Brave New Worlds

For TWO NIGHTS ONLY, Old City’s own, Rob Lefevre will return to his Magician roots in Willow Grove as he’ll be running the Tueday 4/20 Magic Booster Draft and Thursday 4/22 Booster Draft! With Eric out of the country all WG MTG norms are going to be tossed out the door as Rob rules supreme. His word will be law, like that of Hammurabi, as he lays out suckas and takes names of those who think they can defeat him! So come test your skills against this true master of his craft!

Tuesday 4/20 @ 7:30pm in Willow Grove

Thursday 4/22 @ 7:30 in Willow Grove

I promised in this past Saturday’s edition of A Character… that there would be a Special Edition today April 14th 2010 that would focus on a very nefarious real life villain! Hit the jump to see who it is!

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Let’s dive into the stack of comics that come out tomorrow and see what I’m pretty sure I will end up reading first.

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Brave New Worlds will have the latest HeroClix set, Brave and the Bold, available for the public on Wednesday, April 14, by the brick and booster.  Make sure you stop in either location to pick up what is sure to be a huge crowd-pleasing set.  Don’t delay as this is guaranteed to fly off the shelf.

Also, check Brave New Worlds gaming page for information on the Brave and the Bold HeroClix tournament, which will begin at Willow Grove on Sunday, May 2.

It’s a brand new day (to borrow a term from the competitor) for DC Comics this week with the launch of two new titles Wednesday.  Hit the jump to get all the skinny …

Just when you thought Blackest Night was over (well, it is but if you read it then you understand that was only the beginning of the story), Brightest Day #0 ships this week as Geoff Johns continues what he started with all those crazy lantern colors.  Brightest Day is literally the dawning of a new age in the DC ‘verse as Johns and Peter Tomasi bring you new stories every two weeks.  Fernando Pasarin supplies issue #0 art.  And in case you were wondering, this is a new ongoing title.

Meanwhile, because we know how busy Johns is not, he has a second debut this week in Flash #1 with Francis Manapul.  Barry Allen is back.  Barry Allen is the Flash.  Long live the Flash as Johns takes his turn at the helm of The Fastest Man Alive.

Issue #1 this week, “Case One: The Dastardly Death of the Rogues!,” drops Barry back in Central City with a mystery to solve as one of his rogues ends up dead, by obvious nefarious means.  Don’t miss out one what should be an instant class.

And just to show we have equal love for all characters DC, Doc Savage #1 also drops this week by Paul Malmont and Howard Porter.

This week comics come out on one of my most somber days of the year. On April 14 1865, then President of these United States, Abraham Lincoln attended a play, Our American Cousin, at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, DC. That was also the night that John Wilkes Booth went through with his plot to assassinate the President. Lincoln would breathe his last at 7:22AM on April 15th 1865, another somber day on my calendar. But hey, let’s get onto the comics shall we! Read the rest of this entry »

We peer through time all the way back to September 1987 for this weeks character. A character created by Max Allan Collins (crime writer/creator of Road To Perdition [a must read btw] ), Terry Beatty and Dick Giordano in his self titled 4 issue mini-series. Hit the jump to find out who it is… Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since Steve Rogers came back, there have been a lot of questions in regards to what his and Bucky’s roles will be.  In Siege Captain America #1 shipping this week by Christos Gage and Marko Djurdjevic, their roles are examined in the context of the actual Siege.  This is a one-shot, so don’t miss out.

Another Siege one-shot shipping this week courtesy of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie is Siege Loki #1.  Find out what the inner thoughts of the God of Lie actually are as he his grand plan continues to unfold.

The BNW Old City Book Discussion Club has a new book to read. It’s so very new in fact that it just came out! Read the rest of this entry »

It’s been so warm and sunny outside here in the Philly area, and truth be told I just picked up Expiration Date by Duane Swierczynski (friend to BNW/comics and hard hitting fiction writer extraordinaire) and because of this perfect storm of sweet things I have totally ignored the internet…well not totally… Read the rest of this entry »