Author: Anthony

Aloha CHUniverse and welcome back to Weekend Specs. Back from my yearly 3-6 month comic break. I find it’s best to step away from my passion for comics during the holidays to focus on other hobbies, so I can return with new fire towards collecting comics. Not much new news during the holidays to miss regarding TV and film so makes a good time to break. In my comic off time I collect sideshow statues, vintage horror (toys, masks, etc.), and vintage comic toy 1st appearances. So today I would like to share some of my vintage comic toy know how with you all on some cheap 1st toys for extremely popular comic characters. Most comic characters will have their first toy in Megos, which are now really pricey and from the 70’s. But some of the most followed characters these days were created in the early 90’s. I find these 4 toys mentioned below all have great potential for future gains and cheap buy ins for you all interested in not only collecting first comic appearances but also first toy appearances. I also got some Ultimate comic specs for you as well. Let’s jump in!
Continue reading “Alana’s Weekend Specs: Life’s Fantastic When Your Made Of Plastic”

It is nice to walk into your local comic shop and pick up your new books on Wednesday. It is even better when the books are selling for several times cover price in the next couple of hours. Avengers #676 is one of those books. Continue reading “Wednesday Winner: Avengers #676”

Amazon does a lot of early solicitations for upcoming trade paperbacks. The one for Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide Vol. 9 is particularly telling. This is a spoiler post so only read on if you are interested in finding out how Norman Osborn gains the Red Goblin powers. Continue reading “Did Amazon Just Spoil Amazing Spider-Man Red Goblin Storyline?”

DC has been killing it with their cover price variant covers featuring big name artists. Justice League #26 features a Francesco Mattina variant worth checking out. Continue reading “Attack of the Killer B’s: Francesco Mattina’s Justice League #26 Variant”

It is nice to walk into you local comic shop on Wednesday and get your comics. It is even nicer when some of those books are selling for multiple times cover price by the end of the week. These are the Wednesday Winner. Here are the ones for this week.
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What up CHU!?! Shawn B., 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 1/18/17”

What is up, CHU!?
Happy new solar cycle! Well, we all made it through the holidays, my parents are always a handful during the traditional Wookiee holiday, Life Day.
Welcome to a new year and hopefully a nova-bright future for the Star Wars franchise!
Continue reading “DrunkWooky's January 2018 Star Wars Update!”

Scout Comics and Entertainment is proud to announce that its critically-acclaimed crime/thriller series SMOKETOWN by writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson (AQUAMAN, POWER OF THE DARK CRYSTAL) and artist Scott Van Domelen is now in development with writer/director Vaughn Stein. Vaughn’s most recent film, TERMINAL, starring Margot Robbie, Simon Pegg, and Mike Myers, is currently in post-production.
Continue reading “Scout Comics Smoketown Optioned as Feature Film”

Acclaimed writer Brenden Fletcher (MOTOR CRUSH, Gotham Academy) and Eisner Award-winning storyteller Karl Kerschl (Gotham Academy, The Abominable Charles Christopher) team up with colorist Msassyk (Gotham Academy) and letterer Aditya Bidikar (MOTOR CRUSH) for the lush, breathtaking fantasy ISOLA this April. Continue reading “GOTHAM ACADEMY ALUMS BRENDEN FLETCHER AND KARL KERSCHL REUNITE FOR ISOLA”

Debut issue of the anthology series sent back to print on day of release, new cover for the second print. Continue reading “ICE CREAM MAN IS ONE HOT COMMODITY”

Do you like Pizza? I mean crazy good pizza like Chili Cheese Pizza with Doritos? (I am sure they have cheese too though.) Do you like Independent Comics, I mean really cool ones like Stabbity Bunny? And finally, can you convince your non-comic loving girlfriend/wife boyfriend/husband to hit up a cool spot on Valentines day? If so, I have an event for you. Continue reading “Stabbity Bunny's Richard Rivera Signing at Gotham City Pizza”

Thank you to the guys at Shattered Comics for sponsoring this one. Up for grabs tonight is a Daredevil #597 Shattered Comics Variant by Mosaic Artist Matt DiMasi. Continue reading “Free Comic Wednesday: Daredevil #597 Shattered Variant”

Greetings to my Comics Heating Up and Awesomesauce families. I want to wish you all a happy new year, may all your dreams come true. Thank you all for everything, as it is one of the greatest blessings in my life doing these.
Doomsday Clock #2, Batman White Knight #4, Deadpool #291, Batman #38, and the Super Sons series as a whole were my reads of the last few weeks. The Gifted and Happy are the best two shows on TV right now and need to be checked out. The new X-Files too. I still need to see Star Wars the Last Jedi. now lets make some money on comics cause you can’t teach that. Continue reading “Blind Adam's Hidden Gems Vol. 72”

We have been on about Stabbity Bunny for a while now, about 6 months to be exact. The Scout regular edition are selling for $10, the variant sets are selling for $75, and the self published versions are selling for a lot more. A set of Stabbity Bunny 1-5 Set closed out over $1900. Continue reading “Stabbity Bunny is on Fire: Set of 1-5 Self Published sells for $1900”

What Up CHU? Mel V here with your weekly Variant Picks for Jan 17th, 2018. I’m currently getting killed in the crypto currency market… Comics > Crypto at this point for me. But seriously it’s a good time to buy as coin prices are dropping/dropped but I’m sure the market will bounce back, like Granny always told me “The rain does not last forever” anyway lets get into my picks. Continue reading “Mel V.'s Variant Picks for January 17, 2017”

Each week hundreds of new comics hit the stands, 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 1/17/18:
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2017 was a wild year for comics. There were a lot of big books this year. Here are the top 10 biggest books for 2017: Continue reading “Top 10 Comics of 2017”

The first month of the year is cruising by already as we hit the third of five Wednesdays this month. Here is the New Comic Spec Review Video for 1/17/18 Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 1/17/18”

What up CHU!?! 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 1/11/17”

Stabbity Bunny #1 from Scout Comics, and just released on Wednesday, is sold out at Diamond Comics Distributors. Continue reading “Stabbity Bunny #1 Sells Out”

X-Men Red #1 is out in stores on February 7th 2018. Here is a full break down of the covers along with the ratios, and the ordering incentives retailers will get for hitting ordering thresholds. Continue reading “X-Men Red Variant Info, Phil Jimenez Gets the Remastered Treatment, and Rob Liefeld, JTC, and Scottie Young Covers as well.”

Warner Brothers have released the trailer for The Teen Titans Go movie and it is pretty funny.
With a tagline like “Because if Aquaman can get a movie, anyone can”, you know the Teen Titans Go To The Movies Movies is going to be awesome. Continue reading “Teen Titans Go Movie Trailer Hits Internet”