Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
There is a type of magic that comes with a writer and artist that click. While there is something to be said about writers who can also draw like Mike Mignola or Frank Miller, there’s something special about comic book…
John Constantine has done quite well for himself as far as characters go. The character essentially started off as kind of a throw character that Alan Moore created because then Swamp Thing artists Steven Bissette and John Totleben wanted to…
Now, no one I’ve talked to can confirm this but would it really surprise anyone if it was true? Bleeding Cool is reporting that Dan DiDio is spearheading and effort to make prequels and possibly sequels to Watchmen. According to…
DC has a problem. The current slate of Marvel film projects looks pretty awesome and what’s more, they are interconnected. And much like the kid next door, DC wants the same thing. DC, I am here to solve your problems.…
I am a huge fan of movies. I’m also a big fan of movie history and trivia and love hearing about projects that disspapeared or never quite got finished. Movies like The Fountain. Sure it did finally get made but…
“I must hurry back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them.” Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons Last week I briefly mentioned the comic shop I go to in Barrie called the Blue…
My comic shop is Blue Beetle Comics in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. I’ve been going there for about two years now. The staff is knowledgeable, fun and most importantly the store is clean and it’s easy to find stuff. On the…
“Sling us a web, you’re the Spider-Man Sling us a web tonight ‘Cause we all sure could use us a hero now And we think that you’ll do all right “ Ode to a Superhero by Weird Al (via Billy…
It’s the beginning of a new year. A year of hope, a year of promise and hopefully a year of kick ass comics. To start this year off I’m going to talk about…well a bunch of things. Come on! It…
So a lot of people are doing end of year and end of decade lists for what their favorite this is and what their favorite that is. …okay I’m one of those people. In fact my co-host and I have…
With 2010 one day away we have much to look forward to at the beginning of this new decade. Here’s at look at what books will be getting all the news coverage over the next 365 days. Scott Pilgrim Vol.…
There are a few sad things about the late artist Dave Stevens. Obviously the fact that a man so talented was cut down fairly young by cancer is pretty predominant. In conjunction with that is the fact we only ever…
Previously Brent took a look at 2000 to 2003, highlighting all the good, the bad and the interesting.. now he tackles 2004 to 2009 and then takes some guesses at what we can look forward to in 2010. 2004 Identity…
Well, we are at the end of a decade. And surprisingly, comics have had a very solid run this decade, on all fronts. As I’ve been doing some research into the decade, I’ve found a lot of interesting material to…
This week there is no over arching theme to the column. I’ve got a pretty big one in the works about the last decade in comics and I’ve written a bunch of articles this week on various comic topics but…
Okay I promise after this column I’ll try not to throw back to the 90’s so much. But alas for this week, the 90’s are an important aspect to the book I looked at so they’ll be referenced a fair…
Deadpool is everywhere. Okay well maybe not everywhere but everywhere in the comic rack. Deadpool seems to be this year’s flavor of comic book. Created in the early 90’s as a villain for the New Mutants/X-Force, his current rise began…
I love comics. A lot. My experience with them kind of runs the gauntlet. Read since I was a kid, got hard core as a teenager, sold them as a staff member at a comic shop, written them as a…
So funny story, I walk into Comic Book Daily HQ having learned from my last experience, carrying a Captain America shield in case of omnibus attack. Peeking over as soon as I open the door, I notice the room has…
Hey there loyal reader…all five of you…, thanks for coming back. I’ve been knee deep in a column for my own website as well as preparing one for Comic Book Daily which we should see next week (it required a…