Author: Anthony

Detective Comics #995 is in stores tomorrow. It features a death, a beloved Batman supporting character getting stabbed, and Batman getting creepy. Check it out. Continue reading “Spoilers: Detective Comics #995 Batman Gets Dark”

Action Comics #1006 is in stores tomorrow. It reveals the identity of the leader of the Invisible Mafia that is secretly controlling the city of Metropolis. Now, I am not a Superman reader, so let me know if this is a first appearance or just an identity reveal, but whichever, she has big things in store for Superman and possibly Clark Kent. Plus, the final two page spread really knocked me off my feet.  Continue reading “Spoilers: Action Comics #1006 The Return of one of Superman’s Earliest Artifacts”

Infinity Wars Infinity #1 is in stores tomorrow. It features my “WTF” moment of the year so far. Just check it out below.  Continue reading “Quick Spoilers: Infinity Wars Infinity #1”

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 219th edition of the open forum! Continue reading “Wednesday Open Forum”

What up CHU? Mel V. here with your variants of the week for 1.2.19. First new comic book Wednesday of the week. Hope you all had a safe and happy New Year. I am gonna keep this short and just jump to the comics. Continue reading “Mel V’s Variants of the Week for January 2, 2019”

Each week, hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. Some live up to that potential. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 1/2/19: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Deliver January 2nd 2019”

Here we are, 2019, with a whole year of new comics in store for us. Here is a peek at what is on our radars coming up in the next few months. Continue reading “A Look Ahead to 2019 Small Press Releases for February 2019”

What a great year 2018 was. It started out with several really solid months of sales, a little cold spot in the middle but still plenty of comics worth flipping, and ended with a bang. I enjoyed this year a great deal. Continue reading “Happy New Year”

Anthony from www.comicsheatingup.net talks about the hot new comic book releases of the week. Here is this week’s for delivery 1/2/19, the first comic book delivery for the new year. Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for January 2, 2019”

The Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List is a great speculator tool. It shows what books retailers are going back to get more of, in advance of their release. They are actually putting their money up betting these books get big. These are the books people are talking about in shops, message boards, and websites. Here is the Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List for 12/31/18: Continue reading “Diamond Comics Top 25 Advance Reorder Comics for December 31, 2018”

It’s been a tough month with two holidays knocking traffic down as there have been very few stories. FOC has been off these past two weeks as has the Pocks of the week just based on limited shipping last week. But all the same, CHU hit a goal that I was very much looking forward to. Continue reading “Comicsheatingup.net hits 10 Million Views”

Here is an updated poll link with the requested variants.  Continue reading “Updated Variant of the Year Poll”

Covrprice.com launched recently and has quickly 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:
Continue reading “CovrPrice.com Top Ten Selling Comics for Week of 12/27/18”

What’s up CHU. Mel V. starting the round up for the Variant of the Year. I need your votes. Continue reading “Mel’s Variant of the Year Poll”

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 12/26/18: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 12/26/18”

Merry Christmas to all the CHU readers, lurkers, and the regulars in the comments. You guys are awesome and make this site great.

Comic book characters have long been entertaining us and showing off their badass superpowers with everything from super strength to mind control. Each one has a unique ability which makes them more powerful than the average human and they use them to fight off the bad guys. But not all of them have outwardly obvious powers like turning into a giant green monster.

As the late Stan Lee himself stated, “the greatest superpower is luck” – and that’s exactly the power that some of these superheroes have. Here are three of the most exceptionally lucky superheroes that you need to know about. Continue reading “Luck of the Draw: Comic Book Characters With the Power of Luck”

The Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List is a great speculator tool. It shows what books retailers are going back to get more of, in advance of their release. They are actually putting their money up betting these books get big. These are the books people are talking about in shops, message boards, and websites. Here is the Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List for 12/25/18: Continue reading “Diamond Comics Top 25 Advance Reorder Comics for December 25, 2018”

Welcome to the Christmas to New Year glut in comics. The Final Order Cut off list is pretty empty this week, Wednesday only sees 11 new books (not including collected editions or variants), and the following week isn’t looking better. Doing what I normally do, I scour eBay looking for deals, mistyped titles, and cheap slabs. A ton of people are dumping books at blowout prices for a little extra cash for the holidays. Here are some highlights of deals on eBay right now.  Continue reading “Cheap Slabs on eBay”

Greetings my Comics Heating Up family. Wow, we have a few days left until Christmas. Hey Santa Claus get my order right please? I wish you all a prosperous and blessed 2019. Batman Who Laughs #1, Batman #60, were my reads of the week. That Elseworlds crossover was awesomesauce. Gotham season five will be amazing, got to watch the first episode and go pick up the hard to find No Man’s Land books now. Titans was just a blast. Now I want and read Hawk and Dove. Well, don’t eat too much and remember please don’t drink and drive use Uber and eat cheese and bread before you drink now let’s make the money
Continue reading “Blind Adam’s Hidden Gems Vol. 91”

Covrprice.com launched recently and has quickly 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:
Continue reading “CovrPrice.com Top Ten Selling Comics for Week of 12/20/18”

Want to see the Rick Remender comic turned tv show, here is you chance to watch the full first episode. Continue reading “Watch the Full First Episode of Deadly Class Now”

The year is coming to an end. Comic releases, after this week, will be smaller and follow holidays. Next week’s releases will be December 26th, the day after Christmas, and the following week will be January 2nd, the day after New Year’s day. Here is the full release schedule for 12/26/18: Continue reading “Full Comic Release List for December 26th, 2018”

Back before Batman #38 came out, we spoiled the issue by letting leak the “Boy Who Would Be Bruce Wayne.” We dubbed him the “Anti-Batman.” We are introduced to Matthew Warner, the boy who wanted to be Bruce Wayne. He is back in Batman #61. Continue reading “Spoilers: Batman #61 Things Get Crazy”