It’s a Big Weekend at New World Manga with SIX EVENTS IN THREE DAYS!
Friday Night Magic – Friday 6:00pm
Magi-Nation – Friday 6:30pm sharp
Commander Special Event – Saturday 12:00 noon (see below)
Magic Modern Tournament – Saturday 6:00pm
Pokemon League – Sunday 12:00 noon
Yu-Gi-Oh! Traditional Tournament – 3:00pm

UPCOMING SPECIAL EVENTS
(Please Check the GAMING EVENTS Page for regular weekly events)

Saturday May 19th
Magic: The Gathering Commander(EDH) Special Event
Once again we are giving away a “From the Vault: Legends” boxed set to one lucky player based on a raffle system for this event! Earn raffle tickets for playing games, winning games, and various other commander style achievements – everyone has a chance to win!
As always, the focus on a Commander event is on FUN. You may change your deck freely between games.
There will NOT be a Highlander head-to-head event this month to make more time for the Commander event. Various DCI promo cards to be awarded to all.
The regular banned list is HERE:
Magic Commander (EDH)
More info on FVL HERE:
From the Vault Legends Cards
Time: 12:00 noon to 5:00pm
Entry Fee: $5

Saturday May 26th
Magic: The Gathering Commander Avacyn Restored Game Day
Game Day is the first opportunity for you to play Standard on a global scale with the newest cards.
All participants receive an exclusive Latch Seeker (while supplies last). The Top 8 players each receive an exclusive Killing Wave full-art promo card. The cards are awarded to the Top 8 players even if the tournament cuts only to the Top 4.

In addition, the winner of Avacyn Restored Game Day will receive an exclusive playmat.
More information HERE
Time: 12:00 noon
Entry Fee: $8

Stop in and check out the best Comics, Cards, and Games.
Comic Books, Hardcovers, and Trade Paperbacks from Dark Horse, DC, IDW, Image, Marvel, Archie, Boom, Dynamite, and many more publishers!
Collectible Card Games like Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, & Yu-Gi-Oh! – check out our Huge selection of Magic Singles!
Plus Board Games, Heroclix, Role Playing Games, Gundam Models, Anime Merchandise, Plush, and much much more!
And featuring the biggest selection of all the latest Manga at 10% OFF Every Day!

Best Costume (over 13) Nick as KICK ASS

Best Costume (under 13) Christian as Spider-Man

Technical Achievement Jesse as Deadpool

Best Anime Autumn as Misty

David (Our Judge) and Ethan (age 3) as The Captain Americas

David as Rorschach

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Graphic novels for kids

BY PAT VASILIK

A generation or two ago, comics were the reading of choice for a huge number of kids. You bought them, traded them, saved them and read and re-read them. The one thing you didn’t do was borrow them from the library. After all, said the grown-ups of the time, comics are not “real” reading. Well, that has certainly changed in the last decade or so. Now it would be hard to find a library without a selection of what are now called “graphic novels.” And big bookstores have dozens of bookshelves devoted to these and the very popular manga, imported mainly from Japan.

While many of the popular manga series are aimed more at young adults, there are a number that are great for kids. Some are connected with animated television shows or card games, like Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh. These stories are filled with adventure and fantasy quests. While they do contain some violence, the good guys are clearly good and fight only the obvious villains. There are some other great manga series for kids to read that are a little lesser known – except of course among Japanese Anime fans! One is Hikaru No Go by Takeshi Obata. A young boy finds a game board possessed by the ghost of an ancient Go master. When the Go master is linked to Hikaru’s consciousness, the two make an unstoppable team. Another is Yotsuba by Kiyohiko Azuma. This series follows a green-haired, adopted girl on her everyday adventures, discovering the world around her. For slightly older children, Cardcaptor Sakura by the well-regarded Clamp and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by the master Hayao Miyazaki are both wonderful examples of manga at its best.

But the graphic format offers much more than manga for young readers. Even very young children have a selection to choose from. In a funny book called Meanwhile, author-illustrator Jules Feiffer introduces readers to Raymond. Raymond, engrossed in his comic book, ignores his mother when she calls for him. As his mother becomes more insistent, Raymond notices that his comic uses the word “meanwhile” to change scenes, and decides to try it himself. Soon Raymond finds himself transported to a pirate ship. When he is forced to walk the plank, his scene-changing device comes in handy yet again, and so Raymond jumps from one adventure to another. This frantic and funny look at a boy, who is literally absorbed by his reading, will have kids eagerly turning the pages to see where Raymond ends up next.

Younger kids will also enjoy the antics of a funny feline in the Comic Adventures of Boots by Satoshi Kitamura. From trying to claim the best place to sleep on the wall to getting Madam Quark, a duck, to teach him how to fly, Boots never seems to run out of ways to get himself in and out of trouble. All of his escapades will be sure to bring a smile and a giggle to young readers.
For slightly older children, the sister and brother team of Jennifer and Matt Holm have created a terrific character called Babymouse. From the first volume, Babymouse, Queen of the World to the newest, Babymouse, the Musical, this heroine has been delighting a growing number of fans.

Although the pink covers may, at first, make you think that this is a book for girls only, Babymouse has the spunk, smarts and daring that make her appealing to both boys and girls. Drawn as a mouse, kids recognize that Babymouse is really every kid, as she struggles with fitting in at school, figuring out how to cope at camp and in her latest adventure, handling the starring role in the school play.

While kids are waiting for the next Babymouse adventure, they can try Scott Morse’s very funny Magic Pickle. Created (by accident, of course) by Dr. Jekyll Formaldehyde, our superhero has been brought out of his decades’ long sleep to fight the Brotherhood of Evil Produce and protect mankind from the likes of the Phantom Carrot and the fiery Chili Chili Bang Bang. The tongue-in-cheek humor is broad enough for kids and the stories and the art are packed with both adventure and silly puns. This

Books and Series Mentioned:

Hikaru No Go by Takeshi Obata (Viz Media, $7.95); ages 9-12.
Yotsuba by Kiyohiko Azuma (ADV Manga, $9.99); ages 9-12.
Cardcaptor Sakura by Clamp (TokyoPop, $9.99); ages 10-14.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki (Viz Media, $9.95); ages 11-14.
Meanwhile by Jules Feiffer (HarperCollins, $6.99); ages 4-8.
Comic Adventures of Boots by Satoshi Kitamura (Farrar, Straus, available out of print); ages 4-8.
Babymouse: Queen of the World by Jennifer L. Holm and Matt Holm (Random House, $5.95); ages 6-10.
Magic Pickle by Scott Morse (Graphix, $9.99); ages 8-12.
Bone: Out of Boneville, vol. 1 by Jeff Smith (Scholastic, $9.99); ages 9-13.
Amelia Rules! The Whole World’s Crazy by Jimmy Gownley (Atheneum, $9.99); ages 8- 12.
Alison Dare: Little Miss Adventures by J. Torres (Tundra, $12.95); ages 9-12.
The Boxcar Children, A Graphic Novel, #1 by Gertrude Warner and Mike Dubisch (Albert Whitman, $6.99); ages 8-12.
Coraline: the Graphic Novel by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins, $9.99); ages 10-14.
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, adapted by Jane Brigman (Puffin, $10.99); ages 9-12.
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, adapted by Hamilton Tim (Puffin, $10.99); ages 10-13.
Call of the Wild by Jack London, adapted by Neil Kleid (Puffin, $10.99); ages 11-14.
To Dance by Siena Siegel and Mark Siegel (Aladdin, $9.99); ages 9-12.