Mark One Comics and Games http://www.mk1.co.nz New Zealand's Graphic Novel Specialist - Free shipping nationwide Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:09:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 This week’s news for 2010-09-01 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/this-weeks-news-for-2010-09-01/ http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/this-weeks-news-for-2010-09-01/#comments Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:00:00 +0000 mk1 http://www.mk1.co.nz/blog/this-weeks-news-for-2010-09-01/

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New stuff arriving…

I finished my Previews orders for October comics early in the week and I’ve posted the highlights here.  Of note: Evelyn Evelyn by Dresden Doll Amanda Palmer, the hardcover collection of Geoff Johns’ Superman Secret Origin series (great read!), Fables issue #100, a new Richard Stark adaption by Darwyn Cook, Marvel’s Carnage by CLAYTON CRAIN (he of the spidey/iron man image above) and the beginning of a new Charles Burns (Black Hole) opus!  A few of the September highlights have already arrived, Kirkman’s Guardians of the Globe and Science Dog #1 snuck in last weekend. Wolverine #1, Amulet vol 03,  Atomic Robo vol 04 and Invincible volume 13 all arrive this weekend.  To remind yourself what else September has in store – check out the highlights here. No sooner do I finish one Previews but another arrives (funny that..) November promises two new Batman series and the return of Battle Chasers!

Making room for the new stuff ..
Mk1’s Back Wall bargains tradition is now well established and I’ve been feeding my Google Buzz feed with every new deal-o. Scroll down this page to check em out! As a reminder all these complete series, trade paperbacks and graphic novels are all priced at $29.00 each, 2 for $40.00 or 3 for $50.00.  You can mix and match to your heart’s content.  The choice isn’t limited to those items on the summary – check out the whole back wall – or choose one item and I’ll suggest some suitable partners – send me an email!  No need to stick to just three choices either – all subsequent selections will be at the $16.00 bargain price each.

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The Previews Catalogue is the orderbook I use to place orders for the shop.  The current issue features all the releases from the major comics publishers being offered for October 2010 shipping on.  If you sign up with our online partner Comixology you can make your selections via this website  – so long as you link your account with Mk1 I’ll automatically hold your selections aside for you on release.  Follow this link to learn how to sign up with comixology!

Don’t forget to take advantage of our subscription deals:

  • MK1 Six Pack = prepay 6 issues of an ongoing series and get the 7th issue free of charge on any ongoing series.
  • Mk1 All Pay = prepay all issues of a limited series and get a 15% discount.

Click on each cover for more information – Mk1 pricing can be estimated at  2 x US$retail – most times less!

Dark Horse

Dark Horse Full Listing  http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/?c=3&viewby=simple

DC Comics

DC Full Listing http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/?c=1&start=0

Wildstorm & Vertigo

Wildstorm Full Listing http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/?c=1&i=4&viewby=simple

Vertigo Full Listing http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/?c=1&i=3&viewby=simple

IDW

IDW Full Listing http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/?c=12&viewby=simple

IMAGE

Image Full Listing http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/?c=4&viewby=simple

Marvel

Marvel Full Listing http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/?c=2&start=0

The Indpendent Publishers

Full Previews Catalogue Online http://www.comixology.com/dmd/AUG10/

Key:  HC = HardCover, TP = Trade Paperback, Vol. = Volume, MR = Mature Reader,

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Here’s the full Cover Gallery for the new arrivals – due on shelf this coming weekend! 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 widely praised mail order service.

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“International Read Comics in Public” day!
We have a copy of the McSweeney’s Comic Section from the San Francisco Panorama broadsheet tabloid on shelf now - Featuring contributions from Erik Larsen, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Dan Clowes, Seth, Jessica Abel, Adrian Tomine, Kim Deitch, Ivan Brunetti, Gene Yang, Alison Bechdel, Jon Adams, Keith Knight and many more. In addition to all the comics, it comes with a Chris Ware poster titled “Rocket Sam,” which features a build-it-yourself paper spacecraft, and accompanying scenery and characters.  It’s the discerning choice for “International Read Comics in Public” day!  http://readcomicsinpublic.com/about/
A discerning choice that may be  but not the only choice!  I recently restocked the Comics Greatest Hits stand – $2.00 first issues featuring Sin City, Witchblade, Aliens Vs Predator, X-men, Hellboy, Fables, Locke & Key and lots more…This weekend’s shipment will feature more $2.00 first issues (Conan & the Goon!) along with  the Blackest Night Series 5 Action Figures (pictured), a Danger Girl Hardcover,  a Best of OZ & NZ comics anthology, and the first of the X-Men Curse of the Mutants miniseries –  Shipment hits the shelf 28th August 2010 – full cover gallery is here. Last weekend’s shipment showed up a little late – so we still have copies of the Buffy one shot Riley and those most excellent Udon Streetfighter and Capcom art books.  Interesting pick of the shipment was the vampires in ancient Rome comic Ides of Blood – check out the full cover gallery!

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Here’s the full Cover Gallery for the new arrivals – due on shelf this coming weekend! 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 widely praised mail order service.

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What better fashion accessory to wear to the next Riff Raff concert than your very own piece of 1980s movie nostalgia?  We unpack  a new Star Wars T-shirt (Empire Logo) as well as this nod to the original cyberpunk movie (and a certain North Island town’s nick name) Tron!  Both t-shirts  should be on shelf this weekend.  Adult size Small – X Large $39.00 each.

I’m also expecting the Star Wars Legacy finale, Sixth Gun #3, a new Vertigo Hardcover Graphic Novel, the latest Buffy The Vampire Slayer One Shot,  plus brand new Street Fighter & Udon Art books!  On shelf 21 Aug 2010 – check out the full cover gallery here.

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Here’s the full Cover Gallery for the new arrivals – due on shelf this coming weekend! 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 widely praised mail order service.


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I love a good first issue & Mike Mignola’s Baltimore: The Plague Ships #1 is certainly all that and then some.. There’s something to be said for waiting for a nice bookshelf ready trade paperback (or better yet a deluxe hardcover treasury edition!) and devouring the tale in one sitting but I’m glad we still have the periodical option available.  Reading a perfectly pitched first issue (and rereading it, looking for any missed nuances) is a great comic book joy.  The anticipation of the 2nd issue (mixed with imagined extrapolation of where the writer will take the story) isn’t a chore  – not when there’s a library/shop/web full of other tales to bide my time.  In fact I find myself rereading recent single issue comics more so than I would reread the more convenient trade paperback collections adorning my bookshelves at home.

I’ve been spoiled for choice the last few weeks – lots of great debut issues: Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark #1 (yep!), S.H.I.E.L.D #1, Scarlet #1, Nemesis #1, Sixth Gun #1 -  all leap to mind.  So spend some time checking the previews of the cover gallery on the site – lots of hidden gems to uncover – and check out Mark One’s Comics Greatest Hits stand next time you are in Mk1. $2.00 reprints of some of comics greatest debut issues are hard to beat!

  • Last week’s news featured Black Library, WHFRPG, Hordes, Walking Dead, the latest Dark Tower, Clive Barker, Star Wars t-shirts, Penny Arcade and more http://ow.ly/2kLYn
  • Calvin & Hobbes takes on Inception  http://ow.ly/2l7Ni this strip seems a nice way to announce Calvin & Hobbes has returned to Mark One’s funny shelves!
  • Mass Effect http://ow.ly/2l9su Halo http://ow.ly/2l9sI and Frazetta art books all unpacked recently!
  • We have new Doctor Who Action figures on shelf now -this pic shows what’s on shelf – we have everything except for the Red Dalek http://ow.ly/i/32sk
  • New to the webstore: Beasts of Burden http://ow.ly/2lMsv Atomic Robo http://ow.ly/2lMsR #
  • I’ve placed our orders for the 2010 refresh of Avalon Hill’s Boardgame Betrayal at House on the Hill – instore soon!  Here’s a web demo of this excellent game http://ow.ly/2lMJK
  • Check out a Mk1 Buzz post showing a full list of the new Flames of War arrivals -http://ow.ly/2nbPg – including an early copy of the early war Blitzkrieg book.
  • Games Workshop arrivals are detailed here http://ow.ly/2nk7n featuring new Chaos Daemon releases!
  • We have a heaping helping of Comic Bags, Boards and boxes – all on shelf now!
  • Last weekend’s comic shipment featured a new Bone book, Buffy novel omnibus, the latest Dark Tower Hardcover, a Kane and Lynch comic, a Clive Barker Graphic Novel, new Star Wars T-shirts and the 6th Penny Arcade collection!  All on shelf now – full gallery here.
  • This weekend’s delivery has a  Locke & Key theme Locke & Key vol 3 in Hard Cover, vol 04 kicks off in comics plus a special $2 edition of the very first Locke & Key comic! Lots more surprises in the gallery check em out here: http://ow.ly/2nmzf

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Here’s the full Cover Gallery for the new arrivals – due on shelf this coming weekend! 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 widely praised mail order service.

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Halo: The Cole Protocol
by Tobias S. Buckell

In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. Many are called upon to rid the universe of lingering navigation data that would reveal the location of Earth. Among them is Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes. Thrust back into action after being sidelined, Keyes is saddled with a top secret mission by ONI. One that will take him deep behind enemy lines, to a corner of the universe where nothing is as it seems.

Out beyond the Outer Colonies lies the planet Hesiod, a gas giant surrounded by a vast asteroid belt. As the Covenant continues to glass the human occupied planets near Hesiod, many of the survivors, helped by a stronghold of human Insurrectionists, are fleeing to the asteroid belt for refuge. They have transformed the tumbling satellites into a tenuous, yet ingenious, settlement known as the Rubble–and have come face-to-face with a Covenant settlement of Kig-Yar . . . yet somehow survived.

News of this unlikely treaty has spread to the warring sides. Luckily for the UNSC, this uneasy alliance is in the path of the Spartan Gray Team, a three-man renegade squad whose simple task is to wreak havoc from behind enemy lines in any way they see fit. But the Prophets have also sent their best—an ambitious and ruthless Elite, whose quest for nobility and rank is matched only by his brutality . . . and who will do anything to secure his Ascendancy and walk the Path. ISBN10: 0-7653-5472-1 368 PAGE Paperback novel Mk1 Price $19.90

On Shelf Now:

  • Halo THE FALL OF REACH,  THE FLOOD,  FIRST  STRIKE Gift set by Eric Nyland $55.90
  • Halo COLE PROTOCOL by Tobias S Buckell $19.90
  • Halo CONTACT HARVEST by Joseph Staten $19.90

Due Back Soon:

  • Halo THE GHOSTS OF ONYX by Eric Nyland
  • Halo EVOLUTIONS: Omnibus
  • Halo ENCYCLOPEDIA
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