Author: Anthony

Greetings to my Comics Heating Up and Awesomesauce families. I would like to say thank you for reading this each and every week.  As always thank you for the friendship, encouragement, advice, and support. I love being a part of this and it is the greatest blessing in my life.
I finished the school for the blind. Now it is time to launch awesomesauce comics as a kick a$$ retail establishment. But, one day at a time for that. Details to come. Dark Night Metal#3 & Detective Comics #966 were the reads of the week. The Falcon #1 was decent. Arrow Season Six is off to a great start. Riverdale Season Two was #awesomesauce.  That Last Jedi trailer was the bomb.
Now lets make some money with some comics because you can’t teach that. Continue reading “Blind Adam's Hidden Gems Vol. 64”

Aloha CHUniverse and welcome back to Weekend Specs! Still on vacation but have the Weekend Specs as promised. With the new show Gifted on FOX, oddball X-villains and X-Men could have a new breathe of life. So this week I would like to cover some random X-Men villains that I haven’t covered before. Also we have the return of Flash, Supergirl, Arrow, and Legends of Tomorrow to tv this week. Nothing new for the Arrowverse spec wise that hasn’t been written up before but we did get a Reign and a Thinker cameo. Let’s jump in!
Continue reading “Alana's Weekend Specs : Obscure X-Men Villains”

Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce that the debut issue of writer/artist Dan Panosian’s SLOTS #1 will be rushed back to print in order to keep up with customer demand. Continue reading “Slots #1 Goes Back for Second Print with New Cover”

In case you haven’t seen it, the New Mutants Trailer has arrived on the internet. Be prepared, it may not be what you expect for an X-Men movie. 20th Century Fox has said they were taking a horror route for the film and it shows in the Trailer. Check it out below. Continue reading “New Mutants Trailer hits “

Writer W. Maxwell Prince (ONE WEEK IN THE LIBRARY, The Electric Sublime) teams up with artist Martín Morazzo (SNOWFALL, GREAT PACIFIC, The Electric Sublime) and colorist Chris O’Halloran (GENERATION GONE, Black Panther) for ICE CREAM MAN, a genre-defying series of disparate one-shots arriving this January. Continue reading “Preview: Image Comics "Ice Cream Man"”

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 10/12/16”

There are spoilers ahead so proceed only if you are interested in reading such things.  Continue reading “Alana’s Thor Ragnarok Spoilers”

Marvel has released the preorder for an open to order version of the Phoenix Resurrection Return of Jean Grey #1 that is red hot. This is a recolored version of the 1:100 variant. Continue reading “Artgerm Phoenix Resurrection Return of Jean Grey Open to Order Version”

I got in the October 2017 Skybound Megabox in this past weekend while I was away at NYCC. Megabox is the Skybound quarterly subscription box which is chock full of toys and comics. Here is the October Megabox unboxing. Continue reading “Skybound Megabox October 2017 Lucille Patrol”

Not a fanfic, not a What If, not an Elseworlds, but GI Joe A Real American Hero #246, out November 15, will feature the first appearance of a female Snake Eyes. Fan Favorite artist Jamie Tyndall will provide exclusive covers for the book. Continue reading “GI Joe #246 to Feature Female Snake Eyes”

Numerous New York Websites are reporting that a man jumped out of the second floor window at Midtown Comics 40th Street and Seventh Ave. Time Squares location. Continue reading “Man Jumps Out Time Square Midtown Comics Window”

Jesse James is killing it with these low priced store exclusives, that ship for free… He prices most of his variants for $8 or less. He just put two up this morning, Shirtless Bear Hunter #5 and Atomahawk #0 Continue reading “Inexpensive Variant Watch: Shirtless Bear Fighter #5 and Atomahawk #0”

What Up CHU?  …Mel V here fresh of NYCC (My review should be up soon )with variants  I like for the week of Oct 11^th, 2017 .  Super light week, however its some great lookers. Quality over Quantity Continue reading “Mel V.'s Variant Picks for 10/11/17”

Each week hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. Some live up to the potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 10/11/17. Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 10/11/17”

I was just talking about how hot Rick and Morty comics are. The first appearance of Rick and Morty recently sold at best offer but was listed for  $750. Continue reading “First Comic Appearance of Rick and Morty sells on eBay “

One thing I can say from this weekend, Rick and Morty is definitely hot. I spent a good part of NYCC going back and forth to the One booth to grab copies of the NYCC #30 blank variant and the Pocket Like You Stole It #1 NYCC Variant. Here is a chance to get 8 early issue variant for less than $6 each, with free shipping to boot. Continue reading “Inexpensive Variant Watch: Rick and Morty 8-16 Exceed Variants”

What up CHUn-Li’s!?! Shawn B., the One Year Later Investigator,  back with another One Year Later round up.   This is 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: 9/21/16, 9/28/16 and 10/5/16 Spec Review”

Bestselling writer and former Vertigo editor Pornsak Pichetshote and artist Aaron Campbell give horror a new name in the forthcoming INFIDEL set to launch from Image Comics this March 2018.
Rife with political undertones, the new series will explore Islamophobia through a haunting and chilling story about one American Muslim woman and her multi-ethnic neighbors who move into a building haunted by creatures that feed on xenophobia.  Continue reading “NYCC Image Comics Announcement: INFIDEL”

Saturday was a more chill day. I had the chance to do less running around and spend more time actually getting to see the sites and sounds of not only NYCC but New York City as well. Poyo insists on eating well while on tour. Tyson B. is more like me and likes chill food (Hooters on time Square was nixed by Poyo, but we did see Keenan from Keenan and Peele at the restaurant we went to tonight.)
Here is my wrap up for day three. Poyo should be working on the Cos-Play gallery tonight or tomorrow.  Continue reading “NYCC Day 3 Wrap Up”

Anthony from www.comicsheatingup.net and some special guests do the New Comic Spec Review video live from NYCC 2017. Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 10/11/17”

I got a chance to sit down with Matt DiMassi the mosaic artist behind the Amazing Spiderman #789 Shattered Comics Mosaic Homage Variant.We talked about his work, the process, and more. Check out the interview below: Continue reading “Shattered Comics Amazing Spiderman #129 Image Variant Interview with Matt DiMassi”

One of my favorite things about going around cons is talking to self published artists and writers and talking about their books. I ran into Scott Blair at Baltimore Comic Con two weeks ago and picked up his book, VS: Vamps Vs Wolves #1 and VS: Vamps Vs Wolves #2. Continue reading “Self Published Spotlight: Vs: Vamps Vs. Wolves”

NYCC is flying by. I have been having a blast and grabbing and flipping a ton of stuff. Here is the wrap up for day two: Continue reading “NYCC Wrap Up Day #2”