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Red Hood Outlaw #38 is in stores tomorrow. If the last issue full of strange new Outlaws wasn’t weird enough, we get a strange new villain and an even stranger…. Well check them out for yourself.
Continue reading “Quick Spoilers: Redhood and the Outlaws #38. Things Get Weirder”
Fearless #3 is in stores tomorrow. Like Lucas said in the Variants of the Week, there was a not much talked about first appearance of a new character in the book. Check her out below
Books hit the shelves Wednesday mornings, but sales go on before that. Here is what our picks are doing on eBay going into Wednesday morning.
This week I chose 15 books, 3 of them have high opening interest and interesting presales, but so far all of them have low degrees of liquidity. 4 are by known home-run hitting cover artist. 4 are character storyline driven 2 are indies; The rest are covers that I just want for the collection. Note: Estimated Print Runs are best guesses using historical data, they are not meant to be used for not to be used for targeting, and are meant to demonstrate hypothetical demand elasticity. Continue reading “Variants of the Week 09/25/2019”
Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day. It is like your birthday in the middle of each week (well, one where you buy your own presents.)
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 256th edition of the open forum! Continue reading “Wednesday Open Forum”
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 9/25/19: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 9/25/19”
Image Comics is thrilled to announce an all-new, ongoing genre-bending series by writer Samuel Haine, penciler Shawn Moll, inker John Livesay, colorist JD Smith, and letterer Thomas Mauer, who have teamed up with comic book industry icon Jim Shooter for—Slow City Blues—set to launch February 2020. Continue reading “Comic Legend Jim Shooter brings Slow City Blues to Image”
Here is this week’s list of Marvel comics going back for an additional printing. Continue reading “Marvel’s Back to Print Comics”
Welcome once again to my spec and my drek. I pick what I think will be winners, not only if you make money by flipping but winners as in either a great read or just awesome art.
Then there’s the pesky drek, the comic you should avoid altogether or not fall into the buying every variant trap.
Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for September 25th, 2019”
It must of been my blurred out sneak peek preview right?
Continue reading “SFSX #1 Gets Second Printing Before 1st Print Released”
Here is a look at highlights of Small Press Publishers comic offerings for November 2019: Continue reading “A Look Ahead to November: Small Press Comics”
Haven’t done a review of upcoming comics in a while. Here is a look at highlights of Image Comics offerings for November 2019: Continue reading “A Look Ahead to November: Image Comics”
So here’s a book to watch as it’s already starting to creep up in price on the secondary market.
Final Order Cut-Off is the last day that shops can guarantee their orders for comics. After Final Order Cut-Off, or FOC, these books will only be available to retailers on Advance Reorder. And that is not guaranteed. So here are the highlights for Monday, 9/23/19’s FOC list. Continue reading “Final Order Cut-Off Highlights for 9/23/19”
It’s that time again, where I tell you what’s really grinding my gears for the week of September 25th, 2019.
Some weeks it’s mostly likes, other weeks it’s dislikes.
So what’s grinding my gears this week?
Continue reading “Things I Like and Don’t Like for the Week of September 25th, 2019”
White Trees #2 hits store shelves this coming Wednesday, September 25th. Here is your advanced sneak peek preview.
Continue reading “White Trees #2 – Advanced Sneak Peek Preview”
SFSX #1 hits store shelves this Wednesday and it’s definitely got Sex in it, pretty much starts off with a bang! See what I did there?
This weeks FOC pick includes two books because I just couldn’t rest with just one pick.
As promised, the Runners-Up list, think of these as the second part of the Top 20. Now then, on to #11-20. Continue reading “CovrPrice.com Runners-up for 9/20/19”
We shouldn’t just collect or flip books, we should also read them. A good story can make your purchase well worth the money spent if you ask me. After all, we buy books to read for entertainment right? Even if you can’t flip them, reading is just as rewarding.
Continue reading “Poyo’s Trade and Hardcover Picks of the Week”
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 9/19/19”
Meant to post this earlier as it’s a series I’m looking forward to since ALEX+ADA was a great read.
Image/Skybound Entertainment is pleased to announce an new action-packed, five-issue miniseries Hardcore: Reloaded—by writer Brandon Thomas (Excellence), artist Francis Portela (Faith), and Leonardo Paciarotti—launching this December. It will showcase cover artwork by Nic Klein (Deadpool). Continue reading “Skybound Announces Hardcore With 4 Page Preview”
Alright, so NYCC is around the corner and we’ve been entertaining the idea of doing a get together for any CHU readers who are going to NYCC this year.
Guardians of the Galaxy #9 is in stores today. It features not one, but two classic characters returning.
Continue reading “Spoilers: Guardians of the Galaxy #9 The Return of a Classic Hero and Villain”