Author: Anthony

Hey Hey.. (I wrote that with the sound of Krusty the Clown in my head).. It’s that time again. I’m about to head off to the beach for another vacation but lucky for me, I don’t leave until lunchtime Wednesday, which gives me time to go drop by the old local comic book store before enjoying and relaxing at the beach where there’s a slight chance Tropical Storm Franklin could change path’s and plummet me and my family. So if you don’t hear from me by next week, it’s either a hurricane took me out or I got eaten by a shark.
Anyways, on with the picks. Continue reading “Poyo's Picks for August 9th, 2017”

Each week hundreds on 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 8/9/17:
Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 8/9/17”

Marvel had previously obsured the Mark Brooks cover for Secret Empire #9, out August 23 as it revealed the return of a recently killed character. An Image of the unobscured cover has hit the internet showing just who is back from the grave. Continue reading “Secret Empire #9 Cover reveal spoiler “

Early preview pages revealed
Image Comics is pleased to announce THE DOOMSTER’S MONOLITHIC POCKET ALPHABET, written by Theo Prasidis and illustrated by Maarten Donders. The 64 page, full-color, pocket-sized, hardcover book puts a cheeky spin on small illustrated books in the vein of Edward Gorey’s The Gashlycrumb Tinies and Tim Burton’s The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and will hit stores this November. Continue reading “THE DOOMSTER’S MONOLITHIC POCKET ALPHABET will hit stores this November”

Creators of Curse Words, Charles Souls and Ryan Browne rolled into town this past weekend to Third Eye Comics in Annapolis, Maryland, for their Curse Words van tour.
Continue reading “Curse Words Van Tour and Astonishing X-Men #1 1:10 Signed Comic Opportunity”

Anthony from www.comicsheatingup.net flying solo as Terry Hoknes is off this week, discussing the news of the week and the hot new comics out this Wednesday.  Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 8/9/17”

The Star Wars 40th Anniversary Variants have been extremely popular. Several are going for decent money. Doctor Aphra #4 for example. Completed sets will be pretty desirable. Here is a sneak peek at the upcoming Star Wars #35. Continue reading “Sneak peek: Star Wars #35 40th Anniversary Variant”

Clayton Crain Venomverse connecting covers available as a 5 issue Virgin Connecting set. The beautiful covers coming out for the venom verse series presented without trade dress to show off Crain’s incredible art.  Continue reading “VENOMVERSE CRAIN CONNECTING SET AVAILABLE AS LIMITED VIRGIN VARIANTS”

Image/Skybound Entertainment introduces Italian comic artist Lorenzo De Felici to the United States market in a big way with Skybound’s line-wide variant covers which will hit stores this September.  Continue reading “IMAGE/SKYBOUND ENTERTAINMENT REVEALS SEPTEMBER LORENZO DE FELICI VARIANTS”

Some people had some concerns about Josh Brolin playing Cable, but Ryan Reynolds just squashed all of them by releasing first look photos of Brolin as Cable. Continue reading “Ryan Reynolds Leaks First Look at Cable in Deapool #2”

Cable gets the Venomized treatment in this variant for Venomverse #1 by newcomer InHyuk Lee. Lee previously did a Venomized variant with the Emma Frost variant. Continue reading “InHyuk Lee Venomizes Cable for Venomverse #1”

Netflix Inc. announced today it acquired Millarworld, the comic book publishing powerhouse founded by Mark Millar, the legendary creator of such iconic characters and stories as Kick-Ass, Kingsman, and Old Man Logan, and one of the most important voices in comics. Continue reading “Netflix buys Mark Millar's Millarworld”

Eric Powell fans might want to take note on this one. People who are not really familiar with his work should as well. Powell is the creator of The Goon, Hillbilly, and a ton more offbeat comics. His work is quirky and has a huge fan following. One book people might miss is Spongebob #73 which features Powell’s art on the book. Continue reading “Eric Powell Covers Spongebob for October Issue”

Aloha CHUniverse and welcome back to Weekend Specs! This article was going to be a masterpiece with long write ups about each character and the books highlighted this week, But…… a few hours into writing my email to Anthony the email goes blank while I’m typing my closing. So this week will be a very brief and frustrated Weekend Specs. But still good info nonetheless, Let’s Jump In!! Continue reading “Alana's Weekend Specs: Enter the Dragon”

Writers Paul Jenkins (Inhumans, Wolverine: Origin) and Bryan Lie team up with artist Hendry Prasetya (Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers) for an all-new mystery thriller in GOD COMPLEX, an ongoing series launching from Image/Top Cow this October.
Continue reading “Top Cow launches all-new mythological thriller in GOD COMPLEX”

Hey Chu, It’s DrunkWooky with a short JTC Action Figure Sneak Peek.
Our friends over at Jedi-Bibliothek.de leaked this upcoming action figure cover for Cassian & K-2SO by John Tyler Christopher. This looks to be an site exclusive cover because Cassian & K-2SO comes out next week. Continue reading “Sneak Peek! Rogue One: Cassian & K-2SO Special #1 K-2SO John Tyler Christopher Action Figure Exclusive”

Jesse James comics have positioned themselves as the king of awesome, low cost variants, with free shipping to boot. They have another one up, this time for Amazing Spider-Man. Continue reading “Inexpensive Variant Watch: Amazing Spider-Man #1 John Romita COBRA/ Jesse James Variant”

The first issue of Vault Comic’s new series, Alien Bounty Hunter, has sold out and gone back for a second printing. The comic is tied into a potential media deal as it is tied to Mark Wahlberg who is producing. Continue reading “Alien Bounty Hunter Sells Out and Goes to Second Print”

By Shawn B. The One Year Later Investigator
What up CHUggernauts!?! Shawn B. 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. It was a pretty good week. Continue reading “One Year Later: Spec Review for 7/27/16”

The only thing that could be more “Metal” than naming The Flash of the Dark Knight Metal series “The Red Death” would be to give him long hair and a sleeveless Jean jacket with band patches on it. Diamond updated their listing for Batman The Red Death with the cover image showing the Flash of the Metal Universe.  Continue reading “Meet the Flash of Dark Knight Metal: The Red Death”

Black from Black Mask Studios has been optioned for a Movie by Studio 8. The story centers around a world where only African American’s have super powers and has featured some pretty controversial covers. We did a Black #1 Comicsheatingup.net variant (with cover art by your’s truly) that was limited to 250 copies. Continue reading “Black by Black Mask Comics Optioned by Studio 8 for Movie”

Hey CHU, Drunk Wooky here with some Star Wars error books that just were released that have me scratching my Wookiee head and asking “who the hell is editing Star Wars books these days”? Maybe Ewoks. But you know what they say, give 100 Ewoks a typewriter and well, no they would just throw them at storm troopers from the tree tops.  Anyway, we recently reported on the misnumbering of the 40th Anniversary variant last week. Here is Marvel’s latest crop of goofs. Continue reading “Drunk Wooky's Star Wars Report for 8/3/17 The "Who the Hell Edits Star Wars Comics" edition”

We told you back on 7/29, in fact we were the first to report this, that Generations Banner Hulk and Totally Awesome Hulk had sold out and going back for a second print. The second print covers were done by Francesco Mattina. We also reported that the Hulk cover was one of 5 connecting covers that were commissioned for a store variant that fell through. We got word today that the connecting Mattina covers will be used on all the one shot 2nd prints.
Continue reading “Mattina Continues Generations Second Print Covers”

The Summer of Scout continues, featuring the seventh of eight new upcoming Scout comic book properties!!
This week, Scout is proud to announce FIREWATER by Ken Kristensen and M.K. Perker!
​ Continue reading “EXCLUSIVE!!! THE SUMMER OF SCOUT!! WEEK SEVEN! FIREWATER!!!”