Month: April 2018

We are announcing the winner of the Fan Expo Dallas Prize Pack.Thanks to the Fan Expo Store for sponsoring this give away.   Continue reading “Winner: Fan Expo Dallas Prize Pack”

What up CHUaholics!! Shawn B., the One Year Later Investigator,  back again, spec it, collect it, let’s begin! Man, I am getting bad with my jokes the older I get. So, I wanted to take a moment to mention that last week marks the one-year anniversary for these one year later reviews. Thanks to everyone who reads this post. It really is a lot of fun for me. And a big thanks to Anthony, Poyo and Mel for allowing me to call out their specs whether they are good or bad. Lastly, a big shout out and thank you to Anthony for creating CHU and keeping it going strong. Forget the specs and flipping and all that, what I love about this site is the excitement that it gives me each week. Whether it’s the new releases, Anthony’s spoilers, Alana’s Weekend Specs, Blind Adam’s Hidden Gems, it all keeps me excited about past, current and future comics. So, a big thanks to everyone who contributes to this site. You all help to keep my drive for collecting strong and on point. Jeez you’d think I’m accepting a Nobel over here with all my thank yous. Like I think I cured something. Continue reading “One Year Later: Spec Review for 4/12/17”

Aloha CHUniverse and welcome back to Weekend Specs! Quick write up this week with news The Eternals may be the next Marvel film franchise being announced soon, we will discuss Eternal keys. Most will gravitate towards Eternals #1 but the majority of the team members appear in other early issues as well that are great hidden low priced undiscovered gems. Also rumor of who Peter Dinklage plays in Infinity War. Let’s jump in!
Continue reading “Alana’s Weekend Specs: The Hammer maker and Eternals”

Warren Ellis’ series Injection has been optioned for a TV show by Universal Cable Productions. Continue reading “Warren Ellis ‘Injection’ Optioned as TV series by Universal Cable”

If you want to get your hands on a copy of the Hunt For Wolverine #1 Shattered Comics Mosaic Homage by Matt DiMasi, they will be available at the Little Giant Comics 2018 Old School Comic Show in Concord, NH on April 28th 2018. The show is taking place at the Everett Arena from 10 AM to 5 PM. There is another way to grab a copy if you are not in the area though. Continue reading “Shattered Comics Hulk 181 Homage Available at Little Giant Comics 2018 Old School Comic Show”

Calgary Expo is coming up April 26 – 29, 2018. Like most of the Fan Expo Cons, they have a list of great comic creators and celebs, you can check out the full list at the Calgary Expo website. We have a first look at the Calgary Expo Exclusives that will be available at the show. Continue reading “Calgary Expo Exclusive Reveal: J Scott Campbell Hunt for Wolverine #1”

Thanos #18 (available on eBay) is in stores today. The Donnie Cates penned half of the series has been building up to a big ending. Only one way the series could end. Spoilers follow. The Spoiled images are redacted. Click on the spoiler warnings to see the uncensored images.
Continue reading “Spoilers: Thanos #18”

Exiles #1 is out in stores today. The book features Blink with alternate universe versions of Marvel characters time hopping (think Quantum Leap if you are old enough to remember it) fixing problems. This issue sets up the team. The regular cover gives away who is going to be in the book, so it is no surprise who is in it. But the end has a hook that I liked a lot. Continue reading “Quick Spoilers: Exiles #1”

What Up CHU Mel V here with your weekly Variant Picks for April 11th. On Paper it looks like a slow week variants wise, but that’s when there is always a sleeper to come from the mist..lets see if I can choose it correctly
Continue reading “Mel V’s Variant Picks for April 11, 2018”

Each week hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. Some live up to that potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 4/11/18: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 4/11/18”

Anthony from www.comicsheatingup.net doing the weekly New Comic Spec Review video, spotlighting the hot new comics of the week. Here is this weeks with comics delivering 4/11/18: Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 4/11/18”

What up CHUllectors!?! Shawn B., the One Year Later Investigator, back with another One Year Later round up, where we take a look at some of the comics that Anthony, Mel, and Poyo specced on one year ago. Their specs turn out to be quick flips, slow burns, straight up misses, straight up winners and on and on. Sometimes they spec with their hearts out of their passion for comics. Sometimes they spec based on data. And sometimes they spec based off the word on the street. Either way, all their specs appeal to a few or many collectors whether it is due to them having similar taste in writing or art, or just an opportunity for a collector to flip a book and make money to “support their habit”. So, this is our weekly chance to look back at how some of our buys from a year ago are doing today. Continue reading “One Year Later: Spec Review for 4/5/17”

For true comic superhero fans, there’s almost an inherent appreciation of all things vintage. That’s not to say new things aren’t exciting as well (let’s just say Avengers: Infinity War looks incredibly cool). But the old stuff is always great, whether because it’s amusing, high quality, or simply pure – or all three! And just as we sometimes look back at ageless toys from comic history, we’re at a point in which certain comic-related video games feel like canonical history also.
So with no further ado, I wanted to take a look back at five awesome retro superhero games, appearing below in no particular order. Continue reading “5 Awesome Retro Superhero Games”

Afterburn, the 2008 comic series from Red 5 Comics, is set to be a movie staring Gerard Butler and directed by Jung Byung-gil. Continue reading “Gerard Butler Set to Star in Film Adaptation of Red 5 Comic Afterburn”

Aloha CHUniverse and welcome everyone to the first edition of my new weekly toy write up. Lately I’ve been moving from comic collecting to toy collecting, with good reason. The vintage toy market which has been down in the dumps, starting about 7 years ago, but is coming back stronger then ever, much like comics have done in the same time frame. Toys have first appearances like comics but you will find, finding unopened 1st appearance toys is a lot harder and in most cases rarer than their comic counterparts. Each week I’ll go over a different toy set from the past or have a universal theme for the toys we talk about like “Batman” toys. I’ll try and keep as comic related as possible but some weeks we may not. By no means am I professional toy collector, so I may get things wrong from time to time. Vintage toy information is not as easy to come by as comic info. So if I make a mistake I look forward to being corrected and please do so. Now let’s talk toys! Continue reading “Alana’s Ageless Toys: DC Super Powers”

Francesco Mattina has been doing great covers that have been sought after. Lately, he has been putting out some great cover price covers as well. For Spawn #285, he has 4 cover variants. Check them out below. Continue reading “Four Mattin Covers for Spawn #285”

The Justice League battles Barbatos and defeats the threat of the Dark Multiverse in Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s Dark Nights: Metal #6, the finale of DC Entertainment’s best-selling event and March 2018’s best-selling comic book according to information provided by Diamond Comic Distributors, the world’s largest distributor of comics, graphic novels, and pop culture merchandise. Continue reading “Diamond Comics Top 10 Comics (by Copies Shipped) for March 2018”

Looks like the Y the Last Man TV show is happening. Variety has reported that a pilot has been ordered by FX. Continue reading “Y the Last Man Pilot Ordered by FX”

Skybound Megabox is Skybound’s bi-monthly subscription box full of comics and other goodies. The April 2018 Megabox was just delivered and I unbox it. Check out what was inside: Continue reading “Skybound Megabox #6 Unboxing (April 2018)”

Here is one of those must win prizes. Fan Expo Store is sponsoring a give away in honor of the start of Fan Expo Dallas which runs from April 6-8 at the Dallas Convention Center. They have an all-star line up of guests and a pretty sweet set of show exclusives as well and we are going them away.  Continue reading “Free Comic Wednesday: Fan Expo Dallas Prize Pack”

We are drawing the winner for the GI Joe #249 Natali Sanders Variant and ECCC Virgin Variant giveaway. Thanks again to  Comic Market Street for sponsoring the giveaway.
Continue reading “Contest Winner: GI Joe #249 Comic Market Street Natali Sanders set.”