Luke of Luke's Toy Store sent along this press release, which, with the picture, pretty much tells you everything. As I am a lazy man, I copy and then I paste the release for you.
Luke’s Toy Store gets exclusive Battle Beasts #1 cover
Luke’s
Toy Store will be getting an exclusive variant cover of the new Battle
Beasts #1 comic by IDW Publishing. This cover features new artwork by
Valerio Schiti, and is limited to only 800 copies. While Luke’s Toy
Store normally focuses on block figures such as Minimates, their
customers’ high demand for this issue allowed an exclusive edition to be
created. The Battle Beasts series is written by Bobby Curnow (Godzilla Legends, Night of 1000 Wolves) and penciled by Valerio Schiti (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Donatello, Dungeons & Dragons: Eberron).
It focuses on a group of renegade Beasts who return to Earth to protect
the ultimate weapon (and the human who activated it) from an armada of
their violent brethren.
On July 15th, IDW will launch the series
with issue #1, and the first full wave of Battle Beasts Minimates will
be revealed, which will be at Luke’s Toy Store in late fall of 2012! The
first wave of two-packs will focus heavily on characters who appear in
the comic, and will have a gameplay element, as well.
About Luke’s Toy Store
Luke's
Toy Store is a family-run online store carrying Minimates, accessories,
and customizing supplies. Luke’s Toy Store recently rebuilt their
online store from scratch in order to add over a dozen new features for
their customers, include customer accounts, faster checkout, cheaper
shipping, customer wish lists, product photo galleries, a new mobile
site, and a Luke’s Toy Store news page.
About IDW Publishing
IDW
is an award-winning publisher of comic books, graphic novels and trade
paperbacks, based in San Diego, California. Renowned for its diverse
catalog of licensed and independent titles, IDW publishes some of the
most successful and popular titles in the industry, including:
Hasbro’s The TRANSFORMERS and G.I. JOE, Paramount’s Star Trek; HBO’s
True Blood; the BBC’s DOCTOR WHO; Nickelodeon’s Teenage Mutant Ninja
Turtles; Toho’s Godzilla; Wizards of the Coasts Magic: The Gathering and
Dungeons & Dragons; and the Eisner-Award winning Locke & Key
series, created by best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel
Rodriguez. IDW is also home to the Library of American Comics imprint,
which publishes classic comic reprints, and Yoe! Books, a partnership
with Yoe! Studio.
IDW’s
critically- and fan-acclaimed series are continually moving into new
mediums. Currently, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Disney are creating a
feature film based on World War Robot, while Michael Bay‘s Platinum
Dunes and Sony are bringing Zombies vs. Robots to film.
The Battle Beasts came out in that great period of my life after Star Wars was a dead thing and before it came back, plus when I got Horny Toad
an action figure was still a legit toy. Things like "points of
articulation" weren't even a consideration until older fans when I was
roughly 12 or 13 pointed out that I was wrong in liking old Kenner
figures for what they were, but eh, this isn't about them. It's about
the fact that Hasbro released a figure with no name, and then shipped
out posters telling people its proper name was "Horny Toad."
