With the release of Thor: The Dark World, Marvel introduced to us their new ident. Without getting too deep, an ident is basically an animated logo that, as the name suggests, help to identify a product, service or the company itself.
Read MoreThe New Marvel Ident
Did you catch Marvel Studios: Assembling a Universe on TV last week? In case you missed it, let me recap very quickly. It was essentially a State-of-the-Union address from Marvel Studios, explaining how the Marvel Cinematic Universe came to be, how we got to today, and where it is going into the future. All 3 waves of Marvel films were summarized, as well as the Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. TV show and the Marvel One-Shots (the special features on the Marvel Blu-Rays).
It was exceptional television. Except for one thing...
Read MoreSpoiling the secret of Captain America: The Winter Soldier
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Read MoreWeb Arted Mar 21st
Pie. Oh ya, that is right, this interview starts with pie. I sat down with Marcus To at Wanda’s Pie in the Sky in Kensington Market. After picking out our favourite slices, we sat down and chewed on some pie and talked about Marcus’ career.
Read MoreHow I Got My Job (A Series): Marcus To
A new ongoing collection of Frank King's Gasoline Alley colour Sundays, collecting the first two years of Walt and Skeezix in an excellent introductory volume.
Read MoreReview | Gasoline Alley: The Complete Sundays Vol 1
It’s that time of year again when Canadian golden age creators are considered for inclusion in the Joe Shuster Awards Canadian Comic Book Hall of Fame. Certainly an august constellation of creators but who are the two additions that should be inducted this year?
Read MoreJoe Shuster Awards Hall of Fame 2014
All that talk last week in Undervalued Spotlight about Amazing Spider-Man #37 and the importance of how it fits into the history of Spider-Man got me thinking and asking the question. Why isn't the Spectacular Spider-Man #2 magazine more in demand.
Read MoreSpectacular Spider-Man Magazine #2
Journey into Mystery #85, Marvel Comics, October 1962. Last Saturday evening my kid decides we should all watch Thor 2; I wanted to watch the Habs/Senators game. So Thor 2 starts and I kind of like it, I actually thought it was better than the first one. Near the end of the movie my kid mumbles something like “I really like Loki, he’s smart and crafty”. Woah!
Read MoreUndervalued Spotlight #194
There's been a lot of buzz on the "inter-webs" this week about comic book television. It has all come about because of the release of images of the costume for the new TV series "The Flash".
Read MoreJumping the Comic Television Shark
It’s St.Patrick's Day. The only day of the year when the world goes green, and actually means it. We all want to be Irish today and if we’re not, we can pretend we are and go to the pub to celebrate anyway. All this green gets me thinking, not about money, but about comics, and a question. Why are all of Spider-Mans villains costumes green?
Read MoreSt. Patrick’s Day Special: Spider-Man’s Green Villains
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Read MoreWeb Arted Mar 14th
Recently, at the South by Southwest (SXSW) festival Marvel announced some additional features that will be coming to its Unlimited service, most notably the use of sound effects and additional DVD-like commentary as you read. This expands on their Augmented Reality (AR) app that can be used to access additional features while reading a paper copy.
Read MoreMarvel Unlimited: Now with Sound!
SelfMadeHero's third H.P. Lovecraft adaptation by I.N.J. Culbard, The Shadow Out Of Time is another smashing success.
Read MoreReview | The Shadow Out Of Time
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija chew the cud on all kinds of comic book related stuff, movies, conventions, toys and of course comics too.
As always they are joined by producer Shekky Feldstein!
Hey and the tunes are back!
Read MoreComic Culture March 12th 2014
I was set up at ComiCon this year and so I thought I'd share with everyone what I sold over the 3 days. I know some people are curious and this insight might help them decide if they would like to set up themselves.
Read MoreToronto ComiCon 2014: A Collector Sets Up To Sell
The Wing was the creation of John G. Hilkert and first appeared in Joke Comics No. 4 (Sept./Oct. 1942) as the Wing, but if we look closely we can find an appearance of a character (not costumed or super powerful) named Trixie Rogers in a text story written by Hilkert and art by Murray Karn in Dime Comics 5 called “Death Casts a Vote” a couple of months before she put on the costume in Joke Comics.
Read MoreThe Other Woman: John G. Hilkert’s The Wing
Last weekend was the Toronto ComiCon. Now I realize this site is read by people from all over the world, and if you have been following the posts here the last few days, a lot has been said about it already. So I will leave it at that except to say I was there looking for raw comics in particular but I was looking for one CGC graded book as well.
Read MoreRaw, Raw, Raw!
Amazing Spider-Man #37, Marvel Comics, June 1966. Recently I've been receiving some strong Spotlight suggestions from Juan from Rochester N.Y. These are good solid picks he’s sending in, I’m lucky he doesn't want to start up a website.
Read MoreUndervalued Spotlight #193
Toronto ComiCon is done for another year. The vendors have packed up and headed home. Convention goers are busy reading those comics they found, or setting up those brand new action figures. And everybody is planning for Fan Expo in August.
I was able to attend the ComiCon on Saturday only. Unfortunately my schedule didn't allow for me to be there the other two days. But I think I was able to get good insight on the show, even with just attending that one day.
Read MoreToronto ComiCon 2014: Saturday
I attended the 2014 Toronto Comicon on Friday, the first of its three days. Being a few hours away from Toronto I could only afford the time and cost to attend one day of the show, as our intrepid reporters Ed Campbell and Stanley Jon received the CBD press passes.
Read MoreToronto Comicon 2014: Friday
PHOTO OF THE DAY: Wonder Woman For entire Toronto ComiCon 2014 photo set on Flickr, click here. For Saturday’s photos, click here. All photos…
