Icon | Manager hopes this will attract new readers Published Thursday February 24th, 2011 By DON MACPHERSON macpherson.don@dailygleaner.com Beware, citizens, Godzilla is coming to Fredericton, and he's going to stomp on a downtown business. Stephen MacGillivray Photo Jason Arnold, manager of Strange Adventures comics and curiosities store on York Street, jokes around as he looks at an image of the front of the new Godzilla comic, which has Godzilla's foot crushing his store. Strange Adventures, a comic book and gaming store at 68 York St., will be featured on the cover of a new Godzilla comic, slated for release next month. Manager Jason Arnold said IDW Publishing, the publisher of the Godzilla comic, informed comics retailers of a new promotional idea. Shops that ordered 500 copies of Godzilla #1 could get a special edition of the issue featuring the reptilian monster's foot smashing the stores to pieces on the cover. Strange Adventures owner Calum Johnston, who lives in Halifax and operates another Strange Adventures store [...]

Saturday, March 12 at 8:00am at Chinese Commerce Centre, Saint John, NB A full Day of Gaming for $10 Tentative Schedule: 9:00-1:00 Living Forgotten Realms (level 4-7) – Tony Spence ...(6 players) Living Forgotten Realms (level 1-4) – ? (6 Players) Heroclix (300 pt Modern Age) – Rick Hawkes (xx players) Warhammer 40K (3 round 800pt defense, 1200pt Strike force) – Mike Laaper/Patrick Mulligan (xx Players) D&D 4th edition (The Emperor’s Game) – Raymond Saulnier (10 players) – setup at 8AM Circus Imperium – Joe Hatfield (6 Players) Console Fighting Games – Adrian Silva (all day) – (xx players) 1:30-5:30 Living Forgotten Realms (level 11-14) special adventuring company module- David Hudson (6 players) Living Forgotten Realms (level 1-4) – Pam McNeish (6 players) Formula D – Kale Harding (7 Players) AD&D 1st edition (Rats for Hire) – Donna Nutter (6 players) Monsters & Other Childish Things – Chris Fougere (? Players) Circus Imperium – Joe Hatfield (6 players) 6:00-10:00 Vampire the Masquerade (Camarilla LARP) – [...]

Adrianne Palicki cast as the new Wonder Woman Times & Transcript Published Friday February 18th, 2011 Adrianne Palicki will play Wonder Woman in David E. Kelley's new TV pilot for NBC, Entertainment Weekly reports. And considering her gorgeous looks and incredible height (she's 5'11"!), the 27-year-old seems like the perfect choice to play the super Amazon. Kelley's script for the Wonder Woman pilot has received underwhelming reviews, but Palicki's casting could be the show's saving grace - after all, she's already received plenty of critical praise for Friday Night Lights and the lauded-but-short-lived Lone Star. Still, the actress has her work cut out for her, as she'll actually be playing three separate roles on Wonder Woman: billionaire business mogul Diana Themyscira, Diana's ho-hum assistant Diana Prince and, of course, the titular superhero. A few more roles still need to be cast before the pilot goes into production, but Wonder Woman is considered one of NBC's best bets for the Fall 2011 season.

Calling all Star Wars fans ... lightsaber club now in Fredericton Published Friday February 11th, 2011 As Yoda might say, skilled with a lightsaber, he is. THE DAILY GLEANER/JAMES WEST PHO Lightsaber club: Brad Doucette demonstrates his lightsaber skills during a recent sparring round. In Brad Doucette's world, Star Wars is huge and he wants to share his passion with others. Last October, he and like-minded friends started to meet in Queen Square, where he demonstrated his lightsaber skills. He has studied how to use one since he was a child. When it was too cold to meet outdoors, they started to meet indoors and a club, called East Coast Sabers, was formed. Every Monday night since then, over 30 club members, who range in age from 11 to 36, meet to practice their techniques. Some come with their own lightsabers, others borrow them from Doucette, who owns many of them. "I show them all about the lightsabers, how to use them and how they [...]

Hey you.. Yeah you. Comunicon Games Festival: 19-20, 2011. Atrium, Student Union Building, UNB. 21 Pacey Dr. Fredericton NB If interested, please contact COMUNICON (below). -This is their annual Main Event and includes: Θ Collectable Card Games (sanctioned Magic The Gathering Type II and Sealed Deck) Θ Role-Playing Games (D&D, D&D Encounters, Cthulhu) Θ Miniatures Games (D&D minis, Warhammer, Battletech) Θ Card Games (Munchkin, 3 Dragon Anté, Chez Geek) Θ Displays by the Maritime Modelers Contact: brianjm@nbnet.nb.ca 'Nuff said? Out.

Out of the Box Publishing has won the Canadian Toy Testing Council Awards for Run Wild and Super Circles. Congrats on a job well done!

This is a film done by Edward Douglas the composer of Midnight Syndicate. His music has been playing in haunted attractions for years now and he finally gets to take a dip in the vast directing pool. The Dead Matter is just as haunting and creepy as the gothic soundtracks Ed puts together every year. The film tells the story of a woman who wants to contact her deceased brother and stumbles upon a relic that can control the dead. She ends up getting mixed up with two warring vampire lords who want to control the power of the relic, where as one vampire hunter wants nothing more than to just destroy it. The Dead Matter feels like a story right out of the popular role playing game 'World of Darkness' bringing different fictional creatures together into the same world. I hope to see more installments in the Midnight Syndicate series in the near future just as good as this one. From http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/22885. Congrats to [...]

Get 50% off a selection of great books in Osprey’s January sale. Take a look, pick up a few bargains, and make sure you have enough reading to keep you busy through the first part of this year. Remember – as ever, membership discounts will apply on top of this 50% discount.

Happy New Year! In 2011, Monolith Graphics Celebrates 20 Years of Gothic Fantasy. Founded in 1991 by artist Joseph Vargo, Monolith Graphics began as an outlet to sell prints and printwear of Vargo's Gothic fantasy art. With the addition of graphic designer Christine Filipak in 1992, Monolith continued to grow and flourish, successfully spanning into the realms of music, literature and the occult. To celebrate this milestone event, we are offering great deals throughout the year. Anniversary Specials 20% - 50% OFF [ Postcards ] - [ Greeting Cards ] - [ Books ] - [ Posters ] All books purchased from the Monolith site will be signed by Joseph Vargo.

THE DAWN OF THE NEW YEAR FINDS CHAOSIUM in pretty good shape. We begin the year with two new items already in the warehouse and ready for shipping. We have a few other books already in final or near-final production. We found an overseas printer who is providing good-quality hardback production. We discovered that some Mythos evil-doers had infiltrated our site towards the end of last year but managed to ferret them out, ridding our site of their cruel influence and further improving security. NEW CALL OF CTHULHU KEEPER'S SCREEN! A Keeper's Screen protects the secrets of the Call of Cthulhu gamemaster while providing useful rules summaries and reminders. Created especially for the current edition of our popular Call of Cthulhu rules, this is a three-panel screen mounted on thick hardcover stock that folds out to 33 inches wide by 8.5 inches high. The package also includes a 22"x34" Mythos Vade Mecum poster by the mad french artists Christian Grussi and El Théo, postulating relationships [...]