This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija review May’s stellar comic book sales numbers, they also hit on topics that include DC title cancellations and additions, Disney green lighting the second season of the Ultimate Spider-Man animated series, Walking…
In the fifth installment of Avengers vs. X-Men, the highly anticipated mini-series featuring Marvel's mutants and resident team of Avengers, the pace definitively picks up as tensions come to a head between the two teams vying for their personal stakes in Hope's destiny. However, despite an epic-scoped story, the collective of Marvel architects fail to capitalize on the story's potential with a lackluster fifth outing which explodes the X-Men mythos with a barrage of head scratching developments.
Read MoreAvengers vs. X-Men #5
It is hard to explain True Blood to anyone who has never seen the show. Not because it is so deep and complex, like some kind of Proustian opus, but because there is no way to explain the show without…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Ditko, Adams, Kirby, Vermeer, Stokes, Quitely, Pope, Robbins, Hergé and more!
Read MoreWeb Arted Jun 8thHosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija tackle some heavy comic book related topics this week but the guys find time to banter on about new Iron Man 3 movie news, the guy that painted himself green, permanently, the big Walking…
Heroes will get knocked down. Their morale will drain. Sometimes they can’t fight anymore. When that happens the hero has to look deep inside, and try to find that special something that made them a hero to begin with. Once…
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Stewart, Miller, Kirby, Steranko, Canete, Spokes, Weeks, Cheung, Kuhn, Hernandez, Samnee, Janson, Cheung and more!
Read MoreWeb Arted Jun 1st
When the world is at its end, say as the result of an alien invasion for example, once international military forces have been defeated there is little hope for sustained survival of humankind.
That isn't the case in Clay County.
Read MoreClay CountyThe boys are back after a brief hiatus. Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija don’t miss a beat as the tackle subjects like the continued success of the Avengers movie, Spider-Man and Batman movie news, Doug Schmell’s multimillion dollar comic…
From 2006 forward, Grant Morrison's name has been synonymous with Batman. Through the main title and his definitive Batman tale, to the depths of certain oblivion through time, back to the re-ascension of Bruce Wayne to the mantle of the Bat, Morrison's Batman opus has garnered a fair and justified amount of acclaim over the last six years. His name was missing, however, from the new crop of "New 52" titles in Fall 2011 when DC relaunched its titles. Moving several months forward, we find Morrison has returned to finish his Batman Inc. story, it leading the way for DC's second wave of "New 52" titles.
Read MoreBatman Incorporated #1
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Frazetta, Kirby, Kane, Byrne, Golden, Crandall and more!
Read MoreWeb Arted May 25th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Weaver, Woodson, Cho, Fox, Bullock, Kirby, McFarlane, Lee and more!
Read MoreWeb Arted May 18th
The latest from Humanoids, bringing English translations of European works. Megalex was a three-volume work released in French in 1999, 2002 and 2008. This is its first English release. On the planet-city of Megalex, urban sprawl and technology consume all,…
Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija are back from a couple weeks hiatus and they don’t miss a stride as they dive right into topics like the Avengers movie success, how things are looking for the new Batman movie, comic…
Having sworn off superhero comics I couldn’t help picking up this double dose of personal favourites: Captain America and Alan Davis. Cap struggles to find his faith when the new Hydra rises from the ashes and makes its first deadly…
Welcome to Retailer Q, spinning 52Q’s format at top Canadian comic retailers. Comic Book Daily asks the question and our retail friends give their perspective.
Please share your FCBD success stories from this past weekend: how it went, what your store does to promote the event, that kind of thing.
Read MoreRetailer Q | #10: FCBD 2012
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Gorman, Brangwyn, Lee, Vieira, Kirby and more!
Read MoreWeb Arted May 11th
Stories with an air of mystery injected into their plots almost always make for more interesting stories. They are sure develop slowly, offering a wealth of gradual revelations, with the payoff, ideally, being something we scarcely suspected. As with any though, it's difficult to grasp where a story can be headed after only its first issue, leaving readers to ponder the allusions throughout the issue and what they may mean in the greater context of the arc.
Read MoreMind the Gap #1
Another Image book that garnered a lot of buzz is The Strange Talent Of Luther Strode. Luther Strode is just your average geek until he sends for an exercise course from the back of an old comic book. What he…
When DC relaunched its line of comics in September 2011, noticeably absent were any titles featuring the classic JSA characters of Golden Age infamy. Even still, at a DC panel at Fan Expo 2011 in Toronto, Canada, it was acknowledged that before long fans of classic versions of Green Lantern, Flash and Superman would get their fill. After many months of anticipation, fans of the characters received the first issue of Earth 2 #1 last week as it thundered onto store shelves and into our loving hands.
Read MoreEarth 2 #1