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Comics inspired by Fallout Boy Print E-mail
Fallout Toy Works
5 monthly issues, starts September 2009. Click here to start your standing order now!
A brilliant young robot maker risks his entire company for his factories newly produced android named Tiffany, but when his new concept fails to work fixing her soon becomes his greatest passion and potentially his own destruction.
Inspired by the ideas and lyrics of Fall Out Boy, Fallout Toy Works brings the magic of innocence to life as both a toy maker and his invention set about learning the true secrets of life.
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DETHKLOK VS THE GOON Print E-mail
On sale 17th July 2009

$6.45 choose from two different covers.
contact us today to order yours!

From Eric Powell and the creators of Adult Swim's Metalocalypse:
since 2006, Metalocalypse has been bringing its special brand of dark comedy to the masses through the American/Scandinavian death-metal band Dethklok. And, since 1999, The Goon has contributed the best in bucktoothed zombie brawls to the world of comics. Now, the twain shall meet . . .

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Watchmen Picture Disc Print E-mail
This is THE product for all of the collectors out there.
A limited edition 12 inch single vinyl picture disc record featuring My Chemical Romance covering Bob Dylan's Desolation Row from the Watchmen soundtrack. Due for release in mid March (one week after the Watchmen movie opens.)
Let me go over that again:
- My Chemical Romance
- Covering Bob Dylan's Desolation Row
- 12 inch single vinyl record
- Picture disc featuring the Comedian's bloody Smiley face and Rorschach
- from the Watchmen movie soundtrack
- Limited Edition (edition size TBA)

Impact Comics will be stocking this limited piece of vinyl history in the making, but supplies are limited so orders will be filled on a first in first served basis.
Watchmen 12 inch single Picture Disc $32.99 inc. GST
Due for release mid March 2009
contact us today to order yours.
 
Help Bushfire victims Print E-mail
Over 30 bushfires raged (and many are still going) through Victoria over the weekend. So far there have been reports of over 700 homes lost and well over 100 lives lost. There are hundreds of displaced and grieving people that need all the help we can offer.

The Red Cross is coordinating the distribution of aid. They have asked that no goods be donated at this time but have a couple of really simple ways you can help.

- Donate money - details of how to donate can be found on the Red Cross Website
Or you can call 1800 811 700 to make a donation.
- Donate Blood - Lots of blood products are used to treat burns victims. For details about how to donate check out the Donate Blood Website
Or call 13 14 95 to make an appointment to give blood.

If you know someone that lives in the affected areas and are unable to contact them please call
1800 727 077.
If there is any further way for Impact Comics fans to help out, we'll let you know.
 
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen III Print E-mail
Part One: 1910 - $14.60
IN STOCK NOW!
With all of the recent talk about Watchmen, it is easy to forget that Alan Moore has other comics.
The long awaited League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Volume III: Century starts Friday 8th of May (this week) with Part one: 1910.
Now working with a new publisher, Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill are making the latest chapter of the League in a new way. Each issue will be longer than a regular comic book, and there will several months between each issue so you have plenty of time to pour over the fine detailed references this will no doubt be filled to the brim with.

If you haven't jumped on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen train you can start here.
Start a standing order today so you don't miss a single issue!
 
Preview Watchmen FREE! Print E-mail
DC Comics have made it easy for you to get a little taste of the most talked about graphic novel of the year!
Before you go and see the movie in March, be sure to get your hands on the ground breaking graphic novel that started it all. Head over to ReadWatchmen.com and you can read the entire first chapter, read teases of the other chapters, download wallpaper for you computer and sooo much more!
Play the MinuteMen Arcade game in Old School 8 bit side scrolling style at www.minutemenarcade.com
Check out The New Frontiersman to find out what "the man" doesn't want you to know about what really happened in the 1980s.

Drop in to the shop and pick up a copy or you can order a copy of Watchmen online now click on the version below that you want:
Watchmen U.S. Edition Softcover
Watchmen International Edition Softcover
Watchmen Absolute Edition Hard Cover
 
Impact Comics Newsletter Print E-mail
Because you demanded it!

Impact Comics now has an email newsletter.

Click here
and pop in your email address and you'll be on your way to receiving our weekly email letting you know all the exciting news of Impact Comics in convenient email form!
We'll give you highlights of exciting new releases, events and maybe even the odd competition or giveaway!
And remember: Impact comics will NEVER pass on your email address to any third party!
 
Obama in Spider-Man 5th printing! Print E-mail
The new President of the USA is a total comic book geek!
Barack Obama has let the whole world know that he loves Spider-Man and Conan comics! And now comics love him!
As you've no doubt heard Barack Obama appeared in amazing Spider-Man #583!
And as the Canberra Times reported, fans love this comic! We are now taking orders for the5th printing of the Spider-Man comic that features Obama on the cover, don't miss out this time!
contact us today to get a copy reserved of the the cool FIFTH printing that features Barack on the cover when it is released Friday 13th of February!
 
Top 100 books of 2008 Print E-mail
Check out our top selling 100 Graphic Novels, Trade Paperbacks and manga of 2008.
Find out what book was #1
(It was Watchmen!)
But What was #2 I wonder??!!
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Buffy Season 8 #21 Print E-mail
On shelves Friday 9th of January
Buffy's Back on schedule!
With a story written by TV writer Jane Espenson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Battlestar Galactica) and starring Harmony, the bubblegum cheerleader from Sunnydale High whose ambitions include blood sucking and stardom.
 
Umbrella Academy Dallas #1 Print E-mail
On shelves Friday 28th November
Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá return with a story as American as semiautomatic weapons.
The Umbrella Academy has saved the world, but the house they were raised in is destroyed. One member is bedridden, the side of her head held together with tape; and another has lost her voice, the source of her power. Now that they’ve fulfilled their destiny, does the Umbrella Academy have any future at all?
The Umbrella Academy returns for a second six-issue series -- Dallas, where we put the term -- hero -- to the test.
* 32 pages No ads!
* The acclaimed series from Gerard Way and Gabriel Bá returns! 2008 Eisner Award winner -- Best Limited Series!
If you had a standing order for the first series of Umbrella Academy, you will automatically have a copy of this new series put aside for you, drop in soon to collect it!
If you haven't got a standing order it isn't too late!
There is also a very limited number of variant cover copies available with art by comics legend Jim Lee!
Also available UMBRELLA ACADEMY APOCALYPSE SUITE TPB
 
OtakuFest08 cosplay Print E-mail
Otakufest 08 cosplay Photos!
click here to see more!
 
Cora - The Sequel to Rose & Isabel Print E-mail
Pixar story supervisor Ted Mathot created a huge stir with the release of Rose and Isabel, the two part tale of two sisters discovering an amazing and disturbing side of themselves when their brothers' letters stop coming from the front lines during the American civil war.
Well Ted has more tales to tell!
Cora Part 1 picks up years later. The war is over and Cora is starting to feel that same restlessness that swept her mother and aunt of for an adventure in Rose and Isabel.
I'm not going to spoil this for you, Cora Book 1 is in stock now, full colour for $28.95.
contact us to reserve your copy today!
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Capital Comickers exhibition Print E-mail
What's an Arts week without the infamous 9th art of comics?
As part of Canberra Living Artists Week (CLAW) Impact Comics in Garema Place will be hosting Capital Comickers - an exhibition of original comic book pages by Canberra's own Ben "You Stink" Hutchings and Jon "Gemini" Sommariva.
This a rare opportunity to see pages of comic book art as the artists have drawn them, before they have been scanned, shrunk down and coloured for printing.
There will also be some art from other surprise Australian artists!

The exhibition opens on Friday 22nd of August at 9am and runs every day until Sunday 31st.
There will be an opportunity to meet the featured artists on Thursday 28th of August at 6:30pm so get in and join the fun and kick on to the official CLAW event at King O'Malley's Pubat 7pm.
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watchmen Print E-mail
 
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