We have some new hours of operation effective this week

Not to worry, Elfsar will still be open 7 Days a week providing citizens with the very best in comics and toys!

The new hours are as follows:

(Open Late)

WEDNESDAYS: 10:30am - 9pm

THURS & FRI: 10:30am - 7pm

MON, TUE & SAT: 11am - 6pm

SUNDAYS: 12 Noon - 6pm

Well this Wednesday we will be closed (not by choice) due to the Yaletown Grand Prix closing the streets for the bike race. 

Here is the Map for the race.

New Comics will arrive on Thursday July 2nd.  Here is the New this week page:  http://www.elfsar.com/Product_Shipping_Lists/07_02_2009.htm

This is the greatest movie review of all time:
Michael Bay Finally Made An Art Movie
By Charlie Jane Anders
http://io9.com/5301898/michael-bay-finally-made-an-art-movie

“Critical consensus on Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen is overwhelmingly negative. But the critics are wrong. Michael Bay used a squillion dollars and a hundred supercomputers’ worth of CG for a brilliant art movie about the illusory nature of plot.

Oh, and I would warn you that there’ll be spoilers in this review — except that, really, since I still have no idea what actually happened in this movie, I’m not sure how much I can spoil it.”

I also loved the line, “LaBoeuf projects a pathetic, wall-eyed dorkhood, when he’s not babbling like a tumor removed from Woody Allen’s prostate that somehow achieved sentience.”

Hey all,

It’s your Monthly Newsletter from Elfsar. 

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IMPORTANT ODERING REMINDER! AUGUSTS ORDERS ARE DUE
TOMORROW  the 24th!

Staff highlights are up so if you forgot to look through this month's Previews
Catalogue you can quickly look at Elfbytes to get some staff reactions to this
months offerings. 

You can find this months review here:
 www.elfsar.com/Elfbytes%20Articles/June_2009.htm

Note: All Comic Saver File Customers should really find the time to read this as we sometimes offer
product that did not make it in time to be listed in Previews.

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BACK ISSUE SALE!!!
Remember those lovely 10,000 back issues we bought a few months ago?  
Well we are still working hard to get them ready for sale and we have been putting
them out each and every week.  So in the meantime we thought we would offer a
deal on all of our back issues.

We have a BUY2 GET 1 FREE SALE on all back issues in our back issue bins
(this includes variant covers and our current 50% off section so you can take
advantage of this double sale!)

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SUMMER SHOPATHON IN YALETOWN FRIDAY JULY 17th !
An even bigger sale will be happening all over Yaletown in mid July.
It’s a sale where you can get extra free stuff for simply for buying in Yaletown.
Elfsar will be a participant in this community sale and details will be made
available soon on the Elfsar blog after the Yaletown webpage launches. 

Subscribe to http://www.elfsar.betweenthestaples.com/

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FCBD $250.00 DOLLAR SCOTIABANK WINNER ANNOUNCED!
Congratulations to the winner: PAUL MANHOFF! 
He purchased an IRON MAN CLASSIC ACTION STATUE with his winnings!

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IS IT RIGHT FOR KIDS? 
One of our patrons has a new blog that is providing some useful information to help you decide if
something is right for you child. All of us with children have to make 
some hard choices and it can be frustrating how little information is 
available to make informed decisions.  

Check out this site for reviews of movies, TV shows, books, comics, toys, and
other stuff from the view point of a father with a young child. 
Click here:  http://isitrightforkids.wordpress.com/

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ELFSAR FAN PAGE ON FACEBOOK! 
You may already know about our group page
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=5515647817
But we also now have a fan page as well:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vancouver-BC/ELFSAR-COMICS-TOYS/84545999803
Join to keep up to date on all the happenings of your favorite comic book store.

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-The Big Elf

The mystery is over. Since its ambiguous solicitation, retailers and fans alike have been talking about Reborn #1, wondering what writer Ed Brubaker and artist Bryan Hitch had in store. Today, the world found out, as the New York Daily News reported that Marvel Comics will bring Steve Rogers back from the grave in what we can now call Captain America Reborn #1, expected to arrive in comic shops on Wednesday July 1st

Click here to read the full article.

Note that, as previously announced in Diamond Daily, the issue’s FOC date has been moved from Thursday, June 11 to tomorrow, June 16, giving you time to adjust your orders in response of this tremendous news, which is already spreading like wildfire.

CNN and MTV will both cover the hero’s return, IGN.com has already spotlighted the announcement, and more reactionary pieces can be expected in the days to come.
Brubaker, Hitch, and Editor Tom Brevoort have commented on the upcoming five-part mini-series in a Marvel.com follow-up article, and a Reborn trailer has also been produced, which you can find at PREVIEWSworld.com
 

In addition to making this announcement, Marvel has also revealed three covers for the 40-page first issue.
First, an Alex Ross cover will ship in a 50/50 ratio with a Hitch cover. Also revealed was the John Cassaday Variant, which retailers may only order only one copy of for every 25 copies of the regular Captain America Reborn #1. This variant is scheduled to arrive with the regular editions on July 1.
Finally, Marvel has unveiled the Joe Quesada Variant Cover which is scheduled to arrive in stores beginning July 22. Retailers may order two copies of the Quesada variant for every 25 copies of the regular Captain America Reborn #1 ordered.
Captain America Reborn #1 will also have a Sketch Variant Cover by John Cassaday that will only be available  for every 70 copies orderd of the regular editions.

Saturday, June 20th - The Rio Theatre
10AM to 4:30PM - $16 in advance, buy your tickets at Elfsar Comics!
Ghostbusters 1&2 Plus Real Ghostbusters and fan films.
Broadway and Commercial, Vancouver, BC
More information here.

Click to see full size

After 20 years, the Ghostbusters are at it again in Ghostbusters: The Video Game. Join Egon, Peter, Ray, and Winston as The Rookie, as they bust their way through New York City again.
Stop by Vancouver’s newest GameStop, try the game, meet some Ghostbusters, watch the movie, and MOST IMPORTANTLY get your copy of the game at midnight, the second they go on sale!

Door prizes donated by Sony, Atari, Gamer Graffix, Prima Guides, Proton Charging, and more!
Go to: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=84025534332 for more info.

Xbox 360 version will indeed be available! Microsoft flipped a magic switch (or realized how silly it would be to come out one day later than every other system), and Xbox 360 copies of the game will be on hand.

Pre-Orders - if you know you’re going to get the game, and can swing by GameStop at 8th and Cambie, prior to the event, it looks better to the head office, and the better it looks to them, the more attention they heap on that location, and the more attention they heap on that location, the better the event! Pre-orders only require $5 down (and we’re looking to see if they allow trade-ins, which would also be something best done in advance.)

Systems you can get Ghostbusters on;

PC
PS3
PS2
Xbox 360
Wii
Nintendo DS

Make sure to also check out: http://protoncharging.com/ for all your “G Bustin” needs!

For James,

BAMB! It’s the Monthly Newsletter as there are a few things happening that I felt you should know about.

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DID YOU KNOW THAT MAY’S ORDER IS DUE TOMORROW?

If you have not already done so, please send us your order changes so we can update your saver file.  As always we provide our take on what’s being offered in our Elfbytes.

Check out our rants and raves for this month at : http://www.elfsar.com/Elfbytes%20Articles/May_2009.htm

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2009 FCBD PICS ARE UP AT ELFSAR.COM!!!

I know, it took long enough, but the pics are finally up on the site.  Wow there was a lot. And they are BIG.  A huge and enormously big thank you to both Taylor Latour & Greg Milne for the Superawesomistic photos.  “Superawesomistic” is not a word but it should be, as I think it would describe these photos perfectly.

They are quite large so you can copy and save them on your computer and get them printed. 

http://www.elfsar.com/FCBD/2009/Results.htm

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ELFSAR PRESENTS DUNGEONS MASTERS AT DOXA!!!

Reminder, Elfsar will be presenting a short film at this year’s Documentary Film Festival. Tonight at 9:00pm

It is not too late to get tickets: http://doxafestival.ca/festival/films/dungeon_masters.html

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BECOME A FAN OF ELFSAR ON FACEBOOK!!!

As Facebook is ever changing so must we.  We are considering changing things over to from the Elfsar group page to a fan page which has a lot more options and uses. Or we might just keep on with both the fan page and group page.  If you are not a member of the group, I encourage you to join the fan page anyway and help us spread the love. Become a fan of Elfsar here: http://www.facebook.com/ads/manage/#/pages/Vancouver-BC/ELFSAR-COMICS-TOYS/84545999803 and let your social community know how you roll.

Geek-Fu is the stronger Fu there is!

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DID YOU KNOW ELFSAR IS ON YOUTUBE?

Oh yeah, we have some films up on the tube so be sure to check them out and vote for your favorite.

Go to the Elfsar Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/Elfsar

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ANIME EVOLUTION IS JUNE 12-14th!!!

The three-day convention is expected to draw close to 5,000 people and brings together art, animation (anime), comic books (manga), video games, film and music in a celebration of Asian popular culture and multimedia. http://www.animeevolution.com/

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POP-CULTURE COLLECTIBLES FAIR IS JUNE 13th!!!

Looking for an alternative to the Heritage Hall show?  Are you a Pro-Wrestling fan? Try the Pop-Cultures Collectibles Fair by Fun Promotions.

http://www.geocities.com/turnbuckle99/

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-The Big Elf

Here is an interesting tid-bit.  Walmart is cutting its toy space by more than half in a new initiative to re-make its stores, according to TD Monthly.  The new initiative, called “fast, friendly, clean,” will widen store aisles, cut aisle and end caps, and affect the number of SKUs carried in various departments.

The reduction in toy SKUs is being rolled out to under a quarter of the chain’s stores this summer, according to the report, followed by any necessary tweaking to the program before rolling it out to all stores across the country.  The impact will be felt both in the number of SKUs from each vendor and the number of vendors. 

Assuming this change is rolled out to the entire chain of the nation’s largest toy retailer, it will have a dramatic impact on the toy business.   It will create greater opportunities for other toy retailers, including mass merchants, such as Toys R Us and Target, and independents all the way down to little stores like Elfsar.  But it will probably also place short term pressures on the toy companies that supply Walmart’s toy aisles as sales through Walmart decline and sales through other channels grow to fill the void.   Hmmm.