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Blue is the Warmest Color by Julie Maroh. Now in English

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After a three year wait Julie Maroh’s multiple award winning graphic novel Blue is the Warmest Color (Le bleu est une couleur chaude) has arrived in English, and at The Beguiling!

“a graphic novel about growing up, falling in love, and coming out. … Clementine find herself in a relationship that will test her friends, parents, and her own ideas about herself and her identity.” – Arsenal Pulp Press

Friday Film: Peter interviews director Shane Carruth about his new film Upstream Color

Film Friday . . . in which Peter urges you to go see a movie.

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While posts about film adaptations of comics or ticket giveaways may crop up here occasionally, this time I am going to give a straight ahead recommendation to a film opening at the TIFF this week. I have long recommended Shane Carruth’s first film “Primer” (2003). If one wants to classify it as science fiction then it is certainly among my few favourite films of the genre. “Upstream Color” now joins that list.

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Pop Culture Graphic Novel Super Sale Continues With More Great Specials

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We’ve restocked the shelves including new books that didn’t fit at the beginning of the sale and added even more books to the $3 and $5 specials!

The entirety of our adaptions and tie-ins shelves is on sale. Books related to Novels, Films, Television, and Video Games plus a bunch of other books from publishers like IDW, Boom, and Dynamite are all on sale! Most books are %70 off cover price!

%70 off:
Everything on the ‘adaptions’ shelves with the following exceptions and specials:

50% OFF:
GI Joe, Red Sonja, Star Trek, & Transformers

30% OFF:
Robert E Howard (Conan, Kull, Etc), Star Wars, Irredeemable, Incorruptible, & Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

$3 Specials:

• Star Trek – Best of Peter David
• Army of Darkness – Ash Saves Obama
• CSI – Demon House & Intern at Your Own Risk
• Charlaine Harris’ Grave Sight Volume 1 ($2!)
• Call of Duty – Modern Warfare Ghost
• Fringe – Tales of the Fringe
• John Woo’s 7 Brothers
• Kane & Lynch (Ben Templesmith)
• Dante’s Inferno (Visceral Games & EA)
• Patricia Briggs’ Mercy Thompson Moon Called & Homecoming
• Laura K Hamilton’s Anita Blake Vampire Hunter – Circus of the Damned
• Planetary Brigade (Giffen & DeMatteis)
• The Prisoner – Shattered Visage
• Buck Rogers – Future Shock
• Irredeemable – Volume 2

$5 Specials:

• ALL Warcraft Hard Covers
• ALL Farscape Hard Covers

• Star Trek – Nero
• Star Craft – Volume 1
• The Unknown (Mark Waid)
• Die Hard – Year One Hard Cover
• The Anchor – Five Furies
• Hexed – Hard Cover
• Halo – Helljumper & Halo Bloodlines
• GI Joe – Operation Hiss & Rise of Cobra Prequel
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep – Hard Cover Volumes 1 & 2
• Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet – Volumes 1, 2, Parallel Lives, & Year One
• Dean Koonz’s Frankenstein – Hard Cover
• Terminator 2029-1984 (Zack Whedon)
• 7 Psychopaths (Sean Philips)

Variant Sale! 50% – 80% OFF

IMG_20130315_202305We’re having a Variant sale. 7 long boxes (over 1700 comics) of variant cover single issues are all on sale!

Starting Saturday March 16th

The more you buy the more you save.

BUY UP TO 9:
Buy 1 get 1 free.

BUY 10 – 19:
%60 off

BUY 20 – 39:
%70 off

BUY 40 plus:
%80 OFF!

Loads of New Tattoo Books

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Our Tattoo section has just been newly restocked and greatly expanded! Arrivals include impressive new books by the likes of Ed Hardy,Yushi Takei, and Dave Fox and two  limited edition Bloodwork slipcase volumes, collecting beautiful archival photos of works by top tattoo artists from all over the world.

Also, make sure to check out the Mingins Photo Collection, newly back in stock, documenting vintage western tattoos, and the new works showcasing the Dutch tattoo scene.

You can find them all in our new tattoo display near the front counter on the main floor of The Beguiling.

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