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10 Feb 2017

This Column Has Seven Days #110 // Sell Your Pants & Learn How To Pick Flowers

Devin R. Bruce
Blog, Comics, Pop Culture

Greetings friends and neighbours! I hope that everyone has been staying weird and wonderful over the last week. And if the week has been lacking in high-quality weirdness, don't worry: I come bearing a cornucopia of delights! Well, they delighted me, anyhow. Let's get into it! * * * * * No joke: Dirty Dancing is a much better movie than I thought it was. To be fair, the first time I watched Dirty Dancing when I was ten years old, and let me just say that it is not a great movie for a ten year old boy who isn't able to...

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10 Feb 2017

New in Used Books Vol 9

Jared Henze
Blog, This Week in Used Books, Used Books

Greetings folks! Welcome once more to our highlights from this week’s used book acquisitions.  Quite the haul of new things that have kept me busy, here are some of my favorites. Graphic Novels Some exciting graphic novels in this batch. Plus there are many number ones for recent series.  An excellent opportunity to check out some great stories at a great price Asterix A huge part of my own childhood, always good for some alternate history, superhero-esque fun Contemporary Works Some contemporary fantasy stories, ranging from fantasy heists to modern fantasy. SF/F Pocketbooks Over a hundred science fiction and fantasy pocketbooks ranging from classics to recent releases. Heinlein A small...

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06 Feb 2017

Incoming // New Releases for February 8th, 2017

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Blog, Incoming

Hey everyone, and welcome to another week of great pop culture here at Variant Edition. If you haven't been to the store for a while, we encourage you to drop by to see how much things have changed. Even if it's only been a week, there are some interesting new things to see. Also, keep an eye out for the return of our regular store newsletter...

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03 Feb 2017

New In Used Books Vol 8

Jared Henze
Blog, This Week in Used Books, Used Books

We’ve had a pretty crazy couple weeks here in the used book department, projects have been completed and we’ve made an appearance at a local event here in Edmonton for the Table Top Cafe Community Market.  During this we’ve had a few interesting buys and trades and some exciting news for future events. Take a look below at some of the excitement here in Used Books! Fiction Several interesting titles for our fiction section including some harder to find Maguire and Lem.  Plus several General Fiction titles to beef up our section Anthology Several anthology works from a variety of authors and genres within! Genre...

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03 Feb 2017

This Column Has Seven Days #109 // Holy Motherforking Shirt

Devin R. Bruce
Blog, Comics, Pop Culture

Lately I have been consuming a lot of great pop culture offerings but for some reason I've been at a bit of a remove from most of them. This week I want to talk about the things that broke me out of my day-to-day funk and made me really feel something. Awe, happiness, shock, excitement, curiosity: these things gave me all of that and more. [caption id="attachment_349289" align="aligncenter" width="350"] The cover to Wonder Woman by George Perez, Volume Four.[/caption] In the 1980s, just after Crisis on Infinite Earths reset the continuity of the DC Universe, the person who had the responsibility of re-establishing Wonder Woman...

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31 Jan 2017

Incoming // New Releases for February 1st, 2017

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Blog, Incoming

No commentary this week as we are hard at work rearranging the store once more! So things might look a little different when you stop by. As for what's out this week, well, here's a handy list of some pretty rad stuff. If any of this interests you, feel free to message us, and we'll set a copy aside for you! ADVENTURE TIME #61 ALL NEW X-MEN #1.MU ALL NEW X-MEN #18 IVX AQUAMAN #16 ASSIGNMENT #2 (OF 3) AVENGERS #4 BACK TO THE FUTURE #16 BALTIMORE THE RED KINGDOM #1 BATMAN #16 BULLSEYE #1 (OF 5) CHAMPIONS #5 DC COMICS BOMBSHELLS #22 DEADLY CLASS #26 (MR) DEADPOOL #26 DEADPOOL AND MERCS FOR MONEY #8...

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23 Jan 2017

Incoming // New Releases for January 25th, 2017

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Blog, Incoming

Are you ready for a brand new week of comics and pop culture? We certainly are, with a great week of comics on tap. What you see below is a list of the new comics hitting our stands this week, with a bit of bonus commentary on some of the items. If you see something you want, just let us know, and we'll set a copy aside for you! ACTION COMICS #972 ALIENS DEFIANCE #9 ALIENS VS PREDATOR LIFE AND DEATH #2 ANIMOSITY THE RISE #1 ONE SHOT // One day, the animals all woke and let us know what they were thinking and...

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20 Jan 2017

This Column Has Seven Days #108 // Tell Your Disappointment To Suck It

Devin R. Bruce
Blog, Comics, Pop Culture

Lately I've been feeling particularly grateful for this little corner of the internet, where I get to talk about things that I think are good, interesting, fun, and worthwhile. This week I'm really interested in focusing on the "fun" part of that equation, from kung fu comedies to comic book crossovers beyond time, space, and credulity. It's a weird, wonderful world out there. Let's dive right into it. One of my favourite television shows of the past two decades is the critically-acclaimed cult sitcom Community. It's an uneven ride through the show's six seasons but it's a show that combines real heart,...

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16 Jan 2017

Incoming // New Releases for January 18th, 2017

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Blog, Incoming

Let's do this! ADVENTURE TIME COMICS #7 ALL NEW X-MEN #17 IVX AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #23 CC  AQUAMAN #15 ARCHIE #16 AVENGERS #3.1 BATMAN #15 BLACK HAMMER GIANT SIZED ANNUAL #1 // One of the best superhero titles on the shelves today presents a special issue featuring art from Dustin Nguyen, Emi Leno, Nate Powell, Matt Kindt and Ray Fawkes, all telling stories written by series writer and co-creator Jeff Lemire. A brilliant series. If you’ve yet to check it out, definitely try this issue. BLACK PANTHER WORLD OF WAKANDA #3 BLACK ROAD #6 (MR) BLACK WIDOW #10 CAGE #4 (OF 4) CAPTAIN AMERICA SAM WILSON #18 CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #4 (MR) CLANDESTINO...

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14 Jan 2017

This Week in Used Books Vol 7 Part 2: Let’s Get Cooking

Jared Henze
Blog, This Week in Used Books, Used Books

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, we had so many books come in I had to split the details about them all into two parts! This post features the larger portion of what came in, our new and improved cookbook section!  Just a few days ago I set up a deal to get about 400 cookbook and cooking related titles in the shop.  And they are now all processed and ready for the world. As you can see, there are a ton of new titles. As those images don't show much on the book subjects matter, here are a few...

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