Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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My recent Pick 5 focused on Canadian Superheroes. Since Independence Day just recently passed, I got thinking of heroes who fought for “Old Glory”. Here is my list of American Patriotic Superheroes. #5 Iron Patriot The Iron Patriot was Norman…
Michael Cho is right up there in my list of all time favourite artists. He lives in Toronto and attends all the local shows so if I’m lucky I pick up a few pieces from him a year. I’ve been…
Great show this week. Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija are joined by comic book artist Vince Marchesano. Vince talks about his days as a ghost artist drawing titles like Batman and Fantastic Four. Topics discussed this week include, Thor…
Bokurano: Ours is a manga created by Mohiro Kitoh. The Earth will be attacked fifteen times by a giant robot. The robot will be different each time. Fifteen junior high school kids are “tasked” to defend Earth by piloting a…
Hope is a special young lady. Saddled with a destiny that will either save the world or destroy it, depending on who you ask anyway, she indirectly leads a team of the first new mutants since M-Day stripped mutantkind of their numbers. Continually a target, Hope has found some refuge on the island of Utopia with the rest of the X-Men.
At no point did I ever imagine writing a CD review for Comic Book Daily, yet here it is. I received The Music Of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection in the mail via Sony Music. It’s a collection of 31…
By now you'll have seen the Green Lantern movie, and if you haven't, you probably won't at all. To supplement the film, DC opted to release five tie-in one-shots focusing on characters in the movie. Preceded by issues focusing on Tomar Re, Kilowog and Abin Sur, the fourth one-shot centres on Hal Jordan and is penned by Green Lantern guru and one of the film's writers in Greg Berlanti.
In honour of Canada Day, I decided to choose 5 Canadian Superheroes. #5 Scott Pilgrim This bass playing, video-gaming, vanquisher of evil exes lives in Toronto. He had to fight 7 evil exes of the woman he loves, Ramona Flowers.…
Another fun show this week. Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss the Video Game censorship, the Green Lantern movie, DC’s decision to not write comics with trade paperbacks in mind, the passing of Gene Colan, thoughts on the Kirby/Marvel…
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. [box type=question]Free Comic Book Day is now a huge event and one no retailer can…
As Brightest Day concluded, so did J.T. Krul's run on the title as of issue 12. Writer James Patrick joins Agustin Padilla as the new creative team behind Green Arrow, so let's see how this new team stacks up to the past year of Green Arrow stories.
Marvel just released details to The Mighty Thor issue 4, including this stunning Olivier Coipel cover. Reminiscent of the classic Silver Surfer 4 cover by John Buscema it brings an updated and modern approach. Spinning hammer of Thor makes an…
For a year I followed the Brightest Day series through its ups and many downs, so you may be asking why I would revisit the series. Well, to answer your question, John Constantine. That dynamic alone warrants a return. Naturally. Forward march!
We don’t focus on upcoming books enough here at Comic Book Daily so for the last Pick Five of the month I’ll be looking at the top July 2011 collections that are supposed to ship. It’s a solid month with…
It is a sad day in the world of the hobby we love. Gene Colan passed away in his 84th year on June 23rd around 11:00 pm from on going health issues. I never met Gene Colan but I grew up with him…
A great show this week. Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss the Conan movie, 100 Bullets TV show, Green Lantern’s disappointing opening weekend, the death of Ultimate Spider-Man, the Joe Shuster Award winners and DC’s big September re-launch. Now…
This past weekend was the 2011 Canadian G.I. Joe Convention in Toronto. One of the special guests was comic book artist Valentine DeLandro. I got the opportunity to sit with Valentine and talk to him about comics and of course…
Fear reigns and some of Marvel's physically strongest characters now carry mystical hammers, using them to strike fear in the hearts of their former allies. How can they stand to fight when their worst fears are coming to life? Even more, can they?
Wolves is the latest mini-comic from Becky Cloonan. It follows a man on a hunt for a werewolf. The story is told in 20 pages of black and white art. I like Wolves a lot. The story is told in…
Don’t get me wrong here; I want the new DC to be a huge success. There will be 52 new #1s this September and even the biggest optimist at DC doesn’t expect all 52 to last out even a year.…