Upcoming Comics November 2010 – January 2011

We encourage pre-ordering! And remember: these dates are subject to change due to flaky creators, flaky publishers, and general bad mojo.

November
Assassin’s Creed: The Fall #1 / November 10th
The All-New Batman The Brave and the Bold #1 / November 10th
Battle Chasers Anthology HC / November 10th
Chew Vol 3: Just Desserts TP / November 10th
The Walking Dead Vol 13 TP / November 17th
Batman The Dark Knight #1 / November 24th
Batwoman #0 / November 24th
Dungeons & Dragons #1 / November
GI Joe Cobra Vol 2 TP / November
George R.R. Martin’s Doorways #1 / November
Deadspace: Salvage TP / November
Darkwing Duck Vol 1 The Duck Knight Returns TP / November
Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science #1 / November

December
Brightest Day Vol 1 HC / December 1st
Planetary Book 4 TP / December 1st
Fables Vol 14 TP / December 1st
Santa Claus vs. The Martians #1 / December 1st
Heroes for Hire #1 / December 1st
Wolverine The Best There Is #1 / December 1st
Black Panther The Man Without Fear #513 / December 8th
The Guild TP / December 8th
Sweet Tooth Vol 2 TP / December 8th
Batman The Widening Gyre HC / December 8th
Conan The Road of Kings #1 / December 15th
Star Wars Legacy War #1 / December 15th
Ultimate Comics Doom #1 / December 22nd
The Guild: Vork / December 22nd
Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #1 / December 22nd
Axe Cop Vol 1 / December 22nd
Hitman Vol 3 TP / December 22nd
John Byrne’s Next Men #1 / December
Transformers Vol 2 International Incident TP / December
Mystery Society Vol 1 TP / December
Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman Vol 1 TP / December
Incorruptible Vol 3 TP / December
Irredeemable Vol 5 TP / December
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers #1 / December
The Sixth Gun Vol 1 TP / December

January
Star Wars Legacy Vol 10 TP / January 5th
Weird Worlds #1 / January 5th
Batman Beyond #1 / January 5th
The Walking Dead Weekly #1 / January 5th
Ultimate Comics Captain America #1 / January 5th
Daredevil Reborn #1 / January 5th
Millar & McNiven’s Nemesis HC / January 12th
New Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis Vol 1 HC / January 12th
Brody’s Ghost Book 2 / January 12th
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales HC / January 19th
Memoir #1 / January 19th
Young Justice #1 / January 19th
Mass Effect: Evolution #1 / January 19th
Secret Avengers Vol 1 HC / January 19th
Agatha H & The Airship City: A Girl Genius Novel / January 26th
Avengers by Brian Michael Bendis Vol 1 HC / January 26th
The New York Five #1 / January 26th
Star Wars Darth Vader and the Lost Command #1 / January 26th
Infestation #1 / January
Doctor Who #1 / January
Dark Sun #1 / January
Transformers: The IDW Collection Vol 3 HC / January
Freakangels Vol 5 TP / January

February
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne HC / February 2nd
Finder: Voice/ February 16th

New Games for October 11 – October 24, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Monsterpocalypse Two Player Battle Box
Unleash Power on an Unimaginable Scale! Take control of a giant monster and its horde of minions and fight for control of your turf. Stomp the competition to dust as you slam, smash, blast, and brawl your way to victory in the biggest battle ever to hit your table! The Monsterpocalypse Two-Player Battle Box contains everything two players need to play, including full forces for two random factions! Contents include four monster figures, 26 unit figures, six buildings, two sets of specialty dice, two monster health trackers, a double-sided city map, a rulebook, and a quick-start rules sheet.

Power Struggle
The world of corporations is ruthless! Battle your way to the top of the corporate ladder through hard work and bribery in Power Struggle! But, beware of your hated rivals, who are also fighting to reach the post of chairman!

SmileyFace
SmileyFace is a card game of face-to-face family fun for four to eight players. Over seven short rounds, each player tries to collect the highest total “face value” of emoticons cards of a single type. This clever family game by designers Bruno Faidutti and Gwena’l Bouquin, featuring hilarious art by Antonio Dessi and Ben Prenvost, includes 82 cards with dozens of quirky and colorful characters based on popular emoticons.

Cadwallon City of Thieves
Get ready for a deviously fun battle for treasure! Good fortune in the Guild of Thieves is a double-edged sword that cuts to the bone; other thieves will want your loot, and they have no qualms about drawing your blood to get it! The result is a fast and furious brawl for control of the best treasures in the city! Cadwallon: City of Thieves is a fast-paced board game of cunning thievery and ruthless skullduggery in a fantasy city steeped in magic and intrigue, where players each control their own gang of four thieves, competing to amass the greatest haul of loot from the many carefully locked chests scattered about the board.

Talisman Sacred Pool Expansion
Providing a fountain of new possibilities, The Sacred Pool introduces new ways to experience the magic and adventure of Talisman with four all-new characters, over 70 new Adventure cards, Neutral Alignment cards, Quest Rewards, and the addition of Alternate Endings.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Warhammer Fantasy Signs of Faith
The Old World is a place of unending war and strife. The legions of Chaos threaten to demolish all bastions of civilization while spreading their corruption and heresy across the land. The Four Ruinous Powers continue to gather worshippers among the nobles and commonfolk alike, allowing them to spread their dark designs from within the Empire. Amidst this gathering darkness burns a light of hope that slowly gains strength, lit by those who follow the signs of faith. This supplement for Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay introduces valuable background information on the Cults of the Empire as well as insights on the Ruinous Power Nurgle, the Plaguefather.

Battletech Technical Readout 3085
BattleTech Technical Readout: 3085 gives a detailed look at the machines introduced during the waning days of the Jihad and into the founding days of Devlin Stone’s Republic of the Sphere. This sourcebook includes the latest ‘Mechs, battle armor, aerospace, and vehicles, as well as new late-Jihad support vehicles and the long-awaited update of Technical Readout: Project Phoenix, featuring brand-new art and additional variants.

Umlut: Game of Metal
Heavy Metal. The very name itself drips with power, testosterone, and hairspray. Warriors on the stage of history, wielding their axes and mics as they do battle for glory! Long of hair and tight of pants, join the ranks of Metal in your quest for babes, booze, and glory in Umlaut: Game of Metal, a competitive storytelling game where players create and control the rise (or fall) of their own Heavy Metal band. Simple mechanics let you chart their career as they rehearse, play gigs, fight among themselves, and pull crazy publicity stunts in their quest to Make It Big and hunt down an elusive record contract.

Dead of Night 2nd Ed
Dead of Night is the roleplaying game of campfire tales, slasher movies, and b-movie horror. It is a game of screaming victims, unstoppable killers, and slavering monsters, where the horror movie clichŽs flow thicker than blood and the only victory is survival!

Zombies Hunter’s Guide
The dead have always stalked the dark corners of the earth. Since World War II, the number of zombie outbreaks has increased every year, while governments desperately try to cover up the facts. Zombies: A Hunter’s Guide contains all of the information necessary to recognize and combat this growing threat. Beginning with an explanation of the historical origins of zombies, it follows their history straight through to the threat they pose to the world today.

New Games for September 27 – October 10, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Magic: The Gathering Scars of Mirrodin
The Corrosion Begins! Scars of Mirrodin heralds the latest expansion block for Magic:The Gathering.

Art of A Song of Ice and Fire V1
From the sands of Dorne to the frozen north, Westeros is a realm of picturesque landscapes, immense strongholds, and captivating characters. Since its debut, George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series has left these images indelibly imprinted in the minds of millions of readers. Now, some of the finest fantasy artists in the world have come together to offer their take on this rich and vibrant setting. Serving as a reprint of an earlier edition, The Art of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice & Fire, Volume 1 features almost 200 pages of scenes, characters, and landscapes from the novels, as well as a foreword written by George R.R. Martin himself.

Dragonheart
An evil wizard has placed the Great Dragon, the protector of the realm, into a stony slumber, its fiery breath locked away in a ruby jewel called the Dragonheart. With the land’s guardian imprisoned, trolls and fire dragons run amuck, barely held in check by brave knights and canny huntresses. If you can bring order to these factions before your opponent does, you’ll control the fate the Great Dragon… and the realm itself!

Hotel Samoa
Samoa. A popular vacation resort, where groups of tourists arrive every week. The hotel owners’ only care is to give these tourists the stay of their life – and, of course, to rid them of as much money as possible!

Betrayal at House on the Hill
The creak of footsteps on the stairs, the smell of something foul and dead, the feel of something crawling down your back this and more can be found in the exciting refresh of the Avalon Hill favorite Betrayal at House on the Hill. This fun and suspenseful game is a new experience almost every time you play, as you and your friends explore that creepy old place on the hill until enough mystic misadventures happen that one of the players turns on all of the others! Designed for 3-6 players aged 12 and up, this boardgame features multiple scenarios, a different lay-out with every game, and enough chills to freeze the heart of any horror fan. Betrayal at House on the Hill puts you face-to-face with legendary monsters, modern nightmares… and your friends!

Hansa Teutonica
In Hansa Teutonica, players attempt to increase their standing as merchants in the Hanseatic League by gaining prestige points by establishing networks and trade routes, bartering, and developing markets

LNE Invasion Outer Space – Martian Game
It is the early 1950’s, the dawn of the Atomic Age, and mankind is on the brink of setting out to explore the new frontier of space. But what they don’t know is that space has already come to them! In a small field near a traveling carnival just outside of a sleepy rural town in middle America, the first Martian Saucers begin to land – the vanguard to a massive alien armada. The Invasion has begun! In this fast-paced, modular game of fiendish Martians, Big Top Heroes, and SciFi Movie Action, players take on the role of either Carnival Heroes, using their special talents and working together to fight off the Martian Invasion; or as the invaders themselves, waves of Martian Soldiers and Flying Saucers, blasting Humans with Ray Guns and unleashing their vile alien technologies upon the Earth. Invasion From Outer Space is fully compatible with Last Night on Earth, and can be combined to form a massive game with up to three independent factions (Heroes, Zombies, and Martians).

Dominion Prosperity Expansion
Ah, money. There’s nothing like the sound of coins clinking in your hands. Life has been good to you. Just ten years ago, you were tilling your own fields in a simple straw hat. Today, your kingdom stretches from sea to sea, and your straw hat is the largest the world has ever known. You also have the world’s smallest dog, and a life-size statue of yourself made out of baklava. Sure, money can’t buy happiness, but it can buy envy, anger, and also this kind of blank feeling. You still have problems – troublesome neighbors that must be conquered. But this time, you’ll conquer them in style! The Prosperity expansion adds 25 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus two new Basic cards that let players keep building up past Gold and Province, and treasures with abilities, cards that interact with treasures, and powerful expensive cards.

The Farming Game – Card Game
In this portable, card-game adaptation of the International award-winning board game, players harvest crops while dodging droughts, uncertain markets, and insects. Buy land, cattle, wheel and deal in your quest to build the best farm in the county! A truly rewarding time that entertains, teaches, and is just plain fun!

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

D&D Essentials Dungeon Masters Kit
This deluxe box contains awesome tools, rules, and adventure content for every Dungeon Master, including a 96-page book of rules and advice for Dungeon Masters, 32-page monster book, two 32-page adventures, three sheets of die-cut monster tokens, two double-sided battle maps, and a fold-out Dungeon Master’s screen.

Gamma World RPG Box
Earth. After the apocalypse. Never mind the radiation – you’re gonna like it here! The D&D Gamma World Roleplaying Game offers hours of rollicking entertainment in a savage land of adventure, where the survivors of some mythical future disaster must contend with radioactive wastes, ravaged cities, and rampant lawlessness. Utilizing the 4th Edition D&D Roleplaying Game system as its foundation, this complete, stand-alone roleplaying game comes with a 160-page book with rules for character creation, game rules, and an adventure, two sheets of die-cut character and monster tokens, two double-sided battle maps, cardstock character sheets and mutation power cards, a Mutation power card deck, and a Loot power card deck.

Deadlands Marshals Handbook
This setting book for Deadlands Reloaded includes expanded Setting Rules for the Marshal’s eyes only, the lowdown on all the strange locales of the Weird West, more creepy critters than you can throw a tomahawk at, and everything a Marshal needs to keep the Reckoning rolling.

Pathfinder Complete Character Folio
This character folio features 12 pages that cover your Pathfinder RPG character in depth and in detail, with all the basics – Abilities, Saves, Attacks, and Defenses – including Hero Points from the Pathfinder RPG Advanced Player’s Guide. Also featured is a full page for Skills; a background page, including room for titles, family, and contacts; Feats, Class, and Racial Features, and Traits; Possessions – gear slots, plus space for containers and conveyances; well-organized Spellcasting pages that help track magic use; Mini-Character sheets for Cohorts, Followers, Mounts, Familiar, Eidolon, or augmented summoned creatures you call upon regularly; an Advancement page to log your progress as you level, or plan ahead; extra pages for note-keeping; plus two pockets to hold maps, watch lists, treasure lists, and other notes.

Upcoming Comics October 2010 – January 2011

We encourage pre-ordering! And remember: these dates are subject to change due to flaky creators, flaky publishers, and general bad mojo.

October
Star Wars Knight Errant #1 / October 13th
Carnage #1 / October 13th
Knight & Squire #1 / October 13th
Luthor HC / October 20th
Avengers vs Pet Avengers #1 / October 20th
Beasts of Burden & Hellboy One-Shot / October 27th
Superman Earth One Vol 1 HC / October 27th
Parker: The Outfit HC / October
Spike #1 / October
Silent Hill: Past Life #1 / October
The Rocketeer Complete Deluxe Edition New Printing / October
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard HC / October
Stan Lee’s Soldier Zero #1 / October
Warlord of Mars #1 / October
Yo Gabba Gabba!: Comic Book Time! HC / October
Joe Madureira Presents The Art of Darksiders / October
Mouse Guard: The Black Axe #1 / October

November
Batman & Robin Vol 2 HC / November 3rd
Batman: Battle for the Cowl TP / November 3rd
Green Lantern: Agent Orange TP / November 3rd
Batman, Inc. #1 / November 3rd
Superboy #1 / November 3rd
Astonishing Thor #1 / November 3rd
Osborn #1 / November 3rd
Captain America: Man Out of Time #1 / November 3rd
Warriors Three #1 / November 3rd
Thunderstrike #1 / November 3rd
Generation Hope #1 / November 3rd
Assassin’s Creed: The Fall #1 / November 10th
The All-New Batman The Brave and the Bold #1 / November 10th
Battle Chasers Anthology HC / November 10th
Chew Vol 3: Just Desserts TP / November 10th
Batman The Dark Knight #1 / November 24th
Batwoman #0 / November 24th
Serenity: The Shepherd’s Tale / November 24th
The Walking Dead Vol 13 TP / November 24th
Dungeons & Dragons #1 / November
GI Joe Cobra Vol 2 TP / November
George R.R. Martin’s Doorways #1 / November
Deadspace: Salvage TP / November
Darkwing Duck Vol 1 The Duck Knight Returns TP / November
XKCD Vol 0 TP / November
Atomic Robo and the Deadly Art of Science #1 / November

December
Brightest Day Vol 1 HC / December 1st
Planetary Book 4 TP / December 1st
Fables Vol 14 TP / December 1st
Santa Claus vs. The Martians #1 / December 1st
Heroes for Hire #1 / December 1st
Wolverine The Best There Is #1 / December 1st
Black Panther The Man Without Fear #513 / December 8th
The Guild TP / December 8th
Sweet Tooth Vol 2 TP / December 8th
Batman The Widening Gyre HC / December 8th
Conan The Road of Kings #1 / December 15th
Star Wars Legacy War #1 / December 15th
Ultimate Comics Doom #1 / December 22nd
The Guild: Vork / December 22nd
Robert E. Howard’s Savage Sword #1 / December 22nd
Axe Cop Vol 1 / December 22nd
Hitman Vol 3 TP / December 22nd
John Byrne’s Next Men #1 / December
Transformers Vol 2 International Incident TP / December
Mystery Society Vol 1 TP / December
Reid Fleming: World’s Toughest Milkman Vol 1 TP / December
Incorruptible Vol 3 TP / December
Irredeemable Vol 5 TP / December
Chip N Dale Rescue Rangers #1 / December
The Sixth Gun Vol 1 TP / December

January
Star Wars Legacy Vol 10 TP / January 5th
Brody’s Ghost Book 2 / January 12th
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Tales HC / January 19th
Michael Moorcock’s Elric of Melnibone Vol 1 TP / January 26th

February
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne HC / February 2nd
Finder: Voice/ February 16th

Upcoming Games October – December 2010

We encourage pre-ordering! And remember: these dates are subject to change due to flaky creators, flaky publishers, and general bad mojo.

October
Heroclix Brightest Day Action Pack (October 10th)
Munchkin Booty Fish and Ships
Munchkin Santa’s Revenge
Savage Worlds Space 1889 – Red Sands
Cthulhu Plush Cell Phone Holder
Heroclix Arkham Asylum Escape! Mega Pack
Small World Be Not Afraid Expansion
Song of Ice & Fire RPG Chronicle Starter
DC Adventures RPG: Heroes & Villains Volume 1 – A-K
Talisman The Sacred Pool Expansion

November
D&D Essentials: Heroes of Forgotten Kingdoms (November 5th)
D&D Essentials: Monster Vault Box (November 5th)
D&D Miniatures Beholder Collector’s Set (November 16th)
D&D Wrath of Ashardalon Boardgame (November 16th)
MTG Premium Decks – Fire & Lightning (November 18th)
Battle Cry Boardgame (November 23rd)
Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 2 (November 24th)
Mutants & Masterminds Hero’s Handbook
Munchkin Reloaded!
Star Munchkin Space Ships
Hack/Slash The Card Game
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Creatures Guide & Creatures Vault
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Game Master’s Guide & Game Master’s Vault
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Player’s Guide & Player’s Vault
Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay Signs of Faith
Gamemastery Condition Cards

December
DC Heroclix 75th Anniversary Boosters (December 1st)
D&D Dungeon Tiles Master Set – Wilderness (December 10th)
Gamma World: Famine in Far-Go Box (December 21st)
GURPS Low-Tech

Late Games – Due sometime in 2010
Thunderstone: Doomgate Legions
Cthulhu Dice Bag
Frag Gold Edition: FTW Expansion
Munchkin Go Up A Level Expansion
Munchkin Quest Portal Kombat
Exalted Glories of the Most High
Doctor Who RPG Time Traveller’s Companion

Gamma World Game Day – October 23, 2010!

Our Gamma World Game Day will run from 12:45 – 4:30 on Saturday, October 23rd!

Sign up for our Gamma World Game Day by sending us an email or telling us you want to sign up next time you’re in the store! To play, you’ll need to pick up 2 Gamma World Booster packs, but we’ll be selling them at 50% off to everyone participating, which means it’ll only cost you $3.99 for two packs.

Experience the return of an old classic in a new play experience using the D&D 4th Edition rules engine! The D&D Gamma World game is a fast, furious romp through a post-apocalyptic Earth where mutant heroes face-off against killer robots, alien weirdness, and strange irradiated creatures. Gamma World Game Day features an exclusive 4-hour adventure called Trouble in Freesboro, written by Robert Schwalb, which includes an online feature to the game that if accessed during game play can provide the players with a valuable clue. The game day kit also contains 2 different D&D Gamma World cards, available nowhere else, and awarded to players and DMs just for participating! More details on the adventure are below.

Gamma World Game Day: Trouble in Freesboro
It’s shocking how the Big Mistake completely obliterated some places while others got by relatively unscathed. Freesboro falls into the latter camp, but if Genghis Tangh has his way, life will never be the same for the mutants of Gamma Terra. Delve into the origins of the Big Mistake as you take on Tangh and his forces! Pick up a D&D Gamma World Boxed Set, a few booster packs of power cards, and create your own characters in an exciting new Game Day experience! A D&D Gamma World Game Day adventure designed for 4-6 characters of 1st level.

To sign up for our Gamma World Game Day, just send us an email or tell us next time you’re in the shop!

New Games for September 20 – September 26, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Hex Hex XL Card Game
Deviously Simple. Delightfully Mean-Spirited. Wickedly Fast-Paced. And Bigger and Better than Ever! HEX-HEX is a fast-playing, stand-alone card game where players hurl Hex after Hex around the table, constantly redirecting, deflecting, and altering the Hex’s power until finally someone runs out of options and becomes HEXED. This new, larger core edition is designed to replace both the 1.5 base game and Hex-Hex Next, and features a streamlined deck of 150 cards taking the ‘best of’ cards from both sets. In addition, the game includes two variants (Hex-Hex Vexed & Hexen Stix) with new cards, tokens, and five wooden obelisks to support them.

Killer Bunnies Ultimate Odyssey Starters
In the ultimate race to build a bunny society on planet Earth, Killer Bunnies and the Ultimate Odyssey pits players against each other as they struggle to gain Civilization Points by building cities and increasing their bunny populations. Players gain points by developing their own civilizations or by using zany weapons and hilarious scenarios to destroy their opponents. Want even more fun? Try combining decks to build your own unique set of cards in this non-collectible, but highly constructible Killer Bunnies card game! Each themed, pre-constructed Starter Deck contains 60 Large Cards, three Dice, 18 Scoring Squares, and complete instructions. The Violet deck features an Elemental-based theme which also includes metals, jewels, and amazing cards such as “Slow Smelting” which causes players to lose their turn and “Maybe, Maybe Not” which can eliminate an opponent’s attack!

Munchkin Marked for Death
On the heels of the successful Munchkin Rigged Demo and the booster sets Fairy Dust and Waiting for Santa comes Munchkin Marked for Death, boasting 19 totally new cards – featuring full-color art from Dork Tower’s John Kovalic – all prepped to add to your classic Munchkin game. The gimmick for this set is it can be used as a super-quick, programmed demo to let existing fans teach new players!

Plus 6/D6 Bag of Munchkin
He Who Toys With The Most Dice . . . Wins! This six-pack of 6-siders come in the color of coffee with just enough cream, with the Munchkin head in place of the 1 pip. Buy them! Kill monsters and take their stuff!

Munchkin Boxes of Holding
The Munchkin Boxes of Holding are crafted of sturdy cardboard and designed to hold 500 Munchkin-sized cards apiece, with one labeled “Doors”, and the other “Treasures”. Also included are two new Munchkin cards exclusive to this set.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

D&D Lords of Madness Huge Pack
Lords of Madness is a fully randomized set of 60 pre-painted plastic Dungeons & Dragons miniatures, including several Huge figures, featuring iconic D&D monsters and characters – perfect additions to any Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Each booster pack contains: six randomized, pre-painted plastic miniatures, including one Huge figure, complete with stat cards, plus a Lords of Madness set checklist.

XDM: Quest for the Tavern
You remember the tavern…barely. You don’t think you accepted any Dwarven ale, but here you are, stripped of your belongings and hanging over a pit, while some insane sorcerer rants on and on about how his revenge against you will finally be exacted to perfection.- Someday when you’re on a tavern floor nursing a hangover you’ll be able to tell yourself “I’ve had worse,” but you’re going to have to fight you way back to that tavern first! This adventure module is based on the XD20 system introduced in XDM: X-treme Dungeon Mastery, but is adaptable to any system

Let’s Kill Crime Scene Instigation Expansion
The great thing about Crime Scenes is that you can make your own! Looking for more homicidal mayhem? More darkly humorous stick figure art? Or maybe just some ideas for your crime drama script? Add some madness to your method with Crime Scene Instigation, a morbidly funny expansion for the Let’s Kill card game. Just mix these 55 cards into your Let’s Kill game to add more doomed victims than you can shake a stick figure at!

Pathfinder Module Witchwar Legacy
Time grows short for Queen Elvanna. In a few years, her legendary mother, Baba Yaga, is scheduled to return to Golarion, at which point she’ll take Queen Elvanna away and leave a new daughter in her place to rule the frozen nation of Irrisen. Before she loses control of her nation, Queen Elvanna wants to accomplish one final work that will serve as her legacy, something that the world will always remember her by. Yet the key to her plans lies buried under an ancient necropolis, the tomb of a long-dead sister who dared to oppose Baba Yaga and caused a brief but terrible conflict known as the Witchwar, and the only white witch of Irrisen to bear the brand of traitor to that nation. Queen Elvanna has sought out many mercenaries, heroes, and villains to seek out the tomb, yet to date none have returned. Will the PCs serve the White Witch and seek out the Witchwar Legacy within the tomb, or will they step in to oppose her and race against her villainous champions to reach the tomb’s inner sanctum first? A wintry wilderness and dungeon adventure for 17th-level characters.

D&D Warlock & Paladin Token Sets
Gale Force Nine’s Dungeons & Dragons 4E Token Sets let you take your game to the next level with durable, full-color tokens customized to your character’s class. Each set comes complete with a customizable, wet-eraseable Player Card, 17 tokens, one invisibility Stand-Up, one Mounted Token Base, and one Action Point.

RIFTS: Heroes o/t Megaverse
War factions from the Hells, Hades, and Dyval have discovered the existence of a great mystic artifact – an ancient Rune Book that contains the names of the 2,000 greatest heroes the Megaverse has ever known, hidden and protected by the Cosmo-Knights of the Three Galaxies! And both sides want it!

New Games for September 13 – September 19, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

WOW CCG Ice Crown Boosters
Jaina and Thrall, bolstered by the Argent Crusade Heroes, bring the fight to the Liche King himself in Ice Crown, the latest expansion to Cryptozoic Entertainment’s World of Warcraft CCG! Ice Crown features a full complement of Scourge heroes and allies, led by their fearsome new master hero – The Lich King – while featured classes like the Hunter, Mage, and Shaman whip up a virtual storm of frost damage and effects! This 220-card expansion set is introduced in 24-card boosters packed in 12-count displays.

Zombie State: Diplomacy of the Dead
Far more contagious than the common cold, the Moaning Virus (MV1) swept the planet. Hordes of MV1 infected overran the delicate world that seemed to have finally lain to rest the specters of nuclear war, hunger, and poverty. The victims of MV1 became the viruses’ mindless carriers as they rose from death to feed, their horrid moan ringing out in silent cities. Now, overwhelmed political figures, desperate to salvage the remnants of their once-great world society, turn to once-spurned weapons and forgotten science for hope. Luminaries and leaders must now guess the best path for human survival amidst terrifying outbreaks, geographical factionalism, and worst of all, viral mutations. Can you stop the spread of the walking dead?

Sticky Fingers
The night is setting in slowly on the city, but not all of its habitants are asleep. Under cover of darkness, several scoundrels are on their way to perform their big heist tonight. You are playing the role of one of these scoundrels on the hunt for gold and art treasures. Careful planning will let you make the big haul, but be sure not to miss the right moment to cash in your swag at a fence!

Munchkin Cthulhu 4 Crazed Caverns
Explore the Midden of the Mi-Go! Dig yourself out of the Dunwich Ditch! Brave the blue light of K’n-Yan! Munchkin Cthulhu has already driven you mad – and now it’s even madder as the hunt for forbidden knowledge goes underground with the 16 Portals and 20 Dungeons designed to open up whole new dimensions to explore.

Death Angel Space Hulk Card Game
In Space Hulk: Death Angel, a cooperative card game set in the grim darkness of Warhammer 40,000, players must work together as an alien menace threatens to devour their hopes of survival. Death Angel takes 1-6 players straight into the action, with each player controlling a combat team comprised of two unique Space Marines, each with their own flavor and style. If all Space Marines perish, the players collectively lose. Likewise, if at least one of the surviving Space Marines completes the objective, the players all win!

DC Heroclix Classics Batman Arkham Escape Starter
Batman and Robin strike from the shadows! Can they recapture Arkham Asylum’s most notorious criminals in time? Will good triumph? Only you can decide with the DC HeroClix: Classics Batman – Arkham Asylum Escape! Containing everything two players need to play, the Classics Batman – Arkham Asylum Escape! Mega Pack comes complete with Batman, Robin, The Joker, Bane, Scarecrow, and Mr. Freeze Clix figures, with Character Cards, plus one Map, a Rules Sheet, and Dice.

D&D Lords of Madness Huge Pack
Lords of Madness is a fully randomized set of 60 pre-painted plastic Dungeons & Dragons miniatures, including several Huge figures, featuring iconic D&D monsters and characters Ñ perfect additions to any Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Each booster pack contains: six randomized, pre-painted plastic miniatures, including one Huge figure, complete with stat cards, plus a Lords of Madness set checklist.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Gamescapes: Scaling The Great Dragon
This set of double-sided maps represents one section of scales on the greatest of great dragons, with the classic 1″ square grid overlayed, while the opposite side features – the Great Undead Dragon! Gamescapes: Scaling The Great Dragon is printed to the highest quality on sturdy card stock and coated with an easy-wipe surface to give you years of dragon-hunting pleasure.

Gamescapes: Ship Shape
Waves crash and epic tales gather like a hurricane – whether she’s a pirate, merchantman, or your characters’ own exploration ship, Gamescapes: Ship Shape offers three mapped decks of high adventure on the high seas, while on the opposite side features – a sunken ship! Gamescapes: Ship Shape is printed to the highest quality on sturdy card stock and coated with an easy-wipe surface to give you years of pirate plundering.

Shadowrun Dice Set in Tin Ltd Ed
In this high-quality metal box is an exclusive collection of six-sided dice which are particularly suitable for the role-playing game Shadowrun.

Cthulhu Dice Set in Tin Ltd Ed
In this high-quality metal box is an exclusive collection of dice particularly suitable for the role-playing game Call of Cthulhu. Includes d20, d10, d10 (tens), d8, d6, and d4

Deathwatch Warhammer 40K RPG
As members of the Adeptus Astartes the devout, bio-engineered super-soldiers also known as Space Marines – only the most exceptional candidates are invited to join the Deathwatch and take on a new oath to safeguard the Imperium from the darkest of threats. United in this newly forged brotherhood, all Deathwatch Marines must learn to put aside their differences and work together to succeed in the most extraordinary operations – whether facing the threat of total annihilation when confronted by implacable alien foes, or fighting against the foul daemon menace that crawls forth hungrily from beyond the Warp. Deathwatch offers a brand-new roleplaying experience by focusing on elite, special-missions style action at the furthest fringes of Imperial space, involving some of the greatest heroes and deadliest opponents the Warhammer 40,000 universe has to offer.

Deathwatch Game Master’s Tool Kit
The Game Master’s Kit for the Warhammer 40,000 Deathwatch Roleplay Game comes complete with a sturdy cardboard GM screen featuring stunning Deathwatch artwork and useful tables, charts, rules, and statistics for quick Game Master reference. In addition, the kit also comes with a book featuring a complete adventure (“The Shadow of Madness”), plus an appendix detailing the important NPCs that the Kill-team may encounter, as well as plenty of adventure seeds for each.

L5R RPG Enemies of the Empire
The first sourcebook expansion for Legend of the Five Rings Fourth Edition, Enemies of the Empire serves not only as the bestiary for Fourth Edition, but also features threats of a more human nature. Delve into the conspiracies of the Kolat, the tainted ravings of the Lost, and the silent terror of the Lying Darkness. Explore the hard lives of ronin, and the strange cultures of the Naga, Ratlings, and other non-human races. And if your heart is strong enough, face the secrets behind the oni, spirits, and the undead.

Rogues Gallery Trivia Results!

Congrats to our Trivia Champs!

1st Place: Team Alpha Flight (Oscar Amos & Alex Diamond)

2nd Place: Team Justice League Europe (Ed & Alex Broussard)

3rd Place: Team Thor Corps (Patrick Burns & Arthur Thomas)

Here’s the list of categories & questions we used this year! The answers in italics are the correct answers.

THE YOUTH OF TODAY

What was Franklin Richards’ codename during his stint as a member of Power Pack?
a) Energizer
b) Tattletale
c) Mass Master
d) Kid Fantastic

Who was the archer on Young Justice?
a) Speedy
b) Empress
c) Arrowette
d) Tigress

What drug was Patriot of the Young Avengers addicted to?
a) MGH
b) Kick
c) Venom
d) Speed

What was the name of the Runaways ship?
a) Runner
b) Leapfrog
c) Blackbird
d) Raptor

What is Miss Martian’s human name?
a) Megan Morse
b) Jane Jones
c) Alison Ames
d) Kara Kane

SCURVY DOGS

Which of the following characters has never worn buccaneer boots as part of the their costume?
A) Cyclops
B) Captain America
C) Hawkeye
D) Gambit

Who was the pirate who haunted Opal City?
A) The Black Pirate
B) Pirate Jenny
C) Captain Fear
D) Captain Blood

Which member of the Fantastic Four gave rise to the legend of Blackbeard?
A) Mr. Fantastic
B) The Human Torch
C) The Thing
D) The Invisible Girl

What is the name of the pirate comic in Watchmen?
A) The Dark Water
B) Tales of the Black Freighter
C) Walk the Plank
D) Dead Man’s Chest

Who currently captains the space pirate vessel The Starjammer?
A) Havok
B) Raza
C) Quasar
D) Maximus

THE HAT SQUAD

What kind of hat does Nick Fury’s right hand man, Dum Dum Dugan, wear?
a) Derby
b) Fedora
c) Cowboy
d) Beret

What power does the Ringmaster’s hat give him?
a) optic blasts
b) teleportation
c) matter manipulation
d) hypnotism

The one time villian The Shade became sentimentally attached to one certain DC city. Name it.
a) Star City
b) Opal City
c) Coast City
d) Keystone City

Nobody rocks a fedora like The Queston. What substance does The Question use to hide her face?
a) Endoskin
b) Element 95
c) Pseudoderm
d) Plastiform

In what comic did Galactus remove his helmet while drunk?
a) Hercules
b) Avengers
c) Howard the Duck
d) She-Hulk

CAT SCRATCH FEVER

What is Tigra’s real name?
a) Felicia Hardy
b) Patsy Walker
c) Karen Page
d) Greer Nelson

What villain did Tawky Tawny beat down during Final Crisis?
a) Desaad
b) Kalibak
c) Steppenwolf
d) Mantis

What magic user does Teekel the cat belong to?
a) Jason Blood
b) Zatanna
c) Klarion the Witch Boy
d) Madame Xanadu

Who recently surgically removed Catwoman’s heart?
a) Hugo Strange
b) Black Mask
c) The Joker
d) Hush

What superhero does Streaky the cat belong to?
a) The Flash
b) Supergirl
c) Wonder Girl
d) Ambush Bug

YOU WANNA GET NUTS? LET’S GET NUTS!!

During one of his crazier days, what did Moon Knight do to his archenemy, Bushman?
a) Chopped off his feet
b) Chopped off his face
c) Chopped off his hands
d) Chopped off his scalp

In the classic Batman story The Laughing Fish, what was Joker’s ultimate scheme involving poisoned fish?
a) Copyright the fish and make money off every fish sold
b) Poison all of Gotham
c) Enact revenge on The Penguin
d) Give them as a gift to Harley Quinn

When Deadpool famously clocked Kitty Pryde, what did he shout?
A) Face front, True Believer!
B) Fly like an eagle!
C) Shoryuken!
D) Will you marry me?

Which of these is not a member of Section Eight, from the pages of Hitman?
A) Dog Welder
B) The Defenestrator
C) Bueno Excellente
D) The Blue Moose

How did Ragdoll of the Secret Six pay tribute to his fallen friend, The Parademon?
A) Had him stuffed
B) Opened a firepit in Gotham
C) Painted a nude portrait of him
D) Ate him

NON-SPARKLY VAMPIRES

Who turned British hero, Spitfire, into a vampire?
A) Dracula
B) Morbius
C) Blade
D) Baron Blood

What was the name of the spell that Dr. Strange cast that destroyed all the vampires in the Marvel Universe for a time?
A) The Montesi Formula
B) The Cleansing of Cthon
C) Blood of Agammatto
D) The Rites of Cytorrak

Who was the vampire leader of the Tenth Circle that the JLA fought?
A) Crucifer
B) Lord Vampiricus
C) Bloodvein
D) Dr. Coffin

IN RUSSIA, HERO SUPERS YOU!

What member of the Green Lantern Corps was instrumental in building the Rocket Red armor?
A) Kilowog
B) Tomar-Re
C) Sinestro
D) John Stewart

How did the Red Ghost and his Super Apes gain their powers?
A) nuclear plant accident
B) cosmic rays
C) Doctor Doom tech
D) a Celestial artifact

Darkstar of Russia’s Winter Guard was also a member of which American superteam?
A) West Coast Avengers
B) The Defenders
C) The Champions
D) Secret Warriors

What Russian superhero was briefly a member of the Teen Titans?
A) Red Star
B) Glasnost
C) The Great Bear
D) Winter Wolf

Russian space-dog, Cosmo, is the head of security for what space station?
A) Vector Sigma
B) Sanctuary
C) Knowhere
D) The Peak

THE HAIRCUT CATEGORIES: MULLETS!

When mullet-wearing Invisible Woman turned evil, what was the name of her villainous alter-ego?
A) Malice
B) Demonatrix
C) Nightshade
D) Mistress Pain

When Superman returned from his death at the hands of Doomsday, he was sporting a mullet and what outfit?
A) His traditional costume
B) Kryptonian regeneration suit
C) Clark Kent’s suit
D) A loin cloth

Which superhero taught mulleted alien god, The Beyonder, to pee?
A) Spider-Man
B) The Thing
C) Captain America
D) Hank Pym

How many fingers, including thumbs, does former X-Man Longshot have on each hand?
A) 3
B) 4
C) 5
D) 6

Besides the Teen Titans, what other team has Beast Boy been on?
A) New Guardians
B) Outsiders
C) Doom Patrol
D) Justice League Europe

THE HAIRCUT CATEGORIES: AFROS!

How did cyborg Misty Knight lose her arm?
A) flesh eating neuro toxin
B) bitten off by a dragon
C) her partner (Colleen Wing) cut it off
D) terrorist bomb

While possessed by his son Jericho, whose head did Deathstroke cut off and mount on his wall?
A) Deathstroke’s son, the original Ravager
B) Deathstroke’s manservant, Wintergreen
C) Deathstroke’s wife, Adeline
D) Deathstroke’s ally, Tara Markov

What rough neighborhood did Black Lightning grow up in?
A) Suicide Slum, Metropolis
B) East End, Gotham
C) Morningside District, Hub City
D) Lower East Side, Central City

In the early days of Blade’s career, he fought exclusively with wooden knives. What kind of wood?
A) Red Oak
B) Teak
C) Maple
D) Ash

Before he became Power Man, what prison was Luke Cage incarcerated in?
A) Blackgate
B) Ryker’s Island
C) Alcatraz
D) Seagate

THE HAIRCUT CATEGORIES: BALDIES

Who was the mother of Charles Xavier’s son, the dangerous mutant named Legion?
A) Moira MacTaggert
B) Lilandra
C) Gabrielle Haller
D) Amelia Voght

During 52, what was the name of Lex Luthor’s program that gave citizens super powers?
A) Project 77
B) The Everyman Project
C) The Atlas Project
D) Project Kandor

Who is Moondragon’s Girlfriend?
A) Phyla Vell
B) Crystal
C) Mantis
D) Gamora

Who killed Martian Manhunter in Final Crisis?
A) Deathstroke
B) Kalibak
C) Dr. Light
D) Libra

What did Cassandra Nova use to weaken the X-Men with sickness when she first faced them?
A) the Legacy Virus
B) nano-sentinels
C) secondary mutations
D) the Morlock named Plague

THE HAIRCUT CATEGORIES: MOHAWKS

What X-Men supporting character partially inspired Storm to go punk and get a mohawk?
A) Lila Cheney
B) Dazzler
C) Yukio
D) Callisto

Gladiator of the Shi’ar Imperial Guard is a member of what alien race?
A) Dakkamite
B) Centaurian
C) Rigellian
D) Strontian

Who of the following was recently killed by Wolverine’s son, Daken?
A) The Punisher
B) Spider Woman
C) D-Man
D) Cable

Who did the original OMAC work for?
A) The Global Peace Agency
B) The Atomic Knights
C) Project Cadmus
D) STAR Labs

THE WEATHER CHANNEL

What country does Ice, from Justice League International, hail from?
A) Iceland
B) Norway
C) Sweden
D) Denmark

Who fired the gun which depowered Storm for a time?
A) Forge
B) The White Queen
C) Henry Peter Gyrich
D) Mystique

What is Weather Wizard’s real name?
A) Mark Mardon
B) Digger Harkness
C) Mic Rory
D) Leonard Snart

What was the name of the Asgardian artifact that unleashed winter storms throughout the Marvel Universe?
A) The Casket of Ancient Winters
B) The Ice Runes of Melekith
C) Ymir’s Crown of Frost
D) Beta Ray Bill’s hammer, Stormbreaker

Who created Red Tornado?
A) Professor Ivo
B) Will Magnus
C) T.O. Morrow
D) Dr. Sivanna

MAGIC ITEMS

What is Doctor Strange’s Orb of Agamatto used for?
A) mystical defense of his Sanctum
B) clairvoyance and scrying
C) recharging his cloak and amulet
D) All of the above

Which wielder of Doctor Fate’s helmet altered it into a knife, throwing darts and an armband?
A) Hector Hall
B) Jared Stevens
C) Kent Nelson
D) Eric Strauss

Comic Book Trivia – THIS SATURDAY, September 18th!

The Rogues Gallery Comic Book Trivia Contest is on, this Saturday, from 1 PM – 4 PM! We’ve got somewhere between 8-10 teams competing for prizes, with 30 separate categories of multiple choice questions, and we encourage everyone to come out and watch, and to cheer on the contestants!

Also if all goes as planned, the winners will form the Rogues Gallery team to go up against the Tribe Comics & Games team from South Austin in a battle royale match to determine which store’s trivia reigns supreme!