
For you Midtown shoppers, if you haven’t bought any back issues recently, seems any orders they’ll throw in a random Midtown Exclusive Variant for free, up through April 30th.
Continue reading “Midtown Free Exclusive Variant With Every Purchase”
Informed Comic Book Speculation and Pop Culture News

For you Midtown shoppers, if you haven’t bought any back issues recently, seems any orders they’ll throw in a random Midtown Exclusive Variant for free, up through April 30th.
Continue reading “Midtown Free Exclusive Variant With Every Purchase”
Here we go again with another round-up of good cheap CGC slabs showing up on eBay. It is a great time to buy and sell right now. Check out the listings below. Continue reading “Cheap Slabs on eBay”

As promised, the Covrprice.com runners-up list. Think of this as the second half of the top 20. Continue reading “Covrprice.com Runners-Up for 4/20/20”

Since Covrprice.com came on the scene, they have become a go to spot for watching eBaytrends on comics. They scour thousands of eBay
sales to cultivate data to spotlight the hottest selling comics. Here is this week’s Top Ten Comics: (Please note, potential spoilers do follow, and, these results are for auction that closed last week. )
Continue reading “Covrprice Top 10 List for 4/19/20”
Anthony from Comicsheatingup and Blind Adam from #Awesomesauce podcast on Demon Seed Radio talk comics, life during lock down, and pop culture in general. Check it out below: Continue reading “Locked Down Podcast #2”
So DC is shipping again, bypassing Diamond. Some are happy about this while others are crying foul. Regardless of the politics behind it all, here at CHU we talk about new books, so that’s what we’re gonna do.
So please leave the politics out and just talk about the books that might be hitting a few store shelves (which most will be fulfilled by online sales and or curbside pickup to start off with most shops who are actually getting these books).
Continue reading “DC Shipping Again – Upcoming Books Preview”

Small Press publisher Alterna has decided to leave Diamond and direct ship to retailers instead. Full press release below: Continue reading “Small Press Publisher Alterna Leaves Diamond for Direct Distribution”
Don’t like spending full retail price on the ratio variants? Well, TFAW has a pretty decent sale going on right now for the more recent ratio variants.

Greetings my Comics Heating Up family. How is everyone holding up during this locked down time? Hope your all safe, healthy, and enjoying some amazing entertainment and making money online. Before we make money with comics I want to point a few things out, Fantastic Four X-Men #3, Hell Arises #4, and Spawn #306 were my reads of the week. The Chilling Tales of Sabrina season 3 was epic. I really enjoyed Birds of Prey and I am excited for May 1st as we get the rest of Rick and Morty season 4. Remember to wash your hands, stay at home, and be safe, now lets make the money with some comics cause you can’t teach that. Continue reading “Blind Adam’s Hidden Gems Vol. 115”
Thanks to Rob92807 over at The CHU Forum for this spec article.
Earlier this week both ScreenRant and CBR reported on rumors that the character Adrianna Tomaz could have a fairly large role in the upcoming Black Adam movie.
Continue reading “Rumor! Adrianna Tomaz (Isis) to appear in the Black Adam movie!”
Mycomicshop.com closed down at the beginning of April due to state restrictions and a lack of new product coming out. Just got word that they are reopening in time for new product hitting shelves at the end of April.
Continue reading “Mycomicshop.com Reopening”
It is not single issues, but the direct market is starting up again, without Diamond, as Boom has announced Trade paper backs and graphic novels will be released to retailers through Simon and Schuster. This news follows DC Comics announcing earlier that they would go through two different distributors. Continue reading “Boom Studios to Begin Distributing Graphic Novels Through Simon and Schuster”
And 2020 just keeps getting worse for the comic book and entertainment industry as San Diego Comic Con is officially canceled. Continue reading “SDCC 2020 Officially Canceled Due to Corona Virus Outbreak”
Looks like DC has come up with a solution to get comic books out to shops. Check out the full retailer press release below:
Continue reading “DC Comics Announce Two New Distributors During Diamond Closing”
Diamond just released a statement that they are potentially targeting late May for comics to resume shipping to stores. See the full letter from Diamond below: Continue reading “Diamond Talks Restarting Weekly Shipments”
Anyone else watching the sketches Jim Lee has been listing for charity? I have since there’s no new comics hitting the shelves for now. This update brings a pretty awesome sketch I can see pushing the limits on money raised.
Continue reading “Jim Lee Sketches for Binc Charity – Updates”
Rodney Barnes vampire horror series Killadelphia has been officially optioned by Levantine Film. The comic is being turned in to a television series.
Continue reading “Killadelphia Optioned by Levantine Films for TV”

AWA Studios launched the week before the Corona Virus lockdown. Tough time to launch a new comic line, however, they keep helping kill boredom, as well as make donations to local comic shops. They have been releasing their issue 1 comics online for free. Up today, Old Haunts #1, check it out below: Continue reading “AWA Studios Releases ‘OLD HAUNT #1’ for Free On-Line”
Does the COVID-19 quarantine and stay at home orders got you all blue? Do you miss new comic book Wednesdays cause all the shops are shutdown as well?
Well, how about a little CHU giveaway to cheer you up?
Every week, hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. Some lived up to that potential. And then new comics stopped a couple of weeks ago. Wednesday used to be like your birthday in the middle of each week. Now, not so much. But that doesn’t mean we cannot not spotlight comics that are new to you. Here is this week’s picks. Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for 4/15/20”

Wednesday, (used to be) the best day of the week, new comic book day.
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 282nd edition of the open forum!

It’s day 14 of my own lock down reading challenge, to read books that have been on the ever growing read list.
Continue reading “House/Powers of X – Lockdown Reading List for Tuesday April 14th, 2020”
Anyone else watching the sketches Jim Lee has been listing for charity? I have since there’s no new comics hitting the shelves for now.
I just want to also start off, Anthony gave me my own CHU login to write and publish articles back in October of 2017, this is now my 1,000 article under my own login. It also marks the 315 day straight that I have posted an article here on CHU. I know, I’m patting myself on the back a little but you know, someone has to do it..
Continue reading “Jim Lee Sketches for Binc Charity – Updates”
Boom Studios announced that they have signed a first-look deal with Netflix. The deal includes both live action and animated shows. You can see the full press release below. Continue reading “Boom Studios Signs First Look Deal With Netflix”

Since Covrprice.com came on the scene, they have become a go to spot for watching eBaytrends on comics. They scour thousands of eBay
sales to cultivate data to spotlight the hottest selling comics. Here is this week’s Top Ten Comics: (Please note, potential spoilers do follow, and, these results are for auction that closed last week. )
Continue reading “Covrprice Top 10 List for 4/12/20”