TrekWARS 8
TrekWARS webisode 8.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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ComicLink December 2013 Featured Auction Original Art
Another hot auction ended this week with ComicLink's November 2013 Featured Auction, our focus here on their original art. A reoccuring pattern seems to be emerging: Ditko Spider-Man pages command the highest bids, followed by Kirby early Marvels and then everything else.
A lot of bargains to be had for those with an eye to the long term investment. As always a few items caught my eye and six are discussed below. Please chime in with your comments.
Web Arted Dec 6th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Auction Highlights #82
This was a good strong auction coming out of Clink.
I really liked the mix of strong Golden Age books in this auction, I liked it so much I bought one of them.
First Amazing Spider-Man 2 Trailer
Here's the first official Amazing Spider-Man 2 trailer.
Lego Marvel Superheroes
It might seem like I have been playing a lot of video games lately, but mostly that is due to the release schedule of the video game industry. The majority of big titles hit the shelves during the fourth quarter to maximize profitability via the Christmas shopping season. After I had saved Gotham City in Batman: Arkham Origins I barely had time recharge my controller before diving into Lego Marvel Superheroes. A tough job, I know, but somebody has to do it.
Comic Culture December 4th 2013
The boys cover all kinds of stuff including New This Week, Industry News and Chris spins some great tunes. Now would be a good time to sit back, relax and enjoy this week’s Comic Culture.
Oh yes, and please, please make sure you go out and support your local comic book shop.
Edmond Good
A couple of interesting original art pieces by Edmond came up on Heritage this week and this made me want to draw attention to his WECA work in this week’s post.
Best of 2013 Reprints: Gift Guide
The year end is almost upon us and I thought to gather a list of reprints from the last year that I greatly enjoyed. Use it as a Christmas list for discerning comic fans on your shopping list.
The gentleman’s name is Colan…Gene Colan.
Where Jack Kirby was explosive chaos, and John Romita beautiful women and great storytelling, nobody ever drew like Gene Colan. Before or since.
Gene's artwork moved with a graceful flowing motion. His characters looked like members of your family, or your friend's family. His mastery of light and shadow was exquisite in its flawless perspective.
Undervalued Spotlight #180
Marvel Value Stamp Book Series A, Marvel Comics, Spring 1974 I’ve always been able to talk myself out of doing this post. Obviously I’ve caught myself at a weak moment. Perhaps its fitting though that I pull my 1-80 on…
Review | Loud Comix #1
Four stories written by four punk rockers and drawn by another one. What's not to like?
Death of the Family… bring your wallet!
The Death of the Family storyline crossed over into Batman, Detective Comics, Batman and Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, Catwoman, Teen Titans, Suicide Squad and Red Hood and the Outlaws. Each title had their star "Bat-Characters" match wits against the evil and diabolical Joker, whose ultimate plan was to get rid of Batman's allies, who in Joker's mind were weakening the Dark Knight and keeping him from being the hero that Gotham (and the Joker) desperately needs.
TrekWARS 7
TrekWARS webisode 7.
Web Arted Nov 29th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Happy Thanksgiving Neighbours!
A hearty greeting to our neighbours to the south on their Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy this classic Winsor McCay strip from 1905: apparently humour was vastly different 108 years ago.
Comic Culture November 27th 2013
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter “Slurpy Jones” Durajlija are joined by producer Shekky Feldstein and sound engineer Andrew “Young Buck” Roebuck for an hour of comic culture banter. The boys cover all kinds of stuff including…
Masked Marvels
One great result of having a forum to make posts about WECA comics is that the readers can make corrections and cleanups of what I’ve written as well as offer new information that can fill in essential blanks, see my post from two weeks ago for example. Here are a couple more “blanks” for you all.
You Want 2nds? Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe #2
Hi folks, welcome to ARCHIE G’s. I’m your waiter, Raoul. Here at ARCHIE G’s, we don’t think you can make a dependable Pull List decision based on the first serving of a comic. Publishers throw everything they’ve got at a…
Beep Beep & Beep Beep Yeah!
Now my Mom and Dad knew I had ordered some comics by mail order and weren't too pleased about it. They thought I spent $20, when in actuality I had spent $200 or so in US funds.
The package was about 10 inches high and had been strapped together between cardboard and wrapped again in brown wrapping paper. The corners were somewhat torn and slightly blunted but the contents were intact.
Undervalued Spotlight #179
Avengers #263, Marvel Comics, January 1986 Quick trivia question. What comic featured the 1st appearance of the X-Factor? Well, if you said 1963’s X-Men #1 you wouldn’t be wrong. Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Jean Grey and Iceman all indeed made up the…