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Here is some info we received this weekend about comics that are arriving soon:

VAMPIRELLA #1
Price: $3.99
Dynamite Entertainment is pleased to reintroduce readers to the scourge
of the undead: VAMPIRELLA, and she is all that stands between us and the
end of the world! Vampi’s back and hot on the corpse-strewn trail of her
nemesis, Vlad Dracula. It’s a darker world for Vampirella, and something
more sinister than vampires lurks in the shadows, something even Dracula
himself has cause to fear… Written by Eric Trautmann (THE SHIELD,
ACTION COMICS) and illustrated by Wagner Reis (PROJECT SUPERPOWERS)

STAN LEE IS BACK!
SOLDIER ZERO #1, currently available for Comic Book Retailers to order
from Diamond Comic Distributors and Haven Distributors, is written by
Paul Cornell (ACTION COMICS, DOCTOR WHO) with art by Javier Pina
(SUPERMAN) and ships with seven covers, including A & B covers in a
50/50 split by Trevor Hairsine and Dave Johnson respectively, a 1-in-25
incentive by Phil Noto, 1-in-50 Undressed Trevor Hairsine Variant,
1-in-75 Undressed Dave Johnson Variant, 1-in-150 Undressed Phil Noto
Variant and a special 1-in-300 Stan Lee signed variant cover with all
new cover art by Kalman Andrasofszky.

We mentioned this one before but since it starts soon and looks cool here is a reminder.
5 Weeks of 5 Days to Die!
The anticipation is building for Andy Schmidt and Chee’s weekly crime noir event. 5
books! 5 weeks! It all starts next week…

5 Days to Die
Andy Schmidt (w) • Chee (a) • David Finch, Michael Avon Oeming, Ben Templesmith,
Gabriele Dell’Otto, Pablo Raimondi (c)
Ray Crisara, a tough cop who’s survived a terrible car accident, discovers his wife
is dead and his daughter in critical condition. Believing this was a planned hit by
the city’s drug lord he’s been pursuing, Ray’s brain injury leaves him five days
before he dies to track the killer or be there for his little girl… Ray’s clock is
ticking.

Lady Death is coming back with Brian Pulido
First, the folks at Boundless Comics (Avatar Press) are 100% committed
to maintaining a monthly schedule on the new LADY DEATH series, starting
with the street release of LADY DEATH #0 in December 2010 and continuing
from there with #1 in January and so on. We’ve been planning for this
over two years; Brian Pulido and Mike Wolfer already have plotted out
twenty-four issues’ worth of stories, and new artist Marcelo Mueller is
both very fast and working well ahead of our schedule. As a matter of
fact, we’re already working on the interior artwork for issue #7! We
realize that the only way that a LADY DEATH relaunch is going to work is
if we build lasting support for the titles with fans and retailers by
being consistent with its release.

So there you have it. Some new goodies coming soon to expand your reading horizons.

Here is a trailer for the upcoming Walking Dead TV show on AMC this October.   Looks like fun.

Walking Dead TV Trailer

I tried to embed their code so you could watch it here but I could not get it to work correctly.

Kids Klub here @ Kaboom gets off to a start the first Saturday in October. We aim to have fun, meet new people, and maybe introduce you to a new hobby. This will be a great safe place to practice your gaming skills, check out some comics, and just hang out with people your age having a good time.
We will have Yugioh, Magic, Comics, and even some Jewelry crafting for you to take part in.

So mark this on your calendar and lets have a good time.

SOLD-OUT BATMAN #700 SET TO RETURN IN NEW, SECOND PRINTING!
BATMAN #700, the spectacular, sold-out anniversary issue written by Grant Morrison and featuring art by Tony Daniel, Andy Kubert, Frank Quitely, David Finch and Richard Friend, is on track to return in a new, second printing! BATMAN #700 Second Printing features a recolored version of the original cover by David Finch. It is scheduled to arrive in stores on September 8.

DC Comics has released the November solicitations for its “Brightest Day” titles, including David Finch’s stunning painted cover for Brightest Day #13, which features WHITE LANTERN BATMAT. Their highly anticipated “Batwoman” series debuts in November with a zero issue by J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman with art by Williams and Amy Reeder.

TRUE BLOOD 2ND PTG #1
The runaway hit first issue of True Blood is back in print, with a “flipped” J. Scott Campbell variant cover!

This November, Marvel launches “Astonishing Thor,” a new series featuring a storyline that follows up directly on the events of “Siege” as told by the creative team of Rob Rodi and Mike Choi with covers by Esad Ribic. Marvel recently announced a comic adaptation of the upcoming Disney cartoon “Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” written by Chris Yost with Scott Wegener & Patrick Scherberger on art.

Setup your comic subscription at Kaboom to get a discount, your books bag/boarded, birthday gift, previews, and more. We want to see you here!!

L.A. Times article:

It’s been dizzying to follow the will-he-or-won’t-he reports about Robert Rodriguez directing “Deadpool,” the Ryan Reynolds X-Men spinoff.

Reports last month that Rodriguez had been offered the director’s chair on “Deadpool” met with a swirl of speculation and/or denials from the filmmaker’s camp as well as studio Fox. (The most anyone would agree to is that Rodriguez had been sent Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick’s script.)

But we’re hearing that after a few weeks of dancing, Rodriguez and studio Fox are negotiating. There’s no deal yet, and the sides need to agree on a number of key points, but it’s moved beyond the casual discussion stage and into the more substantive realm of deal points.

Rodriguez is making “Spy Kids 4,” which itself comes after he finished the exploitation action picture “Machete,” but would be looking for a big movie and one that can be marketed into a hit. As for the picture itself, the mouthy Marvel mercenary would entail violence and comedy in equal measure, and Rodriguez has been adept at combining the two. We’d pull for a Danny Trejo cameo, though.

— Steven Zeitchik