Auction Highlights #61
ComicLink’s January Focused Auction. This is my first Auction Highlight of 2012 and I think it’s a good time to try to take stock of the market, to see where some of the most heavily traded “blue chip” comic books…
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Episode 13: The reality of the ‘Moon Knight’ cancellation
If you're a fan of Moon Knight, some unfortunate news came across the newswire this week. Sadly, with the series not eight issues old, Marvel announced it would be cancelling its Moon Knight title as of the twelfth issue in April.
Marlow the Monster
Poor Marlowe. Life can be hard when you’re a clay monster still living with your mother. But for us, it’s a bitter-sweet and often funny comic. And let’s just decide it’s a single panel gag comic right now and not…
Graphitti Watchmen HC
This is my first Bound Together column that’s based on a book I don’t own, but it’s a doozy. In 1988 Graphitti Designs produced for DC a collected edition of Watchmen: a black hardcover in a slipcase with a good…
Pandora’s Eyes
Being a fan of Humanoids and Milo Manara I happily thumbed Pandora’s Eyes when it was released, then put it back on the shelf. For some reason I wasn’t ready at the time, but having thoroughly enjoyed The Manara Library…
Ghost Rider #8
With the movie's release in sight, Marvel commissioned a new Ghost Rider series to bring the rider of vengeance back into our hands. This week CBD takes a look at issue eight of the series.
Dark Horse Submission 2 – The Assassination of Lord Vader
While I realise a post like this one could be construed as being seriously and sensationally self-indulgent, I also acknowledge the amount of similar ‘dream-seeking’ nerds out there, whom also aspire to create comics like I do – and due…
I still don’t like Tintin
I finally got a chance to check out the Tintin movie the other day and in light of my previous column on the source material I thought I would share some thoughts. As the Vulcans say “only Nixon can go…
Undervalued Spotlight #110
Tales from the Tomb #1 (02-810-210), Dell Publishing, October 1962 About a month ago I bought a collection of rough shaped old comics. The pile was mostly Charlton War, DC non hero and a hodgepodge of Dells. Hum hum stuff…
C.B. Daily Jan 23rd
TCAF 2012 guests annouced, Miracleman and Marvel, DC fighting hunger, The Inifinite finite at issue four, and more.
Batman #5
Batman is on trial as the mythic Court of Owls is closing in on the Dark Knight. Issue five of the relaunched series was released last week, bringing with it new revelations about the shadowy cabal purportedly to have run Gotham since the pioneer days.
Celerity Page 7
GR107 There are 3 Phases in a grand race – Earth, Ocean and Sky. Each Phase comprises of 3 Stages races. Points are awarded to the first 8 positions in the stage AND the first 8 positions in the transfer.…
Celerity Page 6
Avalon Cosette AKA Sir, Avi Apprentice/Pilot-Captain Avalon As a boy’s name is pronounced AV-a-lon and is of Celtic origin. The meaning of Avalon is “island of apples”. In celtic mythology, Avalon is an island paradise and In arthurian legend, it’s…
The Thrill Is Gone?
Well folks… I’m back. I was sorting and arranging a pile of comic books in my basement, when it fell on top of me. For the past several weeks I’ve been trapped in my basement, but luckily I remembered the…
Web Arted Jan 20th
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Ramon Perez, Tommy Lee Edwards, David Aja, Sean Phillips and more.
Episode 12: I object! (to Mark Waid’s ‘Daredevil’)
Last week I saw something truly heinous, truly unseemly, truly asinine: "Daredevil is Marvel's best new comic series of 2011."
C.B. Daily Jan 19th
A new Popeye comic, CBLDF advisory, a look at Parker, new X-O Manowar, DC April '12 solicits, DC logo announcement and more!
Rock and Comics (revisited)
* I’m on a bit of a music geek kick this week and I thought it’d be interesting to revisit something I wrote for somewhere else and maybe spruce it up a bit and update it. The following article was…
Captain America & Bucky: The Life Story Of Bucky Barnes
I’m a sucker for Marvel World War II material and I love Chris Samnee’s work so picking up Captain America & Bucky: The Life Story Of Bucky Barnes was a given. [quote]Think you know the story of Cap and Bucky’s…
Comic Culture Jan 18th
This week join our hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija as they cover this week’s new comic releases and discuss a wide variety of topics including the Powers TV series, a James Bond reunion, Abe Lincoln fighting Vampires, Tintin winning…
Diamond Hires Chris Powell
Diamond Comic Distributors, the sole distributor of comic books to the specialty comic market, last week hired Chris Powell as Executive Director of Business Development for the comic book specialty market. Chris Powell comes to Diamond from Lone Star Comics…