Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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!
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…
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…
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 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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
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.
Now that Memoir's long overdue finale has arrived, does it live up to the title's auspicious beginnings? Yes and no.
PHOTO OF THE CON: The Joker …
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…
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!
[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…
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…
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…
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…
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!
The boys were off to an odd start this they quickly collected themselves enough to have a solid show. Topics this week ranged from talk of a new Justice League movie with Frank Miller’s name attached to Thor and Wolverine…
Do the big 2 need to provide a solid creator owned platform for their regular talent? Or is it better that Marvel and DC maintain a primary mind-set of “Our property, edited our way.”? allowing the second tier publishers…