December update

Great show in the back room Gallery by the Crystal Beard Collective. Opening was a smashing success.
Behind the door Gallery features Lucky's 2007 Calendar pieces - including Teri Plummer's rendition of yours truly. Opening party Dec. 16 at 8:00pm, come on down!
I haven't been updating the blog with new releases, because they've been coming in so fast and furious I just haven't had time to...we've added hundreds of incredible, unique, hard to find books, comics and graphic novels to our inventory just in the past few weeks. We're working hard to post our live inventory list, a great resource for anyone wanting to browse our in-stock titles. Much effort will be expended upgrading our website in the weeks ahead, stay tuned.

New Comic Day Nov. 2

In today - call or email to put items on hold.

The New Releases:
R CRUMBS HEROES OF BLUES JAZZ & COUNTRY
BATTLER BRITTON #5 (OF 5)
EMILY THE STRANGE #2
FAMILY GUY VOL 3 GN (OF 3)
FUN HOME GN
GILDED LILLIES COMICS & DRAWINGS GN
JUGHEAD AND FRIENDS DIGEST #15
LOCAL #7 (OF 12) (MR)
MARVEL 1602 TP QUILL AWARD EDITION
SONIC THE HEDGEHOG #168
SUPERMAN CONFIDENTIAL #1
MOUSE GUARD #5 (OF 6)
APOCALYPSE NERD #4 (OF 6)

The Restocks:
BATMAN HUSH VOL 2 TP
QUITTER SC
SUPERMAN RED SON TP
TANK GIRL VOL 3 GN
TONY MILLIONAIRE SOCK MONKEY UNCLE GABBY

ACME #17 by Chris Ware in-stock now!

Wowee zowee, we just got a shipment of the latest installment of the always much anticipated Acme Novelty Library, issue #17, published for the first time by Drawn and Quarterly. We've already sold about a dozen to customers in France...what are you waiting for?!

Big Questions #9 and Don't Go Where I Can't Follow

Yowza! Literally straight from the printing press - we've just received our order of Big Questions #9 and Don't Go Where I Can't Follow, both by crowd favorite Anders Nilsen.
Everything you see on this D&Q page about Anders is available at Lucky's except Big Questions #6.

October 25 New Titles

Mega-orders of smaller press books and comics coming in early
next week - from Drawn and Quarterly, Fantagraphics, NBM,
Bodega, Dark Horse, and much more...even Acme Novelty Library #17!
Here's the calm before the storm:

RUNAWAYS #21 
BART SIMPSON COMICS #32               
BATMAN HUSH VOL 1 TP                   
EMILY THE STRANGE #1                       
LITTLE LULU VOL 12
PUT THE BOOK BACK ON SHELF (Belle and Sebastian Comic)
SEVEN SOLDIERS #1
SIMPSONS BUST-UPS SER 3 ASST
SIMPSONS CLASSICS #10
SOCK MONKEY COLLECTED WORKS
SOCK MONKEY TP
SUPERMARKET TP
TEEN TITANS GO #36
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #101
VENOM VS CARNAGE TP  

Wednesday Oct. 18 New Comics

Wednesday, aka New Comic Day in the "biz".

100 BULLETS VOL 1 FIRST SHOT LAST CALL TP
100 BULLETS VOL 2 SPLIT SECOND CHANCE TP
100 BULLETS VOL 3 HANG UP ON THE HANG LOW TP
100 BULLETS VOL 4 FOREGONE TOMORROW TP
ARCHIE #570                                             
BLACK DOGS GRAPHIC SHAKESPEARE KING LEAR GN
BLACK DOGS GRAPHIC SHAKESPEARE MACBETH GN
CONAN #33
FABLES VOL 1 LEGENDS IN EXILE TP
FRANK MILLER SIN CITY VOL 4 THAT YELLOW BASTARD
FRANK MILLER SIN CITY VOL 5 FAMILY VALUES 2ND TP
FRANK MILLER SIN CITY VOL 6 BOOZE BROADS BULLETS
FRANK MILLER SIN CITY VOL 7 HELL & BACK 2ND TP
HAUNTED MANSION #1
HONEY TALKS STRIPBURGER COLLECTION
JUGHEAD #177
LOEG VOL ONE TP
LOEG VOL TWO TP
PREACHER VOL 1 GONE TO TEXAS TP
PREACHER VOL 2 UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD TP
SANDMAN #1 SPECIAL EDITION (MR)
SCOOBY DOO #113
SEVEN SONS GN
SIMPSONS COMICS #123
SUPERMAN RED SON TP
ULTIMATE FANTASTIC FOUR #35
WALKING MAN GN
Y THE LAST MAN VOL 1 UNMANNED TP

Back into the music biz at Lucky's

There's so much exciting stuff happening locally, Lucky's has decided to jump back into the music game. We cut back after a couple of unfortunate break-ins several years ago, and have recently only had a limited quantity of vinyl LPs in stock. Well, starting last week we'll be building up our compact disc and LP inventory, focusing on but not limited to many of the excellent Canadian and local bands out and about. Here's our newest batch of new titles and restocks:

Artist	Title	Retail	Format
Black Mountain	Black Mountain	15.99	LP
Bonnie "Prince" Billy	The Letting Go	15.99	LP
Death From Above 1979	You're A Woman, I'm a Machine	12.99	LP
Destroyer	Destroyer's Rubies	16.99	CD
Destroyer	Destroyer's Rubies	17.99	LP
Destroyer	City of Daughters	15.99	CD
Destroyer	Thief	14.99	CD
Destroyer	We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge	14.99	CD
Dinosaur Jr.	Green Mind 180g	26.99	LP
Fugazi	In On the Kill Taker	13.99	LP
Fugazi	The Argument	13.99	LP
Hecker, Tim	Harmony in Ultraviolet	15.99	CD
Public Enemy	It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back	39.99	LP
Sinoia Caves	The Enchanter Persuaded Disco Isolation	13.99	CD
Smog	Red Apple Falls	13.99	LP
Songs: Ohia	Didn't It Rain	13.99	LP
Songs: Ohia	Ghost Tropic	14.99	CD
Songs: Ohia	The Lioness	14.99	LP
Sonic Youth	Rather Ripped	16.99	LP
Sufjan Stevens	Illinois	18.99	LP
Sufjan Stevens	Michigan	14.99	CD
Sunset Rubdown	Shut Up I Am Dreaming	13.99	CD
Sunset Rubdown	Snakes Got A Leg	14.99	CD

New titles Oct 16 - D&Q and McSweeney's

Just in today:
New:
Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip
Restocks:
Better of McSweeney's vol. 1
Wholphin vol. 2
Louis Riel sc by Chester Brown
Little Man sc by Chester Brown
Chester Brown appearing Oct 18 and 20 at the Vancouver Writer's Festival
Drawn and Quarterly Showcase vol. 3 (vol. 4 in stock too)
Get a Life by Dupuy and Berberain
Bone vol. 1 Out From Boneville (vol. 2 - 4 in stock too)
War's End by Joe Sacco (Palestine, Safe Area Gorazde, The Fixer, But I Like It all in stock too)

eBay, Amazon, and Lucky's

I somehow feel compelled to explain why we have so many items listed in our eBay store and not yet on our website. It's simply a matter of reaching more potential customers. Something our in-town customers may find annoying, or not, is that we don't offer the same discounts in store that we do online. Online discounts are meant as a way to offset shipping costs for the customer, and are essential to our being at all competitive with the giants like Amazon, and Amazon. Who do you want to support, big ol' Amazon, or us - little ol' Lucky's? Many of our customers are from places not served, or not served well, by local comic shops - remote areas like 100 Mile House, Oakland, Vladivostok, and Fukuoka. So if you live in Vancouver, please take solace in the fact that your item will arrive quite quickly, and you're saving a trip to the store. If you live in Vancouver, we will arrange free hand-delivered shipping for orders over $50.00.

Anders Nilsen's Big Questions #3, 4 and 5 have arrived!

We received a limited supply of Big Questions #3, 4 and 5 from Mr. Nilsen in Chicago. He has reprinted these issues himself and made them available to his reverential public. Exciting. Wonderful news.
At this time Anders is not reprinting #6 because of the difficulty of recreating a centerfold inset.
Copies of #3, 4 and 5 will be $5.00 U.S., $6.00 Canadian.

Welcome to October new titles

Prepare to be tempted by a flabbergasting array of new releases in stock at Lucky's. Starting with this week:

Best American Comics	Illustrations of Pets
32 Stories	Illustrations of Prehistoric Mammals
Believer 37	Illustrations of Horses
Greetings From E Street	Dreams of Rarebit Fiend
Crumb: A Book of Postcards	Dore Gallery
Housekeeping vs. the Dirt	Dore Bible Illustrations
Jokes and the Unconscious	Bird Illustrations
North American Indian Designs	Tintin Destination Moon
1001 Songs: the Great Songs of All Time	Tintin Land of the Black Gold
Monster Nation	Tintin Prisonsers of the Sun
Yeti Mag #4	Tintin The Black Island (l'Ile Noir) french hc
Comic Art Magazine #8	Tintin the Black Island english
I Don't Want to Think About It Right Now	Tintin the Blue Lotus
Mountain Man…McSweeney's Lists	Tintin the Broken Ear (L'Oreille Cassee) french hc
Orpheus Zine #3	Tintin the Broken Ear english
McSweeney's 20	Tintin the Calculus Affair
5000 Animals	Tintin the Secret of the Unicorn
Bust 41	Tintin the Shooting Star
Sweeter Side of R. Crumb	Puro Muerto
Intelligent Jokes	Jimmy Corrigan sc
Clumsiest People in Europe

We are currently working on creating "add to cart" buttons for shopping on our site, and are offering many titles at discounts of 10 - 20% in our Ebay store.
Call (604-875-9858) or email to reserve copies now.

New Titles late August

Oh man, the new stuff just keeps rolling in...I'll try to catch you up on most of them here:
Siberia by Nikolai Maslov
The Rabbi's Cat by Joann Sfar
"Also Known As" vol. 1 by 12oz Prophet
Doris Danger vol. 1
Nog a Dod, edited by Marc Bell
Bone vol. 4
Kings of the Road by Ragnar
Vampire Loves by Joann Sfar
Neal Cassady: the Fast Life of a Beat Hero
most of the Global Hobo mini-comic catologue - amazing stuff you should come and browse!
Lilman Makes a Name for Himself by Caleb Neolon
The Gremlins by Roald Dahl
Skibber Bee-Bye by Ron Rege Jr

...more arriving soon, stay tuned.

Jeremy Eaton...

Wow, just got in copies of Jeremy Eaton's "Jackass", of which Jim Woodring says "JACKASS...inaugurates an entirely new branch of the craft." And I think he means that in a really good way, because this little book is fantastic. Published by Jason T. Miles.

August New Titles

Lots of great stuff in this month, and more to come...orders from D & Q, Fantagraphics, and NBM due in next week.
Art Out of Time: Unknown Comics Visionaries, 1900-1969, edited by Dan Nadel
Mouse Guard # 1 - 4
Sloth by Gilbert Hernandez
McSweeney's 20
Dark Adaptation by Lorenz Peter
MOCA Postcards by Marcel Dzama, Mark Ryden, and Royal Art Lodge
We Are On Our Own by Miriam Katin
Louis Riel soft cover by Chester Brown
Little Nemo (Taschen collection) 1905 - 1914 by Winsor McCay
Monologues for the Coming Plague by Anders Nilsen
I Am Going To Be Small by Jeffrey Brown

New Titles July

Tons of new stuff in, lots of great restocks, go Portugal!

• The Believer: The 2006 Music Issue (tracks from Destroyer and Calexico!)
• The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004 and 2005
• McSweeney's 19 (#18, 17, 15 and 13 also in stock)
• Acme Novelty Library # 3, 11, 12, 14 and 16 by Chris Ware
  
• Monologues for the Coming Plage by Anders Nilsen
• The Brick Testament: Stories from the Book of Genesis and The Ten Commandments
• The Book of Joe by Joe Coleman
• Secret Mystic Rites by Todd Schorr
• Good Bye, Chunky Rice, new edition, by Craig Thompson
• The Fate of the Artist by Eddie Campbell
• Lots of Asterix and Tintin
• Little Nemo 1905 to 1914 hc
• Giant Robot #42
• God Made Dirt and Dirt Don't Hurt, 2nd edition
• DF: Idiots on Parade
• Baby Make Me Breakfast
• Baby Fix My Car
• R. Crumb Draws America
• R. Crumb Draws the Blues
• It Feeds Itself: Eric White
• 2W Box Sets E, I and J
• Posada: 150 Years
• Crickets #1 by Sammy Harkham
• Babel vol. 2 by David B.
• Insomnia vol. 2 by Matt Broersma
• They Found The Car by Gipi
• Comics Journal # 276 and 275
• Dungeon vol. 1 and 2 by Safr and Trondheim
• The Squirrel Mother Stories by Megan Kelso
• Little Star by Andi Watson
• The Ticking by Renee French
• The Most Special Day of My Life by the Clayton Brothers

Enough for now, hopefully you'll find something you like....

Best Comics and Graphic Novels of 2005

In case you missed it, and in case you care, check out this list of Time Magazine's top 10 graphic novels of 2005. Agree, disagree, whatever, they're all available at Lucky's.

Tom Spurgeon's list of the top 50 comics of 2005 is five times more interesting to read though. About 80% of these are available at Lucky's now, and any of them can be special ordered.

Hola and hello

Big changes are afoot, big changes I tell ya. We're trying hard to upgrade, update and generally spice up the website and add more content. Look for backlogs of great gallery pics to come online soon, and we'll be expanding the selections in our Ebay store as well.
You'll notice that most books and graphic novels in the Ebay store are listed at 20% off, and if you're a "bricks and mortar" real live non-virtual customer you may think you're getting ripped off...but the 20% off basically covers shipping for the online customer and makes the price about equal to in-store pricing. We'll see how long it takes for local customers to realize the savings they can garner by paying online and then coming in and pick up in the store.