Mark One Comics and Games http://www.mk1.co.nz New Zealand's Graphic Novel Specialist - Free shipping nationwide Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:14:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Next Week’s Shipment – due 15th Feb 2012 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/next-weeks-shipment-due-15th-feb-2012/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/next-weeks-shipment-due-15th-feb-2012/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 02:13:46 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4319 Here’s the full Cover Gallery for the next new arrivals – due on shelf 15th of February 2012.  Click on each cover for more information. Follow this link to learn how to use our online subscription service – comics can be held aside – waiting for your next shop visit or dispatched to you via Mark One’s mail order service.

]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/next-weeks-shipment-due-15th-feb-2012/feed/ 0 Miniatures February 2012 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/miniatures-february-2012/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/miniatures-february-2012/#comments Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:54:44 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4313 Find out how to get a Free Copy of Flames of War’s Version 3 mini rule book this weekend – along with details of the new Flames of War arrivals and the Warmachine/Hordes figures I’m placing orders for next week!

Flames of War Mini Rule book Version 3

Bring your Flames of War Version 2 Hardcover Rule Books into the shop this weekend  (Saturday 3 Feb 2012) and Mk1 will issue you with a free mini rule book version of the upcoming Flames of War Version 3 (due for release early March 2012!)

Flames of War’s Version 3 What’s Changed post can be viewed here  http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3134 and download a Quick Reference chart here http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=3135

Recent Flames of War Arrivals:

New

British Blister BR746 Company HQ  $17.00
German Blister GE761 Company HQ (FJ) $17.00
German Blister GE767 LUFTLANDESTURM PLATOON $25.00
Restock
Battlefield in a Box BB133 Desert buildings $38.00
Book North Africa FW105 $75.00
HELLFIRE AND BACK Hardcover Rule Book $75.00
Supplies Gale Force Nine Master Basing Kit 03/02/2012 $110.00
Forward Order
I’m placing orders next week for the following Warmachine & Hordes product due to ship in March/April 2012 – let me know if you are keen on any of the following?
  • Warmachine Cygnar: Minuteman Light Warjack (white metal)
  • Warmachine – Protectorate of Menoth: Knights Exemplar Unit (plastic)
  • Warmachine – Protectorate of Menoth: Exemplar Errants Unit (plastic)
  • Warmachine – Khador: Ally Kayazy Eliminator Unit (white metal)
  • Warmachine – Khador: Battle Mechanik Officer- Battle Mechanik Unit Attachment (white metal)
  • Warmachine – Khador: Man-O-War Drakhun Dragoon Cavalry Solo (plastic and white metal)
  • Warmachine – Khador: Khador Allies Kayazy Assassins Unit (10)
  • Warmachine – Cryx: Iron Lich Overseer Solo (White Metal)
  • Warmachine – Retribution Of Scyrah: Banshee/Daemon/Sphinx Heavy Myrmidon kit
  • Warmachine – Retribution Of Scyrah: Aspis Light Warjack (white metal)
  • Warmachine – Retribution Of Scyrah:Hypnos Character Heavy Myrmidon (plastic) (Upgrade Kit)
  • Hordes Trollbloods: Blitzer/Bomber/Mauler Dire Troll Heavy Warbeast (plastic)
  • Hordes Trollbloods: Rök Heavy Warbeast Dire Troll Character Upgrade Kit (white metal)
  • Hordes Trollbloods: War Wagon Cavalry Battle Engine (Resin and White Metal)
  • Hordes Circle Orboros: Feral/Pureblood/Stalker Warpwolf Kit (plastic)
  • Hordes Circle Orboros: Ghetorix Character Warpwolf Upgrade Kit (white metal)
  • Hordes Circle Orboros: Gallows Grove Solos (Resin and White Metal)
  • Hordes Circle Orboros: Tharn Bloodtrackers Unit (white metal)
  • Hordes Legion of Everblight: Carnivean/Ravagore/Scythean Heavy Dragonspawn Kit
  • Hordes – Legion of Everblight: Proteus Character Heavy Dragonspawn Upgrade Kit
  • Hordes Skorne: Archidon Heavy Warbeast (White Metal)
  • Hordes Skorne: Skorne Venator Slingers Unit (white metal)
  • Hordes – Minions: Swamp Horror Heavy Warbeast (white metal)
  • Formula P3 Paints: Retribution of Scyrah Colors Box Set
  • Warmachine: No Quarter Magazine #41

Coming Soon: Warmachine No Quarter magazine and January/Feb new release offerings!  Black Library – latest Horus Heresy novel!

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Magic the Gathering Expansion Dark Ascension
Command the Night

Innistrad has been overrun by creatures of the night. Vampires, werewolves, and zombies run wild across the land. While the forces of good struggle to hold back the threat, villagers cower behind walls and pray for the morning light. In this nightmare world of monsters and dark magic, only the most powerful Planeswalkers will survive.

Collector’s Highlights

Dark Ascension features 158 black-bordered cards, including randomly inserted premium versions of all cards in the set. It is available in booster packs, intro packs, and fat packs. And as with Innistrad, Dark Ascension brings double-faced cards to Magic.

  • MTG Booster Packs DARK ASCENSION $7.00
  • MTG Fat Packs DARK ASCENSION $61.90
  • MTG Intro Packs DARK ASCENSION $22.90

Set Information

Also on shelf:

YuGiOh Dragons Collide Structure Deck $19.90

Dragons of LIGHT and DARK have put aside their differences to unite as one unstoppable force! This Structure Deck includes powerful Dragons, Lightsworn monsters, and some of the best DARK and LIGHT monsters, all merged together into a Dueling juggernaut. More combinations await when additional LIGHT Dragons are unleashed in Galactic Overlord booster packs.  This Structure Deck Contains: 37 Common Cards,  2 Ultra Rare Cards, 1 Super Rare Card, 1 Rulebook, 1 Game Mat and 1 Dueling Guide.

2012 Pokemon Victini tin Mk1 Price $39.90

1 Special foil Victini card,  5 Black & White series Booster Packs and 1 Victini figure!

Coming Soon: Yugioh Hidden Arsenal 5: Steelswarm Invasion: Yugioh  Order of Chaos Special Edition, Structure Deck 22: Dragonic Legion, Ra Yellow Mega Pack, Order of Chaos: Special Edition, 2012 Premium Collection Tin Stay Mk1 Informed!   Subscribe to our  ”Collectible Card Game” email update  and  be sent an email and a copy of the current week’s newsletter whenever the current months Card Games page is updated.  Send an email to chris@mk1.co.nz with the request: Sign Up Card Game Update  in the subject line.

]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/card-games-february-2012/feed/ 0 Free Comic Book Day 2012 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/free-comic-book-day-2012/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/free-comic-book-day-2012/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:17 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4296 New to Mk1′s Free Comic Book Day Event?
Read this section for all the info you need to participate in Mk1′s Big Day in May! FCBD veterans should check below for 2012 specific info..

Free Comic Book Day is held on the first Saturday every May.  What better way to celebrate Mark One’s birthday?  On May 5th 2012 from 9am to 5pm we  will give away over 4000 comics to an estimated 800 plus people!   Free Comic Book Day is all about promoting reading – it’s a great way to kick start that all important reading habit in the young as well as a means of reconnecting with the simple joy of reading a fun story.

Free Comic Book Day is the best day to check Mark One out for the first time,  and a fantastic way for Mark One to say thanks to all the people that have kept us in business these past 23 years!

Free Comic Book Day 2012 Update #1

I placed my orders for the 2012 Free Comic Book Day offerings last week. Last year’s event was our first sell out – with 2000 comics disappearing in under 3 hours (in previous years choices were still available on the day following).  This year I’ve upped our orders – offering 4000 comics to people who attend on the first Saturday in May.

We are really looking to make this year’s FCBD & Mk1 birthday our best day ever!  If you want to help spread the word – please  Tweet, facebook, start conversations, send reminders, tell your local school, local librarian, media reporter, town mayor, town gossip  and otherwise scream out!  This post will have all the latest info you need  - bookmark please!

You can check out www.freecomicbookday.com to get more info about this worldwide event.

Here’s where I mention  my usual plea – please don’t send in a request to put free comics aside – the event’s success is measured in happy faces through  the door… start making your plans to attend now – I guarantee you it will be worth the effort!

I’ve opened our Free Comic Book Day registry up – we will send out reminders closer to the day so nobody forgets!  We send out emails and  texts so send the relevant contact details with the subject heading Free Comic Book Day Reminder to chris@mk1.co.nz.  May 5th 2012 is this year’s date – put it on your calendar now.

Photos and a reports for last year’s Free Comic Book Day can be found here http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/free-comic-book-day-2011/

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Here’s the full Cover Gallery for the next new arrivals – due on shelf 9th of February 2012.  Click on each cover for more information. Follow this link to learn how to use our online subscription service – comics can be held aside – waiting for your next shop visit or dispatched to you via Mark One’s mail order service.

]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/next-weeks-shipment-6/feed/ 0 Books January 2012 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/books-january-2012/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/books-january-2012/#comments Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:52:37 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4273 A brand new 40K omnibus, New Ciaphas Cain softcover and hardcover novels, a 40K audio book, new Warhammer novel plus the Star Wars Hardcover DARTH PLAGUEIS! Great shipment on shelf now.. check out the full post for restock and next month’s releases

Ciaphas Cain LAST DITCH

40K Hardcover  by Sandy Mitchell $47.00

Imperial commissar Ciaphas Cain returns to Nusquam Fundumentibus to crush the ork attacks which have been plaguing the frozen planet. But when his ship crashes into the wastelands outside the capital it disturbs a far greater enemy, one which has lain dormant under the permafrost since long before the Imperium came to this world, and could now threaten the whole sector. Faced with ongoing greenskin raids and keeping an over-enthusiastic novice commissar under control, Cain must rally his men and confront whatever emerges from beneath the rapidly melting ice…

‘An engagingly roguish hero, and realistic combat at both the strategic and very personal levels. First-rate military SF!’ – New York Times bestselling author Dave Drake

New
  • STAR WARS DARTH PLAGUEIS HC
  • 40K Ciaphas Cain EMPEROR’S FINEST by Sandy Mitchell $22.50
  • 40K Hardcover Ciaphas Cain LAST DITCH by Sandy Mitchell $47.00
  • 40K OMNIBUS  Blood Angels the Second Omnibus by James Swallow $31.00
  • Warhammer LUTHOR HUSS By Chris Wraight $22.50
  • Audio Book 40K LABYRINTH OF SORROWS $28.50
January 2012 Restock
  • 40K Omnibus ENFORCER the Shira Calpurnia Omnibus by Matthew Farrer $35.90
  • 40K Imperial Guard Novel DEAD MEN WALKING $22.90
  • 40K Omnibus ENFORCER the Shira Calpurnia Omnibus by Matthew Farrer $35.90
  • 40K Space Marine Battles Novel RYNNS WORLD by Steve Parker $25.90
  • 40K Gaunt’s Ghosts: SAINT by Dan Abnett  $35.90
  • Horus Heresy Book 01 HORUS RISING by Dan Abnett, $22.50
  • Warhammer Omnibus KNIGHTS OF BRETTONNIA $31.00

This Weekend: New White Dwarf Magazine.. Next Month : Horus Heresy KNOW NO FEAR, Dark Eldar Novel PATH OF THE RENEGADE,  40k Omnibus IRON WARRIORS, Warhammer novel KNIGHT OF THE BLAZING SUN

]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/books-january-2012/feed/ 0 March 2012 Highlights http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/march-2012-highlights/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/march-2012-highlights/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 08:13:49 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4250 I dissect the latest solicitations from Mk1′s stable of publishers – my March 2012 picks are here! Dark Horse (Buffy season 8 Hardcover omnibus and the second Avatar volume) DC (the first hardcover collections from the new 52 are released along with Series 2 of the Batman Arkham City figures) Vertigo (new Fables ongoing spin off frim Bill Willingham – check out the premise for the new Vertigo series the New Deadwardians – looks a winner!) IDW (Smoke and Mirrors and the first collection of the new ongoing Star Trek series) Image (Brian K Vaughan’s latest series Saga!) Marvel (Avengers vs X-Men, Avengers Assemble #1 and Age of Apocalypse #1!) Indie Publishers (Archie meets Kiss collection plus The Boys volume 10!)

The Previews Catalogue is the orderbook I use to place orders for the shop – it can be viewed in store or online - here’s the link! The current issue features all the releases from all the major comics publishers  - shipping to Mk1 from March 2012 and on.  If you sign up with our online partner Comixology you can make your selections via this website  – link your account with Mk1 and I’ll automatically hold your selections aside for you on release.  Follow this link to learn how to sign up with comixology! The easiest way to add your orders, subscriptions and individual issue requests is by using our weekly cover galleries and the monthly highlight pages (like this).

Full Dark Horse Solicitations http://pulllist.comixology.com/dmd/JAN12/?c=3

Full DC Solicitations http://pulllist.comixology.com/dmd/JAN12/?c=1&start=0

Full Vertigo Solicitations http://pulllist.comixology.com/dmd/JAN12/?c=1&i=3

Full IDW Solicitations http://pulllist.comixology.com/dmd/JAN12/?c=12&viewby=full

Full Image Comics Solicitations http://pulllist.comixology.com/dmd/JAN12/?c=4

Full Marvel Solicitations http://pulllist.comixology.com/dmd/JAN12/?c=2

Indie Publishers

Because of Currency and freight rate fluctuations accurate pricing for the above items so far in advance is difficult – as a guide allow 2 x US$ for the NZ $ shelf price – a firm quote can be given for specific items upon request.

KEY: HC = Hardcover, TP = Trade Paperback Vol. = Volume Cvr = Cover, AF = Action Figure

]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/march-2012-highlights/feed/ 0 This Week’s Shipment On shelf now! http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/next-weeks-shipment-5/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/next-weeks-shipment-5/#comments Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:55:36 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4242 Lots of acclaimed indie publications this delivery – headline act is the new Avatar The last Airbender volume – don’t forget to check out the other highlights – notably: Any Empire Hard Cover, The Homeland Directive, Infinite Kung Fu and Pirate Penguin vs. Ninja Chicken!

Avatar: The Last Airbender Volume 1: Promise Part 1

Gene Yang (W), Michael Dante DiMartino (W), Bryan Konietzko (W), Gurihiru (A/Cover)

The wait is over! Ever since the conclusion of Avatar: The Last Airbender, its millions of fans have been hungry for more-and it’s finally here! This series of digests rejoins Aang and friends for exciting new adventures, beginning with a faceoff against the Fire Nation that threatens to throw the world into another war, testing all of Aang’s powers and ingenuity!  The continuation of Airbender and the link to its upcoming sequel, Legend of Korra!  Written by Gene Yang, author of the National Book Award-nominated American Born Chinese. Mk1 Price $19.90

The Above title is delayed till next week sorry!  One box was left behind in the states – full list of delayed items in the comments field below.

Here’s the full Cover Gallery for the next new arrivals – due on shelf 1st of February 2012.  Click on each cover for more information. Follow this link to learn how to use our online subscription service – comics can be held aside – waiting for your next shop visit or dispatched to you via Mark One’s mail order service.


]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/next-weeks-shipment-5/feed/ 2 Card Games January 2012 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/card-games-january-2012/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/card-games-january-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 23:30:27 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4231 The MTG Deck Builders Toolkit is back on shelf  along with the latest Yu-Gi-Oh booster release: Order of Chaos is the stunning sequel to 2004′s Invasion of Chaos, the legendary, bestselling booster pack that started the immortal battle between light and darkness in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game.
Yugioh Order of Chaos
Booster Pack
Booster Box contains 24 Boosters, each Booster contains 9 Cards

Order of Chaos is the stunning sequel to 2004′s Invasion of Chaos, the legendary, bestselling booster pack that started the immortal battle between light and darkness in the Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game.

The confrontation continues in this brand new booster set, with 100 new monsters, spells, and traps. Duelists will be able to get their hands on some of the coolest cards ever created. Transforming Ninjas will do battle with an invading army clad in insectoid power armor, amid a sea of all-devouring Xyz Monsters, only in Order of Chaos!
Cards from Order of Chaos can be combined with cards from the Dragunity Legion Structure Deck, Gold Series 4, and Photon Shockwave for incredible combos!  Mk1 Price $7.00 each

This 100-card complete set contains:
48 Common Cards
20 Rare Cards
14 Super Rare Cards
10 Ultra Rare Cards
8 Secret Rare Cards
Coming Soon: MTG Dark Ascension,  Yugioh Hidden Arsenal 5: Steelswarm Invasion: Yugioh  Order of Chaos Special Edition, Structure Deck 22: Dragonic Legion, Ra Yellow Mega Pack, Order of Chaos: Special Edition, 2012 Premium Collection Tin
]]> http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/card-games-january-2012/feed/ 0 RPG January 2012 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/rpg-january-2012/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/rpg-january-2012/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 22:07:43 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/?p=4221 Three new releases from Mk1′s three main RPG publishers – headline act is Pathfinder’s new Bestiary book, also look for a character book for Dungeons & Dragons and an adventure Path for the 40K RPG Rogue Trader.
RPG Pathfinder BESTIARY 3
318 Page Hardcover Rule Book
Mk1 Price $69.90

Test your courage against the most infamous foes of myth and legend! Bestiary 3 presents hundreds of monsters for use in the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game. Within this book you’ll find demiliches and demodands, grave knights and goblin snakes, norns and nephilim, imperial dragons and unfettered eidolons, and so much more! Yet not every creature needs to be an enemy, as winged garudas, crafty tanukis, and leonine lammasus all wait to join your party and answer the call of glory.

The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 is the third indispensable volume of monsters for use with the Pathfinder Roleplaying Game and serves as a companion to the Pathfinder RPG Core Rulebook and Pathfinder RPG Bestiary. This imaginative tabletop game builds upon more than 10 years of system development and an Open Playtest featuring more than 50,000 gamers to create a cutting-edge RPG experience that brings the all-time bestselling set of fantasy rules into the new millennium.

The Pathfinder RPG Bestiary 3 includes:
  • More than 300 different monsters
  • Classic terrors from myth and literature, from the frumious bandersnatch and the righteous valkyrie to the cunning dybbuk and elusive kappa
  • Hordes of new creatures you can construct, grow, or summon to aid your party in its adventures
  • New player-friendly races to let you adventure as canny ratfolk, genie-blooded sulis, and more
  • New familiars, animal companions, and other allies
  • Challenges for any adventure and every level of play
  • Some of the strangest and most beloved creatures from fantasy roleplaying history and the Pathfinder campaign setting
  • Hosts of new templates and variants
  • Appendices to aid in monster navigation, including lists by Challenge Rating, monster type, and habitat
  • Expanded universal monster rules to simplify special attacks, defenses, and qualities And MUCH, MUCH MORE!

New Releases:

  • Rogue Trader HOSTILE ACQUISITIONS $59.90
  • Pathfinder BESTIARY 3 $69.90
  • D&D Players Option: HEROES OF THE FEYWILD $35.90
Restock:
  • D&D Dungeon Tiles Arcane Towers $25.90
  • Miniatures D&D Box  DRAGON COLLECTOR’S SET $99.90
  • Miniatures D&D Box  ORCUS Prince of Undeath $125.90
  • Miniatures D&D Large Booster Pack LORDS OF MADNESS $49.90
  • Miniatures Pathfinder Beginner Box Heroes $27.90
  • RPG Dark Heresy Core Rule Book $99.90
  • RPG Pathfinder Advanced Players Guide PZ01115 $69.90
  • RPG Pathfinder CORE RULE BOOK $89.90
  • RPG Pathfinder Ultimate Combat PZO1118 $69.90
  • RPG Pathfinder Ultimate Magic $69.90
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