Kapow!
This weekend in ol’ Blighty saw the Kapow! comic convention role into town, boldly claiming the London Business Design Centre as its own for 2 full days in the capital’s North East. The show was much hyped online by the English…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Major DC character to be gay: who cares?
DC announced on the weekend that a major male character, previously heterosexual, will be reintroduced to the new DC 52 as gay. And they are about to reintroduce a previously existing DC character who was previously straight and now will…
Undervalued Spotlight #123
Ultimates #1, Marvel Comics, March 2002 You know what’s been a tough book to snag at a good deal lately? Strange Tales #135 from August 1965! Perhaps it was my spotlight a while back that did it? The book features…
Celerity Page 8
Sebediah Aziza Racer See Page 1 Every five years on the night before lights-out, all new and existing race-crew members must attend the extremely high profile and prestigious Grand Race Academy Prom. In addition to a flock of hand-picked, political and…
Crash is Coming
Galloway Park creator Dennis De Pues is back at it again. Crash!!! Dennis’ new web comic made exclusively for comicbookdaily.com will start up next week. I’ve had a sneak peak and I think you’ll enjoy Crash!!!
How many times have you seen Avengers? Plus more!
The Avengers So Marvel’s The Avengers has been in theatres for a couple of weeks now. We’ve all had the chance to sit back and digest what we’ve seen and experienced. Are you happy with what you saw? I love…
Disabled Comic Characters
Superheroes are known for their extra special abilities that make them better than the average human. It gives them the ability to fight crime or foil evil. But, sometimes these superhuman characters are just like everyday people, even those with…
Web Arted May 18th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Weaver, Woodson, Cho, Fox, Bullock, Kirby, McFarlane, Lee and more!
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Megalex
The latest from Humanoids, bringing English translations of European works. Megalex was a three-volume work released in French in 1999, 2002 and 2008. This is its first English release. On the planet-city of Megalex, urban sprawl and technology consume all,…
Undervalued Spotlight #122
Impact #1, E.C. Comics, April 1955 Last week I posted about the $45 million paid for Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl. A great debate ensued on the merits of comic book art and whether some of it should be considered fine…
Specimen B28
This time we’re going out of this world. While at Wizard World I ran into Stephen Daymond whose work I had noticed before but hadn’t followed up on. Specimen B28 is a little bit 70’s UFO culture, a little bit Tripping…
Summer Drought
The summer is almost upon us and as such seems to mark a dramatic slowdown in my comic buying. I’m not quite sure why but every summer material I’m interested in dries up and my ordering list gets smaller and…
Comic Culture May 16th
Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija are back from a couple weeks hiatus and they don’t miss a stride as they dive right into topics like the Avengers movie success, how things are looking for the new Batman movie, comic…
Sorry, what?
I was going about my business yesterday lunchtime in the most normal way with a trip to Tesco’s for a £2.50 meal deal: a ploughman’s sandwich, a packet of prawn cocktail crisps and a Kit Kat. I then meandered over…
Mainstream VS Indie Comics
A visit to TCAF always gets me thinking about small press comic books and their relationship with “mainstream” books. Like other artistic media there is a divide with the mass-market popular books that make a tonne of money and those…
A Movie Bump for Avengers #1?
First debuting in 1963, it has taken nearly 50 years for Earth’s Mightiest Super-Heroes to reach the big screen. By all accounts, it has been worth the wait. The movie is a smash hit, receiving rave reviews and setting box…
I am Captain America
If you’ve read all of my columns on Comic Book Daily, and all of my comments I’ve ever written, you may have read that I was working on a Captain America costume for this past Halloween. I did make my…
Captain America By Ed Brubaker Vol 2
Having sworn off superhero comics I couldn’t help picking up this double dose of personal favourites: Captain America and Alan Davis. Cap struggles to find his faith when the new Hydra rises from the ashes and makes its first deadly…
Retailer Q | #10: FCBD 2012
Welcome to Retailer Q, spinning 52Q’s format at top Canadian comic retailers. Comic Book Daily asks the question and our retail friends give their perspective.
Please share your FCBD success stories from this past weekend: how it went, what your store does to promote the event, that kind of thing.
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Web Arted May 11th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Gorman, Brangwyn, Lee, Vieira, Kirby and more!
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Buying Action Figures…Retail
So you’ve just seen The Avengers movie. It’s awesome. You want to own a piece of the movie by purchasing some of the action figures. So you just go down to your favourite retail store and buy a couple of…