Sunday, March 14, 2010

New Comics for March 17, 2010

FIRST ISSUES AND JUMPING-ON POINTS
An incomplete list of first issues, new creative teams and new story arcs beginning this week

American Vampire #1
Fade To Black #1
Gft Presents Neverland #1
Green Hornet Year One #1
Hercules Fall Of An Avenger #1
Superman 80 Page Giant #1
Wwe Heroes #1
X-23 #1
X-factor Forever #1

NEW COMICS
28 Days Later #8
Amazing Spider-man #625
American Vampire #1
Anita Blake Lc Executioner #5
Avengers Vs Atlas #3
Azrael #6
Batman #697
Booster Gold #30
Brave And The Bold #32
Choker #2
Dark Avengers #15
Deadpool Merc With A Mouth #9
Deathlok #5
Devil #2
Die Hard Year One #7
Doomwar #2
Executive Assistant Iris #4
Fables #93
Fade To Black #1
Gft Presents Neverland #1
Green Arrow #31
Green Hornet Year One #1
Green Lantern Corps #46
Groo Hogs Of Horder #4
Guardians Of Galaxy #24
Hercules Fall Of An Avenger #1
Hulk #21
Incredible Hulk #608
Irredeemable #12
Joe The Barbarian #3
Kookaburra K #3
Marvel Boy Uranian #3
Muppet King Arthur #3
Muppet Show #3
Nation X #4
Nova #35
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #3
Realm Of Kings Imperial Guard #5
Scooby Doo #154
Siege #1 Directors Cut
Siege #3
Siege Embedded #3
Simpsons Comics #164
Sonic Universe #14
Spider-man And Secret Wars #4
Spider-woman #7
Supergirl #51
Superman 80 Page Giant #1
Supernatural Beginnings End #3
Titans #23
Torch #6
Vengeance Of Moon Knight #6
Wolverine Origins #45
Wwe Heroes #1
X-23 #1
X-factor Forever #1
X-men Legacy #234

GRAPHIC NOVELS & OTHER MERCHANDISE
Batman International TP
Bronx Kill HC
Flash Gordon Vol 1 Mercy Wars TP
Girls With Slingshots Vols 1-4 TP
Iron Man Armor Wars Prologue TP
Let's Be Friends Again Vol 1 TP
Mysterius The Unfathomable TP
Unknown Soldier Vol 2 Easy Kill TP
Wonder Woman Chronicles Vol 1 TP

MANGA
Dorohedoro Vol 1
Ristorante Paradiso
Twilight Manga Vol 1

New Games for March 8 - March 15, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Nuns on the Run
The novices are on the loose! Temptation has lured them out of their cells, and they hope not to be caught by the abbess and the prioress. But the guards are swift and their hearing is excellent, so it will take craftiness and a bit of luck in order to make it back to their beds without being caught! In Nuns on the Run, players explore the exciting nocturnal world of a grand abbey filled with intrigue and deception.

Ablaze
The forest is ablaze, the smoke is thick, and the flames are spreading! The only inhabitants of this inferno seem to be a few courageous firefighters, their supporting planes, and a horde of fleeing animals. Ablaze consists of three complete, distinct games that revolve around a forest fire - Wild Fire, Volcano, and On the Run.

D&D Players Handbook 3 HC
Player's Handbook 3 builds on the array of classes and races presented in the Player's Handbook and Player's Handbook 2 core rulebooks, presenting old favorites and new, never-before-seen options to Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, including the psionic power source, along with several new classes that harness this power source.

D&D DU6 Harrowing Halls Dungeon Tile
Providing ready-to-use, configurable tiles that give Dungeon Masters an easy and inexpensive way to include great-looking terrain in their games, this Dungeons & Dragons accessory contains four double-sided sheets of illustrated, die-cut terrain tiles printed on heavy cardstock.

D&D Hammerfast
Need an exciting adventure location for your heroes to explore? Hammerfast presents a fully detailed, ready-to-use dwarven town, complete with secret locations, maps, adventure hooks, monster and NPC statistics, ready-to-play encounters, and a full-color, double-sided battle map.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Champions RPG 6E HC
ANY SUPERHERO... ANY POWER... ANY ADVENTURE! Champions is back! This latest edition explores the superhero genre more thoroughly than ever before, delving into all the subjects you need to know about to create incredible characters and campaigns, including a complete review of the superhero genre and in-depth character generation using the HERO System.

Gumshoe TOC Armitage Files
Formless Fears! The Armitage Files presents a boldly innovative way to generate blood-chilling adventures for your Trail Of Cthulhu investigators. Players seize on clues presented in the ten mysterious documents, and choose which leads to track down. The Keeper, using step-by-step techniques introduced in this tome, improvises suitably mind-blasting mysteries in response to their choices. Weave these together into an epic campaign of madness, dread, and danger!

GM Map Pack Lairs
GameMastery Map Pack: Lairs contains 18 full-color, 5" x 8" map tiles, stunningly crafted by cartographer Corey Macourek, that combine to form a variety of monster lairs and beast habitats. Locations Include: Cavern Lair, Villain Secret Lair, Urban Lair, Wilderness Lair, and a Ruined Lair.

PF Mod Realm/Fellnight Queen
When a bitter gnome falls on hard times and succumbs to the humiliating condition known as the Bleaching, he looks to forbidden magic for answers to his plight, only to unwittingly release a sinister race of cruel fey imprisoned ages ago in the mysterious First World. Their hateful queen, Rhoswen, now turns her gaze upon the forest town of Bellis, weaving a cloying mist among the trees and snaring all in a deadly dimension of madness and horror! A wilderness adventure for 7th-level Pathfinder Roleplaying Game characters.

Pathfinder Chronicles Guide to the River Kingdoms
Thieves, brigands, deposed princes, and the truly desperate inhabitants flock to the River Kingdoms, a motley collection of tiny enclaves whose rulers command only so far as their brute strength and mercenary armies can carve out for them. More than a dozen rogue kingdoms come alive with lavish illustrations and detailed maps in this first look at the setting for the Pathfinder Adventure Path: Kingmaker!

AVAILABLE FOR SPECIAL ORDER
We do not have these games in stock, but we can special order them with no additional charge, usually within 1-2 days. See something you'd like? Drop us an email at roguesgallerytx@gmail.com

Axis & Allies Naval CMG Str Revised
All hands on deck! Featuring expanded rules for night fighting and weather conditions, this revised edition of the fast-paced and action-packed WWII naval miniatures game allows players to recreate historical battles or go head-to-head in tactical naval warfare that rages across massive 30" x 40" battle maps. Each two-player set includes complete rules, a battle map, dice, counters, and eight historically accurate, pre-painted, plastic miniatures which showcase units like the USS Montpelier, TBF-1 Avenger aircraft, HMAS Nizam, and the IJN Haguro.

CC Harvesters RPG
Boundless adventure awaits! In the sleepy little town of Wheat Hollow where magic and mischief are always afoot, old Farmer Thiseltdown's farm has been burgled by something and whatever it is haunts the environs of the hollow. Plunge into the wilderness to face down the villains who alone are bringing terror to the goodly creatures of Wheat Hollow! Designed for young adventurers, Harvesters allows players to use the Castles & Crusades Siege Engine in a world inhabited by badgers, rabbits, squirrels, otters, and mice.

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Rings Return!

After their successful release of Blackest Night rings, DC is coming out with two more plastic rings promoting their new releases in April. Anyone who picks up the new Flash #1, by Geoff Johns & Francis Manapul, will get a Flash ring, and anyone picking up Green Lantern #53 will get a Green Lantern ring, while supplies last. We are taking preorders for these issues now, and anyone already getting Green Lantern or The Flash Rebirth in their subscription files will get Green Lantern and Flash, respectively.

Also, Brightest Day, the new bi-weekly series from DC, will ship with a White Lantern ring, representing the newest color of the Lantern spectrum, as revealed in Blackest Night #7. Anyone subscribed to Brightest Day or special ordering Brightest Day #0 can get one of these rings for free, while supplies last!

Finally, we're getting one last surprise shipment of rings of all colors to celebrate the release of Blackest Night #8 on Wednesday, March 31st! We'll have all eight rings available for $1.00 each while supplies last!

D&D Encounters Starts Thursday, March 18th!

D&D Encounters, the new weekly gaming program for D&D 4th Edition, begins on Thursday, March 18th at Rogues Gallery!

The game sessions will begin at 7 PM, and last until they are finished, which will be no later than 9 PM but could only be an hour or so, depending on how fast play goes.

The program is set up in three month long "seasons" made up of 12 weekly play sessions. Players are encouraged to come out every week for a regular game, but we also welcome new players who want to try the game out or just watch, or folks who want to drop in and out of the game as time permits. In addition to the fun of the game, players will earn "renown points" during the adventure that will earn them in-game awards for their characters.

The first adventure, Halaster's Lost Apprentice, takes place in the Forgotten Realms dungeon of Undermountain, and is for 6 1st level characters.

Pregenerated characters are available (a half-elf ranger, drow warlock, githzerai monk, tiefling psion, half-elf cleric and human paladin) or players are welcome to bring their own characters. Characters should be built only with races and classes that have a full write-up (such as the ones in the Player's Handbook series), and characters cannot start with magic items (though consumables are allowed). Other than that, there are no hard and fast guidelines to character creation, although as always, the Dungeon Master will have the final say.

We will have room for 6 players, and a backup DM will be available if attendance is big enough to support two groups of 5-6 players. While walk-ins are welcome, if you wish to guarantee a seat, we recommend sending an email (roguesgallerytx@gmail.com) or calling to reserve a space on the list.

Thursday, March 4, 2010

New Comics for March 10, 2010

FIRST ISSUES AND JUMPING-ON POINTS
An incomplete list of first issues, new creative teams and new story arcs beginning this week

A-Team Shotgun Wedding #1
Breaking Into Comics The Marvel Way #1
Ghost Projekt #1
Hulk Let Battle Begin #1
Iron Man 2 Spotlight #1
Justice League Rise And Fall Special #1
Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers Unleashed #1
Street Fighter Legends Ibuki #1
Superman Last Stand Of New Krypton #1
The Mystic Hands Of Dr Strange #1
Twelve Spearhead #1
Waking #1
Wolverine Mr X #1

NEW COMICS
A-team Shotgun Wedding #1
Action Comics #887
Amazing Spider-man #624
Angel Hole In The World #4
Army Of Darkness #26
Batgirl #8
Batman And Robin #10
Batman Widening Gyre #5
Bprd King Of Fear #3
Breaking Into Comics The Marvel Way #1
Cable #24
Criminal Sinners #5
Cyberforce Hunter Killer #5
Dark X-men #5
Daytripper #4
Dmz #51
Doom Patrol #8
Escape From Wonderland #5
Ex Machina #48
Fathom #10
Ghost Projekt #1
Gi Joe Origins #13
Grimm Fairy Tales #45
House Of Mystery #23
Hulk Let Battle Begin #1
Human Target #2
Iron Man 2 Spotlight #1
Jericho Season 3 #3
Justice League Rise And Fall Special #1
Kill Audio #6
Lockjaw And The Pet Avengers Unleashed #1
Marvel Adventures Super Heroes #21
Modern Warfare 2 Ghost #4
Powers #3
Prelude To Deadpool Corps #2
Punishermax #5
Rebels #14
Red Robin #10
Red Sonja Wrath Of The Gods #2
Resurrection Vol 2 #9
Secret Six #19
Solomon Kane Deaths Black Riders #3
Street Fighter Legends Ibuki #1
Super Friends #25
Super Hero Squad #3
Superman Last Stand Of New Krypton #1
S.w.o.r.d. #5
Tank Girl Skidmarks #4
The Mystic Hands Of Dr Strange #1
Toy Story #2
Toyfare #153
Transformers Bumblebee #4
Twelve Spearhead #1
Ultimate Comics Spider-man #8
Unwritten #11
Waking #1
Web Of Spider-man #6
Wolverine Mr X #1
X-men Forever #19
X-men Pixie Strikes Back #2
Zombies Vs Robots Aventure #2

GRAPHIC NOVELS & OTHER MERCHANDISE
Annotated Northwest Passage TP
Avengers X-men Utopia TP
Batman Heart Of Hush TP
Boys Vol 6 Self-preservation Society TP
Classic Marvel Fig Coll Mag #112 Black Knight
Classic Marvel Fig Coll Mag #113 Hellcat
Dc Superhero Figurine Coll Mag #46 Firestorm
Dc Superhero Figurine Coll Mag #47 Cyborg
Doctor Who Ongoing Vol 1 Fugitive TP
Flash Gordon Secret History Of Mongo TP
Ghost Riders Heavens On Fire TP
Gi Joe Origins Vol 2 TP
Greek Street Vol 1 Blood Calls For Blood TP
Grendel Behold The Devil HC
Haunted TP
Hellboy Vol 9 Wild Hunt TP
Super Hero Squad Get Yer Hero On Digest
Tick Color Series Complete Works Vol 2 TP
Warlord The Saga TP

MANGA
Bakugan Battle Brawlers Manga Vol 1 Evo Tournament
Gantz Vol 9
Inu Yasha Vol 46
Twilight Manga Vol 1

New Games for February 22 - March 7, 2010

BOARD & CARD GAMES

Eco Fluxx
This beautiful new edition of the nature-themed version of the card game with ever-changing rules features full-color art and is packaged in the new, standard, two-part box for Looney Labs games. There are over a dozen new cards, including Shells, Lizards, and Bats, plus several of the new card type, the Creeper including Forest Fire, Drought, and Flood. As always, a portion of the proceeds from this game are donated to groups working to protect the environment.

Family Fluxx
Three generations of family fun! Easy enough for children, yet still challenging for adults, Family Fluxx is the perfect card game for maximum family fun. Grandma thinks she's got the win in the bag when she plays the Grandparent Bonus, but oh no! Dad just played the Happy Birthday Goal and Junior's hand is hiding the Gift and Cake Keepers. With ever-changing rules, it's anyone's game.

Arcane Legions Dragons o/t Far East
From the forests of China and the rivers of Japan come two of Asia's mightiest creatures. Command the fearsome power of China's royal Forest Dragons and harness the chaotic nature of the Japanese river spirits known as Luck Dragons, both available in this single box. Each set contains one Luck Dragon figure, one Forest Dragon figure, four Unit Cards, and two Formation Bases.

Battlelore: Creatures Expansion
This expansion for the BattleLore fantasy battles board game introduces new monstrosities to let loose on unsuspecting foes, including the Wood Giant, Rock Elemental, and the fearsome Hydra with six interchangeable head/neck pieces!

Humans!!! 2: Sea Food
You used to be a police officer, fireman, nurse, etc., but now you're a zombie and these pesky humans keep trying to kill you! But why? All you want is some nice, delicious brains, and they have plenty! In Humans!!!, players are zombies wandering around town trying to infect as many people as they can.

The first expansion for Humans!!!, Sea Food is set on a naval base and features 30 new Event cards, 15 new tiles, new disks, and expanded rules.

ROLE-PLAYING GAMES

Daring Tales Adventure:Compendium 1
Daring Tales of Adventure: Compendium 1 contains five two-fisted pulp adventures designed for the Savage Worlds roleplaying game. Each adventure in this popular series sees your heroes globetrotting the world in search of ancient relics, long-abandoned tombs, and thwarting evil plots.

Shadowrun Vice
Illegal is a strong word. It means you're doing something that the government doesn't want you to do. You'd never do anything like that, right? Or would you? It might be that some laws are... misguided. It's civil disobedience and a moral imperative to oppose those laws. Gandhi taught us that. My friends and I—we're here to help you make these difficult moral choices. We'll even provide you with a support network, if someone objects to your strong moral compass. And, hey, if everything works out, maybe all of us might come out ahead. Don't worry! We've got your back.

Shadowrun 4th Edition: Vice provides a detailed look at all levels of organized crime, from the major transnational syndicates—like the Yakuza, the Triads, and the Mafia—to the smallest street gangs and specialist organizations. History, personality, and membership of these groups are provided along with suggestions on how best to use them as key players in a Shadowrun campaign. The crimes they commit, the metahumans they recruit, the law enforcement they oppose, and the shadowruns they sponsor are all in here. Whether your team of runners works in concert with the criminal underworld or tries to oppose it, Vice will offer new insights and options to your campaign.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Upcoming Comics March - May

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

March
American Vampire #1 (Co-written by Stephen King!) / March 17th
X-23 #1 / March 17th
Millar & McNiven's Nemesis #1 / March 24th
Northlanders Vol 3 TP / March 24th
The Guild #1 / March 24th
Captain America Reborn HC / March 24th
The Terminator #1 / March 31st
God of War #1 / March 31st
X-Men: Second Coming / March 31st
The Killer Modus Vivendi #1 / March
The Archie Wedding: Will You Marry Me? TP / March
George R.R. Martin's Fevre Dream #1 / March
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Dust to Dust Prologue #1 / March
Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm GN / March
Dragon Age #1 / March

April
Batman and Robin Vol 1 HC / April 7th
Philip K. Dick's Electric Ant #1 / April 7th
Deadpool Corps #1 / April 7th
New Avengers: Luke Cage #1 / April 7th
Avengers: The Origin #1 / April 7th
Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers #1 / April 7th
Marvel Zombies 5 #1 / April 7th
World War Hulks #1 / April 7th
Iron Man: Legacy #1 / April 7th
S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 / April 7th
Thor and the Warriors Four #1 / April 7th
Black Widow #1 / April 14th
Super Heroes Marvel Adventures #1 / April 14th
Power Girl: A New Beginning TP / April 14th
Brightest Day #0 / April 14th
The Flash #1 / April 14th
Doc Savage #1 / April 14th
The Spirit #1 / April 14th
Chew Vol 2: International Flavor TP / April 14th
Spider-Man Marvel Adventures #1 / April 21st
Ultimate Comics Avengers 2 #1 / April 21st
Flash Rebirth HC / April 28th
Red Robin: The Grail TP / April 28th
Fraggle Rock #1 / April
Crossed TP / April
Incorruptible Vol 1 TP / April
RASL Vol. 2: The Fire of St. George TP / April
Pride & Prejudice & Zombies Graphic Novel / April
The Green Hornet: Year One #1 / April
The Last Unicorn #1 / April

May
Usagi Yojimbo Plush / May 5th
Superman: War of the Supermen #1 / May 5th
Shadowhawk #1 / May 5th
I, Zombie #1 / May 5th
Astonishing Spider-Man/Wolverine #1 / May 5th
Astonishing X-Men: Xenogenesis #1 / May 5th
Avengers #1 / May 5th
Age of Heroes #1 / May 5th
Batman The Streets of Gotham Vol 1 HC / May 12th
Sweet Tooth Vol. 1 TP / May 12th
Atlas #1 / May 12th
Secret Avengers #1 / May 12th
Justice League: Generation Lost #1 / May 12th
Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #1 / May 12th
Birds of Prey #1 / May 19th
DC Universe Legacies #1 / May 19th
The Legion of Super-Heroes #1 / May 19th
Zatanna #1 / May 19th
Wednesday Comics HC / May 26th
Mouse Guard: Legends of the Guard #1 / May
Shrek #1 / May
Irredeemable Vol 3 TP / May
The Talisman Vol. 1: The Road of Trials HC / May
Boondock Saints: In Nomine Patris #1 / May