if you have spotted else here that you needed added just let us know before Wednesday morning and we'll get it sorted for you!

MARVEL

BLACK PANTHER WORLD OF WAKANDA #4

CAPTAIN AMERICA SAM WILSON #19

CAPTAIN AMERICA STEVE ROGERS #11

CLONE CONSPIRACY #5 (OF 5) CC

DAREDEVIL #17

DEADPOOL #27

DOCTOR STRANGE #1.MU

DOCTOR STRANGE #17

GAMORA #3

GWENPOOL #12

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #4

MIGHTY THOR #16

MONSTERS UNLEASHED #3 (OF 5)

OLD MAN LOGAN #18

PATSY WALKER AKA HELLCAT #15

PUNISHER #9

SILK #17 CC

SPIDER-MAN #13

STAR WARS POE DAMERON #11

STAR-LORD #3

ULTIMATES 2 #4

UNCANNY INHUMANS #19 IVX

UNCANNY X-MEN #18 IVX

US AVENGERS #3

VENOM #4

DC COMICS

AQUAMAN #17 VAR ED

BATMAN #17 VAR ED

BATWOMAN REBIRTH #1 VAR ED

CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #5 VAR ED

GREEN ARROW #17 VAR ED

GREEN LANTERNS #17 VAR ED

HARLEY QUINN #14 VAR ED

HE MAN THUNDERCATS #5 (OF 6)

INJUSTICE GROUND ZERO #6

JUSTICE LEAGUE #15 VAR ED

MOTHER PANIC #3 VAR ED

NIGHTWING #15 VAR ED

ODYSSEY OF THE AMAZONS #2 (OF 6)

RAVEN #6 (OF 6)

SUPER SONS #1 VAR ED

SUPERMAN #17 VAR ED

TEEN TITANS GO #20

TRINITY #6 VAR ED

WILD STORM #1

VERTIGO

LUCIFER #15

UNFOLLOW #16

BOOM

ADVENTURE TIME #61

DEEP #2

KONG OF SKULL ISLAND #8

LUMBERJANES #35

MIGHTY MORPHIN POWER RANGERS #12

OVER GARDEN WALL ONGOING #9

OVER GARDEN WALL ONGOING #10

WWE #2

DARK HORSE

ANGEL SEASON 11 #2 

BTVS SEASON 11 #4 

DEAD INSIDE #3 (OF 5)

DEPT H #11

ETHER #4

SPELL ON WHEELS #5 (OF 5)

DYNAMITE

JAMES BOND HAMMERHEAD #5 (OF 6)

IDW

BATMAN TMNT ADVENTURES #4 (OF 6)

MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDS FOREVER #37

OCTOBER FACTION DEADLY SEASON #4

STAR TREK BOLDLY GO #5

TMNT ONGOING #67 (C: 1-0-0)

UNCLE SCROOGE #23

IMAGE

GOD COUNTRY #2 IMAGE TRIBUTE VAR

HORIZON #8

INVINCIBLE #133  IMAGE TRIBUTE VAR

KILL OR BE KILLED #6  IMAGE TRIBUTE VAR

MANIFEST DESTINY #26 IMAGE TRIBUTE VAR

POSTAL #18

ROCKSTARS #3

SEX CRIMINALS #16 XXX FIONA STAPLES VAR

SPREAD #19

THEYRE NOT LIKE US #14

VIOLENT LOVE #4

WALKING DEAD #164 IMAGE TRIBUTE VAR

ONI

NIGHTS DOMINION #6

VALIANT

GENERATION ZERO #7

SAVAGE #4 (OF 4)

MISC

ANIMOSITY #5

ARCHIE #17

BLACK EYED KIDS #11

CEREBUS IN HELL #1

FOREVER WAR #1 (OF 6)

HARD CASE CRIME PEEPLAND #4 (OF 5)

MAGICAL CHARACTER RABBIT ONE SHOT

RIFT #2 (OF 4)

SIMPSONS COMICS #237

THE FOREVERS #3

TRADES

ANGEL CATBIRD HC VOL 02 CASTLE CATULA

ANOTHER CASTLE GRIMOIRE TP VOL 01

BATGIRL A CELEBRATION OF 50 YEARS HC

BATMAN & THE OUTSIDERS HC VOL 01

BATMAN THE GOLDEN AGE TP VOL 02

BENJAMIN BEAR IN BRIGHT IDEAS HC

BENNY AND PENNY JUST PRETEND SC

CAPTAIN MARVEL TP VOL 03 EARTHS MIGHTIEST HERO

CHARMED SEASON 10 TP VOL 03

DEADPOOL AND MERCS FOR MONEY TP VOL 01 MO MERCS MO MONKEY

DEADPOOL AND SECRET DEFENDERS TP

ECLIPSE TP VOL 01

EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN TP VOL 03 KINGDOMS FALL

FIRES & MURMUR GN

FLIGHT OF THE RAVEN TP

FUTURE QUEST TP VOL 01

GREEN LANTERN TP VOL 08 REFLECTIONS

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY PREM HC VOL 03 NEW GUARD CIVIL WAR II

HOW TRAIN YOUR DRAGON TP VOL 01 SERPENTS HEIR

KONG OF SKULL ISLAND TP VOL 01

KULIPARI HERITAGE TP

KUMA MIKO GN VOL 03

LOCKE & KEY SMALL WORLD DLX HC ED

LOVERS IN THE GARDEN GN

MACHINES HC

MASTERPIECE COMICS HC

MONSTER HUNTER FLASH HUNTER GN VOL 06

MY FAVORITE THING IS MONSTERS GN

NEIL GAIMANS FORBIDDEN BRIDES SLAVES DREAD DESIRE

NEKOGAHARA STRAY CAT SAMURAI GN VOL 02

NEW AVENGERS BY BENDIS COMPLETE COLLECTION TP VOL 02

NINTENDO 64 ANTHOLOGY CLASSIC ED HC

PLANTS VS ZOMBIES HC BOOM BOOM MUSHROOM

RED THORN TP VOL 02 MAD GODS AND SCOTSMEN

RICK & MORTY TP VOL 04

RUNAWAYS TP VOL 02 TEENAGE WASTELAND NEW PTG

SABERTOOTH SWORDSMAN HC VOL 01 (2ND ED)

SCOOTER GIRL TP

SECOND SIGHT TP VOL 01

SEVEN TO ETERNITY TP VOL 01

SEX TP VOL 05 REFLEXOLOGY

SNOW DAY GN

SPIDER-GWEN HC VOL 01

STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE HC VOL 02 STRAWBERRY NOIR

SUPERMAN ACTION COMICS TP VOL 01 PATH OF DOOM (REBIRTH)

THRILL POWER OVERLOAD 2000 AD REDUX HC

TIM GINGER TP

WILSON TP

WOLVERINE PREHISTORY TP

WONDER WOMAN 77 TP VOL 02

MERCH

BATMAN ANIMATED NBA GIRLS NIGHT OUT AF 5 PACK 

DC BOMBSHELLS KATANA STATUE

BACK IN STOCK

LOVE IS LOVE GN

THE GREAT WALL DOUBLE PASS GIVEAWAY!

Starring global superstar Matt Damon and directed by one of the most breathtaking visual stylists of our time, Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers), Legendary’s The Great Wall tells the story of an elite force making a valiant stand for humanity on the world’s most iconic structure. The first English-language production for Yimou is the largest film ever shot entirely in China. The Great Wall also stars Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau.

Thanks to the guardians from Universal Pictures and The Great Wall in cinemas February 16th, we have 5 Double In Season Passes to give away!

To go into the draw for your chance to win all you need to do is comment "I'd stand against hordes of mystic creatures if I had ______ by my side, " fill the blank with a tag of the person you'd most want to be standing shoulder to shoulder with and you'll be entered in the draw.

Terms and Conditions:

-Only entries made via the comments on the Facebook post will be included in the draw.

-Entries will be "liked" by All Star to notify the comment have been entered in the draw,

-All entries will go into the All Star Barrel and winners will be drawn at random.

-Entries close 6pm Monday the 13th of February and winners will be announced Tuesday the 14th and notified soon after as to how to collect their tickets.

A huge thanks again to Universal Pictures and The Great Wall in cinemas February 16th.

Find out more at www.thegreatwallmovie.com.au 

and www.facebook.com/UniversalPicturesAU

© 2017 Universal Studios

ALL STAR RECOMMENDS FOR FEBRUARY 7TH

Happiest of belated birthdays to All Star Comics which turned six last week. Such a cute age. 

Oops! Seems I totally forgot about last week's Image Day. Ah, well. At least I didn't forget about this weekend's Festival of the Photocopier 2017! Go early, is my advice, as my recollection is that Town Hall got a touch stuffy by mid-afternoon last year and I wanted to curl up under somebody's table and take a heat-nap.

COMIC OF THE WEEK : BEYOND PALOMAR : A LOVE AND ROCKETS BOOK

By Gilbert Hernandez

Published By Fantagraphics

For 35 years Gilbert, Jaime and, very occasionally Mario, Hernandez have chronicled generations of characters in their Love and Rockets comics. Arguably the greatest ongoing comic of all time, it's a daunting task for new readers to know where exactly to begin. Complicating things further for the newbie, Gilbert and Jaime work individually, their worlds are separate, distinctly individual places populated by characters ageing in real time along with their authors. There is no status quo in Love and Rockets, no reboot, no alternate universe. The series has seen a number of relaunching points (having recently relaunched yet again as a quarterly series in place of the annual Love and Rockets: New Stories) but the one constant in the series is that there is no constant. If you've been reading anywhere near the length of time that I have, the cast feel like flesh and blood, like friends you drop in on from time to time and when you don't see them for a while, you wonder what exactly they are up to. This is true particularly of Jaime's work, as he spins stories of his now middle-aged characters going to punk gigs and feeling old. It's all so terribly relatable. Gilbert, however, wavers far more often in the nature of his stories - he embraces genre far more frequently than his younger brother, pushes further and further away from the tag "The Gabriel Garcia-Marquez of comics" which came with his early L&R work, the legendary "Heartbreak Soup" stories. 

Gilbert is also the brother far more keen to break away from his Love and Rockets cast and create new characters, new worlds all for different publishers. Fatima: The Blood Spinners was an SF zombie shoot-em-up from Dark Horse, for example, and Grip: The Strange World of Men a Lynchian headtrip originally from Vertigo. Gilbert is creatively restless and the manner in which he's simplified his artwork reflects the ability with which he's been able to speed it up. We can argue the quality of 1985 Gilbert versus 2017 Gilbert all day, but instead let's talk about where to begin with such a body of work. 

Rules: You have to choose a Love and Rockets book (Marble Season would be my non-L&R Gilbert pick, that one came out through Drawn & Quarterly). You have to ensure that it is accessible, digestible to as broad a readership as possible but also embody as much of the creator's particular "flavour" as possible.

We could start with Heartbreak Soup, the earliest and (let's face it) most acclaimed stories of his career and that would be perfect. However, I've got an alternative choice -- Poison River, his 190 page graphic novel currently found in The Love and Rockets Library's Beyond Palomar book. Poison River is an epic. It's a prequel to the Heartbreak Soup stories and it's also the real moment where Hernandez opens his world and his work up to other more "lowbrow" genre influences. 

Poison River is at its core a crime comic, a gangster story. It's also one that remains supremely literary and experimental even if it just so happens to be populated with exploitation film fodder - transsexual strippers, gay gangsters, odd sexual fetishes, internecine criminal conflicts - and it largely plays out in a South American city being torn apart by deep political unrest, even the right-leaning gangsters are weeding out communist influences in their ranks. Poison River slices through years at a clip and, for a medium that increasingly becomes more and more decompressed, is a beautiful example of just how tightly but fluidly a comics creator can construct a page and just how much visual information can be packed into a sequence. Individual chapter break pages wonderfully encapsulate the pace of the story, each with a character's name and several illustrations from that individual's life, from childhood to the moment we readers encounter them. Life moves quickly, too quickly, and one of Gilbert's real gifts is his ability to encapsulate a character's total existence in often not many pages and yet create wholly realised beings in the process (see his extraordinary Julio's Day for perhaps the greatest example of this). And probably most importantly, Poison River is also the origin story of Gilbert's most celebrated, long-lived and complex creation, Luba. 

Hernandez began work on Poison River in 1989 and it was serialised in the original Love and Rockets series until 1993. Readers apparently struggled with the back half of the story's ever-increasing density and this actually makes perfect sense - it's not a story to read in quarterly serialised chapters; too much happens, the cast is too large, the labyrinthine twists in plot create complex entanglements of character and event, time passes too rapidly - but collected into a single volume, Poison River reveals itself to be nothing short of classic. 

Spanning three entire decades, Poison River opens with Luba as a baby and ends right at her arrival in the village of Palomar, the setting for Hernandez's Heartbreak Soup stories. Flashing back and forth across decades, however, Hernandez weaves in not only Luba's origin, but much of her mother's as well, weaving the lives and histories of both women together brilliantly. Hernandez's "editing" builds masterfully as the story progresses, condensing more and more information into his pages. In the story's final third, Hernandez cuts between scenes and between characters often three times or more on a single page, creating a superbly dense tapestry of comics. 

We open with Maria, Luba's mother, fleeing her wealthy husband. He has learned that Luba is not his daughter and wants both Maria and child gone. Luba's father, Eduardo, a poor, blue-collar worker, struggles to keep both Maria and Luba happy and fed. Maria struggles with her sudden poverty and disappears one night. Eduardo suffers chronic headaches after a brutal assault left him penniless one night and he and Luba, destitute, take to the road, leaving the village for the city, where they panhandle to survive. Hernandez paints a stark portrait of poverty - children sniffing glue to keep hunger at bay and the cruelty of the upper class towards those suffering misfortune are on display.

Eventually, Eduardo and little Luba (drawn by Hernandez as a lively, bubbly child) arrive in a small coastal village where Eduardo's sister lives. Here we meet Luba's cousin, the wonderful Ofelia, a rock solid and decade-long presence in Hernandez's comics. Ofelia's care of Luba is stern, but motherly, sweet and at all times protective. Ofelia is politically engaged and the reader learns much of the scary political climate in which the characters live - Ofelia and her leftist friends have secret meetings to discuss communists and those suspected of being communists disappearing and being found murdered.

Luba's chance to escape her provincial life comes in her early teens when she meets Peter Rio, a conga player with ambitions to become something greater. Sweeping the barely teenage Luba off her feet, Rio returns to an earlier life of crime, working his way up a network of criminals overseen by the ganglord Garza. As the cast begins to spread and personal histories revealed, hints are dropped about certain characters' links to Maria and as Luba begins to spiral into self-destruction and drug abuse, her life becomes endangered and escape is the only way out. 

It can't be overstated just how cleverly Hernandez pulls the strands of this epic together. Poison River needs careful attention and close reading. There is work to be done here. Its surprises - both in plot and narrative diversions - are many. Its density is to be lauded. Its construction is impeccable and ironclad. Best of all is the art, which is dark and lush, full of little flourishes echoing Hernandez's influences - Steve Ditko chiefly among them here -- and supremely detailed, especially considering the amount of information both visual and textual on any given page. Gilbert Hernandez made readers wait years for Luba's origin. The iconic, hammer-wielding character is one of the true icons of alternative comics, a forceful, imposing figure. I doubt many readers at the time could have imagined just how intricately Hernandez had her backstory planned or just how special it would truly end up.

Beyond Palomar also includes Hernandez's other work of the period, Love and Rockets X. Equally as sprawling as Poison River, Love and Rockets X is also distinctly different. Set in '90s L.A, the story involves a punk band called Love and Rockets and an enormous cast of racially and sexually diverse characters (including Luba's daughter Maricela) surviving against a backdrop of serious racial tension. Scenes are condensed, much like in Poison River, but stripped of the weight of three decades of history, are much easier to digest. It lacks the pulp-thrill urgency that powers much of Poison River, but again stands tall as a remarkable comics construct built around the interaction of vastly different characters and like all of the Love and Rockets library, Beyond Palomar comes with the highest possible recommendation.

WEBCOMIC OF THE WEEK : BOREDOM: DAYS AND NIGHTS OF BLEAK ISOLATION

By Daniel Clowes

Here is a scan of an apparently very rare board game made by none other than Daniel Clowes. I'd never seen this before so I'm assuming you haven't either. Titled "Boredom," the aim of the game appears to be...well...I'm not sure...endure the crushing isolation and banality of a certain kind of existence? Grimly hilarious in a typically Clowsian way, Boredom doesn't look like a ton of fun to actually play, but as a comics curiosity it's a gem.

http://desertislandcomics.tumblr.com/post/156151075942/insanely-rare-dan-clowes-board-game-from-warren

COMICS VIDEO OF THE WEEK : RIVERDALE TRAILER

Functioning, at least tonally, as something of a midway point between the rebooted Archie comics and the balls-out Afterlife With Archie horrorfest comics is Riverdale. It's a TV show that, on the surface, should not work, mixing Twin Peaks-like strangeness and small town secrets into a skewed Archie-world that feels very wrong, but oh so right. We all need to have more faith in the people behind all of Archie's endeavours, frankly. Afterlife With Archie is a terrific book that easily transcends the gimmickries of its premise and thus far so does Riverdale. The project is helmed by Afterlife... writer Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa who turns in taut, intriguing scripts, ripe with melodrama and just the right dose of should-the-target-audience-really-be-watching-this edginess. Really, the worst thing about the show is the ridiculous spray job required to make Archie actor KJ Apa into a redhead. But if that's the worst thing you can say about a show, well that's not bad at all. Riverdale is on Netflix with new episodes airing weekly. Here's the trailer. It's actually much better than this trailer makes it look.Would I watch it if it wasn't comics-related? Eh, probably not, but it's fascinating seeing these wholesome characters treated this way. Does it have serious legs? Not sure, but down to find out. Incidentally, Mrs Ashley has become obsessed with the show and looks set to devour nothing but Archie for the foreseeable, so as a gateway drug, its Grade-A China white.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XmFTADupMc

See you next week. Love your comics.

Cameron Ashley spends a lot of time writing comics and other things you'll likely never read. He's the chief editor and co-publisher of Crime Factory (www.thecrimefactory.com). You can reach him @cjamesashley on Twitter.

New Comics For Wednesday 8th of February

Six years on and starting week two of our anniversary period! Don't forget if you visit the store between now and the 20th of Feb and make a purchase over $50, you instantly get a ticket for your chance to win in our 6TH ANNIVERSARY $500 GIFT VOUCHER GIVEAWAY! All details can be found by clicking HERE.

Now comic bookens!

Again another week opens with another Australian creator with work released on the worldwide market, this time it's Canberra's Ryan K Lindsay and his Crime Noir by way of Jaws in CHUM TP.

REVOLUTION TP teams some of your favourite 80's cartoon legends all in the same universe mega event from IDW.

The King of Crime or just a misunderstood fellow with control issues? One of 2016's break out writers, Matthew Rosenberg head up the new series, KINGPIN #1.

Closing in fast on issue #1000, the Bat-Family that make up the cast in DETECTIVE COMICS #950 ready themselves for the fight of their lives against the League Of Shadows.

Spinning out of JUSTICE LEAGUE VS. SUICIDE SQUAD, JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA REBIRTH #1 sees Steve Orlando and Ivan Reis bringing together the heroes (and villains) least likely to make a big time super squad and drops them in a pressure cooker in hopes to save the day! 

Adam Warren returns with his fan favourite, heroes in love series with EMPOWERED SOLDIER OF LOVE #1.

Get in early to check out Mark Millar's next movie property to be, featuring the epic art of Stuart Immonen in the collected EMPRESS BOOK ONE PREMIERE HC.

Relive the 90's in all their over the top glory with one of the broodiest team ups imaginable with the GHOST RIDER WOLVERINE PUNISHER TP HEARTS OF DARKNESS.

One of our personal favourites from the DC Rebirth rebranding hits the trade shelves this week with HAL JORDAN & GLC TP VOL 01 SINESTROS LAW (REBIRTH).

The greatest whale of them all...and there's been a lot, gets his own stunning graphic novel in the MOBY DICK HC.

The Thrilling Adventure Hour team of Ben Acker, Ben Blacker return with their latest creator own series, the supernatural Western revenge jaunt, DEATH BE DAMNED #1 from BOOM Studios.

Fans of Stephen King's Dark Tower prepare to have your minds blown when you get to pick up the creepy childrens book that appears in the pages of that epic series in CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO HC.

The weird and wonderful adventures of one of manga's oddest series releases the next hardcover with JOJOS BIZARRE ADV STARDUST CRUSADERS HC VOL 02.

Swords and sorcery abound in this new graphic novel release LAND CALLED TAROT HC. 

If swords and sci-fi are more your thing check out Brian Wood's end tale of the literary sci fi icon in JOHN CARTER THE END #1.

Grant Morrison's ode to all things Lovecraft in a modern setting finally sees softcover release with Image's NAMELESS TP.

Just in time for Black History Month, BLACK HISTORY IN ITS OWN WORDS HC features quotes from the likes of Zadie Smith, Jean-Michael Basquiat, and Dave Chapelle, coupled with gorgeous portraits by Ronald Wimberly. 

Sure, old Bruce Wayne and Terry McGinness make fine action figures, but we all know you've got your eye on Ace the Bathound in this new BATMAN ANIMATED BATMAN BEYOND AF 3 PACK. 

Jam Packed and ready to pop, anything extra you are needing from this week's list just let us know about before Wednesday morning and we'll get it sorted for you!

MARVEL

ALL NEW WOLVERINE #17

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN RENEW YOUR VOWS #4

BLACK WIDOW #11

DARK TOWER DRAWING OF THREE SAILOR #5 (OF 5) (MR)

DEADPOOL THE DUCK #3 (OF 5)

DOCTOR STRANGE PUNISHER MAGIC BULLETS #3 (OF 4)

DOCTOR STRANGE SORCERERS SUPREME #5

FOOLKILLER #4

GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #17

IVX #4 (OF 6)

JESSICA JONES #5

KINGPIN #1

MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #17

MS MARVEL #15

POWER MAN AND IRON FIST #13

STAR WARS DOCTOR APHRA #4

TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #16

UNBEATABLE SQUIRREL GIRL #17

UNCANNY INHUMANS #1.MU

UNWORTHY THOR #4 (OF 5)

DC COMICS

ACTION COMICS #973 VAR ED

ALL STAR BATMAN #7

BATGIRL AND THE BIRDS OF PREY #7 VAR ED

DEADMAN DARK MANSION OF FORBIDDEN LOVE #3 (OF 3)

DEATHSTROKE #12 VAR ED

DETECTIVE COMICS #950 VAR ED

EARTH 2 SOCIETY #21

FLASH #16 VAR ED

GOTHAM ACADEMY SECOND SEMESTER #6

HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #14 VAR ED

JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA REBIRTH #1 VAR ED

JUSTICE LEAGUE POWER RANGERS #2 (OF 6)

NEW SUPER MAN #8 VAR ED

RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #7 VAR ED

SCOOBY APOCALYPSE #10 VAR ED

SUICIDE SQUAD #11 VAR ED

SUPERGIRL #6 VAR ED

SUPERWOMAN #7 VAR ED

TITANS #8 VAR ED

WONDER WOMAN #16 VAR ED

VERTIGO

LOST BOYS #5 (OF 6) 

BOOM

DEATH BE DAMNED #1

JIM HENSON STORYTELLER GIANTS #3

JONESY #10

NAMESAKE #4

SONS OF ANARCHY REDWOOD ORIGINAL #7

DARK HORSE

EMPOWERED SOLDIER OF LOVE #1

WORLD OF TANKS #5

DYNAMITE

GREAT DIVIDE #5 (OF 6)

JAMES BOND FELIX LEITER #2 (OF 6)

JOHN CARTER THE END #1

RED SONJA #2

IDW

DUCK AVENGER #3

MICKEY MOUSE #17

ROM ANNUAL 2017

TRANSFORMERS TILL ALL ARE ONE #7

IMAGE

BIRTHRIGHT #22

BLACK SCIENCE #28

EAST OF WEST #31 CVR B IMAGE TRIBUTE VAR

GREEN VALLEY #5 (OF 9)

MOONSHINE #5

MOTOR CRUSH #3

SAVAGE DRAGON #220

SNOWFALL #8

SOUTHERN CROSS #11

SPAWN #270

THROWAWAYS #5

WICKED & DIVINE #26 CVR C IMAGE TRIBUTE VAR

ONI

ANGEL CITY #5 (OF 6)

VALIANT

DIVINITY III SHADOWMAN #1

NINJAK #24

MISC

ALL NEW FATHOM #1

ALTERS #4

BLACK #4

BLUBBER #4

DOCTOR WHO 11TH YEAR THREE #2

HARD CASE CRIME TRIGGERMAN #5 (OF 5)

HERO CATS #15

KHAAL #2 (OF 4)

MIRACULOUS #10

SHERLOCK BLIND BANKER #2 (OF 6) CVR A MILLIDGE

TORCHWOOD 2 #1

TRADES

ACTION MAN TP VOL 01

ALL NEW ALL DIFFERENT AVENGERS TP VOL 03 CIVIL WAR II

ASSASSINATION CLASSROOM GN VOL 14

ATHENA VOLTAIRE VOLCANO GODDESS TP

AVENGERS K TP BOOK 04 SECRET INVASION

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA CLASSIC OMNIBUS TP VOL 01

BLACK HISTORY IN ITS OWN WORDS HC

BRICKLEBERRY TP VOL 01 ARMOOGEDON

CHARLIE THE CHOO-CHOO HC

CHUM TP

CLOAK AND DAGGER TP SHADOWS AND LIGHT

DAREDEVIL OMNIBUS HC VOL 01

DOCTOR WHO SUPREMACY OF THE CYBERMEN HC 

DONALD DUCK BIG SNEEZE TP

DRAGON AGE ADULT COLORING BOOK SC

EARTH 2 TP VOL 06 COLLISION

EMPRESS BOOK ONE PREMIERE HC

FUSE TP VOL 04 CONSTANT ORBITAL REVOLUTIONS

GHOST RIDER WOLVERINE PUNISHER TP HEARTS OF DARKNESS

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HINGES TP BOOK 03 MECHANICAL MEN

INVINCIBLE IRON MAN PREM HC VOL 03 CIVIL WAR II

INVISIBLES TP BOOK 01

JASON SHIGA DEMON SC GN VOL 02

JLA GODS AND MONSTERS TP

JOJOS BIZARRE ADV STARDUST CRUSADERS HC VOL 02 

JUDGE DREDD MEGA-CITY ZERO TP VOL 03

LAND CALLED TAROT HC

MARVEL UNIVERSE GUARDIANS OF GALAXY DIGEST TP VOL 04

MASS EFFECT OMNIBUS TP VOL 02

MOBY DICK HC

NAMELESS TP

NEW TEEN TITANS TP VOL 06

NINJAK TP VOL 05 THE FIST & THE STEEL

ONE PIECE GN VOL 81

REVOLUTION TP

ROBIN WAR TP

SHERLOCK A STUDY IN PINK TP

STAR WARS DARTH VADER HC VOL 02

STAR WARS LEGENDS EPIC COLLECTION TP EMPIRE VOL 03

TMNT AMAZING ADVENTURES TP VOL 04

TREKKER RITES OF PASSAGE TP

VIKINGS TP

WEIRD DETECTIVE TP

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X-FILES ORIGINS TP

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THE ALL STAR COMICS 6TH ANNIVERSARY $500 GIFT VOUCHER GIVEAWAY!

February 4th will see us celebrate our SIXTH year of being part of the comic book retail industry and as well as part of the Melbourne comic book community. Later in the month, the 20th of February marks our second year in our Queen St location!  Two exciting dates for us but as important as it is for us, the only reason we are still here is because of the continuing support we get from people just like YOU!

So like last year as a way to show our appreciation, we want to give you all the chance to win a birthday present from us!

Our gift to one of you will be a voucher for $500 for you to spend on whatever you like in the store!

Now how do YOU get a slice of this excellent prize?

From February 4th until the 20th of February, every time you spend $50 you will receive a raffle ticket and go into the draw to win! Spend $100, that's two tickets and so on and so forth! Just picking up your weekly comics could score you a further $500 to go crazy with in the store!

Only All Star purchases, not commission item purchases will be included toward ticket totals.

All entries will go into the All Star Barrel and the winner will be drawn at random.

Entries start for open for business on February 4th and end at close of business on February 20th. Then the winner will be drawn and announced the next day.

We still can't believe that after six years how the Melbourne comic reading, collecting and creating community has embrace us and we couldn't be more thankful. We are still doing our very best to give you the best comic retail experience possible so that we continue to earn your already loyal support now and for many years to come!

Best of luck to everyone and here's to the 4th AND 20th of Feb!