Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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
Web Arted May 11th
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…
The Avengers Is A Smash… now what?
Warning: If you have not seen The Avengers there will be spoilers galore. Huge amounts of them in fact. I’m pretty much going to describe a lot of stuff in it. Along with the credits sequence. If you’re still here,…
$45 Million for Comic Book Art
A work by Roy Lichtenstein has sold at auction for nearly $45m, a new record for the US Pop Art icon. Sleeping Girl, from 1964, went for $44.9m (£27.8m) at Sotheby’s New York sale of post-war and contemporary art. OK…
FCBD, TCAF & The Avengers
Batman #1 Sells for $850,000
A CGC graded 9.2 copy of Batman #1 brings $850,000 in a private sale through Heritage Auctions. I’ve always believed Batman #1 to be undervalued so It’s nice to see someone else thinks the same way. These guys however are…
I am Iron Man
In a Variety article this morning I read that Robert Downey Jr., who in my view is the principle star of the Avengers, is the only one of the core cast whose contract with Disney does not reach the inevitable…
Market Trends – The Thanos Effect
After a long and hard fought Free Comic Book Day I went out and enjoyed the new Avengers movie at the local cinema. I was told to stay through the credits for a pleasant surprise so I did. To my…