Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Category Championing Comics
Championing Comics
Comic Culture April 20th
This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk Spider-Man musical and Batman circus, superheroes helping the unemployed, Free Comic Book Day news, Pittsburgh ComiCon news, and lots more. Now kick back, relax and enjoy Comic Culture, the radio show…
Review: Starborn #5
Pick Five | New Frontier Splash Pages
Comic Culture April 13th
This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk Eisner Award nominees, The Silver Snail moving, a Captain Canuck movie, why the Mouse Guard size format sucks, a World War Z movie, Nicholas Cage’s stolen Action Comics #1 being found…
Pick Five: Comic Book Television Shows
There have been a lot of comic book properties that have been shown on the small screen, here are 5 of my favorites. I left animated series off the list, just because they could make up a great list on their…
Review: Brightest Day #23
Review | Daytripper
Nothing about this book from the outside interested me in the least. When this collection was published site after comics site sang it’s praises so I decided to pick up Daytripper from Vertigo. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: What are the…
Comic Culture April 6th
This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk about the new Green Lantern movie trailer, the new Spider-Man video game, the new Captain America ongoing series from Marvel, DC’s new Retro-Active comics, Marvel’s Fear Itself and a whole lot…
Review | The Arctic Marauder
Fantagraphics keeps the hits rolling throughout 2011 and The Arctic Marauder is the latest in their Jacques Tardi translations line. Here’s the publisher’s blurb: In our ongoing quest to showcase the wide range of Jacques Tardi’s bibliography, Fantagraphics reaches all…
Kill Shakespeare Interview – March 20, 2011
Two weeks ago at the Wizard World Toronto Comic I sat down once again with Anthony Del Col, Conor McCreery, and Andy Belanger, the creative minds behind the IDW comic book juggernaut Kill Shakespeare. This time around I talk to…
Review: Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #8
Writer: Peter Tomasi Pencils: Fernando Pasarin Inks: Cam Smith Colours: Gabe Eltaeb Letters: Steve Wands Cover: Felipe Massafera; Tyler Kirkham and Batt with Nei Ruffino Publisher: DC Comics Here we are Green Lantern fans! Part three of the War…
Comic Culture March 30th
This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk about Amy Adams getting the Lois Lane part, the plans for a big Justice League movie, Dick Tracy, Free Comic Book Day and the upcoming Fan Appreciation Comic Con. We’ve also…
Review: Future Foundation #1
Writer: Jonathan Hickman Penciler: Steve Epting Inkers:Rick Magyar and Steve Epting Colours: Paul Mounts Letters: Rus Wooton Covers: Steve Epting, Daniel Acuna, Marko Djurdjevic, Gerald Parel, Stan Goldberg, Joe Sinnott and Val Staples Publisher: Marvel Still reeling from the…
Review | Weapons Of The Metabaron
Anything by Travis Charest goes right onto my “must have” list; he’s an amazing artist that seems to keep getting better. Unfortunately he also seems to be getting slower with new work sorely lacking. I anxiously awaited Weapons Of The…
Pick Five: Comic Book Ninjas
Welcome to another installment of Pick Five, where one of our writers picks five of whatever comic related “fill in the blank” that tickles their fancy. Monkeys are awesome. And so are ninjas. So this Pick Five really needs no preamble.…
Comic Culture March 23rd
This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk about the new Future Foundation comic book, the just past Wizard World Toronto show, Spider-Man and Superman movie news, Stephen King writing a Walking Dead episode, collectible Thor movie tickets and…
Pick Five: Comic Book Monkeys
Welcome to another installment of Pick Five, where one of our writers picks five of whatever comic related “fill in the blank” that tickles their fancy. Everyone knows that monkeys are awesome, and comic books have a special place for our…
Arthur Suydam brings anatomical old school to Marvel Zombies
Arthur Suydam, cover artist for Marvel Zombies, brings classical style and oil painting to his horrific creations and constructions depicting the superhero apocalypse. Suydam said Marvel Zombies was a good match for him because of his background as an anatomical…
Review: Brightest Day #22
Writer: Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi Artists: Scott Clark, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado Inker: Joe Beaty Colours: Peter Steigerwald and Rod Reis Cover: Gary Frank and Nathan Eyring; Ivan Reis and Rod Reis (variant) Letters: Rob Clark Jr. Publisher: DC…