MONDAY TELEMETRY For May 30th, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

FEAR ITSELF #3
Sin leads the most audacious attack on American soil the world has ever seen as global panic sets in and we fall sway to the power of fear itself. On Asgard, Loki hatches the scheme to end all schemes. And everywhere, the Serpent's presence is felt...never moreso than when a major Marvel hero falls at his hands. The shock ending to end all shock endings...as the cycle of evil stretching millennia is at last completed.

MOON KNIGHT #2
Moon Knight's startling true nature as a one-man Avengers team stands revealed! Now, in the guises and identities of Spider-Man, Wolverine and Captain America, Marc Spector wages war against organized crime in Los Angeles. But who is the Kingpin of crime in L.A. and how does Moon Knight plan to bring him down?

RICHELLE MEAD DARK SWAN #1 STORM BORN
From the New York Times and USA Today-bestselling author of urban fantasy books for both adults and teens. Eugenie Markham never asked for any of this. Until now, she's been content with her job as a freelance shaman, battling and banishing Otherworldly creatures. When a prophecy suddenly makes her the Otherworld's most popular bachelorette, Eugenie finds herself fighting off unwanted supernatural suitors, as well as the evils that begin emerging from her past!

STATIC SHOCK SPECIAL #1
A special one-shot paying homage to Dwayne McDuffie and the world of Milestone Media, with tribute material from Milestone co-founder Denys Cowan and other Milestone alumni.
One-shot.

WONDER WOMAN #611
The penultimate chapter of "Odyssey"! Who is behind Diana's altered reality? Who made the world forget that she is Wonder Woman? Who wants the Amazons dead? And, most importantly, why? The answers start to come right here!

FLASHPOINT Week One!

Flashpoint kicks off this Wednesday (6.1) and here's the breakdown of this first wave of titles:

All five titles on 6.1 for $9.99!

FLASHPOINT #2
Where are the World's Greatest Super Heroes? Barry Allen is on a mission to find out or die trying - and that may be what's happening as he tries to make lightning strike twice! Meanwhile, around the submerged Paris, the pirate Deathstroke confronts Emperor Aquaman!

FLASHPOINT ABIN SUR THE GREEN LANTERN #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! He survived the crash!

FLASHPOINT BATMAN KNIGHT OF VENGEANCE #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! He spends his days running Wayne Casinos!

FLASHPOINT SECRET SEVEN #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! One among them will betray them all!

FLASHPOINT THE WORLD OF FLASHPOINT #1 (OF 3)
FLASH FACT! Everything you know changed in a flash - but how?

Get all the comics listed above for only $9.99 AND you get a flash promo ring, and four Flashpoint buttons!

 

MONDAY TELEMETRY For May 23rd, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

ITEM! We're getting in a couple of cases of Heroclix Giant-Sized X-men Super Boosters (no regular boosters yet, but stay tuned) this Tuesday. We'll be offering those at a special price point of $19.99! While supplies last!

ITEM! A lot of great superhero books hitting the stand this week: the Reign of Doomsday continues in Action Comics #901, we've got a point one issue in the form of Daken #9, we're getting a restock on some of the Fear Itself titles and Flashpoint #1, the War of the Green Lanterns rages on, and we've got Secret Avengers, Spider-Man, Spider-Girl and so on (and don't forget Kirby Genesis!). But the titles we're featuring in this week's Monday Telemetry are indie books, the kind of titles that might get lost in the mix normally.

ANTHOLOGY PROJECT HC VOL 02
LUCIDITY PRESS
The Anthology Project Volume Two expands upon the concepts established in the first volume of The Anthology Project to include an international group of artists collectively exploring a central theme. Twenty-one diverse storytellers with backgrounds in comics, illustration, video games, and animation unify to create a truly memorable reading experience.

CHARLAINE HARRIS GRAVE SIGHT GN
DYNAMIC FORCES
Acclaimed and NYT Bestselling author Charlaine Harris, the writer of the Sookie Stackhouse series, has joined the Dynamite Entertainment family with the first book of her hit Harper Connelly series, Grave Sight. Charlaine's Sookie Stackhouse novels became the basis for one of today's most successful television shows, the hit HBO series True Blood! Dynamite is extremely proud to present Charlaine Harris' first comic adaptation!

GFT DREAM EATER CROSSOVER (PT 1) #1
ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
The Zenescope EVENT of the year kicks off here in this oversized issue!  The Dream Eater has been released and stalks the earth searching for its first victim while the heroes and villains of the Grimm Fairy Tales universe prepare themselves for what could very well be the end of them all.  Part One of the Grimm Fairy Tales universe crossover starts here!

HOW TO DRAW STEAMPUNK SUPERSIZE TP
ANTARCTIC PRESS
Does the challenge of sketching steampunk material leave you in a fog?  Feel like an anachronism when it comes to creating old tech out of its time?  Be not daunted at depicting derring-do and high adventure!  Our intrepid illustrators will outfit you with all the brass, glass and leather you need to make your steam-tech soar and shine-or drip and rust, as the case may be.  Stock the coal, fire up the boilers, and get your art in gear!

FLASHPOINT Package Deals!

The Launchpad will be offering a week-by-week package deal on all the Flashpoint titles that are releasing in June. You won't need to prepay for these titles, just stop on by, pick up the titles in the package and you'll get the special price. Also, we'll have Flash rings to go with Flashpoint #2 and special promo pins to go with the first issue of each Flashpoint mini-series! (The only way to get the ring and the promo pins is to buy that week's package deal.)

See below for a week-by-week breakdown of the Flashpoint releases. Each week's cost is only $9.99!

MONDAY TELEMETRY For May 16th, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

ALPHA FLIGHT #0 POINT ONE
Because YOU demanded it: Exploding out of FEAR ITSELF with an all-new series is the ORIGINAL Alpha Flight by the superstar creative team of writers Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente and artist Dale Eaglesham --- with covers by the incomparable Phil Jimenez! Get in on the ground floor of this highly anticipated maxi-series with this standalone adventure by artist X: Who are Guardian, Vindicator, Sasquatch, Snowbird, Shaman, Northstar, Aurora, and Marrina? How did they become their nation's most beloved heroes? And are they strong enough to withstand their greatest challenge yet? DO YOU FEAR...YOUR COUNTRY TURNING ON YOU?

BOOSTER GOLD #44 (FLASHPOINT)
Dan Jurgens returns to BOOSTER GOLD just in time for this FLASHPOINT prelude. Booster Gold returns to Rip Hunter's lab after the events of TIME MASTERS and finds that this world isn't the same one he left behind.

DRUMS #1 (OF 4)
"LET THE BATÁA SPEAK"
In our world there exists an ancient religion with many names and   many disguises: Candomble, Palo Mayombe, Santeria... Voodoo. FBI   agent Martin Irons is sent to investigate the sudden deaths of an   entire gathering of followers at a ceremony, an assignment horrible enough before one of the mangled corpses rises and leads him on a sinister path. A new horror story with possesions, santeros, zombies... all set to the thunderous boom of drums!

X-MEN GIANT-SIZE #1
"FROM FIRST TO LAST"
Think you know everything there is to know about the original X-Men? Think again! Something happened to Cyclops, Marvel Girl, Beast, Angel, Iceman and Professor X years ago, a secret so horrible that it has been locked away in the dark corner of Cyclops' mind until today. What crisis strikes in the present that calls upon memories of the past? Witness the astonishing debut of the Evolutionaries! Taking the lead for a few issues is famed X-Men writer CHRIS YOST (X-FORCE) and with all this danger, he's lucky to have  regular X-MEN artist PACO MEDINA and DALIBOR TALAJIC (PUNISHER) along for the ride.

MONDAY TELEMETRY For May 9th, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

ITEM! Flashpoint kicks off this week, which means we're in the midst of our first Flashpoint package which includes Flashpoint #1, Flash #10 - 12, and Booster Gold #44 all for $11.99! Stay tuned for our special weekly package deals that make the massive amounts of Flashpoint titles coming our way totally affordable (Oh, and there'll be pins and a flash ring in the offering)!

ITEM! Thanks to everyone who came down for FCBD! It was another great one!

FLASHPOINT #1
Not a dream, not an imaginary story, not an elseworld. This is Flash Fact: When Barry Allen wakes at his desk, he discovers the world has changed. Family is alive, loved ones are strangers, and close friends are different, gone or worse. It's a world on the brink of a cataclysmic war - but where are Earth's Greatest Heroes to stop it? It's a place where America's last hope is Cyborg, who hopes to gather the forces of The Outsider, The Secret 7, S!H!A!Z!A!M!, Citizen Cold and other new and familiar-yet-altered faces! It's a world that could be running out of time, if The Flash can't find the villain who altered the time line!
Welcome to FLASHPOINT!

MEGA MAN #1
"Let the Games Begin!" Part One. The future looks bright when brilliant and benevolent Dr. Light unveils his latest creations: the Robot Masters! But when the nefarious Dr. Wily steals them for his own sinister purposes, there is no one left to stop him. No one - except Mega Man! Don't miss the first issue of this brand new ongoing series based on Capcom's long-running and best-selling video game sensation! Available with a regular cover by Patrick "Spaz" Spaziante or a sketch cover by Chad Thomas.

TIME LINCOLN JACK TO THE FUTURE ONE SHOT
Time Lincoln's Traveler's Team faces their greatest challenge yet when they unravel a plot by Void Stalin and his Chrono-Communists to assassinate the President of the United States in November 1965 with a magic bullet!  But the images in the Void have already ordained the assassination!  Why would Void Stalin intervene?  The answer comes when the travelers are contacted by a new mysterious ally, one who travels through time, but not the Void.  A man known only as...J-FTL-K.

DC HeroClix Superman Preview

[reposted from Heroclix World]

MONDAY TELEMETRY For May 2nd, 2011

Welcome to another installment of Monday Telemetry, a weekly blog from The Launchpad that covers some of the more interesting releases or events that are coming to the store this week.

A lot of cool stuff this week! Read on! [See the full list of new titles here!]

ITEM! This Saturday! Free Comics! Come on down for Free Comic Book Day 2011 May 7th, starting at 10am, while supplies last! All Thor, Captain America, and Green Lantern comics and trades paperbacks will be 25% off too!

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BATMAN BEYOND #5
Rioting workers are threatening to close down Wayne-Powers Industries and send stock prices spiraling down the tubes! There's only one thing Batman can do in this situation: Track down Paxton Powers, just released from prison, and see what he knows about it! "Industrial Revolution" begins here!

FEAR ITSELF #2 (OF 7)
The Mighty Thor--imprisoned by his own father! As Odin and the Asgardians leave the Earth to fend for itself against the God of Fear, the Avengers and  the world's remaining heroes battle the unstoppable tide of terror! And then-- the Serpent's Hammers fall! Who are the Worthy? Who shall rise up and join the Serpent as living avatars of his evil? And how can the Avengers respond...to fear itself?

MOON KNIGHT #1
The wait is over! Moon Knight is here...like you ' ve never seen him before! And we mean NEVER! The Eisner award-winning team of Bendis and Maleev tear into the mythos of Moon Knight with the same verve and derring-do they brought to Daredevil.  A  MARVELOUS reinterpretation of one of the most enigmatic characters in Marvel history starts right here!

X-MEN PRELUDE TO SCHISM #1 (OF 4)
Before Messiah Complex came Endangered Species. This is the prelude to the X-Men Event of 2011. What does it mean to be a leader? What does it do to a person? What do the choices you make mean about the person you are? This mini-series delves into these issues and will give an X-Men reader what they need to know about their favorite mutants before everything changes in July.