October 1, 2010

Hello again loyal readers! Comics have given us love and respect once again this month and we couldn't be more excited about things to come. Speaking of comics love, Local Heroes made it out to the third annual books in the park event at Town Point Park to spread the good word and give away a day's worth of free comic book goodness. The turnout was nice, the day was beautiful and we met a lot of really great people at our mobile location. They even had booze - so a win all around!

Lots of great comic happenings this month. Halloween is right around the corner - yay! - and Local Heroes will be hosting its second annual Halloween bash this month - ask us for details next time your here. Last years event was a lot of fun and it was great to see all the comic book related costumes. Don't forget that the greatest (hopefully) comic book to television adaption of all time airs on Halloween at 10:00 with the first 90 minute episode of The Walking Dead! What a great weekend.

Those of you who've been asking about new store shirts will be happy to learn that I just placed an order last month, so fresh new Local Heroes American Apparel tees should be in stock soon as you read this. We also have two really cool Walking Dead shirts on order and I'm really excited for these - it's been forever since they were available.

Local Heroes will also be holding it's first ever graphic novel clearance sale sometime this month. Select books will be 50% off, so it will be a great time to stock up on good books to read. Details to follow!

Books of the month were pretty easy picks this time around, due to the unbelievably awesome Wildcats 3.0 and the World's Greatest Superheroes.

You might have heard how excited I was for the first collection of one of the greatest superhero comic books ever, Joe Casey's Wildcats 3.0! I know what you're thinking - "Wildcats? Really?" I've never steered you wrong people and believe me when I tell you that this is as far from 90's bullshit Image comics as you can get. Casey took these characters and made them unbelievably cool and compelling to read. This Wildcats incarnation was part of the "Eye of the Storm" relaunch from Wildstorm, which brought us adult content books like Stormwatch: Team Achilles, Automatic Kafka and the phenomenal Sleeper. Wildcats 3.0 follows team leader Jacob Marlowe as he proliferates alien technology to the masses in his quest to make the HALO corporation the biggest and most powerful business in the world - by any means necessary. I love this book so much it hurts and can't wait to finally spread the good word now that it's here!

The second selection this month was almost another copy of Wildcats 3.0, but cooler heads prevailed and we chose The World's Greatest Superheroes from Paul Dini and Alex Ross. DC used to release these in oversized softcovers around the holidays and they are things of beauty, to say the least. I love a great Dini DCU story and all of these are ton of fun and beautifully illustrated by Ross. They were super hard to find, until this month's newly collected edition with all the volumes in one book! Great stuff!

Thanks again guys for checking in - we appreciate each and every one of you and hope to see you soon.

Comics!

-LH (Greg)