DRAGON'S BREATH

The Official Newsletter of Heroes and Dragons

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Issue # 8.20 � November 9, 2003

Columbia Comicon Returns This Saturday!

South Carolina's comic convention is returning!

After a six-year absence, the Midlands' only comic book convention is coming back to Columbia.� This special one-day show will be held at the Super 8 Motel & Conference Center on St. Andrews Road in Columbia.� (Click here for directions.)

Special guests include:

• Mark Poole, artist and painter (Magic: The Gathering)

• Doug Alexander of Hellblazer, JLA, and Batman

• Kimo Temperance of Batman and InkPunks

• Sanford Greene of Galactic and Planet of the Apes

Admission is $2 (free for kids under 6 years old).
Show hours are 10am to 4pm.

Comic Club Meets Thursday at 7:30pm

A last-minute production delay on Sgt. Rock: Hell and a Hard Place has changed our reading plans for November.� Instead of the new graphic novel by Brian Azzarello and Joe Kubert, Heroes and Dragons Comic Club will be discussing Batman: Arkham Asylum by Grant Morrison and Dave McKean.

Artist McKean has said that Arkham Asylum is too ambitious, that the character of Batman can't support a serious examination of mental illness.� Was McKean right?� Was Arkham Asylum a misguided attempt to make Batman "relevant," or was it just ahead of its time?

You make the call at the next meeting of Heroes and Dragons Comic Club � 7:30pm on Thursday, November 13.

Copies of Arkham Asylum are available now at the front counter of the H&D Mega-Store.� Retail price is $14.95, but card-carrying HDCC members can pick it up for only $11.96.� (HDCC members save 20% on all graphic novels, remember!)

Previews Orders Due Saturday

Orders from the latest issue of Previews (The Comics Shop's Catalog�) are due by midnight on Saturday, November 15.� The current catalog includes items scheduled to ship in January of 2004.

You can download the latest Previews catalogs in text-only format here and place your orders online here.

REMEMBER:
Tug (our current New Comics Manager) places store orders much earlier in the month than either Chad, Brett, or Scott did.� If you want to be sure you get your items, you must submit your Previews order on time!

Coming Events

Site to See

With issue # 3 of Neil Gaiman's Marvel super-hero opus arriving this week, this is the perfect time to turn our attentions toward Jess Nevins's 1602 Annotations:

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