Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
November 4th/2012 was the most recent Canadian ToyCon (formerly known as the Burlington Toy Show). It was at its new home, The Atrium Banquet and Conference Centre in Burlington. The November 4th edition of the CanToyCon felt like the biggest…
This thought came to me the other day while we were trying to get my D&D group together. We have been playing together for about 3 years. First it started out with us playing every Monday. Then because of work,…
DC just announced that day and date comics are now available in Apple’s iBookstore, Amazon’s Kindle store and Barnes & Noble’s Nook store. Basically DC is releasing individual comics across the three major digital platforms in their native formats. Yes,…
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: USA-USA-USA! – The…
So, I’ve decided to do a little fan-art JLA cover and document the progress here. The idea for this ‘make-believe’ storyline is to suggest a catastrophe in NYC with the JLA discovering the discarded remains of the – currently missing…
One of the biggest stories out of the New York Comic Con was some discussion on the new Spider-Man book. In December Amazing Spider-Man will end after 700 issues. It has already ended once before after 441 issues but it…
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: A GALAXY FAR, FAR AWAY…
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! From Comic Book Daily the Hulks:
I don’t know about your Twitter, but mine had a Nerd-Gasm on Tuesday. In case you haven’t heard (like you were off planet or something), Disney bought Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light and Magic, and Skywalker Sound from now multi-billionaire George…
I started reading comics in 1980 when I spotted a G.I. Joe comic at my local Mac’s Milk store, having already enjoyed the new cartoon at my altogether tender age of eight. It didn’t take long for me to make…
“Last weekend’s MCM London Comic Con smashed all previous attendance records, with more than 70,000 visitors coming through the doors of ExCel.” “Europe’s equivalent to San Diego Comic Con, MCM London Comic Con has gone from strength to strength over…
This past weekend I was watching the National Geographic channel and there was a program on called Fortune Finders. The show focuses on the Public Administrators office in Las Vegas. After someone dies in Las Vegas, with no apparent next…
Sadly this week I won’t be posting a video blog. It being cold and flu season, I was unlucky enough to catch a cold and no one needs to see that. So, I thought I would post this article about…
It’s time for another update from BIFF SOCKO, TWO-FISTED NEWSHOUND. Biff Socko covers Comic Book News like zits on the A-V Club. Faster than Perry White! Stronger than J. Jonah Jameson! He is…BIFF SOCKO! DATELINE: ZOMBIE APOCALYPSE – It…
I’m not sure if ‘Half Term’ is something that happens in Canada or the US but on this side of the pond, every school in the UK take a break for a week in the middle of each term and…
This week the internet and Twitter-verse have been chock full of cool comic book news. So instead of me rambling on, let’s just jump into the stuff that caught my attention. Daredevil Movie Rights Go Back to Marvel It looks…
This weekend my husband and I were lucky enough to go to New York Comic Con. We flew to New York on Friday morning, checked into my hotel and went right to the con. When we got there, the scene…
The big news to me this week was that My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic Issue 1 has hit 90,100 advance orders through Diamond; I was also amused that Rich Johnston has access to Diamond preorder numbers but that’s not…