Heroclix Events For August

Events Start at 11am

4^th Coming of Galactus Week 4

Buy two boosters of Avengers and

Build a 300 pt team

Participation Prize: Stardust

11^th Coming of Galactus Championship Event

Buy two boosters of Avengers &

Build a 300 pt team

Prize: Galactus

18^th Take and Hold

Build a 700 pt team, each fig adjacent to the goal earns 50 extra points

Prize: A Random LE from Wizkids

Magic Day

Saturday, July 14

Registration

No one even came close! Winner of scavenger hunt Our Man Carl!

A Full House!

Let the Games Begin!

And the winner was Dobbs!
(no photo available)

Meet the Heralds of Galactus!

The first of a series of tournaments to gain control of Galactus and his Heralds.

Let me show you how it's done!

The measure of a man:

Me and my Silver Surfer!

Just for laughs.....We just got a collection of Dells, Charltons, and Archies from the 50's, 60's and 70's and here is some of the advertising inside!

From Blondie vol 4 #194 an early ad with uncredited Arnold Schwarzenegger appearance. "Your manhood and virility "comes alive" and across swiftly to women-they instantly sense your sexual power and want to be in your arms!"

Oh my.


Not enough? Try this Life-Size Inflatable doll, this ad appears in Tiger vol 1 #4, 1970! " Hi I'm Judy, the Life-Size inflatable London doll made with startling detail....Just add air and instantly I become a 5'4" beauty who wears size 8 clothes. Take me along, or to a party, boating or swimming (I float)....Your (sic) bound to find hundreds of exciting and unusual uses for me."

I bet.

Not sexy enough, how about some violence! I found this ad in Archie vol 1 # 103, 1959. An "Exploding Army Hand Grenade, Exact Replica, only $1.00......It's completely harmless, but the explosion it makes can be heard for a block. Really scatters the gang when you throw this baby in their midst."

Uh huh.

Or this from SwampThing vol 2 #6, 1973, back cover. "Getting A Daisy BB Gun is like getting a good grade. You have to work for it....what kind of boy is ready for his Daisy? You can telll by the way he handles other things. Like school work, and jobs around the house. He knows how to take serious things seriously....Daisy since 1886, The BB Gun every boy dreams about. "

Seriously.

Heroclix Events For July

Most Events Start at 11am

7^th Cause We’re gonna be at 300 for awhile

1000 pts

Prize: A random LE from Wizkids

10am on the 14^th Coming of Galactus Week 1

Buy two boosters of Avengers and

Build a 300 pt team

Participation Prize: Silver Surfer

21^st Coming of Galactus Week 2

Buy two boosters of Avengers &

Build a 300 pt team

Participation Prize: Terrax the Tamer

28^th Coming of Galactus Week 3

Buy two boosters of Avengers and

Build a 300 pt team

Participation Prize: Firelord

Friday the 13th is Your Lucky Day!

We're having a 13 day Back Issue Sale starting on Friday, July 13th and ending on Wednesday, July 25th.

50% off Regular Back Issues
25% off Premium Back Issues ($19.95 and up)

Tip your hat to the black cat, drop your mirror, step on the cracks and walk under a ladder and we'll see you there!

Heroclix Events for June

All Events Start at 11am

2nd Cause Eight is A Pretty Number

800 pt build total

Prize: a Random LE from Wizkids

9th The Arena

3 figures,

Your first one, you may spend up to 75 pts,

Your second one, you may spend up to 150 pts

Your final one, you may spend up to 300 pts

1 feat per figure

all Figures of the same point catagory are played against all others on the same map

Prize: Cassie Sandsmark LE

16th Test Run for July

300 pt Build total

Prize: Alan Scott LE

Fan Favorite With a Twist

1000 pt build total, two Random Battlefield Conditions per Game

Prize: Guardian of Eternity LE

Weekend Sales Events!!!

May 18-20

20% off

all regular priced

Board Games and RPG's

May 25-27

20% off all regular priced Toys

50% off Regular Back Issues

25% off Premium Back Issues (19.95 & up)

Dungeons & Dragons

Friday May 25th at 4pm Character creation and registration will begin.
The game will enclude 4 parties racing for treasure in the same dungeon. Prizeses will be awarded to the winning party. The game will run through June and will be every Friday from 4pm until 9pm

Character creation includes 25 point system to build, and can be made 5th level but only using material from the Players Handbook. Starting Equipment will be given on the first night, so don't worry about buying equipment.

Any Questions Contact Johnathon at L.A. Mood on Tuesdays from 2 till 6 pm.

FNM For the Rest of MAY

May 18th - Draft

May 25th - Standard

Free Comic Book Day 2007

Another success full Free Comic Book Day! We gave away over 1000 free comics! I am soooo tired, but happy! Superman had a great time meeting all his fans and having his photo taken. You can view all the photos by clicking on one of the photos on the flickr badge on the sidebar. You can then view them as a slideshow or individually or click here to start.

Dan Brown from the London Free Press reports he had a fun time blogging about the event. You can read his blog here. We had fun sharing the event with him and thank him for giving up his Saturday to be with us! It was an awesome day!!!!!

More on Free Comic Book Day at L.A. Mood's on Rogers TV:

Future Sight Release Tournament

Sunday May 6th, 12:30 pm L.A. Mood Underground

The Future Sight release tournament will take place the day After Free Comic Book Day.
The Entrance fee will be 25$ and will include 5 boosters used for the Sealed event. Prizes will be awarded to 1st and 2nd place, and additional Door prizes will be available, plus the first 30 registered will recive a Foil Release card. Registration will begin at noon.

FNM
May 4th, One booster each of Timespril, Planar chaos, and Future Sight
May11th, Standard

Both Tournaments will begin at 6:15 and registrations will begin at 5:45

Live Blogging on Free Comic Book Day!!!

No not by us, we'll be too busy that day! Dan Brown of the London Free Press will be spending the day with us giving his readers a play-by-play account of the adventures of a comic book store on Free Comic Book Day!

Be sure to say hello to Dan, when you stop by on Free Comic Book Day, on Saturday May 5th!

Something to Get Excited about!!

I've been turned off by many products from the big two recently, but this news, I just got to share.
Gail Simone one of DC's best writers is leaving one of my favorite comics Birds of Prey, and while that is sad news for me, the reason why is worth it......

Gail Simone is going to be writing Wonder Woman!!!

This is great news, as I loved the Greg Rucka run on Wonder Woman, and was greatly disappointed with the writing done by Allan Heinberg, (not too mention the crazy amount of delays on it) But this may just shoot this book back to being my favorite ongoing comic

Gail Simone starts with issue #13, which is after the two tie ins to Amazons Attack.
An artist has yet to be named for her run.

check out the interview here on Newsarama

FNM This Month

April 6th, Standard
April 13th, Extended
April 20th, Standard
April 27th, Draft

These are Sanctioned tournaments but will not have FNM prizes.
Points are given based on placement at all four tournaments and a box of Future sight will be awarded to the winner over all.

Free Comic Book Day - Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Yes! It's that time of year again! Free Comic Book Day, an annual event that happens the first Saturday in May!

For those who don't know what this fantastic event is about, a brief summary: FCBD is a North America wide event where comic book stores get together with publishers and distributors to give away comic books. Specially printed books by dozens of publishers are made just for this event. It is an effort to bring back the fun in reading and collecting comic books. This idea was the brain child of Joe Field of Flying Colors Comics, who managed to bring the idea to Diamond Comic Distributors, and then eventually the major publishers Marvel and DC. The idea was well received by retailers and fans, where ever it was brought up for discussion. The first Saturday in May, 2002, was chosen for the inaugural launch and it was a resounding success!

We haven't looked back since! Here in London, Ontario, L.A. Mood Comics & Games makes it an even better event by teaming up with 4 other stores in town for an exclusive Comic Shop Crossover!!!! Pick up a passport at any of the 5 participating stores, and get your passport stamped at each of the 5 participating stores, drop it off at the last store, and you will have a chance to win one of many prizes donated by those awesome stores!!! Free comics! Prizes! Sales! I heard a rumour that Superman will put in an appearance at L.A. Mood's between 11 and 3!!! Awesome!

Passports are now available at the following stores:

L.A. Mood Comics & Games, 350 Richmond St.
Heroes, 179 Dundas St.
The Comic Book Collector, 610 Dundas St.
Neo Tokyo: The Anime Store, 610 Dundas St.
Worlds Away, 666 Dundas St.

You can check out photos from past Free Comic Book Days at L.A. Mood's, by clicking on one of the photos in the flikr badge in the sidebar or here. We also have this awesome countdown clock counting down the days, hours and minutes to Free Comic Book Day! You can also check out this website that is dedicated to all things FCBD at www.freecomicbookday.com. If you have enjoyed FCBD or Comic Shop Crossover in the past, please feel free to leave a comment about what a great time you had, so we can pass this message on to others, and definitely send your friends a link to this page, so they can know about FCBD, too!

...and to think that it happened on Richmond St!


Yes, we were visited by aliens on Tuesday afternoon! Meet the London Rogues, members of the Star Wars Fan-Force! They would like you to know about their Star Wars 30th Anniversary Event. The celebration will be held at Springbank Park, May 18th, between 4-8PM. Some of the events include a costume contest, of course, and a lightsaber tournament, and prizes!

Just met Shawn from Rogues Gallery Comics in Windsor, today. He and some friends have put together this comic book review show on YouTube. Here's just a preview of his show Comic Book Syndicate:

Heroclix & Horroclix Events for April

Heroclix Events For April

Events Start at 11am

7^th Teammate in Trouble!

700 Point, 1 figure of each team is held captive and must be rescued before it can be given actions

Prize: Arthur Douglas LE

14^th Heavyweights

151 to 200 pts, Only One figure allowed

Prizes: Victor Shade LE

21^st 4 X 4

400 pts must have 4 figs no more mo less

Prize: : Animal Master LE

28^th Invitational Qualifier

Buy three Boosters and build a 300 Army

Prize: Michael Carter LE

Horrorclix Events For April

5^th Alien Invasion

Everyone Vs a 1000 pts of Aliens & the Alien Queen with Her Egg Sac.
Point total depends on Attendance of Players

19^th It's my Party and The Monster are Invited!

800 pt team, It's the Rave of the Year and the Local Monsters have found it!
More Victims than you can shake a stick at!

Last Will and Testament: Captain America

To whom do super heroes leave their legacy, when they die? Check out this link to find out.

Board Game Days!

A table full of Zombies!!!

Oh! the Arkham Horror!!!

Thanks to Jeff and Andrea for their time and effort!

Captain America assassinated in issue #25! and yes we're sold out, so don't ask! It hit the papers, the news; it was the number one request by phone this week (then comes Buffy #1, also just sold out). So do you care that Cap is dead?

Here's London Free Press' Dan Brown's take on the demise of Captain America. You can read it here.

Please feel free to let us know what you think about Captain America, Civil War or the direction Marvel comics is going in the comments.

Board Game Days & Munchkin Tournament

Sunday, March 11 at Noon-ish, John will be hosting the first ever Munchkin Tournament! Call us crazy but it's true! Kill the Monsters! Steal the Treasue! Stab your Buddy!

Fast-playing and silly! All are welcome!

The following weekend Jeff and Andrea will be hosting Board Game Days! Here's your chance to try out some new games or just have a good time playing with some new friends.

An exclusive board game coupon will be given out to all who participate as well as a few door prizes. So come on down and have a good time!

Board Game Days
Drop in and Play!
Saturday & Sunday, March 17 & 18

Saturday, March 17

12 -3 PM

Settlers of Catan
Arkham Horror
Zombies
3-6 PM
Starfarers of Catan
Lord of the Rings
Carcassone

Sunday, March 18
12-3 PM
Puerto Rico
Ticket to Ride
open table
3-6 PM
Settlers of Catan
Monsters Menace America
D&D Miniatures Game

Civil War is Over, But what did it Accomplish?

After reading both Civil War #7 (and many reviews of it) and Civil War Frontline #11, like most people I left with something less than a great feeling. For all their talk of starting a brand period in the Marvel universe, I can't help but think that all they did was just setup the next set of crossover books (see House of M and it's follow up titles Decimation for example). I don't feel excited at the new bunch of titles or this new status quo. If anything I felt they have damaged their characters more than anything, in Captain America (who they've effectively neutered), Iron Man (whose has become the greatest jackass in the MU and for being a poster boy for the ends justify the means) and Mr Fantastic and the Invisible Woman (for them just being horribly written out of character and for whose actions are just stupid). I also love the fact how populace of the MU is split on the registration act to start with but somewhere between Civil War Frontline #10 & 11 & Civil war #7, became united behind it. or that NOW all of a sudden they have become concerned about the collateral damage from superpower battles. Same with Speedball whose feelings and opinions changed magically as well between Frontline #9 & 10.

And that is probably the worst criticism of both series is that too much happens to these characters that we are not seeing, and while the editors at try to justify the character actions on internet websites. Maybe they should made sure that it came across in the reading experience itself.

In the end even thought Civil War was huge financial win fall for Marvel, when read with anything of a critical perspective, it's pretty much a mindless action flick with characters lurching wildly around with no real purpose.

For something a little more the fun side I give you

Civil War in 30 Seconds!! enjoy

Heroclix Events For March

Most Events Start at 11am

3^rd DC Origin Pre Release

300 Point Sealed, Buy 3 boosters of DC Origin a week early and get

Prize: Purple Ring Unique & More

10^th DC Origin Marquee

300 Point Sealed, Buy 3 boosters of DC Origin Prizes: LE Supergirl LE Detective John Jones

19^th Monday 5:30pm Light Heavyweights

101 to 150 pts, Only One figure allowed

Prize: : TBA

24^th Fan Favorite!!

1000 pts, Prize: TBA

31^st Anyone Have a Plan for this??

500 pts, must have a figure that has leadership

Prize: TBA

New Clix Items in stock!

Gather around customers of L.A. Mood's Comics & Games as we have some new Heroclix and Horrorclix items on the shelf this week.

First up is a once time prize that is now for sale the great and Terrible Cthulhu
It's priced for $88.95 and we only have one left!

next up is the first of hopefully many collectors sets avaliable throught us the DC Heroclix Green Lantern Corps!!
http://www.wizkidsgames.com/heroclix/dc/products.asp?cid=41045

we have two at the moment, priced at $32.95

We did have the AVP Alien Queen Action pack come in this week but it has sold out in one day!!! Order now while our supplier still has some in stock.

Also a reminder to Heroclix Players that DC Heroclix Origin Pre-Release is next Sat on March the 3rd and that is you haven't signed up to play, do so now. Insure your 3 boosters of Origin goodness a week before the full release date! Play and win Prizes!

Today's Horrorclix Events Rescheduled

Due to poor Weather conditions and multiply road closures tonight Horrorclix event for the 22 has been resheduled to Feb. 27th at 6pm

Battle of Attrition

Build three differnet teams of 300pts. Each fig can only be on one team. Each round you must play a different one of your teams.

Fully Loaded!

On Friday, a skid full of collectible miniatures from Wizards of the Coast arrived! Restocked on D and D Minis...Blood War, Angelfire, and War of the Dragon Queen, as well as Star Wars Minis...Rebel Storm, Bounty Hunters, and Starship battles, as well as Axis and Allies and Dreamblade!




It's like Christmas, boxes and boxes of goodies!


Complete with a new fixture to hold them all!


And it spins! Wheeee!

World Of Warcraft TCG

For all those intrested in a WoW tournement, please Respond in the comment section with your name and Email Address, or come into the store and sign up. I would love to get an ongoing tournement up and running, but need to know how many players to expect. If intrested let me (Johnathon) Know, Or leave a message for me at the store.

FNM for FEB/MARCH

FEB 16th - Standard
FEB 23rd - Sealed
March 2nd - Booster Draft
March 9th - Extended
March 16th - 2 Headed Giant Sealed
March 23rd - Standard
March 30th - Booster Draft

DS Barrick sells out of his new book!

Skulsi Thatcher Release Party was a great success and Daniel sold out of his new hardcover book with orders for a few more! They almost sold my copy, too; luckily I had him sign it to me! Good going Daniel!

Rogers Cable TV picks L.A. Mood's Carol Vandenberg as Today's Londoner. You can watch the interview here:

L.A. Mood’s Comics & Games Proudly Presents

Pre-Release Tournament March 3, 2007 At 11AM

Please Call or email the store to sign up for the Pre-release! Player positions will be limited to 32 players to insure all players will have 3 boosters of DC Heroclix: Origin

300 Point Sealed (using standard rules presented in the HeroClix Comprehensive Tournament rules as described at www.heroclix.com),

3 DC HeroClix: Origin boosters per player (while supplies last)

All games will take place on the DC HeroClix: Origin Map.

Heroclix Events For Feburary

Events Start at 11am

3^rd Invitational Qualifier

200 pts, 2 Booster Draft, Make use of the Call Out power action, see website for rules

Prize: Norrin Radd LE

10^th Lightweights!!

51 to 100 pts, Only One figure allowed

Prize: Nathaniel Richards LE

17^th Civil War!! Whose side are you On??

300 pts, must have either

1 Captain America or 1 Iron Man

Prize: : Genis-Vell LE

24^th New Guy Event!!

Casual Play; Bring a friend and you both receive a Golden Age Wonder Woman LE

Planar Chaos Release

L.A. Moods comics and games will be holding a Planar Chaos Release tournament on Feb 4th at 3pm.
It will be a sealed event requiring 1 tournament pack of Timespiral and 2 boosters of Planar Chaos.
This will be a DCI sanctioned event so bring your DCI numbers. If you do not have one, one will be provided for you. Hope to see you all there.

JDM

Here's a photo of DS Barrick's new hardcover book! See! I told you it was a work of art!

Release Party!

Join us at the store on Saturday, February 3, 2007 between 1PM and 4:30 PM, to celebrate the release of D.S. Barrick's Skulsi Thatcher, his new, hand-bound hardcover collection of comic strips! Did I say hand-bound hardcover? Yes indeed! Daniel told me he's sewing/gluing this book together by hand! Guaranteed to be a work of art!

Here at L.A. Mood's we've known Daniel, since he was a talented artist in highschool. He showed much promise with his first self-published comic book The Day I Wrote Watermelon. There were more people down for his title on our membership list than some DC titles at the time, including easily recognized icons such as Wonder Woman and Aquaman! Unfortunately, for his following, Daniel's pursuit of a university degree in the Arts interfered with publishing a regular small press comic. He still is at school, working hard to become a highschool teacher of Art and English, but his efforts in university are paying off for us fans, with a creation of new characters, Skulsi Thatcher and her friends. This esoteric collection of strips, follows Skulsi and her friends around as they make unimportant observations of life. I asked Daniel how he would describe his comic and he replied, "Stealing from Seinfeld, it is a comic about nothing."

Well, I call it art! Daniel will be available between 1 and 4:30 PM, Saturday, February 3rd at the store to sign copies of his book, he might even be persuaded to make a free sketch or two! See you there!

Horroclix AVP Queen Info

Hey there LA Mood Horrorclix Customers, thought I'd give you guys the heads up on the AVP Queen coming in late Feb. The following information is cut & pasted from the Wizkids forums, posted by Horrorclix & Heroclix brand manager Mark Tuttle

"The Alien Queen herself sits on the 3" "titan" base. That's the same one that we used for the HeroClix Sentinel dial. The egg sac sits on the colossal dial that Cthulhu used. As for the size of the queen, she is in scale with the Alien and Predator figures. Consider that if an Alien is 8-9' tall, the Queen is 14'. "

The HorrorClix: AVP Alien Queen contains three (3) figures:

1 - Alien Queen with egg sac diorama
1 - Alien
1 - Predator
Rules, tokens, map



Pre-order now to insure you get yours

FNM this Month.

Jan 5th. Standard
Jan 12th. Draft
Jan 19th. Standard
Jan 26th. Draft

Don't forget to pre-order your Planer Chaos Booster boxes to take advantage of our Discount.

Heroclix Events For January

Events Start at 11am

6^th Out in the Black

300 pts, Must have one space related character on your force

Prize: Super-Nova LE

13^th Time for the Cannons!!

500 pts, Rows 9 to 16 cannot be entered on maps

Prize: Joe Ledger LE

20^th The Future is Set!!

1000 pts, No Probability Control allowed

Prize: One-Who-Knows LE

27^th Featherweights

50 pts, Only One figure allowed

Prize: Henry Camp LE

Our deepest sympathy....

Everyone at L.A. Mood's, would like to extend their deepest sympathy to Jeremy Westlake and his family with the passing of Hilda (Deelstra) Westlake, Jeremy's mother, on December 22. She was 57 years old. May she rest in peace.

Boxing Week Sales

December 27, 28,29

Selected comics

3 for $1.00

plus visit our bargain basement, open 12 - 4

for more discounted toys and RPG's

Holiday Hours

Sunday, December 24 open 10AM - 3PM

Closed December 25 & 26

Closed December 31 & January 1st

Speaking of old friends...

Just heard from Joe; Joe used to help us out at the Fraser Mall and on Dundas Street with the "joe" jobs! He used to buy lots of model kits from us, back in the day. We used to display some of his finished kits in the store: 'Mars Attacks', 'Aliens',. He even did up a Ghost Rider kit that someone liked so much they smashed our window on Dundas Street to steal it in the middle of the night! He moved to Edmonton to get work welding. Well, he's given up the"joe" jobs and is using his welding skills to make metal sculptures. I would describe his work as HR Giger-esque with a little bit of Tim Burton. You can visit his website here, if you dare!

Congratulations to Roy!

Nothing like the holidays to hear from old friends or old employees. Some of you might remember Rodrigo, (Roy!) who worked at L.A. Mood's a few years back. He also self published his own comic called The Sublimes. It seems he participated in the 24 Hour Comic Challenge 2006 in October, and his entry was chosen to be one published in the book. This book will be coming out in March and will be advertised in January 2007 Previews. L.A. Mood Comics & Games will be carrying this book and anyone who would like to pre-order it, please let us know before the end of January. You can visit Rodrigo at his blog here.

Final 15th Anniversary Sale!

Thanks for 15 years of business!!!!

December 15 to 31, 2006

20% off

regular priced

Trade Paperbacks

20% off

regular priced

Toys & Statues

Plus other December specials:

50% off all Manga (not including pre-orders)

25% off all DVD's (not including pre-orders)

20% off all regular priced Back Issues

First snowstorm of the year shuts down London!!!

London transit did not operate at all and people were forced to walk on the streets as they waited for sidewalks to be plowed.

Machine wins over man in snow removal!

We're open! Take that old man winter!!!

Friday Night Magic Cancelled!

Sorry folks, but FNM is cancelled due to the snowstorm. Since the London Transit is shut down for today, Johnathon can't make it in. So the Draft will be next Friday instead, December 15th.

In the mean time, L.A. Mood's is still open, but will probably close early instead of at 8PM today. City Lights and Forest City Coin are also open right now. But it is best to call ahead to make sure before venturing out today. Shoppers Drug Mart is open, but the Scotiabank and the Market is closed. The sidewalks are plowed on Richmond from York to Dundas but not north of Dundas. The streets are looking better, but drivers watch out for pedestrians; many are walking on the street because not all the sidewalks are done yet.

Take care out there and happy snow day!

The Weather outside is Frightfull

Due to the MASSIVE snow fall, FNM will be canceled this week, I will instead hold the draft Next week. Sorry for any inconvience.

Johnathon D. Merrow

Merry Christmas from all the staff of L.A.Mood's!!!!

We are not looking forward to our annual inventory! So to make our job easier we've decided to mark down the prices NOW of some of the older stuff gathering dust in the corners! Get rid of them now, so we don't have to count them! We marked down trade-paperbacks, and that includes manga, D20 games, toys (Buffy, DC Direct, NBA to name a few), and board games (someone bought 6 games an hour after it had been discounted!) There are some really good deals for the smart shopper!

Also currently we have a 20% off sale on all back issues, 25%off all in stock DVD's and 50% off all manga (not including pre-orders).

Don't forget our final 15th Anniversary Sale! What crazy things do we have planned for December 15th? Well, I am not going to tell you yet ;) You will just have to stay tuned to this blog!!!

FNM This Week

Wooo.... what a week. Last Sunday was the showdown between Worlds Away, L.A. Moods, and The Western Magic Club. What a battle, The Underdogs "Western" came out with the Big V thanks to Jeff Baxter and His great run. In second came Team Worlds Away, with some Impressive Victories form players the likes of Wojo, and Mark. But alas, Team L.A. Moods came in Last with a "good Try team".

Hopefully this is the First of may crossover Tournaments to come.

THIS FRIDAY DEC 8th

This Week we have a Draft! Yay Draft. Hopefully we have as good of a turnout as we did last week. 18 players last week, Hopefully this week will be the same.

Next week we will have Standard Play on Dec 15th. This will be the Last FNM till the New Year. Next Week I will have the List for Januarys Events. Thanks All, and Merry Ho Ho.

December Heroclix Event

Well with the Holiday craziness I haven't had the time to post about how great our Supernova Marquee was, or how much of of a beast the new Thanos unique is (thought that comes probably as little surprise to any one).

And while I did not post this in time for todays event, here's the info on December's remaning Heroclix Event

DEC 9th: Team up Holiday Mixer

Bring any two figures!!!
Each player will be randomly assigned a pair that someone brings in!
No feat cards, Battlefield conditions can still be used

Hope to see all you Heroclix players out there and that everyone has a Happy Holidays

FNM THIS WEEK

This weeks friday night magic is a standard show down where the winner will have the final spot on team L.A.Moods for the tournament on sunday.

This Sunday the 26th the Tournament between L.A.Moods, Worlds Away, and the Western Magic Club will take place at the Social Sciences Building room #3028 at Western. It will start at 1pm and will go until 7pm.

More good news, December will be sanctioned. I have already recived the prizes, Foil DCI Fire/Ice. WOW! So prepare for some compitition as these cards will surly be sought after.

National Games Week November 19-25, 2006

To celebrate, all board games this week will be 10% off, and we already have the best prices in town!!!! Also we will have a demo table set up in the store with open games. Take a look inside the box! Sit down, read the instructions and feel the quality of the pieces, try a few rounds. There is so many choices besides Monopoly and Trivial Pursuit! We will have Settlers of Catan, Zombies, and Carcassonne, Risk 2210, and Railroad Tycoon to name a few, on display.

Check out Board Game Geek for reviews and information about games.

Or if you have a favourite board game, please use the comment box to let our readers know.

New this week:

Civil War #5 is in! Finally!As well as tie-ins New Avengers and Iron Man! Dan's talking about it at the FreePress here.

Marvel Heroclix Supernova! egads it's flying off the shelf!

And creepy and wierd HP Lovecraft series 1 figures! awesome!

Give it a look!

15th Anniversary Sale!

Head's up on tomorrow's special on the 15th of the month! Since the 15th falls on new comic day, the special is 20% off all new comics!!!!! woo!hoo!

See you all tomorrow!

ITS ON
Nov 26th is the date that has been assigned to the tournament. What tournament you ask? Well how about a battle between Worlds Away, UWO, and L.A.Mood !!
Friday the 17th we will be holding a NON-Sanctioned Draft. The top 4 players will then form Team L.A.Mood and go to face Worlds Away, and UWO's Magic club in a Team Draft. The Prize (other than bragging rights, and possible a shiny belt) is a rare re-draft.
If (because of exams and stuff) I do not have enough players on the 17th, then I will hold the tournament on the 24th of november instead. Hopefully I see you out on Friday, and good luck to all who Participate.

Tourny's for November
Nov 17, Draft qualifying
Nov 24, (Draft qualifying) or Standard
Nov 26, 3-way tournament at UWO
Dec 1, Sanctioned Standard

Just a reminder that FNM tournaments start at 6 pm and are Located at the store. Don't forget to show up early to take advantage of our 50% off magic singles for Tournament participants.

D&D Day a success!

Many people came out to play D&D! It was great to see new faces, especially the younger ones!Many thanks to our volunteers Jeff, Paul, and Charles for being such great DM's! The winners of the doorprizes were Tim (War Drums booster), John (Eberron Player's Guide), Steve (Blood Wars booster, and our grandprize winner was Jeff (Gargantuan Black Dragon). Congratulations to all! Jeff had such a great time being DM and demo-ing D&D Miniatures Game, that he has decided to run D&D Miniatures Games in the new year!!!!! These games would run on the 3rd Tuesday of every month starting on January 19th. Please feel free to comment on this blog if you are interested or send us an email.

Marvel's Editoral & Business Sense??

Those who are regulars at the store and talk comics with me, know that I sometimes have very concerned thoughts about Marvel's editoral and Business sense as of the last year or so.

well in this review of X-Men Phoenix Warsong #3 at the X-Axis website, kinda sums up how I feel. Click on the link Here

Let me know your thoughts either in the comments section or at the store.

FNM AND ITS CRAZYNESS!!

Timespirl saw its first standard in the underground this week with some surprising turnout. Lots of good deck saw play, but combo seemed to dominate the night as Paul Dobbs came out with a 4 - 0 win for first place, Leaving Larry and I in his trails.

As for right now, I'm still waiting to see if the DCI will get back to me with sanctioning info for november. Regardless of what happens, we are going to play another attack of Standard for the first FNM of November. So bring your decks and prepare for a big beat down!

Heroclix Event Changes for Oct. 28 and November Event schedule

Due to unexpected family events the Heroclix Hallowe'en Battle on the 28th of Oct has been moved to Oct. 30, it will start at 5 pm

if there are any questions, you can leave them in the comments section or contact me through the Wizkids website by my login name there, Remjer_Goth.

Heoclix Events for November

7th Tuesday at 5:00 pm, I have no Clever Title for This One
700 points

11th Yes Sir!!
500 points, must contain at least one character with miltary connections

18th SUPERNOVA MARQUEE!
buy 3 boosters of Supernova and build a force of 300 (or maybe 400) points

25th Fan Favorite
1000 points with 5 action per turn

thank you for patience and I hope to see you clix players out there

Friday Night Magic: GOODBYE KAMIGAWA!

This week was the final type 2 tourny with the Infamous KAMIGAWA BLOCK. That means no more jittes or Kokusho's or even Heartbeat. YAY ! Nows the time to make way for Time Spiral. Already the forums are buzzing with activity try to peice together the Next Big Standard Deck. So far I think combo will be the way to go. Easy to pull off combos with Enduring Renewal, Wild Cantor and Grapeshot have already shown me a thing or two. Although Agrro may just get the boost it needs to be a major contendor. All will be revealed soon. This week we have a Sealed Event. That means 1 Tournament Pack of Time Spiral, and 2 boosters of any Type 2 you want. Why do i say any. Well seeing as it is the first time Time Spiral will be played in type 2, I thought it might be a great idea to let players see what works best with Time Spiral. As for me, I'll be playing Stright Time Spiral, "Gotta get those Blooms!"

D&D DAY PLANS ANNOUNCED!

"We are please to announce our plans for D&D Day on Saturday, November 4th, 2006, despite the fact that Wizards of the Coast ran out of retailer kits and will not confirm our official participation! We've participated in D&D Day for the last 2 years, and we will proceed with our plans" says L.A. Mood's spokesperson, Comicbooklady.

Participants can sign up for a time slot to play D&D or D&D Miniatures. The time slots are 10AM, 1PM, or 3PM. "New players are welcome, we will have 'floating DM's', who will be ready to bring together a group of players, as well, we are inviting DM's to bring their group to play at L.A. Mood's." Why play at L.A. Mood's when one could play at home? Atmosphere! Nothing like a basement full of gamers having a good time! Meet new people!! Prizes! There will be door prizes for each time slot, as well as a grand prize, a Black Gargantuan Dragon to be won!!!! Sales! Of course D&D stuff will be discounted that day!

Sign up today! Just drop us an email (we need to know name, time slot, number of players, RPG or Miniatures game and experienced or beginner player) or pick up the sign-up forms at L.A. Mood's. Please let us know if you would like to volunteer as a 'floatng DM'.

15th Anniversary Sale Head's Up!

This month's Anniversary special is 10% off new issue comics and trade paperbacks! And if you already get a membership discount that will be another 10% off on top! What a deal! October 15th only! Why wouldn't anybody like sunday shopping? Parking on the street is free on Sundays!

Friday Night Magic !! and Timespiral !!

The Oct 6th Friday Night Magic saw the first Draft of the new set Timespiral, and WOW was ever a draft. Almost none of the players had seen any of the cards before they cracked their first booster, which made for a very intresting event. With timespiral becoming legal as of the 20th of october, the draft was a peek into the future to come. With power cards like Magus of the Disk and Ancestral Visions, Timespiral is sure to shake up Standard play like no set has in years. The Timeshifted cards may be as powerful in Standard as the new set itself. With the printing of Bad Moon and Undead Warchief, you can be sure to see the return of Mono-Black decks.
Speaking of October 20th, We have a Sealed Deck tourny for our FNM. This will Include Timespiral. In fact the by in will be 1 Tournament pack of Timespiral and 2 boosters of your choice from the Ravnica Block.
As for next Friday, Its Standard. So show up and play for a chance to win a FNM Arrogant Wurm!

HorroClix League Winner gets Convention Exclusive Cthulhu

Our Zombie Master Steve Nyenhuis, in co-operation with L.A. Moods Comics & Games, is going to award the convention Exclusive Cthulhu to the best Horroclix player. How does one become the best Horroclix player you ask? All games from October till December 14th will be treated as a league, with everyone's point totals being tallied till Dec. 14th. The player with the most points wins The Mighty & Terrible Cthulhu. If that wasn't enough excitement, the Game on the 14th of Dec. is a battle against Cthuthlu! The damage being done him counts toward your point total for the end of the league.

Hope to see all you Horroclix players out there

More Lego Fans!

I found another customer with a Lego hobby! Zoomboy has made some badass comic figure legos. Check out his cool Ghost Rider here. He is currently working on a Star Wars stop motion movie with Legos. Updates to this project can be found at his website www.zoomboy.com.

Girls and Comics

Are you a girl and do you like comics? Add your 2 cents to the debate of whether or not comics are a guy thing. Dan Brown of the London Free Press asks the big question here.

Here's a quick list of my favourites (some are current, some are done)
Y the Last Man
Alias (not the TV show)
Powers
Bone
Books of Magic
Simpsons Comics
Epileptic
The Dark Knight Returns
Superman: Red Son
Lenore
Civil War
Civil War Frontline
Concrete
Shade the Changing Man
Scary Godmother

Dr Who Day at L.A. Mood's

On September 16, L.A. Mood's and the Brethren from Time and Space were happy to host a Dr Who Fan appreciation day.

Fans brought in some of their favourite memorabilia and were able to watch some new and old episodes as well as a documentary, 30 Years in the Tardis.

Here at L.A. Mood's we've seen a warm reception to the latest Dr Who and people are anxious to see the latest season. I've seen some argue that Dr Who is better than Star Trek! Imagine that...maybe Firefly is better than Star Trek...but Dr Who...I am not so sure. (We welcome your comments :)

Ray from the Brethren of Time and Space

Local fans enjoying some Dr Who episodes.

Display of Dr Who stuff, featuring some really cool Daleks and a Tardis made from Lego!

Made by Marlon, you can check out other cool Lego creations at http://www.blockaholic.com

This weeks Friday Night Magic Put our players Extended skills to the test. After 4 rounds of play Carl came out on top with an undefeted streak going 4 - 0.
Friday sept 29 sees a sealed tournament with 1 Ravnica tournament pack and a Dessension and Guildpact booster to build with.
Don't forget to come early to take advantage of our 50% off Magic Singles for tournament players.

Which Side are you On?

Now that Civil War #4 has shipped and on store shelves, People have had a chance to see how each part of the Marvel Universe has acted in this Civil War, so now with you have had a chance to get more information, lets ask that question Marvel been asking since the beginning of year almost.

Whose Side are you on?

A: With Iron Man and the Pro-Registration Side

B: With Captain America and the Anti-Registration Side

C: With the X-Men getting their act together and blasting the Sentinels off their front lawn, and telling off O*N*E (aka the government)

D: I don't need no Civil War

We look forward to your responses

HorrorClix Tournament Schedule September 2006
Thursdays at 5:30 PM

September 21 - "A Sticky Situation"
September 28 - "Call An Exterminator"

October 5 - "Said the Spider to the Fly"

See also Wiz Kids Games link in the sidebar.

HeroClix Tournaments September/October 2006
Saturdays at 11 AM

September 23 - 500 pts - "Good Olde Fist Fight"
September 30 - 1000 pts - " Chaos Battle 2: The Sequel"

October 3 - 1000 pts - "Fan Favourite"
October 14 - 700 pts - "Assault & Defend"
October 21 - Supernova New Guy Event:
New Player receives a free Limited Edition Silver Centurion Iron Man!
October 28 - 600 pts - "Halloween Battle"

See also Wiz Kids Games link in sidebar.

Friday Night Magic Schedule September/October 2006
Fridays at 6:00 PM
Participating Players can buy Magic singles for 50% off on Fridays at 5:30 PM

September 22 - Extended
September 29 - Sealed Deck

October 6 - Booster Draft
October 13 - Standard
October 20 - Sealed Deck

Please note for more information regarding FNM check the link in the sidebar.

Classic Corny Cover!
or Bring Back the Word Balloons, Baby!

In case you can't read it on line I'll transcribe the cover dialogue of "Supergirl starring in Adventure Comics #388 featuring---"The Romance MACHINE!"

-Be with you in a minute, darling... as soon as I finish dressing!
....He doesn't dream his date, Linda Danvers, is Supergirl!

-Take your time, Linda Baby!
....She doesn't dream I'm a computer, programmed by Brainiac to break her heart!

It's classic! Did you check out the ruffles?! Groovy! and that sophisticated computer on his chest...mmm...Analog!