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#2 Card Previews 'Dark Ascension' With Alternate Art
IDW Publishing
has revealed the card that will be included in the second
issue of its Magic: The Gathering comic: a preview card
for the Magic: The Gathering Dark Ascension set. The card,
“Faithless Looting” will be a playable card with alternate
art by Karl Kopinski, which is also used for the cover
of the comic issue.
Magic: The
Gathering #2, with the Dark Ascension card, will hit the
stands early 2012. The comic series was delayed a few
months.
The card in
the first issue of Magic: The Gathering, which releases
in December, will include “Treasure Hunt,” a card from
Zendikar with alternate art.
Full
Metal Alchemist: THE SACRED STAR OF MILOS
Where: Bear
Tooth
When: Saturday Jan 21 Matinee 3:00pm and Late show (10:40)
and Sunday Jan 22 at 3:00pm
Cost: $3.50
The Bear Tooth
continues its support for Anime in An
chorage.
Let's thank them by packing the house!
Get your ticket
early, then come to BOSCO'S Friday at 9pm for a
little FMA party with cake and ice cream covered with
that great Bosco chocolate syrup. Maybe a trivia contest
drawing and more ...
If you come
to our little party, you can park in the Spenard Center
parking lot while you watch the movie.
Magic
Dark Ascension PreRelease Events
Sealed
Magic Dark Ascension PreRelease #1
Where: BOSCO'S Spenard
When: Saturday 01/28/12 at 12:01 AM (that's one minute
after midnight on Friday). Come on Friday for our usual
great Friday Night Magic and stay late (early?) for your
first chance to play Dark Ascension.
Cost $25
Over
50 energetic Magic players showed up for the midnight
prerelease!
Sealed
Magic Dark Ascension PreRelease #2
Where: BOSCO'S Spenard
When: Saturday 01/28/12 Play at 1:00 PM, Register from
12:15 to 1:00
Cost $30
Two
Headed Giant Sealed Magic Dark Ascension PreRelease
Where: BOSCO'S Spenard
When: Sunday 01/29/12 Play at 1:00 PM, Register from 12:15
to 1:00
Cost $25 per player
Magic Dark
Ascension Launch Event
Where: BOSCO'S
When: Saturday February 4. Register 12:30 Play Starts
at 1 p.m.
Cost: $15
Booster Draft.
Usual great
prizes. Come on down and check out the new Magic set at
BOSCO'S! Dark Ascension is the second set in the Innistrad
Block.
NHL
PLAYER OF THE DAY
Where: both BOSCO'S
When: February
Your chance
to meet a NHL player!
How to Play
BOSCO'S has all kinds of prizes including packs of Panini
NHL cards, t-shirts, an exclusive Panini NHLPOD Card set,
items from other NHLPA licensees, plus an exclusive Panini
NHLPOD autographed trading card.
How it
Works:
Step 1 - Each
day, we will place a sticker next to a player on the Panini
NHLPOD poster to mark them as the "Player of the Day."
In addition, Alex Ovechkin and Tim Thomas are marked as
Wild Cards throughout the promotion.
Step 2 - You
can enter by purchasing a pack of 2011-12 Panini NHL Cards
including such popular brands as; Score, Pinnacle, Prestige,
Donruss, Elite, Classic, Score, Certified, Absolute and
many others.
Step 3 - To
win, you must open the pack in front of a store employee.
If you "pull" the highlighted Panini NHL Player of the
Day or the Wild Card you win a prize.
Step 4 - Four
times during the promotion one randomly chosen daily winner
will receive an additional prize as a weekly prize winner.
Step 5 - At
the conclusion of the 30-day promotion, one of the four
weekly winners is randomly selected as the grand prize
winner and receives the autographed card.
Step 6 - Each
hobby shop grand prize winner is entered into the national
sweepstakes for their chance to meet an NHL player and
the local hobby shop gets to host a free autograph session
with that player.
Warhammer
Fantasy Escalation League
Where: BOSCO'S
in Spenard
When: Wednesdays from February 8 through May 30.
Cost: $30
Games will
start at 1000 points and escalate 250 pts every second
week of play. (So, your first two games will be at 1000,
your next two games will be at 1250). League nights will
be Wednesdays.
Contact the
store for more info.
Anchorage
Reads
The Complete Persepolis
The
Complete Fun and Games Anchorage Reads Launch Party Feb.
2, 5:30-7 pm Ann Stevens Room, Loussac
BOSCO'S will be there to talk about how to read a
comic. Join us for food, door prizes, book discussion
tips, a showing of Rick Steves’ Iran travel show, and
a recording of an interview with author Marjane Satrapi.
Loussac
Book Discussions The Complete Persepolis
Feb. 11, 3-4 pm Ann Stevens Room, Loussac
Comics
Workshop with Lee Post (for teens)
Feb. 17, 3-5 pm, Muldoon Library
Mar. 3, 2-4 pm Chugiak-Eagle River Library
Mar. 9, 3-5 pm Teen Underground, Loussac
Prisoner
of Tehran Feb. 18, 3-4 pm Ann Stevens Room, Loussac Film:
Persepolis
Feb. 24, 3:30 pm Teen Underground, Loussac
Mar. 7, 6:30 pm Girdwood Library
Mar. 10, 3 pm Mountain View LibraryPersepolis.
Persepolis
Jeopardy
Feb. 28, 7-8:30 pm Wilda Marston Theatre
Community
Events
World Affairs Council: Obama’s Diplomacy with Iran, by
Dr. Trita Parsi
Feb. 10, Doors open 11:30 am, program at 12:00 pm, Hilton
Hotel alaskaworldaffairs.org
Anchorage
Reads at Bridge Builders Meet the World
Feb. 25, 11-4 pm Anchorage Museum bridgebuildersak.com
Read
the book and win a NOOK®! After you finish Persepolis,
go to facebook.com/anchoragereads and enter to win a NOOK®
Tablet in a March 9 drawing.
Satrapi's
memoir opens with her childhood in Iran during the
tumultuous era which saw the overthrowing of the Shah,
the Iranian Revolution, the rise of Ayatollah Khomeini,
and the war with Iraq. The story evolves in stark black
and white images and brief text as Satrapi grows from
an idealistic and outspoken child, to a teen expatriate
student in Austria, and finally to an adult trying to
reconcile her two worlds at home and abroad.
As
Anchorage Reads' first foray into the graphic novel,
we examine this up-and-coming form of storytelling, especially
popular among teens, explore how it is created, and discuss
its unique value as literature. The story has added relevance
today, during the time of the Arab Spring, when people
across the Middle East and Africa are waging their own
battles for democracy. Satrapi's personal story gives
an insight into the daily life of a person behind the
news headlines.
Sponsored
by Target, Anchorage Reads is an Anchorage
Public Library program to promote reading, literacy
and community-building by inspiring people of different
ages and backgrounds to read the same book. This marks
the sixth year of the program, which runs February 2 to
March 11, 2012.
Each
Anchorage Reads is unique with different partners and
events that enhance the understanding and discussion of
that year's book. The 2012 program includes a showing
of the 2007 Cannes Film Festival Jury Prize film based
on the book, and the Alaska World Affairs Council's February
10 event featuring Dr. Trita Parsi, the president of the
Nation Iranian American Council speaking on "A Single
roll of the dice: Obama's Diplomacy with Iran."
Additionally,
the first volume of the book, Perspolis, which details
Satrapi's experiences until she leaves Iran at 14, is
on the reading list for ninth graders in the Anchorage
School District.
Groups
and individuals are encouraged to participate by reading
the book, attending events or staging their own. The Complete
Persepolis is available for check-out at all APL locations
and is also a featured title in APL's Book Club Bags,
which include ten copies of the book and book club tips-perfect
for book clubs! Stay tuned for a complete list of Anchorage
Reads events, suggested supplemental reading and film
lists, a reader's guide, and much more!
Magic:
The Gathering Grand Prix Seattle-Tacoma Trial
Where:
BOSCO'S in Spenard
When: Saturday February 11, Register at 12:30 p.m. Begin
at 1 p.m.
Cost: $30
This
will be an Innistrad-Dark Ascension sealed deck tournament.
Everyone who plays gets 6 packs (3 Innistrad & 3 Dark
Ascension). We'll also have great prizes worthy of a Grand
Prix event! The top player gets a three-round bye at the
Grand Prix Seattle-Tacoma on March 2-4.
Once we have established the top eight players, they play
a run-off booster draft with new packs.
This
will be run at the Competitive Rules Enforcement Level
and judged by Level 1 judge Drew Bosco. There will be
a card pool swap for the sealed deck tournament. All the
details are here.
UPPER
DECK NATIONAL HOCKEY CARD DAY
Where:
BOSCO'S in Spenard
When: Saturday February 11
Cost: Free!
For
three years, hockey fans in the United States have been
shut out from Upper Deck’s National Hockey Card Day where
collectors can get free packs from the best card shops.
This
year, Upper Deck is extending the trading card holiday
to America. As
part of Upper Deck’s Certified Diamond Dealers network,
BOSCO'S will have special packs available for you!
The
set will highlight top Americans in the sport and top
international stars on American franchises. A special
Tim Thomas card celebrating a Stanley Cup championship
with the Boston Bruins will be a 16th card given as a
gift with purchase.
Upper
Deck likes to spice things up as well. The company will
sprinkle in a few autographs along the way.
AVENGERS
vs X-MEN
Why
would these folks be fighting? Hold hands and sing Kumbaya!
Well ... maybe not.
The
biggest comic book event in history begins in Avengers
VS X-Men #1, hitting BOSCO'S April 4, 2012!
The top creators in comics—Brian Bendis, Jason Aaron,
Jonathan Hickman, Ed Brubaker, Matt Fraction, John Romita
Jr, Olivier Coipel & Adam Kubert—join forces for a landmark
twelve-issue story sending The Avengers and the X-Men—the
two most popular franchises in comics history—to war with
each other! The world’s greatest super heroes—Iron Man,
Captain America, Thor, Hulk, Black Widow, Spider-Man,
Wolverine, Cyclops, Storm, Magneto and more—enter an unforgettable
battle…and only one side can emerge victorious!
PreRelease
Events
Tournaments
will be April 28 and 29. Exact schedule to be announced
eventually (get on our email list to make sure you know).
Prepay
deal will be announced eventually. (Probably will be the
same pricing as for Dark Ascention.)
The
"Launch" tournaments will be a week later after
the official release.
May 4th release of Magic the Gathering: Avacyn Restored,
the third and final set of the Innistrad block. At 244
cards Avacyn Restored qualifies as a large set and appears
at first glance to be similar to the Zendikar block’s
Rise of the Eldrazi.
The
Avacyn set could include some very different mechanics
than seen in Innistrad and Dark Ascension in much the
same way that the mechanics in Eldrazi differed from those
in the other sets in the Zendikar block. Avacyn Restored
will not have any ‘dual-faced’ cards.
KidsDay
Where:
Dena'ina Center (The big grey convention center that is
not the Egan Center)
When: Saturday, April 21st, from 10am - 4 pm
Cost: Free!
Hundreds
of booths with games, a variety of entertainment and things
to do. Thousands of people. Young kids and special teen
events, too.
This
is a pretty good time for all. BOSCO'S will be there with
our "Destroy the Death Star" game of skill.
FREE
COMIC BOOK DAY
Where:
Both BOSCO'S and Anchorage Public Libraries.
When: Saturday May 5
Cost: FREE! (duh)
Plans
for 2012 continue to develop. We've been offering 3 free
comics from the special Free Comic Book Day comics to
everyone. We also provide comics for the Anchorage Libraries
to give away.
Watch
for special deals for people who come in costume.
Special
discounts all around the store.
A
prize drawing for a full set of all the Free Comic Book
Day comics. (There are dozens on the list!)
We
hope to have representatives from the 501st legion and
maybe even continue our concert series.
All
great things, but mostly we need for YOU to show up ready
to have a great time!
Tap:
Max´s Game
A Magic: The Gathering Movie
Where: Not yet released
When: Maybe the end of 2011 or early 2012?
Cost: Who knows? We'll try to get it at the Bear's Tooth
when it is released.
Here's
a new trailer.
Learn about the film at www.maxovahra.com,
on facebook http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tap-Maxova-Hra-Tap-Maxs-Game/178994788819217
or on twitter https://twitter.com/#!/Tap_Maxs_Game
.
The movie makers
are looking for donations. Make them at Indiegogo. http://www.indiegogo.com/Tap-Maxs-Game-1
All contributions go back into the film in form of paying
the screenings costs all over the world and merchandise
for our fans, because this film has a nonprofit status.
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