Now that everyone has gotten back to me and confirmed, I’m excited to announce the winners for our three holiday giveaways!

First up is our grand prize:

Winning Batman: No Man’s Land Vol. 1-5 is:

Mike from Queensbury, NY (TRO user MikePhantom)

Our four runners up for the first holiday giveaway each get a copy of Ghost Rider / Wolverine / Punisher: Hearts Of Darkness:

Chris from Chatsworth, CA (TRO user CaptainHammer)

Jason from Henderson, CO (TRO user zoomfactor32)

Andrew from Riverside, CA (TRO user andybmcd)

Daniel from Circle Woodstock, GA (TRO user yudansha)

Next up, we have our first set of ten Batman Adventures winners, who each snagged a copy of the book with their speedy commenting on Christmas morning:

Ryan from Glastonbury, CT (TRO user WallyEast)

Dan from New York, NY (TRO user xxexplosivoxx)

Chris from Port Orchard, WA (TRO user Dirt55)

John from Annville, PA (TRO user jw634200)

Johannes from Rödelsee, Germany (TRO user jonah_X)

Brian from Middletown, NJ (TRO user -b)

Marc from Milwaukee, WI (TRO user Marc)

Joseph from Foothill Ranch, CA (TRO user AnsumRiku)

Tristan from Leicestershire, England (TRO user VoodooDoctor)

Steve from Cinnaminson, NJ (TRO user Steve M.)

The next set of ten Batman Adventures winners snagged a copy of the book by chance, selected from the remaining comments on the post:

Henry from Las Vegas, NV (TRO user henraldo)

Nate from Franklin, WI (TRO user natohendo)

Cailey from Toronto, ON, Canada (TRO user kikilouise)

Justin from Marietta, GA (TRO user bigjust)

Bill from Acworth, GA (TRO user van.meeks)

Dan from Richmond, VA (TRO user duncanpr)

Timothy from Burbank, CA (TRO user JusticeOrigins)

Daniel from San Diego, CA (TRO user Daniel [oeconomist.com])

Drew from North Caldwell, NJ (TRO user defenestr8)

Sam from Annapolis, MD (TRO user rellimsam)

Finally, we’ve got our new years giveaway giveaway winner, recieiving a hardcover copy of Newuniversal: Everything Went White:

Jesse from Medford, OR (TRO user Body62)

Congratulations to everyone!

Thanks to all of you for being with us over the holiday, commenting and supporting Trade Reading Order.

The books will go out soon! Due to the volume and shipping costs, not as quick as the normal one week turnaround that we had running most of last year, but you’ll get them – I promise!

And if you weren’t on the winners list this time around, we’ll have plenty of opportunities going forward. Right now, we’ve got a copy of Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance up.

After that, check back each week for a new giveaway. You may also want to subscribe to our feed or email list for updates – as sometimes quickness will be a factor, like with the Batman Adventures books.

I hope the new year is treating everyone well and you’re enjoying the parade of reviews as we catch up to our one-review-a-day goal.

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Update: This giveaway is now over. Stay tuned! Also, feel free to enter one of our currently running giveaways.

Update 2: The winner has been announced.

Here’s the weekly giveaway!

For this week’s giveaway, I thought I’d bring something more modern.

Of all the different spin offs out of Final Crisis, I found this book the most interesting. Following Japan’s Super Young Team, Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance collects 1-6 of their own miniseries.

It’s written by Joe Casey with art by Chriscross and Eduardo Pansica.

Most Excellent Superbat! Big Atomic Lantern Boy! Shiny Happy Auquazon! Shy Crazy Lolita Canary! Well-Spoken Sonic Lightning Flash!

It’s almost offensive, but having been to Japan and seen the t-shirts, I have to say that marketing would probably do pretty well over there.

The Rundown:

(1) Prize: One copy of Final Crisis Aftermath: Dance

(1) Random Comment Winner: One logged in commenter will be randomly selected from the replies to this post.

Eligibility: You must be registered and logged in when you comment to be eligible. You must also be in the continental USA for shipping purposes. If you are overseas and want to pay for the shipping yourself, feel free to enter, but keep in mind that it will probably be more expensive than just buying the book.

Deadline: You have until 11:59 on Friday, January 28th, 2011.

Good luck everyone!

You can see the previous giveaways and results here.

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I was recently contacted by Corey Michael Blake (President of Writers of the Round Table) about a series of comics his company is publishing.

Collected under the new imprint SmarterComics, they’re mostly self help and business related publications. The promotion for these comics is definitely something different, with claims like “Guaranteed to make you smarter in 14 days, or your money back.”

Now, this is something that up until this point, I’d never considered purchasing myself.

However, as a fan of the sequential medium, the idea seems to work well – such topics could benefit from fun and easy to read introductions (or, if the kind of self help book I hate, could benefit from being trimmed down from a drawn out idea designed to make a full book out of a simple concept.)

I hadn’t read any of the original books these comics were based on, so I told him to send them on over. They came in today.

I was originally going to do a round up look on this relatively small sub-genre of comics. After flipping through the first one in the stack, I’ve decided they deserve a little more attention.

So I’ll be reviewing a few of them individually, mixed in with our other ongoing reviews.

In a way, I’m thankful – I come from a fine arts/academia background and could probably use some advice from the business world. Hopefully these books are as good as they claim!

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I’ve now got over 1000 books sorted into place and 2927 books in the offline database. I may actually do an update of the text list soon, though I’d rather just try and get to the point where I can transfer the offline information into the dynamic database online.

Here are the new books as of last update:

Invaders Now!
The Marvel Art of Mike Deodato
Warriors Three: Dog Day Afternoon
X-Men: Lifedeath
Spider-Man: The Death of Jean DeWolff
X-Men Vs. Avengers / Fantastic Four
Red Hulk: Scorched Earth
Spider-Man: New York Stories
Spider-Man: The Extremists
X-Men First Class: Class Portraits
Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man Vol. 15: Peter Parker vs. The X-Men
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man: Amazing
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man: Spectacular
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man: Sensational
Marvel Adventures Thor featuring Captain America, Dr. Strange & Ant-Man
Marvel Adventures Thor and The Avengers
Marvel Adventures Spider-Man and The Avengers
Marvel Adventures Black Widow and The Avengers
Marvel Adventures Avengers: Iron Man
Marvel Adventures Avengers: Thor
Marvel Adventures Iron Man / Spider-Man
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Spaced Crusaders
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Doomed If You Don’t
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four: Four-Three-Two-One?
Marvel Adventures Fantastic Four Vol. 1
Franklin Richards: Not-So-Secret Invasion

There is definitely a lot of Marvel Adventures and All Ages stuff on the list now. Unlike the Ultimate universe, there isn’t really an all encompassing continuity, though, so I still think it makes the most sense to just place them by date along the main list. Any thoughts?

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I just found this while doing a little Spidey research. Matt Kuhns over at Modern Ideas created cool little visual timeline for the various Spider-Man publications over the ages.

Kuhns posted “Spider-Man’s Tangled Publication-History Web” along with a bunch of fun (very nerdy) commentary, way back in October 2010. Not sure why it took me so long to see it, but it’s a nice little chart.

Exactly what I hope for from the internet! Check it out!

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