Author: Anthony

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, Terry 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 2/15/17”

Dark Knights Rising The Wild Hunt (2018) #1 is out this week. This tie in features a pretty significant death of a recently added Batman. In addition, there is a mystery character who has been kidnapped. A character who may tie in to Grant Morrison’s Multiversity (considering he wrote part of the book it makes sense). Check out the spoilers below. Continue reading “Spoilers: Dark Knights Rising The Wild Hunt, Death and Mystery”

What Up CHU? Mel V. here with your weekly Variant Picks for February 14th. Valentine’s Day falls on New Comics Day, make the right decision, don’t choose comics over the one you love.. COMBINE THEM!!!
We got some nice ones this week so lets get into it. Continue reading “Mel V.'s Variant Picks for February 14th, 2018”

Each week hundreds of new comics hit the shelves, 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 2/14/18: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 2/14/18”

The sales numbers for January 2018 Comics are out and while the market, overall, was down, there are some really good books to look at. Here are selected sales figures for January 2018: Continue reading “By The Numbers: January 2018 Comic Sales Figures”

Greetings to my Comics Heating Up and Awesomesauce families. I want to say
thank you for the friendship, advice, love, and support over the past two years of this column. First off, some random thoughts:
I just started watching the Runaways on Hulu. Enjoying it. The Despicable Deadpool #293 was #awesomesauce and I am looking for a old school Legion or Flash rings from the late 1990’s. Now lets make some money with some comics cause you can’t teach that Continue reading “Blind Adam's Hidden Gems Vol. 74”

Anthony from www.comicsheatingup.net does his weekly video looking at the hot new books of the week. Here is this week’s video for comics delivering 2/14/18: Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 2/14/18”

Diamond Comic Distributors announced their top 10 selling comics for January 2018. these are the biggest selling books for the month, by number of books sold. Continue reading “Diamond Comic Distributor's Top 10 Selling Comics for January 2018”

The no-holds-barred sci-fi satire of VS, the new series from Iván Brandon and Esad Ribić, offers a canny vision of the future of warfare, and fans can’t get enough. As a result, VS #1 is being fast-tracked for a second printing in order to keep up with overwhelming customer demand. Continue reading “VS. #1 Goes Back for Second Print.”

Thanks to ComicXposure for sponsoring this Free Comic Wednesday Giveaway. We are drawing the winner for the three cover GI Joe #246 Jamie Tyndall Variant set. Three books one winner.
Continue reading “Winner: GI Joe #246 Jamie Tyndall Variant set”

The Comic Mint is proud to present their variant for Venom #162 with cover art by Clayton Crain. This cover is a reversal of their incredibly popular Venomverse #1 cover from last year. This time venom has the upper hand. Continue reading “Clayton Crain Covers Venom #162”

Stabbity Bunny #2 is sold out at Diamond. It sold out at TFAW weeks ago and at Midtown within minutes of being listed. Even the Scout Store is sold out of issue #2. You can pick up a limited edition Stabbity Bunny #2 at Emerald City Comic Con. Continue reading “Stabbity Bunny #2 Gets Emerald City Comic Con Variant”

Supergirl #20 is Artgerm’s last cover for the series. The set will be complete. Here is the preview of the cover posted by Artgerm. Continue reading “Attack of the Killer B’s: Supergirl #20 Artgerm Variant”

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, Terry 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 2/8/17”

You have all seen the $200 Oblivion Song Collector’s Edition which includes and Exclusive Foil Stamped Variant as well as a statue, an art print, and more. They were limited to 1,000 sets. Well, there is a problem Continue reading “Oblivion Song Collector’s Box to be Partially Delayed, Possibly Allocated”

Greg Horn provides a sinister Harley Quinn for the exclusive cover for Dark Nights Metal #6 Continue reading “Greg Horn Covers Metal #6 with Harley Quinn Who Laughs”

Waiting for the trailers can be just as exciting as waiting for the movie. Venom finally gets it’s first teaser trailer. Check it out below: Continue reading “Venom Teaser Trailer Hits Web”

It is nice to walk into your local comic shop on Wednesday and pick up your books. It is even nicer that by the end of the day the books are selling for multiple times cover price. These are the Wednesday Winners.  Continue reading “Wednesday Winners”

Jesse James has become the king of the inexpensive variants. Putting out exclusive covers for just a few dollars. Here is another one, this time it is for the new KICK-ASS #1 , out 2/14/18. Continue reading “Inexpensive Variant Alert: Kick Ass #1 Jesse James Variant”

A funny new Deadpool 2 trailer has hit the web today, but just a word of caution, if you are at work there is a good bit of cussing. The trailer focuses on Cable. Continue reading “New Deadpool 2 Trailer Hits Today (NSFW)”

Avengers #679 is out tomorrow. It is already sold out and heading back for a Second Print (shown below.) The cover shows off the new character Challenger, who we get to find out a great deal about in this issue.
Continue reading “Spoilers: Avengers #679 Introducing Challenger”

X-Men Red #1 is out tomorrow. It brings about a very different role for the freshly returned Jean Grey. It also marks the return of a villain that hasn’t fought the X-Men in a long while.
Continue reading “Spoilers: X-Men Red #1”

Walking Dead #176 is out tomorrow. When we left off, Michonne, The Princess, Eugene, and the crew had just gotten to the new community and Michonne found out someone is looking for her. We get the new issue and get a few first appearances and a really touching moment at the end. Continue reading “Spoilers: Walking Dead #176, New Characters”