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NOW IN STOCK: Hardcore Gay Comics Porn from CLASS COMICS!

Hey readers! The fine folks over at CLASS COMICS have shipped us all of their newest releases, a plethora of beautiful new (and restocked) gay comics. Titles include:

In The Blink of an Eye #1, by HvH
The Initiation #1, by Robert Fraser and Joseph Hawk
The Initiation #2, by Robert Fraser and Joseph Hawk
Naked Justice: Beginnings #1, by Fillion, Shemyaza, Mott
Porky #3, by Logan
Rapture #3, by Fillion
Sworn #1, by Evans and Silvano

Plus, as a special bonus all of these new Class Comics come bagged with free bookmarks featuring all of your favourite titles and characters!
Class Comics single issues are located on the second floor, on the new rack and in the back issue bins.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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TCAF @ Speakeasy’s Annual Comic Book Show This Thursday Night!

TCAF @ SpeakEasy’s Annual Comic Book Show

Thursday November 5th, 8pm-Midnight
The Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen West
Second Floor Lobby
PWYC/$4 Suggested
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival will be among the exhibitors at SpeakEasy’s Comics Show this week, in advance of the next Festival May 8th and 9th 2010. The SpeakEasy show is an eclectic mix of Toronto comics artists and organizations displaying original comics work. TCAF will be exhibiting (and selling) it’s posters from 2003-2009, and will have a gallery of original poster and promotional art from esteemed artists including Marc Bell, Darwyn Cooke, Evan Dorkin, James Jean, Bryan Lee O’Malley, Seth and more…!
The complete list of exhibitors at the SpeakEasy comics show includes:
Matthew Daley
Ian Daffern, Freelance Blues
DMF Comics & Elsewhere Media, Chris Hatzopoulos & George Todorovski
George Michael Faust
Gibson Quarter
Lamin Martin
The Toronto Comic Arts Festival
Awesome Marcus Ninja, Joel Buxton & Shane Heron
rutz (a.k.a. Ruth Tait), Talking Pictures
David James
Ben Rivers
Dale Camus
Greg Dunford, Cyberpunkcomics.com
Shane Kirshenblatt Freefall Entertainment
The Joe Shuster Awards

For more information on SpeakEasy Toronto, including upcoming events, please visit http://www.SpeakEasyTO.com.
– Chris
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Shipping October 28th, 2009

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009. 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.
Click Here For The Complete List: /091028shipping.txt
Items of Note:
AUG090012 Abe Sapien One Shot (osw) 3.50
A new one-shot featuring the popular Hellboy character.
AUG090199 Astro City Astra Special #2 (of 2) 3.99
I have a feeling that a lot of our Astro City regulars missed the first issue of this mini, but we’ve got plenty in stock.
AUG090086 Blackest Night #4 (of 8) 3.99
Slllllowly slipping from its monthly schedule, but everyone seems to be enjoying the series!
AUG090118 Detective Comics #858 3.99
A SECOND arc featuring artwork by the irrepressible J.H. Williams III, and after this one that’ll make 7 consecutive months of his work. We’re all spoiled.
SEP090868 Jennifer Love Hewitts Music Box #1 3.99
This week, this is going to be someone’s favourite comic.
AUG090129 Superman Secret Origin #2 (of 6) 3.99
Dug the first issue of this, the next pairing of Geoff Johns and Gary Frank on Superman.
AUG090708 Tribute Michael Jackson King Of Pop 3.99
He’ll live on in our hearts forever.
AUG091135 Bob Dylan Revisited Illustrated 24.95
Huh.
JUL090019 BPRD TP Vol 11 Black Goddess 17.95
Much requested lately.
JUL090984 Fat Freddys Cat Omnibus 29.99
A handsome companion to last year’s Freak Brothers Omnibus!
SEP090639 Freakangels HC Vol 03 27.99
SEP090640 Freakangels HC Vol 03 Ellis & Duffield Sgn Ed 39.99
SEP090638 Freakangels TP Vol 03 19.99
The new collection of the popular online comic strip.
AUG090544 Kabuki TP Alchemy 24.99
Kabuki fans: Look for a special-sale in-store on the hardcover edition of this fine collection this Wednesday.
SEP090805 Key Moments From The History Of Comics SC 10.00
Yay!
JUL090848 Red Snow HC 24.95
Diamond is shipping the new Gekiga manga from D&Q, which I STILL haven’t found time to read.
JUL090645 Rockpool Files GN 6.95
Yeah.
JUN090267 Sandman The Dream Hunters HC 24.99
This is the collection of the recently-released P. Craig Russel adaptation of the prose story that Neil Gaiman wrote for Yoshitaka Amano to illustrate. Got all that? Anyway, it’s perfectly lovely.
JUL090373 Sword TP Vol 03 Earth 14.99
Loooootts of people asking when this would be coming out. Way more than I was expecting, that’s for sure. I may not have ordered enough of this for Wednesday. There’s more coming next week anyway, but if you absolutely need it Wednesday, come early.
APR090829 Comics Journal #299 11.99
We’re finally getting the remainder of our order on this special issue of The Comics Journal, which includes all kinds of excerpted pages from that awesome-sounding anthology-project-that never was.
Also: With the closing of Grey Region a few weeks back, we’ve experienced a high volume of new customers, which we’re thrilled about! Thanks! Unfortunately that has meant quick sell-outs of some popular titles like Uncanny X-Men and the recent House of Mystery Annual amongst many others. We’d like to assure you that, as much as is possible, we’re on top of the situation and restocking previous week’s sell-outs as fast as we can get them, with lots of stuff coming back in this week (check the full list for details).

As always, we’re happy to do special orders for customers, holds, pullfiles, and more. Just ask any of the store’s employees to help you out.

Thanks,
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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Did You Know? Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant

So the teen adventure movie The Vampire’s Assistant is opening this weekend in theatres. It’s an adaptation of the popular Cirque Du Freak novels for tweens and teens (commonly referred to as “YA”), but an earlier adaptation of the novels was in manga form. Adapted a few years back (and already a bestseller in Japan), the Cirque Du Freak manga is adapted from the original novels by Takahiro Arai, and it’s pretty good… and faithful to the novels to boot.

Yen Press is releasing the manga in English, and we’ve got the first three books in stock for $10.99 each.
There are a ton of graphic novel adaptations of popular novel series making it to shelves, but these were far ahead of the curve and about as “authentic” a manga adaptation as you’re likely to get. If you’re curious about the movie or are looking for a suitably spooky gift for a younger reader, make sure to check these out.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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Shipping October 21st, 2009

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, October 21st, 2009. 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.

Click Here For The Complete List: 091021shipping.txt

Sorry, no time for notable books this week. You’ll just have to come in and check everything out 😉

– Chris

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New Yen Press Manga

Hey customers! We’ve just received the following Yen Press manga titles!

Zombie Loan v7
Sumomomo Momomo v2
Spiral v9
Soul Eater v1
Nakabari No Oh v2
James Pattison’s Maximum Ride v2
Legend v6
Svetlana Chmakova’s Night School v2
The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya v4
Hero Tales v1
Croquis Pop v6
Cirque Du Freak v3
Black God v7
13th Boy v2
Edit: Hey, it looks like we got Hero Tales v1 and Night School v2 after all! Run, don’t walk to pick up your copies right away!
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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New Viz Manga: 20th Century Boys & More

We just got some new Viz manga!

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD: The new book by Inio Asano, author of Solanin. I’m totally hyped for this one, and happy to see it released. Make sure not to miss it!

20TH CENTURY BOYS V5: What more needs to be said? The next awesome volume in the series from Naoki Urasawa. If you’ve ever been curious about manga but “aren’t really a fan”, this is definitely a series for you. Check it out!

Plus:

DEATH NOTE NOVEL 2: L: CHANGE THE WORLD
INUBAKA V14
REAL V6
VAGABOND VIZBIG V5

– Christopher
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An Embarassment Of Manga Riches: RED SNOW

A good day for great Japanese comics has gotten even better, with the arrival of RED SNOW by Susumu Katsumata. Published by Drawn & Quarterly, Red Snow is the latest in their reprints of classic Gekiga manga from the 1960s and 70s that has seen excellent collections like Yoshihiro Tatsumi’s The Push Man and Other Stories and Seiichi Hayashi’s Red Colored Elegy. I had almost forgot this was coming out, and now here it is and it’s made my whole day.
By the by, this was solicited with a different cover (pictured to the right), so when you come looking for it at the store make sure you look for the new cover, pictured above.
Available on both floors, $27.95.
– Chris @ The Beguiling
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Shipping October 14th, 2009

The following comics and graphic novels are scheduled to ship The Beguiling Books & Art on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009. There is no delay because of the Thanksgiving Holiday. 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.

Click here for the complete list: /091014shipping.txt
ITEMS OF NOTE THIS WEEK:
JUL091099 Battle Angel Alita Last Order TP Vol 12 9.99: Savvy Beguiling Customers know that we’ve had this one for a few weeks now, the newest installment in the incredibly popular Battle Angel Alita series. Actually, this one is easily in our top-5 bestsellers at the store, even after 22 volumes, (10 original, 12 “Last Order”). Anyway, we’re getting even more this week, and hopefully a restock on the out-of-stock volumes soon.
AUG090981 Akira Kodansha Ed GN Vol 01 24.99
AUG090982 Ghost In Shell Kodansha Ed GN Vol 01 26.99
The long, long, long out of print Dark Horse editions of AKIRA make their triumphant return this week, courtesy of their Japanese publisher Kodansha (now doing business directly in North America). I’m pretty excited to have these perennial, evergreen titles back in print. Here’s hoping that Kodansha does a nice job on the design and packaging (and reprint quality!).
Oh, and GITS is back as well, though we’ve had that in stock pretty-consistently for 10 years now.
MAR090226 Absolute Death HC 99.99: Your Absolute Sandman collection isn’t complete without it!
AUG090968 Act-i-vate Primer HC 24.99: This popular webcomics collective gets a fancy-schmancy hardcover collection of beautiful, original comics material (and not found online either). If you’re the type of person who just wants a great anthology full of beautiful work, this one’s for you.
AUG090226 Air TP Vol 02 Flying Machine 12.99
AUG090574 Daredevil Return Of King TP 17.99
AUG090666 Hatter M The Looking Glass Wars TP Vol 02 Mad With Wonder 14.95
JUL090286 Heavy Liquid TP New Ptg 24.99
It’s a whole bunch of “the next volumes” in popular ongoing trade paperback series’, as well as a new printing of Paul Pope’s awesome HEAVY LIQUID trade paperback.
JUL091247 Art Of Osamu Tezuka God Of Manga HC 40.00: While this one isn’t the first western-produced artbook on a Japanese manga-ka, this is the first from a non-manga publisher, and apparently it’s a damned-good book. As I mentioned at the time in my Previews Review, ” Tezuka’s colour-work doesn’t really get the play it deserves, and his art in general is often as breathtaking as his storytelling. I’m really hoping this book delivers the goods because with Tezuka there really is a ton of ground to cover.” And early reviews are very, very positive indeed. Good stuff!
JUL090284 Blood And Water TP 14.99: This is an early work by Judd Winnick, before all of the superhero stuff, and I promise you it’s a hell of a lot better than most of the rest of his output. Granted, it’s vampires, and I know some people feel that the Vampires are a little played out. But seriously? I remember really enjoying it at the time, and it’s got fantastic art by the totally under-rated Tomm Coker. Make sure to give it a flip this week if you’re in the store.
JUN091213 Final Fantasy VII 10th Anniversary Ultimania SC 37.99: It’s a Japanese artbook full of the pretty boys from Final Fantasy 7, what more could you want?
JUL090845 Fixer & Other Stories TP 19.95: This is a “complete” collection of Joe Sacco’s Bosnian war stories, originally collected as the two hardcovers THE FIXER and WAR’S END. At $20 it’s an amazing deal and a brilliant read, a must-have in any good graphic novel collection.
JUL090867 Mome GN Vol 16 Summer 09 14.99: New Mome!
AUG090669 Odysseus The Rebel GN 12.95: This is a sort of weird, sort of neat retelling of the Odyssey. Originally serialized online, it’s got a disarming cartoony style and surprising cadence. I was honestly having a little trouble read it online, I’m glad to be getting a print edition.
AUG090416 Pride & Prejudice Prem HC 19.99: Marvel actually did a pretty straight-ahead adaptation of Pride & Prejudice, cleverly packaged as a sort of contemporary women’s fashion/lifestyle magazine. The hardcover continues that packaging trend nicely. Nice, idiosyncratic art on this one as well, a welcome change from the Marvel house style.
JUL090864 You Are There HC 26.99: New Jacques Tardi, the second of Fantagraphics’ new reprints.
AUG090527 Deadpool #900 4.99: It’s the debut of the THIRD Deadpool ongoing series, with a square-bound 80 page book of original material. It will then count down from 900. Yeah.
AUG090299 Hector Plasm Totentatz (one Shot) 5.99: So the first one-shot was actually really well-received here at the store, particularly among other artists and comics creators. We’re happy to have the first one in stock, just in time for this new one-shot by the same creator (and just in time for Halloween too!). For more info check out the website at http://invincible.110mb.com/Hector/Plasm.htm
AUG090232 House Of Mystery Halloween Annual #1 4.99: Lots of customer interest in this one, a stand-alone tale in Vertigo’s new House of Mystery series featuring an amazing array of guest-artists including Luca Rossi, Giuseppe Camuncoli, Amy Reeder Hadley, Mark Buckingham and Kevin Nowlan, Mike Allred and more.
AUG090367 Walking Dead #66 2.99: Any week with Walking Dead is a good week.
– Chris @ The Beguiling