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I’m a sucker for dark stories. That’s what leads me to start reading stories from Ross Campbell. His work on Water Baby and Wet Moon are well told and very bizarre worlds filled with both real life issues that we all have and crazy crap that you couldn’t fathom happening to you. [...]

The Yellow Springs tradition returns on August 21st! As it happens every August, Book Vendors from all over will descend onto the Mills Lawn School Grounds from 9am to 5pm, delivering to you great deals on new, used and collectible books at great prices. If you’re looking to pick up some books to keep you [...]

This weekend is our 4th Live Art Show AND the 2nd Annual Zombie Walk, PLUS Scott Pilgrim premieres this Friday ALSO Madden 11 comes out today. It’s exhausting, especially in this heat, but that’s a rookie mistake. There’s still comics to buy, and some damn good ones this week. Top of the list is the new Image Comics ongoing from Nick Spencer and Joe Eisma, MORNING GLORIES. I’ve read a preview copy of this and it lives up big time to the “Runaways meets Lost” premise. LOCKE & KEY returns with its fourth miniseries KEYS TO THE KINGDOM, Guy Gardner takes center stage in GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD WARRIORS, the BPRD struggles with their biggest threat ever in HELL ON EARTH, the BIRDS OF PREY continue their battle with the Penguin and the White Canary, the World War Hulks (finally) begins its final orbit in INCREDIBLE HULK, we reach the penultimate chapter of HACK/SLASH: MY FIRST MANIAC and ULTIMATE AVENGERS continues to plow ahead as the Avengers fight vampires (I’m surprised there’s any vampires left for people to fight nowadays).

Click through to check out the rest of this week’s books, and we’ll see you this Saturday at the Art Show (and maybe shambling through town at the Zombie Walk)
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As we get ready for our trio of August Awesomeness (Art Show, Zombie Walk and Yellow Springs Book Fair), here’s a look at this week’s comics that will try to keep us cool in the face of unrelenting heat and boredom (until 14th, that is…)

Bendis and Alan Davis continue Cap, Thor & Iron Man’s road trip through a ruined Asgard in AVENGERS: PRIME, Daredevil continues his reign of terror in SHADOWLAND, David Lapham’s CROSSED: FAMILY VALUES continues is descent into depravity and speaking of, Joe Quesada continues the “What really happened on Peter and Mary Jane’s wedding day” story in AMAZING SPIDER-MAN. Plus, we’ve got DC Universe glasses, Batman Reborn action figures, a Star Wars Play-Doh set and a pretty kick-ass Doctor Doom statue.

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On Saturday August 14th, we’ll be doing another one of our legendary Live Art shows, featuring live music from resident DJ JFX316 and some of the best artists in the Miami Valley who will be drawing, sketching, painting and otherwise plying their crafts for you, their adoring public. This month the show will be from 2pm [...]

Each Month Diamond Comics puts out their catalog of comics & items shipping in the next two months (and sometimes beyond). While the massive tome is a one-stop shopping wonderland for the comics fan, sometimes the new and good stuff can get lost in the shuffle. That’s where Super-Fly steps in. Each month we go through and highlight the new and important stuff shipping that month, be it a new series, a new original graphic novel, an important creative team change or a new direction. We’ve got you covered! If you’re interested in the full Previews Experience, remember we do offer Previews free to all of our Subscription customers that would like it. If there’s anything you’d like to your subscription or would like to special order, drop us an email and we’ll get you hooked up. If you’re interested in our Subscription service, click the subscriptions tab at the top of the page.

We’ll be going through this issue of Previews on the 12th episode our weekly podcast, which will be going live on August 3rd. Click through the break to read the June edition of our Previews Digest (which requires Adobe Acrobat), and you can jump to each of the premiere publishers using the bookmark function on the left side of the Acrobat window.
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It should come as no surprise to anyone that Scott Pilgrim was our best seller last week. What will take the cake this week? Who knows, but I will point out that we’ll be making our first appearance in the “Shop Talk” section of Wizard magazine. Does this mean we’ve made it to the big time? I’d like to think we were already there, but I suppose that’s for our (hopefully) adoring public to decide.

We’ve got a fair amount of Batman this week, with THE RETURN OF BRUCE WAYNE (Coyboy Batman) and the special and regular DVD editions of the animated UNDER THE RED HOOD movie (which is actually pretty damn sweet, if you ask me). Also, Kevin Smith wraps up BATMAN: WIDENING GYRE. Brian Bendis continues his new Ultimate Trilogy with ULTIMATE MYSTERY, wherein the new Ultimate villain may or may not be revealed (that’s probably the mystery). FEAR AGENT returns for its swan song, FLASH shows up after ironically running late, the Top Cow Universe event ARTIFACTS kicks off and Max Brooks continues his examinations of Joes & Cobras in G.I. JOE: HEARTS AND MINDS. Plus, the totally not-controversial WONDER WOMAN comes out. Well, it arrives in stores. Her coming out is a whole ‘nother controversy. Plus, this month’s PREVIEWS catalog is here, so stay tuned for our Previews Digest and the Previews episode of the Super-Fly podcast. Mmm-hmm, good times.

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This month Yellow Springs invites the region to become acquainted with everything that makes it special in the form of a 10-day art and cultural extravaganza called Yellow Springs Experience. From July 9-18, the village will be bustling with a flurry of cultural activities. Over 80 events ranging from visual arts workshops, wellness classes, theater and [...]

Scott Pilgrim Madness!

On Tuesday, July 20th the sixth and final installment of the Scott Pilgrim saga is released, and we’re gonna the the first to get it in your hot little hands! At midnight the night of the 19th/very early morning of the 20th we’ll be open and have copies of Scott Pilgrim on hand for [...]

Magic: The Gathering M11 Pre-Release Saturday, July 10th at 1pm we’ll have the pre-release tournament for the new Magic Core set M11. Buy-in will be 6 packs of M11 for $19.99, with booster prize support based on how many players we get. The more that show, the bigger the prize pool is. Then on [...]