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.