Free Comic Book Day 2010!

With FCBD coming up this Saturday, we'd once again like to remind you of all the awesome things that Free Comic Book Day has to offer you!

Come and meet live actual comic book artists and writers! 

We are very fortunate to have the Fillbach Brothers at our Lansdowne location, they write and draw the very popular Star Wars Clone Wars Adventures books, and Rebekah Isaacs at our Fairfax store, who is currently drawing Dv8. Come to get your books signed or even a custom sketch of your favorite characters!

Get  FREE comic books!

Come to get free comic books for yourself and, if you have any, your children! Kids love free things!

Books for you:
Artifacts First Look
Atomic Robo & Friends
Del Rey Showcase
Doctor Solar Magnus Robot Hunter
Fearless Dawn Asylum Press Sampler
Fractured Fables
Freedom Formula Speed Metal Overtures
GI Joe A Real American Hero #155 1/2
Green Hornet
Iron Man Supernova
Iron Man Thor
Irredeemable #1
Library of American Comics #0
Love & Capes
Oni Press Free For All
Overstreet Guide to Collecting Comics
Radical Bigger Books Bigger Value
S E Hinton Fame #1
Sixth Gun
Stuff of Legend & Mortal Instruments
Tick #1 Special Edition
War of the Supermen #0
Weathercraft
Worlds of Aspen
Yow The John Stanley Library


For your kids:
Bongo Comics Free for All
DC Kids Mega Sampler 2010 Edition
Shrek & Penguins of Madagascar
Mouse Guard / Fraggle Rock Flip Book
Owly & Friends
Sonic the Hedgehog Hide, Seek, Destroy #1
Toy Story

Free Heroclix War Machine

Rebekah Isaacs- Artist of Wildstorm's DV8

Greetings citizens!  As we're sure you all know, this Saturday is  Free Comic Book Day, that magical day of the year when good people everywhere descend on their local comic shops and free promotional comics flow like four-color champagne. This year, Laughing Ogre is fortunate enough to host Rebekah Isaacs at our Fairfax location!  From 11 AM to 3 PM the DV8 artist will be available for signing and friendly hellos.  Today the all-things-comics blog ComicsAlliance.com posted an interview with her; check it out here!

New Arrivals April 28th

 

Invincible Iron Man #25

Double-sized issue! Co-released alongside this summer's surefire blockbuster hit Iron Man 2, this issue is the perfect jumping-on point for fans of the films and readers new and old alike! New year. New decade. New trade dress. New threats. New loves. New armor. New Tony Stark. New storyline: Resilient. Get onboard the Eisner-award winning Invincible Iron Man here!

Invincible #71

The Viltrumite War Begins! The entire series has been leading up to this! The pieces are in place, the time to strike is now! It's all-out-war as the Coalition of Planets finally make its move against the Viltrum Empire — with Invincible stuck in the middle.

Green Lantern Corps #47

A BRIGHTEST DAY tie-in! As BRIGHTEST DAY begins, Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner, along with the rest of the Green Lantern Corps, attempt to pick up the pieces from the horrific events of BLACKEST NIGHT and take a long hard look at how the Corps is run now that major revelations have come to light. Who survived (and what the Alpha Lanterns have in store for them) is only one of the many new questions that the Green Lanterns will have to answer on the difficult and dangerous road ahead.

SPACE

Be sure to check out the Small Press and Alternative Comic Expo this weekend.

Blackest Night Series 4 Figures Have Arrived!

This series includes Wonder Woman, who is surprisingly transformed by the happenings of the Blackest Night (Read the comics to learn more!); Green Lantern Kyle Rayner, in his new costume as a member of the prestigious Green Lantern Honor Guard; Black Lantern Firestorm, who was once a member of the Justice League but is now a part of the Black Lantern Corps; and Black Hand, who threatens to destroy everything the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps stand for, in ways no one ever dreamed possible.

All four figures feature multiple points of articulation and include a display base. Wonder Woman also comes with a lasso accessory, Green Lantern has a lantern accessory, and Black Hand holds Bruce Wayne's skull in his hand.

Stop by the shop today and get a set of these figures before they disappear like
all of the sets that have come before them.

Stang's Pick of the Month

WORMWOOD GENTLEMAN CORPSE TP VOL 01

Ben Templesmith (30 Days of Night, Fell) creates an all-eerie and humorous new series. Things are awakening in the city. Things that have a nasty habit of leaving mutilated bodies in their wake and it all reeks of demons and dark gods up to no good. Owing a favor to his lazy ghost cop buddy Trotsky, Wormwood, the gentleman corpse and his oddball entourage are brought in to investigate the case (or at least hopefully not stuff it up too much). This collection compiles the first miniseries, the original "Taster" issue, and covers, sketches, pin-ups and other cocktail napkin scribblings from Templesmith.

This is a not a book for the faint of heart. You need to man up here and be ready for a ride through the abyss that is known as Ben Templesmith’s mind. Think of this as Hellboy with some serious issues and a mean streak a mile long. Templesmith’s art is eery, creepy and just plain bizarre at times but the book is always fun. If you’re a Lovecraft fan and don’t mind it being twisted for one's  perverse pleasure, then this is the book for you.

Angela's Pick of the Month

Shortcomings

Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters.

As a relatively new reader of graphic novels and a longtime reader of contemporary fiction, I found that Shortcomings was a perfect way to marry these two worlds and dive headfirst into the world of comics. The story follows a young man through many instances so many of us have been through – loss of love, struggle with identity, and awkward encounters. This makes the imperfect characters extremely accessible. As in his short stories, Tomine opts for black and white graphics and easy to follow dialogue. Definitely worth picking up!