For the first time this year, Rogues Gallery will be offering up a second Free Comic Book Day, featuring mini-comics from various publishers designed for Halloween!
Come in on Sunday, October 30th and bring your kids to get some free comics featuring Strawberry Shortcake, Smurfs, Scary Godmother, Archie, Mameshiba, Donald Duck and more!
Costumes are not required (although they are encouraged), and all kids 12 and under will get a free comic. If we have any left over, we’ll give them out to anyone who wants them on October 31st!
We’ll also have a sale that day on horror- and Halloween-themed graphic novels!
In addition, throughout the month of October, we’ll be having a sale on our back issues! All comics in the boxes underneath the back issue wall will be $1.00 each on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays! If you’ve been looking to fill in a few holes in your collection, October is the month to do it!
DC New 52 Fantasy Draft – Second Week Results!
The DC New 52 Fantasy Draft game continues! Our top point leader right now remains Jason Mance (at 49 points, with his Superman-lead team, coming off a strong week with Resurrection Man and Frankenstein earning major points). Tied for second are Bert Lopez (at 30 points, with his Batman-lead team) and Oscar Amos (at 30 points, gaining the 9-point bonus from the victory of his Flash-lead team over the Wonder Woman-lead team in this week’s versus match). Right behind them in third is Stephen Fathere (at 29 points, with his Batman-lead team, gaining some points this week for Deathstroke and Batman & Robin).
With only 27 of the New 52 released, there’s going to be plenty more changes in the points in the coming weeks! In addition to the points gained every week when comics are released, there is a 9-point bonus available to each team when they face off against one another in matches voted on by customers. The second week match-up found Geek Bombast’s team of Wonder Woman, Chameleon Boy, Kid Flash, Ice and Tyroc falling to Oscar Amos’s team of Flash, Booster Gold, Wonder Girl, Deadman and Wildfire. The 9 point bonus pushed Amos into a tie for second! If you aren’t participating in the draft and you want to vote on the 9-point versus rounds, make sure and vote when you’re in the store next week. We’ll do a new match-up starting each Wednesday and running through Sundays!
New Games for September 6 – September 18, 2011
BOARD & CARD GAMES
MTG Booster Battle Pack Booster Battle Packs are designed as an introduction to the limited format of Magic: The Gathering, and are quick and fun for Magic players of any level. To play Booster Battle Packs, each player selects a deck, opens a booster, chooses up to five cards from it, and shuffles them into their deck – then the spell-slinging begins! Each pack contains two 20-card, semi-randomized decks with appropriate land cards, two 15-card Magic 2012 Core Set booster packs, a Magic learn-to-play guide, and one rules insert.
DC Heroclix Watchmen Crimebusters Fast Forces Who Watches The Watchmen? DC HeroClix: Watchmen Crimebusters Fast Forces features six of your favorite characters from the Watchmen Movie – Dr. Manhattan, Rorschach, Nite Owl, Ozymandiaz, Silk Spectre, and The Comedian – complete with brand-new tampos and dials, two exclusive maps (“Karnak” and “Dr. Manhattan’s Lab”), a pair of dice, and a rules sheet.
COC AH Ghouls of the Miskatonic Paperback Something dark sleeps deep in the ocean, emanating a power darker and more destructible than anything imaginable. And there are those that would wish to wake it… From Fantasy Flight Games comes a gripping tale of mystery, suspense, and eldritch horror! Set in the popular world of the Arkham Horror board game, Ghouls of the Miskatonic is the first book of The Dark Waters Trilogy. Following the mysterious deaths of several young ladies, a wide cast of familiar faces from the Arkham Horror board game begin an exciting and terrifying new investigation. From the pen of New York Times Bestselling author Graham McNeill, Ghouls of the Miskatonic begins a thrilling story in the renowned setting created by H.P. Lovecraft. Fans of games and literature alike will be immersed in the frightening secrets that lie beneath The Dark Waters.
COC Elder Sign Elder Sign lets players control investigators who must successfully endure adventures within a mysterious museum in order to gather clues, items, and the eldritch knowledge they need to seal the rifts between dimensions and prevent the Ancient OneÍs arrival. A clever and thematic dice mechanic pits their exploration against monsters and the sheer difficulty of staying sane and healthy while investigating the most dangerous exhibits and most terrifying instances of insanity. Created by Richard Launius and Kevin Wilson, the designers of Arkham Horror, Elder Sign recreates the Lovecraftian thrills of eerie suspense and mind-numbing horrors in a chilling, cooperative board game.
Marvel HC GSX Sentinel Mark II Featuring a completely different dial and new Character Cards from the Giant-Size X-Men booster release, the Sentinel Mark II stands over 5 inches tall and is sculpted to show the figure in mid-combat against a classic X-Men team member.
Marvel HC GSX Sentinel Mark V Featuring a completely different dial and new Character Cards from the Giant-Size X-Men booster release, the Sentinel Mark V stands over 5 inches tall and is sculpted to show the figure in mid-combat against a classic X-Men team member.
Bears! You and your friends are on a relaxing camping trip. But as you hammer in the last stake, you hear rustling. Bears are romping through the campsite! Who will survive the rampage? And who will be eaten by bears? From the creators of Castle Panic comes Bears!, a franticly risky dice-pairing frenzy!
Pokemon B&W Trainer Kit Each Pokemon TCG: Black & White Trainer Kit comes complete with two 30-card decks, which can be combined into one 60-card deck; an instructional booklet and playmat; two foil cards (Zoroark and Excadrill); a collectible coin; a code to unlock the Trainer Kit deck on-line; and one Pokemon TCG: Black & White booster pack.
Talisman The Dragon Exp For those brave adventurers who seek the Crown of Command, the quest means more than power and influence. It is a race to save the land from the Dragon KingÍs tyrannical rule! With The Dragon expansion for Talisman Revised 4th Edition, players will encounter even more choices and strategic challenges, including a new, dual-sided Inner Region for their heroes to conquer.
Guards Guards Guards! Guards! is an action-packed, fast-paced adventure set in the streets of Ankh-Morpork, the Discworld’s oldest, grubbiest, and least law-abiding city.
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
D&D Mordenkainen’s Magical Emporium Few wizards know more about magic than the mighty Mordenkainen, whose arcane achievements are without peer. HeÍs the Archmage of Adventure, and no stranger to unearthing hidden lore. Welcome to MordenkainenÍs Magnificent Emporium, a wondrous collection of magic items – each one with a story to tell. This tome provides Dungeon Masters with a ready assortment of treasures to tempt greedy players, along with historical nuggets and alluring adventure hooks that set these items apart from your run-of-the-mill flaming sword or bag of holding. Hold on to your magic hats – everything must go!
D&D Madness at Gardmore Abbey This thrilling, heroic-tier boxed adventure for characters of levels 6-10 takes heroes into the ruins of Gardmore Abbey, a monastery that was once the base of a militant order of paladins devoted to Bahamut.
Deathwatch The Achilus Assault Learn about the major threats to the Crusade’s advance, including foes that can be reasoned with – and others that must be annihilated! With new NPCs, adventure seeds, and player options, The Achilus Assault brings your campaign to the front lines. In service to the Emperor, choose which worlds shall be saved… and which shall burn!
Airship Pirates From the steampunk sky-cities of Isla Aether and High Tortuga come the airship pirates! Hoist the Jolly Roger, spin your propellers, and take to the skies – yours is a life of adventure, plunder, and infamy. Set sail on the winds of time and plunder history itself in the Airship Pirates RPG, based on the music of Abney Park!
SR Runners Black Book Runner’s Black Book collects material from Shadowrun’s successful PDF line of products, compiling Deadly Waves, Gun Heaven, MilSpecTech, This Old Drone, and Unfriendly Skies in their entirety, along with updated art and information. On top of that, the book includes new pieces of gear developed specifically for this volume, including the punishing Kriss X Submachine Gun and small, smooth TPP light pistol. Each piece of gear is accompanied by a full-color illustration providing a look at the item’s complete details and features.
SR Street Legends Street Legends profiles more than thirty renowned figures in the Sixth World, including JackPoint stalwarts such as Haze, Rigger X, and Puck; classic runners like Serrin Shamander and Tommy Talon; and powerful behind-the-scenes figures including Lugh Surehand, Nadja Daviar, and the great dragon Lofwyr. Learn about hunting vampires with Martin de Vries, running guns in a war zone with Marcos, and trying to put a face to the elusive Hans Brackhaus. Street Legends contains short fiction bringing these characters to life, as well as text describing each person and what makes them a legend. Also, each and every person profiled has complete game stats. Even the dragons.
Burning Wheel RPG Gold Ed Fight for What You Believe! The Burning Wheel is an award-winning fantasy roleplaying game in which players take on the roles of vibrant, dynamic characters whose very beliefs drive the story forward, and whose choices tangibly affect every outcome – from glorious victory to ignominious defeat.
PF Forgotten Foes From the crypt thing and grick, to nightshades, inphidians, and sin dragons, Forgotten Foes details over 100 classic and all-new monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game.
GM Chase Card Deck What happens when the bad guy grabs the magic idol and then races off through the city streets? You give chase! But as any fan of cinematic chases knows, there’s more to a chase than simply running faster – there’s all those obstacles that get in the way. With GameMastery: Chase Cards, all of these perils and short cuts are put at your fingertips.
PF Adv Path Night of Frozen Shadow The first stage of the expedition from Varisia to distant Minkai begins with a journey into the Lands of the Linnorm Kings, where the heroes must prepare for the coming ordeal in which they must traverse the northern continent known as the Crown of the World.
PF Module Feast of Ravenmoor Hidden away in the uplands of Varisia, the remote village of Ravenmoor has never been eager to attract visitors. But when a tax collector vanishes on a trip into the town, Ravenmoor suddenly becomes a spotlight of attention. What strange surprises await those chosen to investigate the tax collector’s disappearances, and does the vanishing have anything to do with Ravenmoor’s upcoming seasonal feast?
GURPS 4E Horror HC Gothic! Lovecraftian Cosmic! Splatter! Scribed by Origins and ENnie award-winner Kenneth Hite, this new revision of GURPS: Horror introduces an exciting, terrifying approach to any kind of horror-themed adventure campaign.
DC New 52 Fantasy Draft – First Week Results!
The DC New 52 Fantasy Draft game is underway! Our top three point leaders right now are Jason Mance (at 26 points, with his Superman-lead team), Joseph Compton (at 25 points, with his Wonder Woman-led team) and Ed Broussard (at 24 points, with his Superman-led team).
With only 14 of the New 52 released, there’s going to be plenty more changes in the points in the coming weeks! In addition to the points gained every week when comics are released, there is a 9-point bonus available to each team when they face off against one another in matches voted on by customers.
The first week match-up found Brandon Ney’s team of Batman, Red Robin, Harley Quinn, I, Vampire and Arsenal falling to Jason Mance’s team of Superman, John Constantine, Midnighter, Frankenstein and Resurrection Man. The 9 point bonus pushed Mance from third to first place!
If you aren’t participating in the draft and you want to vote on the 9-point versus rounds, make sure and vote when you’re in the store next week. We’ll do a new match-up starting each Wednesday and running through Sundays!
Magic The Gathering Innistrad Pre-Release
Rogues Gallery will hold a pre-release for the next Magic: The Gathering set, Innistrad, on Sunday, September 25th!
Pre-registration is available now by emailing or calling to get on the list (we have a limit of 16 seats available to play), registration will begin at noon on September 25th and the pre-release will run 3-4 round from 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM (at the latest), with free play/trading time available until 4 PM. Please note that if you pre-register, you must arrive by 12:15 to claim your spot or it will be opened up for walk-ins.
You will also receive an exclusive Mayor of Avabruck/Howlpack Alpha promo card. We will be playing a Sealed Deck format, each player will pay $25 to receive six Innistrad booster packs to use for building a deck. Prize support will include Innistrad and MTG 2012 boosters.
In addition to the main Prerelease Tournament event, if space allows, we will offer Open Dueling, allowing any player who wants to play to purchase 1 Innistrad Intro Pack to play against each other, as well as Prerelease tournament players who are between matches.
New Games for August 22 – September 5, 2011
BOARD & CARD GAMES
King of Tokyo
In King of Tokyo, players portray mutant monsters, gigantic robots, and other monstrous creatures, all of whom are happily whacking each other in a joyous atmosphere in order to become the one and only King of Tokyo. Win destruction points, hoard energy, restore your health, or whack other players into understanding Tokyo is YOUR territory!
Munchkin Zombies 2 Armed & Dangerous
Return of the (un)Living Munchkins! Munchkin Zombies 2: Armed and Dangerous includes 112 new, delightfully twisted cards for Munchkin Zombies, rendered by John Kovalic!
Munchkin Conan/Barbarian
By Crom! At last, Munchkin meets the mightiest barbarian of all! In collaboration with Paradox Entertainment, producers of the new Conan the Barbarian movie, Steve Jackson Games brings Conan into the world of Munchkin!
Plus Six Bag o Munchkin Level Counters
The +6 Bag o’ Munchkin Level Counters gives players attractive, easy-to-read level counter dials themed to match six of the most popular Munchkin core sets.
DC Heroclix Green Lantern
In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night, No Evil Shall Escape Their Sight! In the wake of the Summer’s most anticipated movie release comes the DC HeroClix: Green Lantern Gravity Feed! Each Gravity Feed contains 24 single figure boosters – collect all 10 intricately sculpted and painted figures taken straight from the Green Lantern movie!
Pokemon B&W Emerging Powers Boosters
Forces Unveiled! Strengths Revealed! Powers Emerged! The secrets of the Unova region are now yours to command! In the Pokemon TCG: Black & White – Emerging Powers expansion, 25 astonishing, new Pokemon are available for the very first time, including the rare and powerful Legendary Pokemon Cobalion, Virizion, Terrakion, Thundurus, and Tornadus! With brand-new Item cards to revitalize your deck, the Black & White – Emerging Powers expansion offers Trainers all of the amazing new strategies of Unova!
Dust Tactics Revised Core Set
The perfect introduction for new players or a great expansion for veterans, the Dust Tactics Revised Core Set includes all-new, never-before-released miniatures exclusive to this Core Set, an updated and comprehensive rulebook, the ñVictory Bridgeî scenario book, six custom dice, two double-sided terrain posters, 10 unit cards, nine double-sided hazard squares, two ammo-crates, and two antitank traps.
Dust Tactics Unit Card Upgrade Pack
With the intimidating forces of the rival bloc spread out on the battlefield before you, what kind of army will you build? Gather your forces with the Dust Tactics Unit Card Upgrade Pack, featuring unit cards for all the units released before Operation ñSeeLoweî, including preview miniatures available from Dust Tactics Game Night Kits, all updated to the new army point costs detailed in the Revised Core Set.
Gears of War: The Board Game
Based on the wildly popular third-person shooter by Epic Games, Gears of War: The Board Game allows one to four players to take on the roles of COG soldiers seeking to destroy the Locust horde who must cooperate to complete missions against an ingeniously challenging and varied game system.
LTR LCG Journey to Rhosgobel
There’s no time to lose in the Journey to Rhosgobel, the third Adventure Pack in the Shadows of Mirkwood Cycle containing 60 never-before-seen cards for use with The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game.
COC Mansions/Madness Season/Witch Exp.
A bright, young, Miskatonic University student has disappeared, having checked into an infamous Arkham boarding house to study its reported supernatural properties. Now, as the celebration Walpurgis Eve approaches, you and your fellow investigators are tasked with venturing into the decaying Witch House and solving a mystery that has plagued Arkham for generations. But are you prepared to face the horrors that await you? Designed by Richard Launius (Arkham Horror, Elder Sign), Season of the Witch sends players on a tense and terrifying race against the clock. Can you solve the mysteries of the Witch House before they consume Arkham forever?
Space Hulk Mission Pack 1 Exp.
Failure is not an option! While you may have survived the harrowing challenges of Death Angel, the mission is far from over. The Mission Pack 1 expansion brings twelve new Location cards that provide alternate missions for players. Plus, new terrors emerge in the form of Adrenal Genestealers, and an all-new Terrain card will threaten to thrust unfortunate space marines out into the cold embrace of space!
Space Hulk Space Marine Pack 1 Exp
Rally your battle brothers with Space Marine Packs, introducing brand-new Combat Teams to your game, ready to blast their way into the carnage that is Death Angel. Space Marine Pack 1 comes complete with two new Combat Teams and their respective Action cards: the deadly Chaplain Raziel brings his ironclad faith to the fight while Brother Adron readies his Cyclone Missile Launcher for absolute devastation. Also included are eight Combat Team cards, which replace the original six Combat Team markers from the Death Angel game, making it easier to randomize and select your teams.
MTG Duel Decks Ajani VS Nicol Bolas
It’s vengeance versus guile to decide the fate of a shattered plane! The battle of Alara’s Maelstrom is in your hands! Determine the fate of an entire plane and the outcome of an epic conflict between two rival Planeswalkers in Duel Decks: Ajani vs. Nicol Bolas, featuring two ready-to-play, 60-card decks showcasing some of the best cards in Magic history.
Dixit 3 Odyssey
The fantastic universe of Dixit, winner of the Spiel des Jahres 2010, returns to entrance you once more! With Dixit Odyssey you can continue the storytelling adventures in enchanting and dreamlike new worlds! Discover 84 new cards in this standalone game for up to 12 players containing a new, more practical scoreboard, voting pads, and new “rabbit” tokens.
ROLE-PLAYING GAMES
Battletech War of Reaving
As the Word of Blake unleashed their Jihad, one enemy of the Inner Sphere remained in the shadows, riven by internal strife and dissent. As political and military alliances among the children of Nicholas Kerensky are broken and forged, the Clans turn inward as one Clan unleashes the unthinkable upon the rest! Wars of Reaving details the long-sought happenings of the Clans after the results of the Great Refusal through the end of the Jihad, compiled from detailed reports culled from each of the Clans and others. Included within are personalities, equipment, units, and factions that all had a hand in the upheaval that enveloped the Homeworlds, changing them forever.
Eclipse Phase Panopticon HC
This sourcebook details the inner workings of the different types of space habitats in Eclipse Phase, provides comprehensive information on surveillance and sousveillance technologies, and explores uplifts (animals raised to human-level sapience) and the sociopolitical challenges they face.
Exalted 2 Patchwork Scroll
The Patchwork Scroll gathers together four Exalted 2nd Edition sourcebooks into one tome: Debris from the Fallen Races, Splinters of the Wyld, Lost Arts of the Dead, and The Imperfect Lotus.
Labor Day Sale (New Comics *Not* Delayed)
We’re having a sale Labor Day itself, Monday September 5th. We’ll be offering 15% off on all role-playing game books, Games Workshop games, board and non-collectible card games and graphic novels (including manga) all day September 5th, so come in and pick up those games or graphic novels that have been tempting you for a while!
Also, there will be no delay in new comics this week! New comics, including the first 13 titles of DC’s New 52, will hit on Wednesday, September 7th as usual!
All-Ages Event on Saturday, September 3rd!
Rogues Gallery will be welcoming creator Mike Bullock to Austin with an all-ages signing on Saturday, September 3rd!
In attendance will be Mike Bullock (Lions, Tigers & Bears, Gimoles), Alan Porter Jr. (Cars) and Matthew Weldon (New Brighton Archaeological Society). Bullock and Porter will be here from 1-4 PM, and Weldon will be signing from 2-4 PM!
We’ll be having a coloring contest for kids as a lead-up to the event, with our creators judging the entries on the day! There will be prizes for different age groups, including Lions, Tigers & Bears t-shirts, comics grab bags and more! If your child would like to color an entry for the contest, you can print the page at this link. We’ll also have copies of the page printed out at the store next week for anyone who would like to take one.
The New DC 52 Fantasy Draft starts this Wednesday!
To celebrate the new DC relaunch, Rogues Gallery will be trying out a new game based very loosely on fantasy football, the New 52 Fantasy Draft.
We’ve got room for 19 players, who will draft a team of A-list, B-list and C-list characters from the cast of the new 52 books.
Over the course of the two-month “season” the teams will gain points based on the managers’ panel reading and rating the comics they star in and other readers voting on “who would win” style battles of teams randomly pitted against each other each week.
The game is mostly for fun, but there will be some prizes for the top winners.
If you’re interested in signing up, drafting will begin on Wednesday, August 24th (this week) and the game begins with our midnight release on Tuesday, August 30th! Drop us an email if you’d like to participate!
Magic The Gathering Celebration on Saturday, September 10th!
Rogues Gallery will be participating in the Magic Celebration on Saturday, September 10th! The event will start at 12:30, and we’ll begin registering at noon.
Players will play in the new “Mini Master” format (details here.)
In addition, the first four players to purchase a Deckbuilder’s Toolkit during the event get a T-Shirt. And when players register for the Mini Master event, they’ll get a Duels of the Planeswalkers 2012 digital item code card for the platform of their choice.
We will be hosting our Innistrad Pre-Release on Sunday, September 25th and the Innistrad Launch Party on Friday, September 30th. More details on all of these events will be coming later!