Author: Anthony

After the huge success of the Astonishing X-Men #1 Psylocke variant, the variant collective of Sad Lemon, 7ate9, The Comic Mint, Amorphous Ink and Golden Apple have been anxious to work with Adi Granov again. What better book to do that with than Marvel Legacy? And what better characters than the Wolverines?  Continue reading “Adi Granov Covers Marvel Legacy #1”

The Walking Dead is great at introducing over-the-top characters. The Princess follows that tradition. Check out the spoilers for The Walking Dead #171, out tomorrow. It comes in a regular and variant covers. Spoiled images are behind spoiler warnings. The Accompanying text is not. Continue reading “Spoilers: Walking Dead #171. The Princess is crazy”

Aloha CHUniverse, and welcome back to Weekend Specs! This week we have a big rumor that Sony is putting out a Nightwatch solo film ahead of the Spawn reboot. Heartthrob a low print Indy book was optioned as well this week. Also we have a possible villain for Punisher revealed in the recent teaser trailer. Lastly a few easter eggs that took me multiple viewings and years to find before I noticed them. Let’s jump in!!! Continue reading “Alana's Weekend Specs: Wannabe Spawn”

Terry Hoknes is back this week with Anthony to discuss the new releases for the first week in September. Here is the New Comic Spec Review video for 9/6/17:
Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 9/6/17”

Hela is going to be hot. She is in the upcoming Thor Ragnarok movie and looks awesome. Mighty Thor #23 features one of the Venomized covers that should not be missed. It is the aforementioned Hela wrapped in the Venom symbiote as drawn by Clayton Crain..  Continue reading “Clayton Crain Covers Hela (in Venom) for Mighty Thor #23”

There was a lot of talk of people moving to Canada, especially celebrities,  if Donald Trump won the election. Trump won, no one moved up north (or that I have heard.) But Eric Larson is sending his Savage Dragon out of Chicago and up to the Great White North in Savage Dragon #227.  Continue reading “Savage Dragon Moves to Canada in Savage Dragon #227”

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 8/31/16”

Hey Chu, Drunk Wooky back with another great Star Wars book to drool over. This one could be difficult to find, depending on your shop, because it is one of the “meet or exceed” variants that many retailers have been upset about. It’s a good one though. Very classic, and by Adi Granov. Continue reading “Drunk Wooky's Variant Envy: Mace Windu #2 Adi Granov "Meet or Exceed" variant”

Thanks again to the Fan Expo store for sponsoring this one. And sorry for the delay on this, but we are getting all caught up.
Here is the Winner for the Boston Comic Con Variant set which includes the following: Continue reading “Winner: Boston Comic Con Variant Set”

A lot of people have been asking when Gwenom would hit. Another site, we won’t mention their name, ok it rhymes with Bleeding Stool, had mentioned based on the incorrect Amazon posting for Spider-Gwen Vol. 4 Predators she would be appearing around issue #23. Well, they are sort of right. I have been saying for a while, and Jason Latour had backed it up with his tweets, that Gwenom would appear in Issue #25. In fact, the solicitation says, “GWENOM Part 1 Gwen’s life irrevocably changes as she bonds with her universe’s version of the Venom symbiote.” (But be on the look out for a cameo in Spider-Gwen #24). I digress, needless to say, we do get a Black Costume Spider-Gwen as well as a (not sure it can be called an appearance) of Gwenom in Spider-Gwen #23. Spider-Gwen #23is in stores tomorrow. As always, spoiler images are obscured behind the spoiler tag, the accompanying text is not. Click the images for the spoiled images.
Continue reading “Spoilers: Spider-Gwen #23. There is a Gwenom Inside (Sort of)”

What Up CHU? Mel V. here with your weekly variant picks for the week of August 29TH, summer is just about done can you believe it? Kids are back in school, air conditions are being taken out of windows, and football season and basketball seasons are about to start. Not to forget the big one, NYCC is fast approaching woot woot. Last week was a very good week for variants. This week…it’s a bit light…let’s get into it Continue reading “Mel V. Variant picks for 8/30/17”

AKA: Poyo’s Washed Out Picks for August 30th, 2017
It’s been raining non-stop for almost 3 days now. Hurricane Harvey made crispy central Texas very wet and soggy. I’ll take it though, probably won’t see any more rain after this for another 3 months or so.
Now let’s hope my local shops didn’t get flooded out and I can pick up the picks I make here cause we all know my picks are the best picks. I just wanted to see how many times I could say picks in one sentence before it started to get weird. This week is small, being the 5th Wednesday of the month as well but I think there are still a few potential winners. Continue reading “Poyo's Picks for August 30th, 2017”

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 8/30/17: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 8/30/17”

Here you go. Monday Spoilers from The New York Times. Anything below this point should be considered as a spoiler and only proceed if you are good with spoilers.  Continue reading “New York Times Spoiles Secret Empire #10”

This year is flying by, already the end of August. Normally Terry Hoknes from www.hoknescomics.com joins Anthony, but this week Anthony handles the duties alone. Here is this weeks video for comics releasing 8/30/17:
Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 8/30/17”

Superstar writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Space Mullet) and colorist Mike Spicer will kick off a new arc in the dystopian epic this October from Image Comics and Skybound Entertainment.
Continue reading “Sold-out hit EXTREMITY embarks on new story arc”

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.
Very light week speccing wise from a year ago. Continue reading “One Year Later: Spec Review for 8/24/16”

It is nice to walk into your local comic shop on a Wednesday and pick up your books. It is even nicer that by the end of the week some of those books sell for multiple times cover price. Weapon X #7 is one of those books. Continue reading “Wednesday Winner: Weapon X #7”

It is nice to walk into your local comic shop on a Wednesday and pick up your books. It is even nicer that by the end of the week some of those books sell for multiple times cover price. Batman The Shadow #5 Mattina Variant is one of those books. Continue reading “Wednesday Winner: Batman The Shadow #5 Mattina Variant”

Fans of Signed comics take note! There are two cover Dark Nights Metal signed variants up for grabs this week signed by the creative team of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo, but there is a catch.  Continue reading “Signed Comics Alert: Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo Dark Nights Metal Midtown Variants”