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Break out the Red Bull or whatever keeps you awake and alert all night as Brave New Worlds Willow Grove is once again hosting Midnight Magic for the latest prerelease of M11 on Saturday, July 10 (Friday into Saturday @ Midnight).

What M11 Prerelease

When Saturday, July 10

Price $30 Per Person

Details Foil Release Card and 6-Packs (Which Builds Your Deck to Face-Off Against the Masses)

Time Midnight

Prizes Damn Straight

If you can’t stay awake, or just can’t make the first event, no worries, Brave New Worlds Willow Grove will be hosting a second prerelease event on Sunday, July 11 @ Noon.

What M11 Prerelease

When Sunday, July 11

Price $30 Per Person

Details Foil Release Card and 6-Packs (Which Builds Your Deck to Face-Off Against the Masses)

Time Noon

Prizes Yes

And finally, say your family vacation to Disney World is during the prerelease, cancel that trip. But if it is already paid for, keep your shirt on and come out to the Release Party on Sunday, July 18 @ Noon.

What M11 Release

When Sunday, July 18

Price $30 Per Person

Details Foil Release Card and 6-Packs (Which Builds Your Deck to Face-Off Against the Masses)

Time Noon

Prizes But Of Course

We are back to our regularly scheduled games at Brave New Worlds Willow Grove, one game a week on Sundays @ 1 p.m. Check below for the schedule.

Sunday, August 1: 500-Point Create-a-Scenario; Team Character’s Must Have Color in Name

Sunday, August 8: 500-Point Modern Age

Sunday, August 15: 400-Point Floor

Sunday, August 22: 400-Point Modern Age

Sunday, August 29: 200-400-600 Point

Join Brave New Worlds Willow Grove Book Discussion this Saturday, June 26 @ 7 p.m. as we discuss the awesomeness that is Darwyn Cooke’s Eisner, Harvey and Shuster Award-Winner New Frontier.

What Was Said About New Frontier

“Mr. Cooke’s drawings are striking, and his plot makes good use of DC’s diverse characters.” The New York Times

“Using a classic style, Cooke creates a classic of his own.” The Onion

Awards

▪ Eisner Award Best Limited Series, Best Coloring, Best Publication Design

▪ Harvey Award Best Artist, Best Colorist, Best Continuing or Limited Series

▪ Shuster Award Outstanding Canadian Comic Book Cartoonist (Writer/Artist)

Absolute Edition

▪ Eisner Award Best Graphic Album (Reprint)

▪ Harvey Award Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work

What It’s About It’s the Cold War and paranoia has outlawed Golden Age costumed heroes. But from the ashes emerges new stalwarts fighting for truth and justice as the seeds are planted for a new breed of hero and the legendary Justice League of America.

Watch the Movie DC Animated made a direct-to-dvd version adaptation titled Justice League: New Frontier released in 2008. Bruce Timm and Darwyn Cooke both served as producers. Terrific companion for the book.

Will you sway the tide of battle?

Imperial Worlds in the Galactic South are caught in the crossfire between Saim Hann Elder and the Orks of Octavius.  The forces of the Imperium unite to defend the embattled planets from the aliens.

This is where you come in.

Come out to Brave New Worlds Willow Grove on Saturday, July 10 for a special Warhammer 40K tournament all-day long (11 a.m. – 7 p.m.).  Open gaming and painting will be available, with additional entertainment and contests.  Prizes available for all participants and spectators!  All are welcome! Only 1 Spot Remaining, Contact Dave Immediately to Register.

There is a participant fee $15.

What You Will Need Registration Fee ($15), Your Army (2-Color Minimal Painted), Six- Copies of Army Roster, Dice and Most Recent Army Codex.

You May Also Want Tape Measure, Templates, Objective Markers and Additional Figures.

Spectators will be welcome to participate in a “speed painting” competition for 1st, 2nd and 3rd Place prizes.

Participants will wage war in short campaign based tournament which will last for Three Sessions.

Sessions broken up into three (3) 850-point battles and three (3) 200-point kill team battles.  Each 850-point battle will last one (1) hour, each kill team battle 30 minutes.  Battles not concluded at expiration of time limit will end immediately and victory points counted.

Scoring cards also provided.

E-Mail Dave with questions.

Friday June 4th is FIRST FRIDAY yet again! Brave New Worlds Old City is teaming up with long time buddy cop partners The Autumn Society for their first show of the summer and is gonna have a RAD 90s Nostalgia theme!

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In June the Old City Book Discussion Group will be talking about Superman: Red Son by Mark Millar and Dave Johnson. Hit the jump for details…

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Join Brave New Worlds Willow Grove Book Discussion on Saturday, May 29 @ 7 p.m. as we argue the merits of Craig S. Thompson’s Eisner and Harvey Award Winner Blankets!

What “They” Are Saying About Blankets

Has set new bars for the medium not just in length, but breadth – Time Magazine

I thought it was moving, tender, beautifully drawn, painfully honest, and probably the most important graphic novel since Jimmy Corrigan. – Neil Gaiman

A superb example of the art of cartooning: the blending of word and picture to achieve an effect that neither is capable of without the other – The Bloomsbury Review

Thompson manages to explore adolescent social yearnings, the power of young love and the complexities of sexual attraction with a rare combination of sincerity, pictorial lyricism and taste. – Publishers Weekly

And the Award Goes to

▪ 2004 Harvey Awards Best Artist, Best Graphic Album of Original Work and Best Cartoonist

▪ 2004 Eisner Awards Best Graphic Album and Best Writer/Artist

▪ 2004 Ignatz Awards Outstanding Artist and Outstanding Graphic Novel or Collection

▪ 2005 Prix de la critique

What It’s About Thompson’s autobiographical tale is wrapped in the landscape of a blustery Wisconsin winter, Blankets explores the sibling rivalry of two brothers growing up in the isolated country, and the budding romance of two coming-of-age lovers. A tale of security and discovery, of playfulness and tragedy, of a fall from grace and the origins of faith.

Brave New Worlds Willow Grove will be hosting Rise of the Eldrazi Gameday on Saturday, May 22 at Noon.  Hit the jump for all the details.

Rise of the Eldrazi Gameday

Brave New Worlds Willow Grove

Saturday, May 22

Noon

Cost $6

Deck Type Constructed

Receive Participation Card

Prizes Foil Prize Card, Packs

Save the date and check back as Brave New Worlds Willow Grove will be starting a new Warhammer 40K campaign on May 10 and running until June 28.

Check back for more information.

For more information about Warhammer 40k @ Willow Grove, click HERE.

And don’t forget to check us out on Facebook and Twitter for daily updates and events.

Free Comic Book Day 2010 is almost here – Saturday, May 1.  So the real question is, which Brave New Worlds location are you planning on attending for the day’s festivities?

Brave New Worlds Willow Grove

Marvel Comics artist Billy Tan (Thor) and Marvel Comics writer Duane Swierczynski (Cable, Iron Fist) will both be signing autographs from 1-3 p.m.

But wait, there’s more – the  Zenescope Comics’ 2009 Girl of the Year and Runner-Up will both be in attendance dressed as DC Comics Zatanna and Marvel Comics Black Cat, respectively.

Plus, Brave New Worlds Willow Grove will also be hosting Warhammer 40k, Dungeons & Dragons and HeroClix demonstrations during the day.

And of course, we will also have a select group of free comic books available as well.

Brave New Worlds Old City

Check out the 501st Star Wars Legion of Stormtroopers, Spider-Man and the 8′ Zombie Hulk (cos-play that you gotta see!) along with local artists groups doing sketches all day long.