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BSG Cast Member to Play Deathstroke on Smallville

Monday, October 4th, 2010 at 4:43 pm Category: DC, Superman, Television

I just read over at IGN that Michael Hogan who played Colonel Tigh on Battlestar Galactica will be playing Deathstroke this season on Smallville. For those of you that don’t know who Deathstroke is, he is a mercenary. A normal human uses only 10% of their brain capacity, while Deathstroke uses 90%. All in all I’m pretty excited for it, I mean look! He already has the eyepatch look down! You can read the original article over at IGN.

Comic-con report

Hey folks,

Here is the Comic-con report from our intrepid explorer Jeremiah.

http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/archives/15313

Cool stuff for this week

Cool stuff to check out for this week, courtesy of Big Shiny Robot and our in store reviewer.
Check them out at
Big Shiny Robot

Superman #700

ITS A BIRD! ITS A PLANE! ITS SUPERMAN #700! Yeah yeah I know that was cheesy but can ya blame me? I am so excited for this. Not only does it mark the end of the last couple of year of New Krypton story, which I liked but thought it lasted way too long. It also marks the beginning of J. Michael Straczynski’s run on the book. This is something I’ve been excited about for quite a while. From how he has spoken about the character he seems like he has a good grasp of how Superman should be written. If you want a little something extra to prove how JMS has been “knocking out of the park” over at DC, track down Brave and the Bold #33. It was a story that featured Wonder Woman, Zatanna, and Batgirl. There is also a third story set in Superman’s past written by the man who killed Superman, Dan Jurgens!

Sea Bear and Grizzly Shark

A shark that hunts on land? A grizzly bear that hunts at sea? With a tagline like “THEY GOT MIXED UP” how can you not go wrong with a book like this. This book just looks like all sorts of fun and its brought to you by Jason Howard and local Utah artist Ryan Ottley. Ottley is best known for his work on the blockbuster Invincible series also from Image Comics. I’m going to go so far as to say if you don’t pick this up then you are not a fan of fun!

As always my picks and everything on the following list can be picked up or ordered from Dr Volts Comics! So get your pen and paper and make your pull lists because here are the books that come out this week!

New weekly reviews

Hey everyone, We are finally going to start the weekly reviews for the store. I want to thank Jeramiah and the folks at Big Shiny Robot for making and hosting these reviews. So here we go.

New Avengers #1

When this book was first solicited my first thought was, “We have 3 ongoing Avengers books coming out before this. Why do we need another and why do they have to restart New Avengers with a new #1?” Well I had a chance to read this last week and oh my stars was I bitching for no reason! This book is fun and gets into the super-heroing action right away as Luke brings the team together and something funky is going on with the former and current sorcerer supremes. As a first issue this has been my favorite of the recent influx of Avengers books! Go get this I say!

Atlas #2

If you haven’t been reading Agents of Atlas over the last few years then you’ve been missing out on a real treat. In my opinion you can’t go wrong with a book that has a killer robot and gorilla with machine guns! And with the restart of this series in the age of heroics writer Jeff Parker has gone and made 3D Man a character that I actually care about. So if you like fun then give this book a try. And if you’re already reading it then you are doing something right in life!

Charity auction

Thanks to everyone who bought items online and in store. We managed to raise a lot of money for Jake to pay off his medical bills. And remember we still have some of the specialty items left in store if you want to help out still.

Avengers day

Alright, Marvel has another promotional gimmick on its way. Its Avengers Day. What will be going on is that Marvel is sending us some special variant covers for the large amount of Avengers tie-in books coming out on May 19th. As well as a truly staggering amount of giveaway material.
So to help celebrate the new Avengers #1 we will be giving out all that free stuff, as well as running some sales and specials to give all my wonderful customers a special treat.

Free Comic Day

I wish to thank everyone who came out for Free Comic Day. We had a great time, and the turnout was even better that we expected.

Sale and Heroclix tournament

I want to thank everyone that came out for our surprise sale. It seemed like everyone had fun. Also we are running Heroclix tournaments every other Saturday. So check the website for more info on that.

New Year Signing

Hey everyone, I know it is a little late but here are the pics from our new years signing. And I want to thank Jake Blake, Ryan Ottley, and Derrek Hunter for coming out.

T-shirts are in.

As you can see from our employee modeling, our new Dr Volts shirts are in. And they can be yours for the low low price of $15.

As this will be the last post before Christmas I want to wish everyone happy holidays

T-Shirt Contest

We have a winner for the first ever Dr Volts T-Shirt contest. Everyone congratulate John for his incredible entry. I also want to say thank you to everyone else who entered, and that just because you didn't win now doesn't mean we wont use your artwork in the future.

Sale and Signing

I want to thank everyone who came out for the weekend sale and signing. I would also like to send a big thanks to Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber for coming all the way out here to see us.
The weekend was one of the best Why Not sales yet and we had a huge response of people coming out to see Jeff and Steve, and check out the new book Underground. I think I speak for everyone in saying that we enjoyed the book and can't wait till issue #2.

T-shirt Contest update

Due to massive demand, we will be extending the contest deadline till October 21st.

T-shirt Contest

DR VOLTS T-SHIRT CONTEST

Dr Volts is looking to made a T-Shirt!
But alas we have no logo for it!

Do you want to show off your artistic skills?

Do you want to have the bragging rights
of making the logo for our new T-Shirts?

Would you like to win a $50 gift certificate to spend
on whatever you want in the store?

Then all you have to do is come up with a design that
we like enough to plaster on the front of a shirt!

You can draw/design/make the logo however you choose
the only requirement is that you have to include the stores
name into the logo!

Submissions due end of day Friday, Sept. 25th
Winer will be announced Sat., Sept. 26th during the signing

Signing

Hey just some more info on the signing for you

We have both Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber coming in on Saturday the 26th of Sept. from 12 -3pm.
Under his belt Jeff has Mysterius the Unfathomable from DC, Exiles, and Agents of Atlas from Marvel. Steve drew Whiteout from Oni, which comes out in theaters this week (so go see it). They will be promoting their new book Underground from Image. I have seen the sneek peek of the first issue and it will be GOOD.

So everyone come out that day and say hi.

Jake black article

Hey guys check out this article about Jake Black writer of the Enders Game comics

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080930-Jake-Black-Enders.html

Article and signing

We got Jeff Parker and Steve Lieber to come do a signing, more on that as I put details together.

We also have an article written about the store by Gavin Sheehan

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/blog-1966-dr-volts.html

check it out and tell us what you think.

movie time

I finally saw G.I Joe over the weekend.

It was pretty much what I expected of it. A lot of fighting, some good special effects. Just make sure you turn off your brain before you go into the theater, and as a favor to all of us don't take it to seriously.