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We've moved the website! Print E-mail
Hey there!
You know you shouldn't be here, it's a bit of a mess, with all of this rubble everywhere...

Try checking out our new website over at

impactcomics.com.au

We don't have everything working yet, but it's on the way!
 
FREE Black Lantern Ring with Blackest Night #1! Print E-mail
On sale 17th July. Stocks will be limited!
Every copy of Blackest Night #1 will come with a free Black Lantern Ring!
(this is a toy plastic ring and will not grant the wearer any ability to raise the dead or any control over otherwise raised dead.)

Throughout the decades, death has plagued the DC Universe and taken the lives of heroes and villains alike. But to what end?
As the War of Light rages on, the prophecy of the Blackest Night descends upon us, with Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps at the center of it all.
Start a standing order today so you don't miss this 8-issue epic taking the DCU beyond the grave!
And be sure to put your name down for all of the tie in issues as well so you get the full story!
 
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.
Read more...
 
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.
 
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??!!
Read more...
 
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
 
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!
Read more...
 
watchmen Print E-mail
 
Who Watches the Watchmen? Print E-mail
It was listed by Time Magazine as one of the top 100 greatest English Language novels of the twentieth Century.
It is generally regarded as one of the most intelligent and influential super hero stories of all time.
And early in 2009 there will be a feature film adapting the classic story to the big screen. Check out the trailer here.
Do not miss out on reading this story. Comic shops all over the world are having trouble keeping copies on the shelf.
Watchmen TP US Edition
Watchmen TP International Edition
Watchmen HC Absolute Edition
 
Inspiring The Dark Knight - The Comics that inspired the movie Print E-mail
The Dark Knight is breaking all sorts of records and is being tipped to win Academy Awards, and rightly so!
But everything on the screen from the script to the set design and the performance of the actors was inspired by stories that first appeared in comic books.
Check out some of the stories that directly inspired Batman Begins and The Dark Knight.

Read more...
 
WANTED creator rocks the Marvel Universe Print E-mail
Mark Millar, the writer behind WANTED (now a motion picture starring Angelina Jolie) and the amazing ULTIMATES and CIVIL WAR series is now mashing up the past present and future of the Marvel Universe. These comics series are on sale now!
The Past - Our world
Marvel 1985 a young boy discovers that the heroes AND villains of his favoutite comics are invading our world. This lays the foundation for everything to come.
Now - The Marvel Universe
Fantastic Four our heroes face an inevitable and tragic loss, and a villain that harkens back to events in 1985
The Future - A possible Marvel Universe
Wolverine Old Man Logan must face challenges to save his family, but what does this have to do 1985?
Read more...
 
 
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