Informed Comic Book Speculation and Pop Culture News
Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day. It is like your birthday in the middle of each week (well, one where you buy your own presents.)
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 252nd edition of the open forum! Continue reading “Wednesday Open Forum”
What Up CHU Mel V back with your Weekly Variant Picks for 8/28/19. Before we start, I want to thank everyone who has been rocking out with me for the past 4 years and the Variants of the Week. As some of you may know I will be taking some time away from the speculator/writer/podcaster side of comics. Don’t fret, as this is not a goodbye ..it’s a until next time. I definitely want to thank Anthony for giving me a chance to shine. Also, I want to thank you the fans of my articles, for your support each and every week. I really appreciate you guys for taking the time out to check me out each week, it always meant a lot to me when I met a person who read my articles and say how much they enjoyed them, you guys are fantastic. It is time for me to pay it forward. In my absence Lucas Fashina will be taking over Variants of the Week, if you don’t know Lucas, he is a great up and coming speculating prodigy and he has a weekly show over at his channel Hammered Heroes where he breaks down the Previews book. Not just a couple pages but the whole damn book. So yea, this guy knows his stuff . So for the last time until next time “let’s get into the getting into” Continue reading “Mel V.’s Variants of the Week for August 28, 2019”
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 8/28/19: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 8/28/19”
Final Order Cut-Off is the last day that shops can guarantee their orders for comics. After Final Order Cut-Off, or FOC, these books will only be available to retailers on Advance Reorder. And that is not guaranteed. So here are the highlights for Monday, 8/26/19’s FOC list. Continue reading “Final Order Cut-Off Highlights for 8/26/19”
We’re gonna try something new here we hope can be useful for speculators and retailers. There’s the Final Order Cutoff lists and then there’s the Diamond Advanced Comics Reorder Lists (although, it’s been a while since the last one) but this new guest piece by “Magic 8 Ball” will go over the books that are sold out or close to selling out at Diamond.
Key art for WandaVision, the upcoming Disney+ TV show released and tweeted out by Tom King. Looks very familiar. Check it out below. Continue reading “New Art For WandaVision TV Show Released”
Coming out of D23, but overshadowed by a lot of the big announcements, Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur have officially been given the go ahead of an Animated series staring the smartest girl in the Marvel U and her big red Dinosaur. Continue reading “Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur Heading to the Disney Channel”
Greetings to my Comic Heating Up family. First of all, House of X #2 was one of my reads of the year. John Hickman is perfect on the X-Men. Cgc, why can’t you have a red label for autographed books that are not witnessed? Can we get Gwenpool some cosplay love? The McGriddle is amazing. Now lets make the money with comics cause you can’t teach that! Continue reading “Blind Adam’s Hidden Gems Vol. 100”
John Walker, AKA US Agent, has been cast and will appear on the upcoming Disney+ streaming show, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. Walker was a replacement for Cap when he stepped down as Captain America. Continue reading “US Agent to Appear on Falcon and Winter Soldier Disney+ Show”
As promised, the Runners-Up list, think of these as the second part of the Top 20. Now then, on to #11-20. Continue reading “CovrPrice.com Runners-Up for 8/23/19”
The third of three new shows, and possibly most exciting of them for spec purposes, is Ms. Marvel. Continue reading “Ms. Marvel to Get Show on Disney+”
The second of three shows announced out of D23 today is none other than She Hulk, which will be joining Moon Knight on the Disney Streaming platform coming out, Disney+. This is going to be a dream streaming network for Marvel Fans. Continue reading “She Hulk Coming to Disney+”
News coming out of D23 tonight is Moon Knight is coming to the Disney+ streaming service. This is one of three upcoming shows announced today. Continue reading “Moon Knight Coming to Marvel+ Streaming Service”
Since Covrprice.com came on the scene, they have become a go to spot for watching eBaytrends on comics. They scour thousands of eBay
sales to cultivate data to spotlight the hottest selling comics. Here is this week’s Top Ten Comics: (Please note, potential spoilers do follow, and, these results are for auction that closed last week. )
Continue reading “Covrprice Top 10 List for 8/23/19”
Charles Adlard is most known for his work on the zombie book, The Walking Dead, but he has a new vampire series coming out from Ablaze LLC called Vampire State Building. Now, Vampire State Building will be getting an homage to Adlard’s previous book. Continue reading “Charles Adlard’s New Book, Vampire State Building Gets a Walking Dead Homage”
Books hit the shelves Wednesday mornings, but sales go on before that. Here is what our picks are doing on eBay going into Wednesday morning.
Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day. It is like your birthday in the middle of each week (well, one where you buy your own presents.)
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 252nd edition of the open forum! Continue reading “Wednesday Open Forum”
What up CHU? Mel V. here with the variants of the week. Some good books out this week. Some sneaky secret ones too. Let’s check out what I am feeling. Continue reading “Mel V.’s Variants of the Week for August 21, 2019”
Each week, hundreds of new comics hit the shelves, each with potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 8/21/19: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 8/21/19”
Thanks to the great guys at Scout Comics for sponsoring this one. We are giving away two sets of each, two sets of Planet Caravan #1 regular and Scout Store variant as well as two sets of Headless #1 regular and Scout Store variant. Check them out below: Continue reading “Scout Comics Giveaway: Planet Caravan #1 and Headless #1 Sets”
Image/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce an all-new, action-packed series by Shawn Kittelsen (Mortal Kombat 11) and Eric Zawadzki (The Dregs, Eternal)—Heart Attack—which will launch this November.
Continue reading “SUPERPOWERED TEENS REBEL IN ACTION-PACKED NEW SKYBOUND SERIES, HEART ATTACK”
Image Comics is pleased to announce an original graphic novel, Bog Bodies, by writer Declan Shalvey (Injection, Savage Town), artist Gavin Fullerton (Bags [Or A Story Thereof]), colorist Rebecca Nalty (Xena, Glow), letterer Clayton Cowles (Die, Savage Town), and editor Heather Antos coming to Image Comics in March 2020.
Final Order Cut-Off is the last day that shops can guarantee their orders for comics. After Final Order Cut-Off, or FOC, these books will only be available to retailers on Advance Reorder. And that is not guaranteed. So here are the highlights for Monday, 8/19/19’s FOC list. Continue reading “Final Order Cut-off Highlights for 8/19/19”
People seem to love the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, well most of them. While the core MCU started not really that long ago, 2008 with the first Iron Man movie, there were movies released before this that feature Marvel characters that don’t fit in the MCU. Tonight, I am going to spotlight the greatest Marvel movie that almost got made, but didn’t, and how you can still read it. Continue reading “Weird Comic History: The Silver Surfer Movie Graphic Novel”
As promised, the Runners-Up list, think of these as the second part of the Top 20. Now then, on to #11-20. Continue reading “CovrPrice.com Runners-Up for 8/16/19”
