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Today is a big day for our friends over at Rancho Obi-Wan, Petaluma, Ca., as they are celebrating their entry into the Guinness Book of World Records 2014! Here’s a link to a great article written about the collection and the day that Guinness photographed part of the collection for the book (and keep your eyes peeled for an appearance by yours truly). Congratulations to the great crew over at Rancho Obi-Wan!

Happy New Comic Book Day!!!! Here’s the what we have in store for you: (pssst, Sandman Overture #1 came out today)

ACTION COMICS ANNUAL #2
ADVENTURE TIME 2013 SPOOOKTACULAR #1 
ALL NEW FATHOM #3 (OF 8 ) 
AQUAMAN ANNUAL #1
ARCHIE #649 
ASH & THE ARMY OF DARKNESS #1
ASTOUNDING VILLAIN HOUSE ONE SHOT
AVENGERS #22 INF
AVENGERS AI #5
BLOOD BROTHERS #3 (OF 3)
BUSHIDO #5 (OF 5)
CAPTAIN AMERICA LIVING LEGEND #2 (OF 4)
CATACLYSM #0.1
CLIVE BARKER NEXT TESTAMENT #5 (OF 12) (MR)
CROSSED BADLANDS #40 (MR)
DAMIAN SON OF BATMAN #1 (OF 4)
DANGER GIRL THE CHASE #2 (OF 4)
DARK HORSE PRESENTS #28 (MR)
DEADPOOL KILLS DEADPOOL #4 (OF 4)
DEATH SENTENCE #2 (OF 6)
EDGAR ALLAN POES THE RAVEN & RED DEATH ONE SHOT
FIVE GHOSTS #6
FOREVER EVIL ARGUS #1 (OF 6)
GAME OF THRONES #17 (MR)
GI JOE #9
GODZILLA RULERS OF THE EARTH #5
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #8 INF
HEROBEAR & THE KID 2013 ANNUAL #1
INFINITY #5 (OF 6)
ITTY BITTY HELLBOY #3 (OF 3)
KICK-ASS 3 #4 (OF 8 ) (MR)
MICE TEMPLAR IV LEGEND #8
MY LITTLE PONY 2013 ANNUAL
MY LITTLE PONY FRIENDSHIP IS MAGIC #12
NIGHTWING ANNUAL #1
POWERPUFF GIRLS #2
PUNISHER TRIAL OF PUNISHER #2 (OF 2)
SAGA #15 (MR)
SANDMAN OVERTURE #1 (OF 6) (MR)
SCARLET SPIDER #23
SEX #8 (MR)
SHADOW YEAR ONE #6 (OF 10)
SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 SPECIAL #3
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #254 
STAR WARS DARK TIMES SPARK REMAINS #4 (OF 5)
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #20
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN TEAM UP SPECIAL #1
SWAMP THING ANNUAL #2
TEEN TITANS ANNUAL #2
TEN GRAND #1 2ND PTG (MR)
THOR CROWN OF FOOLS #1
TMNT ONGOING #27
TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE #22
TRUE LIVES O/T FABULOUS KILLJOYS #5 (OF 6)
ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #33
UNCANNY X-FORCE #13
WILD BLUE YONDER #3 (OF 5)
X-MEN BATTLE OF ATOM #2 (OF 2) BOA

Brian’s Pick: Ash and the Army of Darkness #1

Don’t forget Fankind: tomorrow, Joshua Ortega will be here signing copies of his work, including the new issue of The Other Dead #2. If you didn’t pick up #1, we have a few left. So come on down, say hi and pick up a great new zombie series just in time for Halloween!

Attention Fankind: we will be opening late tomorrow, Saturday October 19 at 12:30 (ish). After hours and hours of work and support that Jennifer has put into the store, it is time I paid her back. So, in the morning I will be helping her proctor the PSAT. But, fear not! I will be here directly after and ready to help will all of your comic book needs! See you then.

Attention Fankind: here are your new comics for this week. Get ’em while they’re hot!

100 BULLETS BROTHER LONO #5 (OF 8 ) (MR)
A PLUS X #13
ADVENTURE TIME #21
AME COMI GIRLS #8
ANIMAL MAN #24
AVENGERS #21 INF
AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #20 INF
BALTIMORE INFERNAL TRAIN #2 (OF 3)
BATMAN 66 #4
BATMAN AND TWO FACE #24
BATMAN BEYOND UNIVERSE #3
BATMAN SUPERMAN #4
BATWOMAN #24
BIRDS OF PREY #24
BLOODHOUND CROWBAR MEDICINE #1 (OF 5)
BLOODSHOT & HARD CORPS #15
BPRD HELL ON EARTH #112
BRAIN BOY #2
BUSHIDO #3 (OF 5)
BUZZKILL #2 (OF 4)
CABLE AND X-FORCE #15
CONAN THE BARBARIAN #21
CROSSED BADLANDS #39 (MR)
FABLES #134 (MR)
FANTASTIC FOUR #13
FOREVER EVIL #1 (OF 7) DIRECTORS CUT
FOREVER EVIL ROGUES REBELLION #1 (OF 6)
GI JOE A REAL AMERICAN HERO #195
GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #24
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY #7
HAWKEYE #13
HE MAN AND THE MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE #7
HUNGER #4 (OF 4)
IMAGINE AGENTS #1 (OF 4)
INDESTRUCTIBLE HULK SPECIAL #1
INVINCIBLE #106
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA #8 (EVIL)
JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICAS VIBE #8
LEGENDS OF THE DARK KNIGHT #13
LETTER 44 #1
MARVEL UNIVERSE ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #19 SYU
MORNING GLORIES #33 (MR)
NEW AVENGERS #11 INF
NOWHERE MEN #6
RED HOOD AND THE OUTLAWS #24
REGULAR SHOW #4
SHADOW #18 ROSS CVR
SHADOW GREEN HORNET DARK NIGHTS #4 (OF 5)
SHELTERED #4
SIMPSONS COMICS #206
SIX GUN GORILLA #5 (OF 6)
SIXTH GUN #35
STAR TREK KHAN #1 (OF 5)
STRAIN THE FALL #4
SUPERGIRL #24
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN #19
THIEF OF THIEVES #17 (MR)
TRANSFORMERS MORE THAN MEETS EYE #22
TRINITY OF SIN PANDORA #4
UNCANNY X-MEN #13 BOA
WOLVERINE MAX #12 (MR)
WONDER WOMAN #24
X-FILES SEASON 10 #5
X-MEN LEGACY #18
X-O MANOWAR #18
ZERO #2 (MR)

And speaking of hot, we have a lot of hot new items in this week, including the Big Bang Theory Mystery Minis. Come on down and check ’em out. (Plus, the Marvel Tokidoki are back in stock!!!)

Attention Fankind!  Mark your calendars for Saturday October 26^th for Halloween ComicFest 2013!  Come join us for a spooky good time.  We will be giving out FREE Halloween themed comic books all day.  And, at 3 p.m. we will be having a costume contest, with prizes for the best costumes!  More details to come!  All ages welcome.

Hey, Fankind! This Friday we are having a couple of special guests at Brian’s Comics: Nick and Rachel Wirtz. They are the creators of the independent comic The Radiant Ones (www.theradiantones.com) and will be stopping by on their way to the Alternative Press Expo (A.P.E.) in the city. I met them last year when I was at APE and they are a talented duo. They will be bringing the brand new 200 page copy of their series, along with some of their other work. They will be here starting at 5 p.m. until we close. Make plans to stop by, check out their work and help support independent artists! 

Happy Wednesday Fankind! Are you ready for All Out War??? Ready or not, it is here! Well…..at least in the pages of The Walking Dead. Issue #115 marks the tenth anniversary of zombie comic and to celebrate, they are throwing a battle royale! Here is what else has come in this week: 

3 GUNS #3 (OF 6)
ABE SAPIEN #6
ADVENTURE TIME CANDY CAPERS #4 (OF 6 )
AFTERLIFE WITH ARCHIE #1
ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #14 
ASTONISHING X-MEN #68
ASTRO CITY #5
AVENGERS AI #4
AVENGERS ARENA #16
BATGIRL #24
BATMAN #24 
BATMAN ARKHAM UNHINGED #19
BATMAN LIL GOTHAM #7
BUCK ROGERS IN 25TH CENTURY #2 (OF 4) 
BUSHIDO #2 (OF 5)
CAPTAIN AMERICA #12
CATWOMAN #23 2ND PTG
CHEW #37 (MR)
CLIVE BARKER NEXT TESTAMENT #4 (OF 12) (MR)
COFFIN HILL #1 (MR)
CONSTANTINE #7
CROSSED BADLANDS #38 (MR)
DAMSELS #10
DEADPOOL #18
DEATHMATCH #10
DEXTER #4 (OF 5)
ELFQUEST SPECIAL FINAL QUEST ONE SHOT
ETERNAL WARRIOR #2
FBP FEDERAL BUREAU OF PHYSICS #4 (MR)
FEARLESS DEFENDERS #10 INF
FOREVER EVIL ARKHAM WAR #1 (OF 6)
FUBAR BY THE SWORD #2 (OF 2) (MR)
GHOSTBUSTERS #8
GHOSTED #4 (MR)
GI JOE SPECIAL MISSIONS #8
GODZILLA RULERS OF THE EARTH #4
GREEN LANTERN CORPS #24
HALO INITIATION #3 (OF 3)
HEROBEAR & THE KID INHERITANCE #3 (OF 5)
INFINITY #4 (OF 6)
INJUSTICE GODS AMONG US #9
JOHN CARPENTERS ASYLUM #3 (MR)
JOHNNY THE HOMICIDAL MANIAC #1 NEW PTG
JUDGE DREDD #11
KATANA #8
MANHATTAN PROJECTS #15
MARVEL UNIVERSE HULK AGENTS OF SMASH #1 (OF 4)
MINIATURE JESUS #5 (OF 5) (MR)
MULTIPLE WARHEADS DOWN FALL ONE SHOT (MR)
NIGHTWING #24
PETER PANZERFAUST #15
RED SONJA #4 
RESIDENT ALIEN SUICIDE BLONDE #2 (OF 3)
ROCKET GIRL #1
SHAOLIN COWBOY #1
SIDEKICK #3 (MR)
SMALLVILLE SEASON 11 #18
SONS OF ANARCHY #2 (OF 6) (MR)
SPONGEBOB COMICS #25
STAR WARS #10 
STORMWATCH #24
SUICIDE SQUAD #24 (EVIL)
SUPERBOY #24
SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN TEAM UP #4 INF
SUPERMAN WONDER WOMAN #1
THOR GOD OF THUNDER #14
THREE #1
TRANSFORMERS ROBOTS IN DISGUISE #21
ULTIMATE COMICS X-MEN #32
UNCANNY X-FORCE #12
WALKING DEAD #1 10TH ANNIVERSARY ED (MR)
WALKING DEAD #115 (MR)
WATSON AND HOLMES #4
WOLVERINE #10
WORLDS FINEST #16
X #6 (MR)
X-MEN #6

Brian’s Pick: The Walking Dead #115 (MR)

Come and meet “Gears of War” and “The Other Dead” writer Joshua Ortega at Brian’s Comics!

Award-winning, best-selling writer of “Gears of War”, Joshua Ortega, will be signing copies of his critically acclaimed comic, “The Other Dead”, on October 23 at 11am at Brian’s Comics in downtown Petaluma!

The signing will begin at 11am, and Joshua will be signing copies of all of his work, including the “Gears of War” comic books and games, “Battlestar Galactica”, “Red Sonja”, “Necromancer”, and more!  “The Other Dead”, his new comic with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles creator Kevin Eastman, has become the most talked-about new horror series since “The Walking Dead”, and the second issue will be released on the day of the signing!

Here are some early reviews for “The Other Dead”:

“How has this brilliant premise not been done yet? Just when we’re inundated with “zombie this, zombie that,” Ortega, Digger, and Eastman come along with a rip-roaring adventure that provides the most unique spin on the zombie apocalypse in years.”

–Cliff Bleszinski

Creator of Gears of War

“The Other Dead has the perfect combination of action, emotional impact, and brooding/building horror. I kept turning the pages to run from the impending doom.”

–Kevin J. Anderson

New York Times bestselling author of the Dan Shamble, Zombie P.I. series.

“Driven by a beautifully nasty sense of humor and art that sweats and bleeds, one of the things that really stands out is how perfectly paced it is. Felt like somebody was slowly tightening a screw into my brain and oddly enough, I loved it. Astoundingly good.”

–Robert Ferrigno

New York Times bestselling author of Prayers for the Assassin

“Gleefully gory and subversive with snark–the only problem with this book is that I didn’t come up with the idea first!”

–Hugh Sterbakov

Emmy-nominated writer of Robot Chicken, Freshmen, and City Under the Moon

“The Other Dead finds space to be itself in a genre where most practitioners stick to the tried and true. Original and genuinely scary.”

–Mike Carey

Eisner Award-winning writer of Unwritten, Suicide Run, and X-Men