The Red Ten; Tyler James & Cesar Feliciano

The Red Ten is a new comic book series from the self-distributed publisher, Comix Tribe, who brought us that other recent sell out debut, Scam (of which Alternate Reality Comics just received copies of the second printing of #1 yesterday). Creator / writer, Tyler James' inspiration for The Red Ten comes from Agatha Christie's Ten Little Indians, and if you know anything about that novel, well you know that The Red Ten is a murder mystery, except here in this ten issue comic series by James and Feliciano, the central characters are super heroes.

The art in the first issue is a little rough (the story is still strong and is quite the page turner!), but with issue two, local Vegas artist, Vic Moya, joins the team as inker and the improvement is dramatic. The Red Ten is a really well thought out new comic that incorporates Justice League type characters into a dark scenario in which, based on the first two issues, not many of the characters will still be alive by the time this series ends. HUGE money back guarantee, both issues in stock NOW!

Tales From Fremont Street signing & SafeNest benefit, Saturday, Feb. 25th 12-3pm!

Tomorrow, Saturday, February 25th from 12-3pm, here at Alternate Reality Comics, we'll be hosting a signing by some of the local artists who did the comic book anthology, Tales From Fremont Street, including Pj Perez, Warren Wucinich, cover artist Jska Priebe, Deryl Skelton, F. Andrew Taylor, and Ed Hawkins! Their original art will also be on display at the Artist Spotlight gallery section of our store and they'll have copies of Tales From Fremont Street and the previous years' Tales From the Boneyard (both only five dollars each!) for sale and to personalize!

This event will also be a benefit for SafeNest, a local charity for victims of domestic abuse. People can bring the following needed items from the SafeNest site: And we're having several raffles for fabulous prizes, with raffle tickets costing only one dollar each (all of the raffle ticket monies will also be donated to SafeNest) as well as a portion of our back issue sales for the day being donated to SafeNest. Some of the raffle prizes include gift certificates, graphic novels, calendars, variant edition comic books, and some SURPRISES!

And we'll have FREE REFRESHMENTS!! Hope to see a lot of my lovely Ich Liebe Comics! readers / Alternate Reality Comics patrons / friends to support local art (which if you haven't already seen Tales From Fremont Street, well let me tell you, it's alive and doing very well!) and a local charity, SafeNest, that provides a valuable service to our community! And you'll get to see the glorious art from Tales From Fremont Street in its original glory!

Kirby Krackle & Adam Warrock tonight LIVE - this will be EPIC!!

Tonight at 9pm, over at Choices Pub (6720 W. Cheyenne, Las Vegas, NV. 89108, near Comic Oasis), nerd rockers Kirby Krackle and nerd rapper Adam Warrock will be performing here in Las Vegas as part of their West Coast tour - and it's only $5.00!!

Here's a Kirby Krackle song / animated video called "Up, Up, Down, Down" that gives you an idea about their sound (and listen / watch for the unexpected direction this song takes toward the end!): (actually I tried having a link here, but it doesn't want to work, so please, please just do a youtube search on Kirby Krackle Up, Up, Down, Down - you'll thank me!)

Adam Warrock will be opening for Kirby Krackle, and I'd recommend clicking the following link to their website: http://www.adamwarrock.com/, click on their new album out now (called You Dare Call That Thing Human?!?) over on the top left and listen to some of the songs there (I'd recommend starting with 616, which fans of Marvel Comics know as the numerical designation for Marvel Earth, the one that is in the main continuity).

This will be like an uber geek prom and for only five dollars, this is the deal of the day (you'll be kicking yourself if you miss this!)! Thanks to Derrick Taylor of Comic Oasis for being a big part of making this happen! And how about this uber cool tour illustration above!? Hopefully they've made t-shirts with this image!

Naughty And Nice; Bruce Timm

Tomorrow there's a lot of great comics coming out, such as Justice League, Flash, Aquaman, Bulletproof Coffin, Walking Dead, Fantastic Four, and Unwritten, being that it'll be New Comic Wednesday, but for sheer (pun intended - grin!) eye candy wonderment, all of them will pale when stacked alongside Bruce Timm's new art book, Naughty And Nice!

Bruce Timm first made his name known to comic book art lovers everywhere as the visual creator of Harley Quinn and for his work on the Batman Animated series of the 1990s.

Naughty And Nice, The Good Girl Art Of Bruce Timm (actually all of the gals within probably aren't that good, if you know what I mean, nudge, nudge, wink, wink!) is $50.00, but it's also 300 pages of glorious full color over-sized Bruce Timm illustrations that you won't see collected anywhere else and really, if you have any idea of how much Timm's original art sells for, well this is the bargain of the day!

Whispers; Joshua Luna

Have you read Ultra, Girls, or Sword by the Luna brothers? If you have, you already know that any new comic book project by the Luna brothers will surely be good and different. This week the first issue of Whispers came out from Image, written and drawn by Joshua Luna, the first time either of them has worked alone (to my knowledge), and I'm going to call it easily the best new series of this young year (Brubaker and Phillip's Fatal, also published by Image and released last week, is also great)!

All of the Luna brothers' comic book projects are vastly different from the one they'd mostly recently finished, and Joshua Luna's Whispers, is no exception. The central character, Sam, has been having dreams, which he thinks aren't really dreams and also starts being able to sort of astrally project himself to different places and people (and being invisible at the same time). With the way this first issue unravels, I can't imagine anyone not picking up following issues, seriously this gets going right away! And this may be the first comic book featuring a main character who has OCD (and this is a big part of the first issue)!

Daredevil #7; Mark Waid & Paolo Rivera

This week, another great issue of the new Daredevil arrived and like the previous six issues of the relaunch, it's FANTASTIC! After two great long runs by Bendis and Bubaker, they were followed by writer, Andy Diggle, for a run that didn't leave much of an impression on too many people. Now we have a Daredevil comic that is lighter in tone (Daredevil works really well with a grittier, dark tone, but it's been time for a change for a long time) written by Mark Waid and drawn by Paola Rivera (with some alternating issues by the also excellent Marcus Martin - actually his last issue was #6 as he's going to be doing a creator-owned title with Brian Vaughn next year) and is one of the best reviewed comics of the past year.

If you haven't read this new Daredevil series yet, the first collection comes out in late January (and here at Alternate Reality Comics, I have most of the issues in stock), but this latest issue, is a great stand alone story that a person could read without having read the preceding issues. Daredevil #7 is also a wonderful story that is perfect for the holiday season and works as a great chaser after reading Jason Aaron and Steve Dillon's dark, demented, Punishermax (which is also fantastic, the best Punisher ever, in my book!)! Waid & Rivera's Daredevil will most certainly receive multiple nominations from the Eisner Awards next year!

Miracleman #9; Alan Moore & Rick Veitch

Sorry to be continuing to tease people (well those of you who haven't / aren't able to read Moore's seminal superhero epic Marvelman / Miracleman) - see entry below for an earlier tease - but I just reread Miracleman #9 (that fell off the back of a truck - grin!) and I wanted to share some thoughts upon having done so. And before I go on, I'm not going to get into the long sordid reasons of why Marvelman / Miracleman is not in print (please go over to Wikipedia for some details) and no, I don't have the whole run to sell here unfortunately.

Miracleman #9 is the issue in which Michael Moran's (Miracleman) wife has their baby and in only sixteen pages, Alan Moore and artist Rick Veitch really toke the sequential art medium to a new level of greatness, beauty, and maturity. Consider the following descriptive prose by Alan Moore of Mike Moran delivering his baby:

"The moment swells, an organ chord, deep and prolonged, adrenaline sharpens my perceptions until each instant glitters like a diamond."

Another thing I'd like to share from Miracleman #9 is the inside front cover publisher editorial page called The Penumbra, written by Catherine Yronwode (similar to Marvel's old Bullpen Bulletins page), in which one of the items was about Alan Moore: "This popular writer, once known among long-suffering editors for his ultra messy manuscripts, has bought a new typewriter!" - This comic came out in 1986, so obviously this was before computers (and even before word processors) replaced typewriters as that upon which practically everyone uses, but reading an item like that really reminds one of how much has changed in just 25 years! For you kids reading this, who don't know what a typewriter is (grin), you can look that up on Wikipedia also!