When it comes to comic book movie blockbusters, do you try to find all the news and secrets about the movie before it's released? Or do you want to be completely surprised by the outcome?
If you want to be surprised, you better avoid the toy aisle at your local toy store.
Read MoreToys: Movie Spoilers or Bonus Feature?
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Read MoreWeb Arted Jan 17th
But isn't that implicitly what Marvel and DC state by having a shared universe for their stories? If all their stories are great and if they all have the same heroes who live in the same world then wouldn't I want to buy every book they produce? I decided to get out the Previews Guide and a calculator to answer this rhetorical question. I used the January 2014 Previews as a proxy for the entire year on the assumption that some months will have fewer books and some months will have more but overall it will probably average out. I didn't include books not in the shared universe and I didn't include collected editions.
Read MoreHow Much For Everything?
I received an email from Hobbystar Marketing this week promoting guests of the upcoming Toronto ComiCon, March 7-9 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre. This used to be a comics only affair every spring, for a while even having free admission. Since the death of Wizard World Toronto Hobbystar has positioned it as a mini Fan Expo, and why not.
Read MoreToronto ComiCon Puts Celebrities First, Comics…LaterThis week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Slurpy Jones are joined by producer Shekky Feldstein and sound engineer Andrew “Young Buck” Roebuck for an hour of comic book talk. The boys cover all kinds of stuff including New This…
Here’s one of those strange companies that started to appear towards the end of the WECA period. Its main title was The Weekender. For the first two issues it was known as The Comic Section of Illustrated Weekender News Reviews. The implication of the title was that it was some sort of newspaper or magazine insert but actually the so-called “news section” was included in the comic book itself. This news section was a dozen or so black and white pages of text and photos dealing with popular news items of the day.
Read MoreRucker Publications
In the mid '70's I was part of an advanced art class in Valley Heights Secondary School. My art teacher was Ross Bateman, younger brother of the famous Canadian wildlife artist Robert Bateman. He made it possible for those who were seriously considering a career in art to have 2 periods per day where we could work on whatever field we intended to go into. You guessed it: for me that was drawing comics.
Read MoreMy Journey Through H.G. Wells’ Time Machine
Sub-Mariner #34 and #35, Marvel Comics, February and March 1971 Sub-Mariner #34 – dead. Sub-Mariner #35 – deader. Sub-Mariner the title – Deadest. There are comic books out there that are slower than they should be and Sub-Mariner #34 is…
We all know about the show Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. It is the show that carries on from the Avengers movie starring Agent Phil Coulson (portrayed by Clark Gregg), as he leads a secret team investigating events around the globe. It premiered as a massive hit. Over 17 million viewers watched in the US alone. From there the ratings have dropped, but the numbers are still impressive.
Those millions and millions of viewers wanted to know one thing, how did Agent Coulson come back from the dead?
Read MoreTahiti Isn’t A Treat
Kelly Sue DeConnick and Emma Rios might have created the finest contemporary example of the weird western in comics with Pretty Deadly.
Read MoreReview | Pretty Deadly #1-3
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Read MoreWeb Arted Jan 10th
January 2013 saw the release of the first volume "published in its original colors and in the deluxe, limited & numbered (here 999 copies only), super-oversized (12 x 16 inches) format"; wow. I was on the fence about the whole thing, since I already have The Incal in Graphitti Designs hardcover and the latest Humanoids collected hardcover. Plus it was $79.99 for 48 pages! But I love limited edition hardcovers, especially oversized, and these were limited to 999 copies each and individually numbered.
Read MoreReview | Incal Classic Collection Coffee Table Edition Vol 1-6
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! Hotter than Cat Grant. He is…BIFF SOCKO!
Read More“Or professor Plum with the Cosmic Cube”
Of all Canadian icons the Mountie is perhaps the best internationally known. The red serge, jodhpurs and boots combination probably holds higher world-wide currency and branding for Canada than the beaver, crossed-hockey sticks, and even the maple leaf.
Read MoreMen of the Mounted
I was sitting in The Comicdenn looking at the Fantastic Four story arc from issue #84 to 87.The issues featured a great Dr. Doom story by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, with great Joe Sinnott inks. What a great story to relaunch the Fantastic Four on the Big screen!
Read MoreFrom The Page To The Screen
It’s funny but in that 45 year gap between the Riddler and Bane I can think of only 2 new villains that should be counted among Batman’s greatest, Poison Ivy from 1966 and our featured villain this week Ra’s Al Ghul in 1971.
Read MoreUndervalued Spotlight #185
Anthony Falcone touched on this in his last column, and it is a topic I've been thinking about more and more lately - The return of Peter Parker.
Read MoreWill we see the return of Peter Parker?
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Read MoreWeb Arted Jan 2nd
Happy New Year to all our readers! Last year was a powerhouse in comic books, but with 2013 a distant image in our rear view mirrors I now turn to 2014. Specifically those things in 2014 that have me awake at night with anticipation.
Read MoreLooking Forward to 2014
When I began my quest to rebuild my comic book collection, the world of collecting had changed in a big way. Walt at Big B Comics in Hamilton was a big help in getting me reacquainted with grading and CGC. EBay and the internet made it possible to get anything you wanted, in any shape you could afford, on any given day.
Read MoreStarting Over!
New Teen Titans #21 is indeed this week’s Undervalued Spotlight, it’s a great comic that comes out of a great title. Surely one of the best Copper Age titles was New Teen Titans. Marv Wolfman and George Perez created a powerhouse title that deserves a second look; there are other gems in this run.
Read MoreUndervalued Spotlight #184