My inner 12 year old says Hell Yeah!
Something has been bugging me for a really long time, and I need to get it off my chest. Lately there has been a lot of talk about movies and comic books. One of the big topics has been the…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Web Arted Jan 18th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.
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Bleeding Cool and The Big Bang Theory
Comedy is very personal and either you find something funny or you don’t. So I’m not surprised when someone tells me that they don’t like such and such show or they don’t think that Jim Belushi is very funny. Deciding…
Ladies Night at the Lounge
Monday evening Alice Quinn (from TDot Comics) and The Comic Book Lounge threw an all Ladies Comic Nerd night where geeky ladies could get together and talk about their love of nerdery. No men were allowed; even the owner of…
Team Canada?
Looking back at Canada’s First Age of Comics, the WECA period (1941-6), we find that it never produced a team of superheroes like the JSA/JLA, The Avengers, The Mighty Crusaders, or Alpha Flight. Among the three “big” publishers we find…
BIFF SOCKO: Go Get ‘Em, Tiger!
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: GOTHAM CITY – To…
Comic Culture January 16th
Welcome to a brand new year of Comic Culture Radio. This year we’re looking forward to filling the airwaves with thought-provoking insights, hard-hitting journalism and in-depth interviews. If we come up short on these well then we’ll at least aim…
Bendis Claims To Set His Collected Edition Prices
I was checking out Brian Michael Bendis’ Tumblr feed this week as he features a lot of great art when I came across this statement about Scarlet ever being released in trade paperback format. No. I know this is not…
Undervalued Spotlight #146
Justice League of America #200, DC Comics (March 1982) The Justice League has been a hot property since Justice League #1 launched DC’s New 52 back in August of 2011. The title has stayed hot and it can only get…
Review | The Chimpanzee Complex Vol 1: Paradox
An interesting spin on what we know of space exploration, The Chimpanzee Complex Volume 1: Paradox is an engaging look at humanity and the desire to achieve. In 2035, the US Navy discovers a strange space capsule that has crashed…
Uncle Scrooge: Only A Poor Man
There are certain comic books that you are supposed to have read. Ones that have critical and/or commercial success behind them. Books like Maus and Watchmen and Love & Rockets and The Dark Knight Returns. Things that you know you…
Crash 2! Part 5
Crash 2! By Dennis De Pues continues. Exclusively on comicbookdaily.com. Full size.
Review | Grandville Bete Noire
The latest in Bryan Talbot’s anthropomorphic steam punk epic, Grandville Bete Noire takes the familiar mystery framework and turns it on its ear, in a good way. The baffling murder of a famed Parisian artist in his locked and guarded…
Does Marvel Comics hate Peter Parker?
[Just a warning, there may be spoilers ahead] Spider-Man is one of Marvel Comics most beloved characters. The character has been around for 50 years. That’s longer than some of your parents have been alive. Another beloved Marvel character is…
Web Arted Jan 11th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days.
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Trade Paperbacks and Comic Book Covers
Once upon a time I didn’t really care about over-sized hardcovers, collected editions, or trade paperback anthologies. I really just bought issues, and only issues, and liked it. I also possibly walked to the comic book store through ten feet of snow.…
Hockey is back!!
Hockey is back!! In appreciation of this, I want to share a relevant WECA splash. It’s a good thing that comics can’t be prorogued or locked out, but, in a way, maybe that’s what happened to American comics when Canada’s…
BIFF SOCKO: You Want Top or Bottom?
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: LOS ANGELES – The firestorm…
Review | Sharaz-De: Tales From The Arabian Nights
A stunning blend of word and illustration, Sergio Toppi elevates the comic art form in Sharaz-De: Tales From The Arabian Nights. A set of tales inspired by the Arabian Nights by the late European comics master Sergio Toppi, exploring a…
LOST Season 7: the Comic book?
Dear Damon, Carlton, JJ and friends, please can we have a LOST comic book? The stereotypical nerd-culture fan – for whom this suggestion would cause a desperate drowning in their own misplaced, protective high-horsedness – could easily hide behind “they should…
Collect This Not That!
Eat This Not That is a popular column in Men’s Health magazine. The authors of the column compare two menu items found in popular restaurants and highlight the nutritionally superior alternative. Now, when I say “nutritionally superior” it’s with a…