M10 Crisis!

This update is for our Magic players. We are currently experiencing a shortage of M10 boosters. Our expected shipments of M10 have been delayed and we are currently out of stock. This means that until M10 starts rolling in again, our scheduled M10 drafts will instead be Shards/Conflux/Alara Reborn. Hopefully the shortage will be over soon, and we can all get back to collecting duals and trying to crack those Baneslayers.

Heroclix Event Today Aug 12

Short Notice Event
start time of 6 pm

Build a team of 400 pts

Next Graphic Novel Group will be discussing Marvels by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross on Saturday, September 12. The feature book will be on sale for 25% off! Reserve a copy now!

If you can't make it out to a meeting, you can always check out our on-line discussions on facebook. Log in to Facebook and search LA Mood Graphic Novel Group and join in!

Hey folks, back again with the monthly Magic updates. First off, lets start with our August schedule:

Magic: The Gathering Schedule of Events for August 2009:

Tuesday, August 4: Booster Draft (M10) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, August 7: FNM (Standard) @ 6:00 pm
Tuesday, August 11: Booster Draft (M10) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, August: 14: FNM (Booster Draft with M10) @ 6:00 pm
Tuesday, August 18: Booster Draft (M10) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, August 21: FNM (Standard) @ 6:00 pm
Sunday, August 23: The L.A. Mood Killers Team Search Tournament Series (#1) @ 12:00 pm
(registration is 11:00 am - 11:50 am)
Tuesday, August 25: Booster Draft (M10) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, August 28: FNM (Booster Draft with M10) @ 6:00 pm

Players attending our FNM tournaments this month will have a chance to win a foil version of Lightning Greaves. These incredible boots of speed are enough to make even The Flash jealous.

As most of you are now aware, prizes for drafting at L.A. Mood are awarded by rare redraft. If you win first place in the draft, you will be rewarded by selecting first any rare card opened during the draft. Second place picks second and so on until all the players have made their first picks, resuming from the top down again until all the rares have been drafted.

Next up, The L.A. Mood Killers Team Search Tournament Series (#1) will be held on Sunday, August 23'rd. We are looking to put together a team of skilled magic players to represent the L.A. Mood magic scene when our team brings it's game to local, national, and global venues. This will be the first of four team search tournaments culminating with a finalized team roster to be announced on December 1'st, 2009. We are looking for team members who are passionate about the game and are willing to contribute their time to developing a well rounded team. Team members will test, share ideas, and provide feedback with each other in an effort to achieve the following three goals:

Succeed - We want our team members to achieve their own personal goals of winning consistently. We do not condone cheating or unsportsmanlike conduct however, and any such behaviour may result in expulsion from the team.

Represent - We want our team to be recognized and respected at tournament venues for play skill as well as demeanor. While representing the L.A. Mood Killers, we expect our members to act maturely. Win with style, lose with grace.

Grow - We are looking to develop a team of players that strive to play at a professional level. With regular testing and communication between members, we are confident in our team members achieving this caliber of play.

Without further ado, here are the details:

The L.A. Mood Killers Team Search Tournament Series (#1)

Format: Standard

Entrance Fee: $20.00
$18.00 to preregistered players if paid by 6:00 pm, Saturday, August 22'nd.
The first 8 players with paid registration will receive an M10 release foil Ant Queen

Start Time: 12:00 pm (registration will begin at 11:00 am and end at 11:50 am)

Tournament Structure: Swiss pairing with cut to Top 8. Number of rounds will be determined by player attendance

Prizes: Two boxes to be awarded to Top 8 competitors as follows:

1'st: 1 Box of M10
2'nd: 18 Booster Packs of M10
3'rd: 7 Booster Packs of M10
4'th: 3 Booster Packs of M10
5'th - 8'th: 2 Booster Packs of M10

In addition to this, our 1'st place finisher will receive an invitation to play for the L.A. Mood Killers. Team members will receive a 20% discount when purchasing Magic singles, packs, and supplies (excluding booster boxes). If declined, the invitation will be offered to the next highest finisher in the tournament.

Door Prizes will also be awarded.

For a current list of standard legal sets, click here.

I hope to see you all there!

Next Graphic Novel Meeting

Saturday, August 8, 11AM

This month's pick is Y the Last Man volume 1: Unmanned. Join us at the store and discuss the first book to Brian K. Vaughan's epic tale of the last man on earth and his monkey in a post apocalyptic world where only the women survived. If you can't make it to our meeting, join in on the discussions on Facebook, just search LA Mood Graphic Novel Group!

All volumes of Y the Last Man are on sale now for 25% off until August 8!

BACK ISSUE BONANZA!

50% OFF ALL BACK ISSUES
YES, ALL BACK ISSUES CURRENTLY OUT FOR SALE!
YES, PREMIUM BACK ISSUES TOO!

SUNDAY, JULY 12 - SATURDAY, AUGUST 1

July's Magic: The Gathering Schedule of Events:

Friday, July 3: FNM (Standard) @ 6:00 pm
Tuesday, July 7: Booster Draft (Shards, Conflux, Alara Reborn) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, July 10: FNM (Standard) @ 6:00 pm
Tuesday, July 14: Booster Draft (Shards, Conflux, Alara Reborn) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, July 17: FNM (Booster Draft with M10) @ 6:00 pm
Sunday, July 19: M10 Launch Party (Sealed Deck) @ 12:00 pm
Tuesday, July 21: Booster Draft (M10) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, July 24: FNM (Booster Draft with M10) @ 6:00 pm
Tuesday, July 28: Booster Draft (M10) @ 6:30 pm
Friday, July 31: FNM (Standard) @ 6:00 pm

This month, our FNM foil is Murderous Redcap. Let me tell you, this is some kick-ass new artwork on our big-nosed goblin assassin friend. Tournament prizes and door prizes are awarded for our FNM tournaments. For our drafts, our prizes are awarded by rare redraft (in addition to FNM prizes on Fridays). Our 1'st place finisher gets first pick of all the rares opened, 2'nd gets second pick, 3'rd gets third pick, and so on. This month is also the launch of the new core set M10. We will be celebrating this new core set release, chock of full of new goodies and old favourites, with back to back FNM drafts featuring M10 and also an M10 Launch Party on Sunday, July 19'th. Players attending the the Launch Party will receive a sick-looking release foil version of this card:

WHAT A FREAKIN' HOUSE!

Before I go, here our some pictures of our last FNM held on June 26'th:

16 players showed up to sling spells and summon armies to crush their opposition!

The Spoils of Conquest (and attendance)

Betty or Veronica?
Archie #600

Archie proposes to Veronica in the upcoming Archie #600 issue out in August, part of a 6-issue story arc! Pre-order your copy now! Making headlines across North America, A-Channel visited our store to get the details! Check it out:

June's Short Notice Heroclix Event

June 18th 6pm
Moving Day Force Attack

Build a 600 pt team all characters must
have super strength at some point on their dial

Sorry for the Short Notice. Life & work got in the way
A better & full fledged schedule should be up for July in 2 weeks time

Free RPG Day, Saturday, June 20

Pick up your free RPG or accessory, visit www.freerpgday.com to see a list of participating sponsors.

All RPG's 25% off Saturday, June 20 only!

Sign up and play! GM's are standing by to run:

1.Pathfinder

2.Eberron

3.Geist

4.Castles and Crusades

5.Paranoia

6.Corporation

Limited seating available, contact the store and reserve your place today! Games begin at 11AM.

Meet the Graphic Novel Group!

Our first meeting was a success! Attendance was 8 people, including myself. Don't worry if you couldn't make it, the GNG's doors are always open and you can join any time on Facebook!

Our first meeting began with introductions and sharing our graphic novel picks. We decided that we definitely wanted to meet in person on a regular basis and the 2nd Saturday of each was chosen. Having said that, we know that Saturdays are not convenient to everyone and in order to allow as much participation as possible, we would have an on-line component. We decided that Facebook allows us an easy forum for discussion and all of us, and many of our customers, are already on it. Tom volunteered to start up the page and it is ready to go, just search LA Mood Graphic Novel Group. After a discussion of our favourite graphic novels, Watchmen and Maus came up more than once! We thought we could postpone Watchmen until the release of the DVD and then we could combine movie and book discussion, so Art Spiegelman's Complete Maus was chosen as our first book.

Currently, we have volume II in stock and we will be getting more in. It will be our featured graphic novel in the store and will be availbable for 25% off!

Graphic Novel Group

First Meeting

Saturday, June 13 at 11AM

Bring your coffee (or morning beverage of choice), ideas and a top 3 list of your favourite graphic novels for the first ever Graphic Novel Group! Moderated by Dan Brown (London Free Press, on-line editor) and Carol Vandenberg, our first hour long meeting will involve listening to you and what you want out of a Graphic Novel Group. This meeting will set the path for meetings to come and we will pick our first book to discuss. We hope to see you there!

For all of our Magic players out there, here is our June Schedule of Events:

Tuesday, June 2: Booster Draft
Friday, June 5: FNM Booster Draft
Tuesday, June 9: Booster Draft
Friday, June 12: FNM Standard
Tuesday, June 16: Booster Draft
Friday, June 19: FNM Booster Draft
Tuesday, June 23: Booster Draft
Friday, June 26: FNM Standard
Tuesday, June 30: Booster Draft

Our FNM foil card this month is Mulldrifter first seen in the Lorwyn set.
Door prizes and tournament prizes available. Come out and play!

Willow Dawson and Diana Tamblyn

Diana signing her books for a breathless fan!


Diana talking to old friends

Willow talking to fans


Willow signing a copy of FCBD Comics Festival, which contains one of her stories.

It was a beautiful day and many people came out to meet and talk to Diana and Willow. For more photos click here.

Dan Brown from the London Free Press also dropped by, if you check out the photos on flickr, you can see him checking out the t-shirts. He wrote about it on his blog here.

Wednesday's new comics delayed until Thursday, May 28!

Sorry about this folks, we've just received word from Diamond that due to an error on Canpar's part our Comics shipment will be delayed 24 hours.

But, in the mean time, Back Issues are on sale for 50% off and Premium Back Issues are 25% off until Saturday!

L.A. Mood's invites you to meet comic artists and creators:
Diana Tamblyn and Willow Dawson
Saturday, May 30, 12-4 PM at the store.

Diana is an Ignatz-nominated cartoonist and illustrator living here in London. She has written several mini comics such as The Rosie Stories and Duty Must Be Done: The Story of Frederick Banting. She is currently working on a full length graphic novel From Earth to Babylon: The Story of Gerald Bull and the Supergun. The first chapter of the book, The Paris Guns, is now available as a mini comic and she will have some on hand. I find her historical biographies to be reminiscent of Chester Brown's Louis Riel. Diana was also pleased to be chosen for the 2009 London Artists' Studio Tour at the beginning of May and her work was on the cover of the April 2009 issue of ArtScape. As well as her comics, she will have original art, t-shirts, and buttons available! You can check out a Q&A with the National Post here.

Willow, who is originally from BC, lived here in London for a brief period, working for us at L.A. Mood's! (We like to think we had a positive influence in her journey as illustrator in the comics industry.) Willow is currently working on a semi-autobiographical web comic called 100 Mile House.

She is also the illustrator of the graphic novel No Girls Allowed: Tales of Daring Women Dressed as Men for Love, Freedom and Adventure, published by Kids Can Press written by Susan Hughes and Violet Miranda: Girl Pirate with Emily Pohl-Weary. You can view a video of No Girls Allowed here.

You can visit Willow's web page here. As well as her comics, Willow will have original art, buttons, and t-shirts for sale! You can check out a Q&A with the National Post here.

Both ladies will be happy to sign their work and talk about the comics biz and their experiences getting started in this male dominated industry.

Check out this video, a few minutes of Taz from FM96 at L.A.Mood's on Free Comic Book Day!

Worldwide D&D Day! Saturday, May 23, 11AM

Sign up and play! DM's are standing by!

Journey Through the Silver Caves- A kobold wyrmpriest has stolen an ancient book of prophecy from the people of Albura, a fortress on the borderlands. The kobold has a dark plan for the book and only you can stop him in time! An adventure for 5 pregenerated 5th level characters.






No D&D Day is complete with out a new release! Monster Manual 2 and D&D Minis Dangerous Delves will be available May 19th which coincides with our great Games Sale! All RPG's, board games and minis on sale for 25% off May 17-23. What a great week to be a gamer!

Sales to Remember!

May 3-9
30% off Graphic Novels & Trade Paperbacks

May 10-16
30% off Toys & Statues'

May 17 -23
25% off Role Playing Games,
Board Games, Minis & Clix

May 24-31
50% off Back Issues
25% off Premium Back Issues

May Heroclix Events
Events start at 6pm
All events unrestricted

6th Weds: Feel The Wind :
Build a 400 pt team all figure must have flight ability

14th Thurs: A Team Player
Build a 800 pt team with all figures having the same team symbol or keyword

20th Weds: There has been cut backs :
Build a 200 pt team

27th Weds: Fan Favorite
Build a 1000 pt team