Review | Night of 1,000 Wolves
As the autumn air cools and the days grow shorter I, like many, find myself seeking out spooky tales to enjoy while nestled in front of a crackling fire and sipping hot cider. Coming Oct. 23 from IDW is a…
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ComicLink Original Comic Art Auction Sep 28th
ComicLink completed their September Focused Auction last week, with the original comic art portion ending September 28th. Here we’ll look at five picks that tickled my fancy. It was an odd auction with mostly lower end material for sale; a…
Comic Book Things That Make You Go Hmmm! part II
Back in the beginning of summer I posted part 1 of this article. I had so much fun reading the answers from the Comic Book Daily Nation, I decided it was time for Comic Book Things That Make You Go…
Web Arted Oct 5th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Ross, Adams, Bolland, Cooks, Cockrum, Miller, Dell'Otto, Opena, Buscema, Byrne, Mignola, Romita Jr., Russell, Rivera, Rude, Nguyen, Young, Maleev, Kirby and more!
Comixology Celebrates 100M Downloads with FREE comics
As part of their celebration of closing in on 100,000,000 downloads Comixology is giving away one free comic a day until they reach that magic number. Here’s a snippet. With the quickly approaching milestone of 100 million comic and graphic…
Auction Highlights #71
Apologies for the late ComicLink Auction Highlights! Better late than never I always say. The Comic Link September Focused Auction ended last week, all results below ended between Tuesday September 25th and Friday September 28th. I found the auction to…
Comic Culture October 3rd 2012
Solid show this week sees the guys talking about the Silver Snail, Halloween, Stan Lee, Mark Millar, Grant Morrison and more. The Comic Culture Mailbag is opened up and new comics hitting your local comic book store today are featured. …
Marvel Digital Codes: Used Or Abused
Marvel has been including a digital code in their monthly books for some time but they’ve also started filtering into select Marvel hardcovers; my most recent volumes was Hulk Season One. There’s a handy ad sticker on the book’s plastic…
Biff Socko- At Least He Doesn’t Drink Out of the Toilet
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!
Undervalued Spotlight #134
Wonder Woman #179, DC Comics, November/December 1968 Not many superheroes made it out of the 1940s and the few that did were living on borrowed time. As a matter of fact only one superhero, not named Batman or Superman, that…
“Green-Screened in”
The background in a comic is a place where nothing happens. In comics, a lot of the background space is often sacrificed in order to tell the story with dialog and narration AKA: the words. The background is also occasionally…
Las Vegas Comic Expo 2012: Perspective
The inaugural Las Vegas Comic Expo (LVCE) took place at the Riviera Casino and Hotel on the weekend of September 29 and 30, 2012. The Riviera was not the original venue for the LVCE. The original venue was located off…
Review | Thief Of Thieves Vol 1: I Quit
In the tradition of Ocean's Eleven and The Thomas Crown Affair, Robert Kirkman and crew's Thief Of Thieves Vol 1: I Quit provides a heist caper full of twists and surprises.
Review | Memoir #6: troubled series but great finish
Now that Memoir's long overdue finale has arrived, does it live up to the title's auspicious beginnings? Yes and no.
Las Vegas Comic Expo 2012: Photo Parade
PHOTO OF THE CON: The Joker …
Stuff This Week in KIHTB (Knowing is half….
Wow…. This has been one busy week. I am only getting the opportunity to sit down now and bang out this column. I’ll try to get some comic talk into this column, but it’s basically going to be a bunch…
Web Arted Sep 28th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Kirby, Miller, Coipel, Trabbold, Stevens, Canete, Tomine, Ribic, Zonjic, Wood, Toth and more!
Wham! Bang! Pow! Video Blog #2
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXujzTZjFYk&feature=youtu.be] This is my second video blog. I will be trying to post my vlogs monthly, so keep an eye out for them! In this episode, I go over what I am currently reading, why Halloween is awesome for…
Avenging Spider-Man #11
The celebration of Spidey’s 50th continues with an Uncle Ben tribute issue in Avenging Spider-Man #11. There is very little avenging to be had in this comic (only 2 pages actually) and the majority of the issue deals with Aunt…
Comic Values by the Numbers
I’ve been wondering lately; is the old price guide model of valuing comics based on where they fit in the numerical sequence out of date? Don’t tell me the guide doesn’t matter, most of us still buy off guide values, we…
Silver Snail Toronto Grand Opening @ Yonge & Dundas
The new Silver Snail had it’s grand opening at it’s new location today. I was lucky enough to have time to stop by during my lunch hour to check it out. The new location is at 329 Yonge Street. I have…