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Wayne’s Word #10

Welcome to 2013. Hope your year will be as great as you want it to be. I’m very excited about the prospects that this year can bring- with comics, related movies and of course the upcoming Denver Comic Con on May 31st, June 1st and 2nd.
2012 is now in the rear view mirror, and I want to thank everyone who supported Time Warp this past year. My pledge to you is to make sure we continue to be the best comic shop we can be .
I’m going to start up our 50% off all back issues for a post- Christmas special. We are simply running out of room in the back issue boxes. These prices are effective immediately and will continue for a few weeks. It doesn’t include the bronze or silver age books for now. I’m also getting out the sale price gun on many other items in our store such as action figures, etc. We also have a new addition to the Pinball machines in the back of the store with the X-Men game that was limited to only 250 produced. Come by and try it out, it’s a very fun machine.

We are taking job applications presently for an eBay specialist . I’m sure this position won’t be open long. I always hire customers familiar with our product, so I’m giving our awesome file holders first crack at this position!

I just finished ordering our product for February 2013. I noticed some really cool titles I want to tell you about. If anything here sounds good to you, please let us know and we’ll order it for you.
Thanks for reading,
Wayne
and the Time Warp crew – Clayton, Tyler,Scott, Smurf, and Chris
Special thanks to Kahlil for helping out in the Christmas rush.

●Star Wars #1 up .With Lucasfilm being a Disney property now, it looks like Dark Horse’s license will expire after this year. Too bad really, DH has done an unbelievable job of keeping Star Wars relevant for a long time. This new series is written by Brian Wood. Alex Ross is doing the covers.

●Before Watchmen: Dollar Bill #1 -This one shot will feature art by Steve Rude.

●Justice League of America #1 -This comic will come with 53 different covers. A truly bizarre idea that DC is trying. Every state will have it’s own cover. Since I received no feedback from customers, I just had to guess which cover to order. I split the oder 50 / 50 between the regular cover and the Colorado State Flag. The theme of the covers is the iconic Iwo Jima flag from World War II . This current roster consists of Martian Manhunter, Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Stargirl,Catwoman, Katanna and Vibe. Geoff Johns is writing it and David Finch is drawing it. If you want any of the other State covers, please let us know by next Monday. Cover price is $3.99 each.

●Katanna #1 and Justice League’s Vibe #1’s. I haven’t a clue how many to order on these titles. Please let us know if you’re interested, I’ll order quite low and hope DC has the faith to keep them in stock.

●Action Comics #17 is the last issue of the series to be written by Grant Morrison. If you don’t want to receive it in your file when he leaves, let us know now so I can trim my order please.

●Batman #17 and Detective #17 continue the best selling Death of the Family storyline.

●Green Lantern begins the storyline “Wrath of the First Lantern” and will be in all the GL titles for a couple of months.

●Young Romance: New 52 Valentine’s Day Special #1- $7.99 – Six all new stories!

●Batman TP Vol 1 Court of Owls finally out in softcover March 20th

●Hellblazer #300 is the final issue. Next month DC will unveil Constantine #1 in regular DC continuity.

●Batman Arkham City Series 4 action figures – Deadshot, Nightwing, Batman and Talia $22.95 each.

●Ghostbusters #1 and G I Joe #1 are new continuing series from IDW Publishing

●Doctor Who: Prisoners of Time # 1-3 will feature all 11 Doctors.

●Star Trek: Countdown to Darkness #1 is a prequel to next summer’s movie.

●Fever Ridge Macarthur Jungle War #1-8 has art by Colorado’s own Nick Runge, one of my favorite artist’s.

●Snapshot #1 is a new Image title with art by Jock!

●Guardians of the Galaxy # 0.1 takes place before next month’s #1 This is a Bendis / McNiven production. Marvel Cosmic Comics return!

●Nova #1 Sam Alexander is the new Human Rocket! This is a Loeb / McGinness production.

●Fearless Defenders #1 Not your father’s Defenders. Not the regular cast of characters, I won’t have many on the shelf.

●Secret Avengers #1 Not sure why this one is starting over, Nick Spencer is writing it . We will file it the same, unless you don’t want it anymore, if that’s the case, please let us know asap.

●Savage Wolverine #1, and 2 are coming soon. This series will be highlighted by the art of Frank Cho, one of my favorite artists. Guest starring Shanna the She Devil!

●Dexter #1-5 is a new Marvel starring everyone’s favorite serial killer. Where’s the Punisher when we need him?

●Fairy Quest #1, and 2 is from Boom Studios and drawn by Humberto Ramos.

●Mylo Xyloto #1 is a new way to experience the band Coldplay.

●Garth Ennis Red Team #1 is new from Dynamite.

●Shadow Year One #1 -Done by my friend Matt Wagner! Highly recommended. Special announcement regarding Mr Wagner very soon.

●Nemo : Heart of Ice H.C. $14.95 New League of Extraordinary Gentlemen installment by Alan Moore.

Wayne’s Word #9

Wayne’s Word

I was informed that I haven’t posted any blogs since May. Been a busy summer though, and thus no newsletter. September is an important month for us however, so it’s time to let you all know what is new here at Time Warp.

September is our anniversary month (September 29th is the big day), so we’re going to have our annual sale. We want to start the sale on Saturday, September 22nd. This part of the sale will be for file holders only. The regular back issues will be 50% OFF for file holders, and 15% OFF for the silver and bronze age comics. I really want to thank all our file holders, you guys are the backbone of our business and I really want you to know how much I appreciate your patronage. The sale will start for the general public on September 29th and will be 20% OFF back issues and 10% OFF silver and bronze age books. On October 5th, the sale increases to 25% OFF, October 12th to October 19th the sale will increase to 30%OFF, and then on October 20th, which is 24 Hour Comic Book Day, we will have a day long sale with virtually everything in the store on sale. We do hourly specials, so you will want to monitor our website to see what wild and crazy stuff we have planned. Of course we will have a dozen or so awesome artists here designing a comic to be collected later in a book. Currently, we have the last two years 24 hour comic book day books on sale at the store. In the meantime, we’re designing other kinds of specials to celebrate. We’re so excited about Before Watchmen, we want everyone to experience it, so we’re putting all the number ones on sale for only $1.00 each. They’re regularly $3.99 each, so that’s a huge savings. Also, to celebrate Spidey’s 50th anniversary, we’re going to be selling all five specials for only $1.00 each. Look for all those specials this month. If we think of anything else cool, we’ll put it on the website.

This Saturday, September 22nd, All C’s in Aurora is having another benefit for the shooting victims. Their special guest will be J. Scott Campbell, and they also have a silent auction. I didn’t post anything on a newsletter about that shooting, but we were all shocked and appalled over those terrible events, and we’re saddened it diminished the great Batman franchise in any way.

The events at All C’s store are good because the proceeds go directly to the victims. No middle man who is sitting on funds. Funds go to Aurora Rises directly.

I have not given you a Top Titles for June – September, but highlights have included DC’s New 52 # 0’s , which started coming out last week and trade paperbacks for Manhattan Projects and Prophet from Image Comics, both of which have become instant best sellers here at the store.

The biggest news comes from Marvel with their Marvel Now initiative, which starts in October with Uncanny Avengers #1 by Bendis and Cassaday. Marvel is answering the challenge that DC started last year. Marvel’s new #1 titles with new creative teams on all actually look like they are going to be well worth checking out.

Time Warp Comics also has plans for Halloween this year as it falls on a New Comic Book Wednesday, Stay tuned as we will have something up on our website about it.

As you can see below, November has a ton of great items to buy. If I put my money where my mouth is here, there won’t be any money left for anything else in the budget. SO… If you see anything you want here or in the Diamond Previews magazine, please let me know. We need your help!

Top Titles This November 2012

1) Indestructible HULK #1– Waid and Lu usher in a new era for the Hulk. This is one of those Marvel Now titles that sounds really new and different!

2) All New X- Men #1 -Bendis and Immomen send the original X-Men of the past into our future. Interesting premise.

3) Iron Man # 1– The Extremis virus has escaped, and it’s up to Stark and his new armor to rectify it.

4) Thor: God of Thunder #1 – Aaron and Ribic are the creators for the title I’m probably looking forward to the most this month.

5) A+X #1, 2 – This title spins out of the surprise summer hit Avengers vs. X-Men. Marvel’s events have been waning in popularity, but this one was very good. A lot of these new titles are a direct result of the events in AVX.

6) Captain America # 1 – Remender and Romita, Jr. -Cap gets sent to Dimension Z, where’s he’s all alone.

7) X-Men Legacy # 1– Professor X’s son Legacy is back, and he wants to take over for his father.

8) Fantastic Four # 1 – Fraction and Bagley – A new journey through infinite time and space.

Also, FF #1 by Fraction and Allred featuring Ant Man, Medusa, She- Hulk and Miss Thing?

9) Deadpool #1 -Gerry Duggan and Brian Posehn are the new writers. I hear they’re really funny guys, so I’m hoping this is the best Deadpool yet. Tony Moore is the artist.

10) Daredevil: End of Days #1-8 – Bendis and Mack are the writers, Janson and Sienkewicz draw this Daredevil murdered story. The real ending to Daredevil’s life.

11) Dexter #1-5 Showtime’s serial killer in his own mini-series

12) 47 Ronin #1-5 Stan Sakai took a break from Usagi Yojimbo to do this!

13) Buffy: Willow -Wonderland #1-5 Magic is back!

14) Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia H.C. $34.99 -The complete history of Zelda.

15) Batman # 13, 14 Starts the storyline “Death of the Family” This story continues in most of the Bat family of books.

16) Judge Dredd #1 – From IDW brings the judge back in an all new ongoing series

17) Locke & Key: Omega #1-7 This is the final storyline. Boo, hiss! Want more!

18) My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic #1 – I really like this whole franchise, and I have a gut feeling this will be very popular with everybody, Men and women, young and old. Reservations strongly recommended.

19) Mad: Artist’s Edition $150.00 This is just mean. Reprints #1- 18 in the original size. Any serious Mad fan will want one. If you don’t order this now, you’ll probably never see one.

20) Parker The Hunter $17.99 -The soft cover is finally going to be released. A new movie comes out this winter. This book is one of the reasons I love to sell comics.

21) Clone #1 is an interesting sounding new Image title. Never know how to order Image books. Ditto for Great Pacific # 1, Nowhere Man #1 and Storm Dogs #1

22) Leeds Bubble Anthology 2012 has a great bunch of great artists and writers for only $3.99.

23) Star Bright and the Looking Glass H.C. $19.99 Jonathan Luna does it all. Looks great

24) Walking Dead Vol 17 $14.99 -As usual, the number one best selling graphic novel series at our store

25) Saga #7 -Still the best comic I‘ve read this year. The trade paperback will come out next month and be the best Christmas present ever!

26) Anomaly H.C. $75.00 The art is this book looks unbelievable.

27) Masks # 1 – I can’t believe it. A comic completely drawn by Alex Ross! Green Hornet and The Shadow together. This sounds awesome. Too bad he’s only doing #1

28) Multi –City Building Model: Chris Ware Portfolio $79.95 My favorite artist on the planet

29) Shadowman #1 – New from Valiant!

30) Lord Of The Rings Chess Figurines – Aragorn, Gothmog, Gandalf and Gollum are first up -$16.00 each. Look for these to become instant collector items with the Hobbit movie coming soon!

But wait, there’s more- Peyton Manning Action Figure 2 -pack $ 29.99

Prometheus Series 1 Action Figures -Two versions of The Engineer $19.99 each

DC Comics Justice League – The Flash New 52 Statue $39.99 – Beautiful!

Batman: Arkham Play Arts Catwoman Action Figure – $59.99 -These are always instant sell- outs!

Marvel Heroes Belt Buckles– Captain America Shield, Spider-Man Head and Punisher Shield $28.00 each

Finally, DC Heroclix Batman: Streets of Gotham Expansion– boosters and fast forces packs

Wayne’s Word #8

Wayne’s Word #8

I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I started to write this month’s newsletter. Most times it is a struggle to come up with 15 or 20 new things out of Previews magazine to recommend. This month, for titles coming out in May, I could have had 50 without even breaking a sweat. As it is, I came up with 35 titles here that I can’t wait to sell. Usually, May is one of our slowest months , and I cut my orders way back, because a lot of you are CU students, who leave for the summer. Not this year, the publishers all have something good coming out.
There is so much happening right now, it’s impossible to inform you of everything here, but I’ll try.
Next week , Avengers vs. X-Men # 1 comes out, sure to be a monster hit ! Marvel would like us to have a party, so we are. It starts when we close next Tuesday night. That’s right, the street date on that is Tuesday evening, instead of Wednesday. That’s the only new comic we can sell that night, but to help entice you, back issues of Avengers and X-men in the regular back issues will be half off Overstreet. Trades and silver or bronze comics will all 25 % off. Maybe we’ll even have cake. And don’t miss Avengers vs. X-Men # 0, this week.
Next month Comicfest and Starfest roll into Denver. We’re already selling tickets here. I’m looking forward to seeing John Noble of Fringe fame, and John Layman and Bob Guillory of Chew fame. Complete details here at the store.
Of course May brings us the Avengers movie and my favorite day of the year Free Comic Book Day. If you’re one of the artists who regularly attend, let us know ASAP, so we can list you on our press releases.
June is Denver Comic Con ! You’ve all heard about this by now, I’m sure. More guests are being announced every week, but we need your help ! PRE- REGISTRATION for the show is going slow. Too Slow ! I know for sure this show will sell out before it gets here, just like San Diego Comic Con. It is a fact that everyone, including or especially locals procrastinate, thinking they will get tickets that month or when they get there. Please don’t make that mistake. Buy your tickets right now! If you wait, there’s an excellent chance you won’t get in. I’m trying to give all my customers a head’s up. Time Warp customers receive a 20% discount on tickets by entering the code Timewarp2012 when purchasing online tickets to Denver Comic Con. Please support this con, so we can do one every year and make them bigger and better every year.

Top titles for May 2012
(In no particular order except from Previews front to back)

The Guild: Fawkes one shot Co -written by Wil Wheaton, one of the guests at the upcoming Denver Comic Con in June. The Guild series by Felicia Day sells pretty well, but I think this one will do well in June. Not sure what Wheaton will be signing at the con, but this could be a choice.

Dark Horse Presents #12 This issue has a lot going for it. Starting with an Aliens cover and story by John Layman of Chew fame with art by Sam Keith. In addition, a new Nexus installment by Denver Comic Con guest Mike Baron and drawn by Steve Rude in their first collaboration in years. Speaking of Layman, he will be a guest at next month’s Comicfest in Denver !

Mind Mmnt # 1 Written and drawn by Matt Kindt , another guest at Denver Comic Con. Kindt has two great comics already to him name – Super Spy and 3 Story. This sounds really good too. People can rewrite reality.

Skeleton Key Color Special A great all ages title written and drawn by Andi Watson
Creepy Presents Richard Corben HC $29.99 One of my favorite artists of all time . This compilation collects great work from Creepy and Eerie magazines. This is one of those collections that should be on every serious comic collectors bookcase.
Earth Two #1 The first of six new DC # 1’s this month to replace the six that were just cancelled. I really believe these new titles are all much better than the ones cancelled. This first one returns Earth 2 to the current DC continuity. JSA members Alan Scott, Jay Garrick and others join Superman , Batman and Wonder Woman in this new world. Written by James Robinson and drawn by Nicola Scott.

World’s Finest # 1 Instead of Superman/Batman, the new World’s Finest features Power Girl/Huntress. These two refugees from Earth 2 are stuck on our Earth. Paul Levitz is the writer and George Perez with Kevin Maguire are the artists.

Batman Incorporated # 1 This takes place shortly after the last series ended, and is still by the great team of Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham. This continues the Leviathan storyline.

Dial H # 1 This one is written by China Mieville, a Hugo winning novelist. The dial turns you into a super hero. At the recent ComicsPRO meeting I attended, DC’s Vertigo editor said she thought this was going to be a great series, and she’s never steered me wrong.

G.I.Combat # 1 The War That Time Forgot starts anew. When I was a kid I loved the old Star Spangled comics that featured soldiers and dinosaurs. J.T. Krul is the writer and Ariel Olivetti is the artist. A second story features The Unknown Soldier.
The Ravagers # 1 This series spins out of Superboy , Legion Lost and Teen Titans. It’s part of a storyline called “The Culling “ Fairchild, Beast Boy, Terra and Rose Wilson are part of the team. Art will be by Ian Churchill.

Batman # 9 Part of the huge storyline “Night Of The Owls “ Every book in the “Batman Family” of titles this month will tie in to this, including the Annual.10 titles in all. Even All Star Western is a tie-in. Excluded are Detective and Batwoman. Batman by Snyder and Capullo is my favorite comic being published right now.

Animal Man Annual #1 Animal Man and Swamp Thing explore the struggle between the Rot and the Red and the Green.

Teen Titans Annual # 1 This is where the Culling storyline starts !

Batman :Earth One H.C. $ 22.99 Remember last year when Superman :Earth One sold out the week it came out ? I expect this to do the same. Geoff Johns and Gary Frank are the creative team. These two creators are some of my favorites in comics, and curiously, not one person signed up for this. Not even Eric Taylor.

Smallville Season 11 # 1 This is for all of us fans that were disappointed by the last television episode. Based on the WB show.

Superman Family Adventures # 1 Now that Tiny Titans is coming to an end, the same creative team of Baltazar and Franco return to DC for this all ages comic. This looks fun.

Mystery In Space #1 one shot $ 7.99 Anthology by DC / Vertigo with art by Mike Allred and others. Allred will also be at Denver Comic Con with his awesome wife Laura.

Star Trek : TNG / Doctor Who- Assimilation 2 # 1 The title says it all ! This will also blow out of here, I’m sure .The artwork will be painted.

Frankenstein Alive, Alive # 1 Bernie Wrightson returns to his roots with this incredible sequel to his incredible Illustrated adaptation of the Mary Shelley classic. This will be great. Black and White, story by Steve Niles !

Trio # 1 John Byrne’s new superhero title. They’re simply called One, Two, Three – But they’re really Rock, Paper, Scissors.

David Mazzucchelli’s Daredevil: Born Again – Artist’s Edition $150.00 I can’t believe how popular these have been. Shocking to me that even in this recovering economy, expensive books like this are still hot. I can’t order enough of these artist’s editions. Written by Frank Miller.

Joe Hill’s The Cape H.C. $24.99 My favorite mini-series of the year. Art by Zach Howard, and you guessed it -He will be at Denver Comic Con too !

Godzilla Ongoing # 1 More of the same, except every month !

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Color Classics # 1 The original is back, and in color for the first time. Very exciting !

Mind The Gap # 1 New Image creation with art by Rodin Esquejo . He is best known as the cover artist on Morning Glories. How can a woman in a coma help catch her assailant ?

Dancer # 1 Another new Image title. This is written by Nick Edmondson and drawn by the artist of Viking – Nic Klein. This is a spy thriller.

Wolverine & The X- Men # 10 and # 11 This has been one of Marvel’s best titles lately. I mention it specifically this month, because you guessed it – Writer Jason Aaron will be at Denver Comic Con . Nuff Said !

Incredible Hulk # 7.1 and # 8. Same as above, Jason Aaron writes about a Hulk, who has to stay angry, now that Bruce Banner is dead .

Exiled # 1 and New Mutants #42, 43 and Journey Into Mystery #637, 638. All parts of a 5 part crossover .

Fury Max # 1 and # 2 Garth Ennis returns to write Fury, who needs a new job after World War 2 ends.

Garfield # 1 – Hey kids, look ! Lasagna !

Barry Sonnenfeld’s Dinosaurs vs. Aliens H.C. $19.99 Grant Morrison is writing this, and the painted artwork by Mukesh Singh looks unbelievable.

Overstreet Comic Book Price Guide vol 42 Available with two different covers- Avengers by Jusko, and Catwoman by Adam Hughes. Hardcover’s are $35.00 and soft covers are $29.95 each. We always sell out of the limited edition hardcovers first.

X-O Manowar # 1 It’s back ! Art is by Cary Nord, and # 1has 3 variant covers. The new Valiant universe begins here ! Anticipation is high ! Did you reserve your copy yet ?