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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Comic Book Daily
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Today(ish) in Twitter – September 21st, 2009
Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing…
Teaser: Dark Avengers Vs. Dr. Doom [Updated]
Marvel released today this teaser for a December event. We don’t know much about it so far except that Brian Michael Bendis will be scripting with artists extraordinaire Michael Lark and David Finch will be supplying art in some capicity.…
Toronto Comic Arts Festival News
Chris Butcher (manager of the award winning comic book store Beguiling, the co-founder of The Toronto Comic Arts Festival as well as inspiration for Wallace Wells in the always amazing Scott Pilgrim series) has sent out some news for this…
The Joe Shuster Awards are this Weekend!
The Big event in Canadian Comic Book Awards are this Saturday September 26th, at University of Toronto’s Innis Town Hall with host Jonathan Llyr! Come out to see some stars of the comic book scene as well as your ever…
Comic Book Links for September 21, 2009
Second Printing examines why DC Entertainment’s 52 (The first of their weekly, year long series) was the Comic Event of this decade. The Invincible Super Blog pulls back the curtain of the Will Magnus Institute of Super-Science (“where we’re solving…
Tune into Comic Culture at Comic Book Daily
That’s right, we’re here with the first installment of Comic Culture; a weekly radioshow on the comic book industry. Hosted by Walter Durajlija and Chris Owen of Mohawk College; their weekly insights into the industry are sure to knock your…
Kirby heirs take on Marvel for copyrights
That’s right, the heirs of Marvel great Jack Kirby have filed suit against the company. According to the Media Decoder Blog; the focus of the lawsuit seems very similar to the case that the Siegel heirs had. They have filed 45 seperate…
Preview: Frank Miller and Neal Adams' Batman: The Odyssey
Thanks to Neal for posting some beautiful pics on his website, along with this great little note: I have never been able to bring my “A” game to Batman, to my satisfaction. Oh, a little here and there, but all…
Alan Moore talks Blackest Night (and then I ramble on a bit)
In his recent interview with Mania.com Alan Moore talks a bit about DC’s Blackest Night. Alan Moore: That’s it. It’s the paucity of imagination. I was noticing that DC seems to have based one of its latest crossovers [Blackest Night]…
A Letter From the President of the AAEC
Special thanks to Journalista! for directing me to this letter from the head of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists Ted Rall. It’s a really interesting look at how editorial cartoons were effected in 2008 and 2009. It really is…
Crazy Comic Covers: Action Comics #454 “Superman’s Energy Crisis”
The Cover: Superman is hanging outside a Mcdonald’s knock-off using his superspeed to shovel as many hamburgers inside his gullet as fast as he can, proclaiming that if he stops he will starve to death. This leaves us to wonder…does…
Today(ish) in Twitter – September 18th, 2009
Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing…
Green Lantern – Official Casting Call and Plot Details
The awesome gang over at SPOILER TV (Thanks for all the Lost speculation based on casting calls gang!) managed to get their hands on some exclusive character breakdowns as well as one or two plot points. Characters include Carol Ferris…
Check Out These Losers…
Reading writer Andy Diggle’s Twitter feed today, I ended up at the twitter of Stringer Belle himself Idiris Elba. Who posted this cheerful photo of the film’s cast. The cast: (From Left to Right) Idris Elba (Rocque), Columbus Short (Pooch),…
Auction Highlights #3 – CGC 8.5
This week I’d like to examine some recent sales of comics graded at 8.5 (or VF+ for you old timers). A comic graded 8.5 is generally in very nice condition and is considered as high grade for Golden Age, Silver Age and…
What if Stan Lee and Jack Kirby wrote Marvel Zombies back in the '63?
Sure Marvel Zombies are sort of played out now, but this? this is sort of cool. Created by YouTube user Whoiseyevan who took the concept to a whole new level splicing Marvel’s 1966 animated shorts with zombies. The creator explains…
So.. what do you think of the new JLA line up.
Let’s be honest – it’s hard to write a good Justice League book. Grant Morrison and Mark Waid were maybe the last time anyone wrote them to the level they should be written. Morrison and Waid had them fighting off…
Today(ish) in Twitter – September 17th, 09
Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing…
Review: Batman and Robin #4
I’m very protective of Batman. It’s a problem I have as a person that I really think I should get checked out. You see I honestly believe that Batman is one of – if not THE – best literary character…
Superman: The Movie that is a far ways off.
If you thought the recent shake-up/rebranding of DC Comics into DC Entertainment might mean that a Superman movie was being developed… don’t. MTV News spoke with Diane Nelson, the new head of DC Entertainment, and she said that the Man…