Orcs

 Steam Forged Games has a new series of blog posts taking a deep look at different fantasy creatures. This week is Orcs. 

30th Anniversary Promo Card Packs

 We still have several of the 3 packs of the 30th anniverary promo cards so, while they last, spend $50 on Magic and get one of them.

Black Friday Specials

 Black Friday Weekend Specials while quantities last

Buy 5 bagged and boarded comics from the back issue room, get 5 free

Spend $10 on Pokemon, get a promo Pikachu card. Spend $50, get the card and a Pokemon binder. Spend $100 and get the card, binder and a Pokemon playmat. Spend $200 and get all three and a Pokemon tablemat. Limited quantities

Buy any new hardback D&D book and get a D&D logo dice bag

Buy $50 worth of Magic and get a set of 3 30th Anniversary promo cards. Buy $100 and get the cards and a Magic promo pack. Buy $200 and get the cards, promo pack and a foil promo pack.

Cadia Stands Astra Militarium Army Set for Warhammer 40,000 on sale

Scarlet Witch

 New Scarlet Witch series coming in about a month. Get pre-orders in now to make sure you get a copy.

On FOC tonight is the new ongoing series kicking off with SCARLET WITCH #1! Steve Orlando and Sara Pichelli cast their collective creative spell on readers with this new dawn for Wanda Maximoff. The series will follow Wanda after she’s pledged to use her chaos magic to help those in mystical need. Her first case? An entire town is descending into madness! What’s causing everyone to lose their minds? Or who? Wanda will venture into the community to track down and face this insidious threat!

Brothers' War Launch Tournament

 We will host a $20 booster draft for Brothers' War at 1 p.m. on Nov. 19.  Al particpants will receive, while they last, a set of the new Magic 30th Anniversary cards.

Loyal Retainers

 We were sent in a Chinese "Loyal Retainers" card as one of the 30th Anniversary promo cards. Since we only got one of them, we will make it one of the prizes in the Brother's Ware Pre-release drawing on Nov. 12 at 1 p.m.

Gargoyles

 A letter from the writer of the new Gargoyles comic:

Allow me to take you on a little journey…

Back in 1991, my team and I at Walt Disney Television Animation, began developing a little show called GARGOYLES. Originally inspired by Disney’s Adventures of the Gummi Bears, it started life as a comedy-adventure series about cute little multi-colored gargoyles (with names like Amp, Coco, Lassie and Ralph), who woke up in the late 20th Century to battle a comic villain (in the Captain Hook/Duke Igthorn-mode) named Xavier and his evil gargoyle henchwoman Demona. We were extremely enthusiastic about this show and pitched it to Michael Eisner, Chairman of the Walt Disney Company.

He passed.

But we still thought there was something in the notion, so we went back to the drawing board. We created the character of Goliath to lead the Gargoyle Clan and put the entire GARGOYLES development through the prism of who Goliath was, coming out the other side with, fundamentally, the television series that ended up airing on stations across the U.S. and elsewhere. We were extremely enthusiastic about this new version of the show – coming up with idea after idea – and pitched it all to Eisner.

He passed.

But by this time, a lot of folks at Disney thought we might be onto something. So, we went back to the drawing board for a third time, to figure out what GARGOYLES was missing. Ultimately, I decided it was missing nothing. The problem wasn’t the show; it was the pitch. We had thrown everything and the kitchen sink into it. We had to simplify, bring it back to the core ideas. We tossed a lot of stuff out of the pitch that did eventually get into the show. (The Pack? Out. The Mutates? Out. Etc.) And we focused everything on the core relationship between Goliath, and his human friend, Detective Elisa Maza. One last time, we pitched the series to Eisner – though to be honest, I kinda thought he’d toss me out of the boardroom for pitching it yet again.

But this time, he bought it.

With Eisner’s backing, we made two seasons of GARGOYLES for television syndication. And years later, I wrote an eighteen issue “Season Three” for Slave Labor Graphics. But GARGOYLES is my baby, and I’ve been desperate to get back to the series and its large and wondrous cast of characters for over a decade now – as have our extremely loyal fans, who’ve never allowed the show to fall out of the zeitgeist. Now – thanks to Disney, Dynamite, Nate Cosby and George Kambadais – we’re back for “Season Four” with Goliath, Elisa, Demona, Xanatos, Brooklyn, Lexington, Broadway, Bronx, Angela, Coldstone, Coldfire, Owen, Fox, Alexander, the Pack, the Mutates, the Clones, and new or newer characters like Katana, Gnash, Fu-Dog, Egwardo and Dino Dracon. I can’t wait for both old fans and new readers to see these stories and adventures, to resume this long and wonderful journey…

Thanks for hopping aboard,

Greg Weisman

November 2022