Are we too old to be nerds?
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,…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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DC Offers Single Issues Across Digital Landscape
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,…
BIFF SOCKO 7th Nov 2012
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…
Comic Culture November 7th 2012
This week hosts Chris and Walt talk about how Neil deGrasse Tyson discovered the “real” Krypton, Alan Moore’s new song for Guy Fawkes day, the Art for Sandy Relief art auction, Ben Kingsley’s Mandarin and Jamie Foxx’s Electro. Other topics…
Justice League Cover Sketch progress
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…
Superior Spider-Man and Internet Rage
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…
Undervalued Spotlight #139
Amazing Spider-Mam #583 Obama Variant 1st Print, Marvel Comics, March 2009 I’m posting this Undervalued Spotlight early on November 6th 2012, Election Day in the United States. Regardless of who wins the White House I’m arguing that the Amazing Spider-Man…
Review | Flash Gordon: On The Planet Mongo
Titan’s first volume of Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon presents the classic material in a comprehensive and affordable package. Beginning the complete library of the greatest science fiction hero of all time. Volume One will spotlight the work of Alex Raymond,…
Web Arted Nov 2nd
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Rivera, Epting, Robinson, Kirby, Dodson, Allred, Immonen, Canete, Chiang, Bolland, McNiven, Sprouse, Byrne and more!
BIFF SOCKO: When You Wish Upon a Death-Star
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 CBD and the Hulks!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN! From Comic Book Daily the Hulks:
“Punch It Mickey!”
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…
Potentially Awesome Things With Disney Buying Lucasfilm
Okay, so yesterday the nerd world exploded with the news of Disney acquiring Lucasfilm and announcing a 7th Star Wars movie. There will be a lot of negative talk (because that is what the internet is for) about monopolies but…
Comic Culture October 31st
The Halloween show has hosts Chris and Walt talking about what local comic book shops should be doing on Halloween. The guys also discuss the big Disney buys Lucasfilm. There’s also lots of convention news and movie news and the…
Revisiting “Classic” Comics
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…
London Comic Con smashes all attendance records
“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…
Disney Buys Lucasfilm
Disney is buying Lucasfilm for a reported $4.05 Billion. Disney gets Lucasfilm, LucasArts, Industrial Light and Magic, and Skywalker Sound. George Lucas, who owns Lucasfilm privately, gets payment in Disney shares and in cash. George Lucas in a statement said…
Review | The Underwater Welder
Sometimes the things we bury deep within ourselves refuse to stay buried.
Undervalued Spotlight #138
True Crime Comics, Vol. 1 #2, Magazine Village (May 1947) There was this great crime comic collection I bought back in the late 1980s. The collection consisted of 300 or so crime comics, much of the stuff I’d never seen…
Night of the Living Dead Live!
OK zombie fans, in case you haven’t heard, there is going to be a live theatre production of George Romero’s classic Night of the Living Dead. I got a chance to sit down with Executive Producer Marty Birthelmer and talk…
Web Arted Oct 26th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Maleev, Everett, Johnson, Kirby, Miller, Sienkiewicz, Infantino, Coland, Dodson, Ditko and more!