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NEW Yen Press Manga

Just arrived from Yen Press:

13th Boy v3
Black God v8
Goong v8
Hero Tales v2 – By Fullmetal Alchemist creator Hiromu Arakawa
Higurashi When They Cry: Curse Killing Arc v2
Legend v7
Sarasah v3
Soul Eater v2
Sugarholic v3
Tena on S-String v2
Zombie Loan v8

– Chris @ The Beguiling

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Shipping February 3, 2010

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price.

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BIG SHIPPING ADVISORIES THIS WEEK:

#1: We are getting all of our replacement copies of BATMAN & ROBIN #7 by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart that we were shorted last week. Thanks for your patience.
#2: There was a truck crash between the printers and the distributors, and a bunch of Marvel Comics were wrecked… or almost wrecked. Every store in Canada is only getting about 80% of the quantity of Marvel Comics that they ordered this week, with the other 20% coming in next week. So we’re getting everything on the shipping list, just not our full orders, unfortunately. We should have enough to cover pullfiles and most customers as we do order extra copies of all books, but we feel it’s important to inform you ahead of time.
Thanks!
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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JUST ARRIVED: New Viz Manga!

We’ve just received copies of the following new manga:

B.O.D.Y. V8
Baby & Me V18
Beast Master V2
Biomega V1 – The new series by the creator of BLAME! and NOISE! and Wolverine: SNIKT! and as you can see, it looks Totally Badass.
Black Bird V3
Crown Of Love V1
D.Gray-Man V16
Dinosaur King V1
Eyeshield 21 V30
High School Debut V13
Hikaru No Go V18
Hoshin Engi V17
Kaze Hikaru V16
Knights Of The Zodiac (Saint Seiya) V28
Legend Of Zelda V9
Magic Touch V6
Muhyo & Roji’S Bureau Of Supernatural Investigation V15
Naruto V47
Nora: The Last Chronicle Of Devildom V9
One Piece V29
One Piece V31
One Piece V33
(Yes, we’re aware we are missing v30 & v32)
Otomen V5
Pokémon Adventures V5 (2nd Edition)
Record Of A Fallen Vampire V8
Slam Dunk V8
Ultimo V1
Vampire Knight V9
Waqwaq V3
Yu-Gi-Oh! R V3

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(Late) Shipping January 27th, 2010

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, January 27th, 2010. All Prices listed in U.S. Funds. Variant prices are generally accurate to what we will be charging in store, but all disputes between prices will defer to the stickered, in-store price.

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Shipping Advisory: Diamond shorted us almost all of our copies of Batman & Robin #7, by Grant Morrison and Cameron Stewart. We are scheduled to receive replacements this coming Wednesday, February 3rd.

– Chris @ The Beguiling

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Final Stage of Backissue Sales!

All our overstock issues from companies other than Marvel and DC including: Image, Dark Horse, Avatar, Boom Studios, Dynamite, IDW, Oni Press, and many more are on sale this week. That’s well over 5,000 single issues in 14 long boxes!


Same deal as the previous weeks:
Single comics will be 50% off U.S. cover price
OR
Buy 10 or more comics for $1 each
OR
Buy 50 or more comics for 80¢ each!

For detailed rules see the previous post

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The End of an Era – Barefoot Gen Concludes

Congratulations to Keiji Nakazawa and Last Gasp Publishing, who this week completed the English-language release of the groundbreaking manga Barefoot Gen. Originally serialized beginning in 1973, the story is a the slightly-fictionalized biography of author Keiji Nakazawa and his experiences as a young man caught in the Hiroshima bombings of 1945. It’s a harrowing first-person account of the bombings and the tragedy, a powerful anti-war work and a must-read.

A very early English translation of Barefoot Gen Volume 1 was released in North America in 1976, making it one of the first manga to appear in English. Though the first 4 books of the series had seen print in various editions over the following 30 years, in 2005 Last Gasp committed to publishing the complete 10 volume series in English (in a matching trade-dress!), for the first time. This January they completed that goal, and English-language manga is richer for the experience.
All 10 volumes are currently in stock on the second floor, and priced at about $15, give or take the exchange rate.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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New Yen Press Manga

Lots of new Yen Press manga volumes arrived today inculding the first volumes of four new series! All available on the second floor new manga spinner rack.

Black Butler vol. 1
Black God vol. 7
Cat Paradise vol. 3
Cirque Du Freak vol. 4
Loan vol. 1
One Fine Day vol. 1
Oninagi volumes 1 & 2

-Parrish

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Alan Moore’s 25000 Years of Erotic Freedom

Alan Moore’s new book 25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom surveys the history of pornography and argues that the success and vibrancy of a society relates to its permissiveness in sexual matters. Moore covers not only a huge stretch of time but a broad sweep of representative art including statuary, painting, woodblock printing, painting and more. The 94 page hardcover is as much art book as essay with thick glossy paper and full page or even double page spreads of atwork at every flip.

25,000 Years of Erotic Freedom can be found with the new releases on the second floor of The Beguiling for $29.50

-Parrish