Wednesday · July 21 · 2010

Thanks to All Players!
And all Attendees of the Naruto Regional Championship
Our Central Florida Gaming Center (in Kissimmee) hosted 140 players in the Naruto Regional Chamipionship this weekend. We want to thank everyone that participated and had to the patience to deal with the crowds and few kinks along the way. Congratulations to all our winners!

Photos from the Event...

Next Naruto Event...

The next big Naruto event will be held on Sunday, August 8th (two days after the release of the new set) at the Central Florida Gaming Center in Kissimmee. It will be for a box of the newest set (minimum 10 players). Additional prize support to be provided. Sign up for our CGN Gaming Newsletter at the bottom of this email to keep up on all our gaming events. Go to Games.ColiseumofComics.com for our online calendar.

Not At Comic-Con This Saturday
At Our Orlando (South OBT) Location
Be here on Saturday between 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm for Dark Horse's BIG Not-at-Comic-Con Announcement and enter to win one of dozens of Dark Horse prizes. We'll be giving away Red Bull Energy Shots and other items just for the first 20 people or so that ask. (Official announcement to happen between 6 and 8 EST, but you won't have to wait for it to win.)

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Superman #701 Quick Review
A Coliseum Recommended Read
I was in a karaoke bar in Memphis with DC Publisher Dan Didio a bunch of months ago. Rest assured, I was not on stage, nor did or do I ever plan to be warbling into a microphone to the oldies. We sat at the bar instead and he told me that writer J. Michael Straczynski was writing a story in which Superman walks across America to get back in touch with his roots. Yep, I thought it was a dumb idea. Then again, Straczynski was the creative vision behind putting Asgard, Thor’s home, above a field in the Midwest, which also seemed pretty dumb. Since that worked, it should come as no surprise that the story in Superman 701 also works. Not only are the roots of who Superman is explored but also why anyone with or without powers can be a hero. Happily, it goes a bit deeper than the cheesy “You can be a hero, too, Timmy!” of the 70’s TV genre.

I liked the idea that Superman considers himself to be a regular guy and not a hero. I don’t think that would work with most heroes but this is Superman, the guy who grew up on Midwest values, and sensibilities that tend to understate even the grandest of things. So it works. After more than 70 years of 4-10 Superman stories a month we have something quite different. It’s worth checking out.

- Phil

Now Available - Spectral Tiger!
At Our Central Florida Gaming Center in Kissimmee
We just acquired the elusive Spectral Tiger loot card in our Kissimmee store and it's ready for purchase. Only $695! Think of it as just $5 short of 70 stamps!

Air #23
American Vampire #2 2P
Azrael #10
Batman Beyond #2 (6)
Batman Streets of Gotham #14
Birds of Prey #3
BN Rise of Black Lanterns HC
BN Tales of the Corps HC
Brightest Day #6
DC Universe Legacies #3 (10)
DV8 Gods and Monsters #4 (8)
Final Crisis Rogues Revenge TP
GL Rage of Red Lanterns TP
God of War #3 (6)
Hellblazer #269
Justice Society America #41
Legion of Super Heroes #3
Modern Warfare 2 Ghost #6 (6)
Power Girl #14
Scooby Doo #158
Spirit #4
Supergirl #54
Superman Batman #74
Time Masters VP #1 (6)
Tiny Titans #30
Welcome to Tranquility OFG #1
World of Warcraft TP V02
Zatanna #3

Age of Heroes #3 (4)
Amazing Spider-Man #638
ASM American Son #3 (4)
ASM by JMS Ultimate TP B04
Atlas #3
Avengers #3
Avengers Search She-Hulk HC
Black Widow #4
Captain America HC Two Americas
Dark Avengers TP V02
Dark Wolverine #88
Deadpool #25
Deadpool Merc #13 (13)
Dracula #4 (4)
Dark Tower Gunslinger Journey #3 (5)
Essential Defenders TP V05
FF by Jonathan Hickman TP V01
Her-Oes #4
Heroic Age Prince of Power #3
Iron Man Extremis DC #5 (6)
Lady Deadpool #1
Marvel Zombies 5 #5 (5)
Marvelman Classic Primer #1
Marvelous Land of Oz #8 (8)
MMW Black Panther HC V01 DM
New Avengers #2
New Avengers TP V12
New Mutants #15
Realm of Kings HC
Siege Embedded HC
Siege X-Men HC
Thunderbolts #146
UC Avengers 2 #5 (6)
UC New Ultimates #3 (5)
Web of Spider-Man #10
X-Factor #207
X-Men Phoenix Force Handbook

Alter Ego #95
AM Neonomicon #1 (4)
AOD Ash Saves Obama TP
Archie #611
Back Issue #42
Betty & Veronica Digest #206
Bram Stokers Death Ship #3
CBGD #1 (4)
Charmed #1
CI HC V10 Cyrano De Bergerac
Classic Red Sonja Remaster #2
Complete Alice Wonderland HC
Cowboy Ninja Viking #7
Darkstalkers Night Warriors #3 (3)
Darkwing Duck #2
Do Androids Dream #11 (24)
Doc Savage Double Novel V39
Doctor Who Ongoing #13
Dodgem Logic Magazine #3
Donald Duck and Friends #356
Dynamo 5 Sins Father #2 (5)
Farscape Ongoing #9
Fearless Dawn #4 (4)
Fevre Dream #4 (10)
Finding Nemo Losing Dory #1
Fullmetal Alchemist TP V23
Futurama Comics #50
GE Battlefields #8 (9)
GFT Neverland #4 (6)
GFT Swimsuit Special 2010
GI Joe Cobra II #6
GI Joe Real American #156
Governator #1
Grimm Fairy Tales #49
Groo Hogs of Horder TP
Incredibles #11
JE Troublemaker HC B01
Jugheads DD #162
Killing Cobra Chinatown #3
KS Green Hornet #6
Meta 4 #2 (5)
MGM Drive in Theater #1 It
Mondo Urbano GN
Muppet Snow White #3
Overstreet CBPG HC V40 Batman
Overstreet CBPG HC V40 Cap
Overstreet CBPG SC V40 Batman
Overstreet CBPG SC V40 Cap
Pale Horse #2 (4)
Phantom Chronicles SC V01
PS238 #45
Science Fiction & Fantasy #2
Scott Pilgrim GN V06
SF Legends Ibuki #3 (4)
Shadow Double Novel V40
Shadowhawk #3
Simpsons Comics #168
Spike The Devil You Know #2
SW Adv TP V04 Will of Darth Vader
Time Lincoln Fists Fuhrer #1
Tomarts AF Digest #190
Transformers Nefarious #5
Treasury 20th Murder HC V03
True Blood #1
Walking Dead #75
Walking Dead TP V12
Weekly World News TP V01
WWE Heroes #5

Blackest Night Reading Order
Read Blackest Night as It Was Intended
With the release of the new hardcovers for Blackest Night, we've had a few requests about the reading order for the series. Here's what you should read to get through the main event. There's plenty more, but starting here is best.

Green Lantern #43
Blackest Night #0-1
Green Lantern #44
Blackest Night #2
Green Lantern #45
Blackest Night #3
Green Lantern #46-47
Blackest Night #4
Green Lantern #48
Blackest Night #5
Green Lantern #49
Blackest Night #6
Green Lantern #50-51
Blackest Night #7
Green Lantern #52
Blackest Night #8

Enter the Mystery Society Drawing
Win a Set of Mystery Society SIGNED Variants!
Steve Nile’s Mystery Society launched last month with a national tour that brought Steve to Florida on the final leg of his trip. Each store along the tour route received 1000 copies of a limited edition for their store. You may have seen the Coliseum of Comics variant. In an exchange program, Coliseum received copies of 12 of the 13 store variants.

Now, we will be giving away one set of variants to a lucky winner! Purchase Mystery Society #2 or Steve Niles’ X-Files / 30 Days of Night and get entered into the drawing. The drawing will be held the day Mystery Society #3 ships.

Scott Pilgrim Trade Special
Offer ends July 31, 2010
The Coliseum Trade Special for July is Scott Pilgrim. With the release of the new movie this month, there's no better time to try Scott Pilgrim. Purchase Scott Pilgrim Volume 1 graphic novel and get Scott Pilgrim Volume 2 graphic novel FREE! Available at all Coliseum of Comics locations.


	Lady Deadpool #1 One-Shot $3.99 / Marvel story by Mary H.K. Choi / art by Kenneth Lashley From the stunning sadism that brought you an entire brood of Deadpool droogs comes the chromosomal clusterhiccup that is Lady Deadpool. Agile, armed, and a howling she-lunatic, this recluse is robbed of the only thing she adores more than binge eating: cable TV. In an America ravaged by colossal debt and careening unemployment, the loss of the glowing idiot box is more than this girl can take. Why won’t the government do anything? How is General America complicit? Was the genocide of all sitcom writers necessary? Should Wanda ransack the loins of a hot activist? Probably. 'Cause this Merc with a Mouth packs lipgloss. And it's sticky.

	Time Masters: Vanishing Point #1 (of 6) $2.99 / DC Comics story by Dan Jurgens / art by Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund "The Search for Batman" starts here! Vanishing Point – where time ends – is tearing itself apart, and one of the keys to keeping reality from being torn asunder is finding exactly where Bruce Wayne is in the time stream! Rip Hunter puts together a high-powered band of Time Masters to travel throughout history in search of the World's Greatest Detective, but can even the combined might and skill of Superman, Green Lantern and Booster Gold help the Time Master pinpoint where Batman went at the end of FINAL CRISIS?

	Blackest Night: Rise of the Black Lanterns Hardcover $24.99 / DC Comics story by Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka & more / art by Ryan Sook, Denys Cowan & more Seven classic DCU titles — THE ATOM AND HAWKMAN, THE QUESTION, PHANTOM STRANGER, STARMAN, THE POWER OF SHAZAM!, CATWOMAN and WEIRD WESTERN TALES — are resurrected alongside GREEN ARROW #30 and ADVENTURE COMICS #7 in this BLACKEST NIGHT tie-in hardcover!

	True Blood #1 (of 6) $3.99 / IDW Publishing story by Alan Ball, David Tischman & Mariah Huehner / art by David Messina Blood and sex mix on a hot rainy night at Merlotte's, when Sookie and her friends are trapped by a vengeful spirit who feeds on shame. People die and dirty secrets are revealed as Sookie, Bill, Eric, Sam, Tara, Jason, and Lafayette and are all coerced to dig deep and tell painful memories from their past—those things we all have locked within us that we never tell another living soul! Bon Temps, Louisiana has never been stranger, or more twisted, in a story co-plotted by TRUE BLOOD series creator Alan Ball, with a script by David Tischman (Bite Club) and Mariah Huehner, and lush art by David Messina (Star Trek: Countdown). First Issue special: an exclusive pullout gatefold poster by David Messina!

	Scott Pilgrim Volume 6 Graphic Novel $11.99 / Oni Press story and art by Brian Lee O'Malley It's finally here! Six years and almost one-thousand pages have all led to this epic finale! With six of Ramona's seven evil exes dispatched, it should be time for Scott Pilgrim to face Gideon Graves, the biggest and baddest of her former beaus. But didn't Ramona take off at the end of Book 5? Shouldn't that let Scott off the hook? Maybe it should, maybe it shouldn't, but one thing is for certain — all of this has been building to Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour!


· Click image above to view full cover	Classic Collector's Comic X-Men #30 From the Orlando Comic Archive - X-Men #30! Another great looking book to fill in your X-Men collection gaps. Features the Warlock. Pick up today at our Orlando store or have us quickly transfer it to your local store. Click on the image to see the full cover. GRADE VF+ 8.5 / PRICE $150.00

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