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It’s that time again, where I tell you what’s really grinding my gears for the week of December 19th, 2018.
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 Dislike for the Week of December 19th, 2018”
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, 12/17/18’s FOC list. Continue reading “Final Order Cut-Off Highlights for 12/17/18”
On the ninth day of Christmas, Secret Agent Poyo is giving out to thee….
Continue reading “12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 9 Giveaway”
This is a remake of the original Hardcore title created by Robert Kirkman and Marc Silvestri which is now being written by Andy Diggle and Alessandro Vitti.
On the eigth day of Christmas, Secret Agent Poyo is giving out to thee….
Continue reading “12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 8 Giveaway”
Middlewest #1 was a hit, even going back for a second print and had some nice ratio variants that people sought out. Next week, we finally get issue #2 hitting stands to see where the next chapter in the story takes us.
Continue reading “Middlewest Issue 2 – Advanced Sneak Peek Preview”
Welcome once again to the monthly review where we check the status of all the weekly picks and books we covered from the previous month. This time it’s for November 2018 Part II, the final two weeks of the month.
On the seventh day of Christmas, Secret Agent Poyo is giving out to thee….
Continue reading “12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 7 Giveaway”
Welcome once again to the monthly review where we check the status of all the weekly picks and books we covered from the previous month. This time it’s for November 2018 Part I.
On the sixth day of Christmas, Secret Agent Poyo is giving out to thee….
Continue reading “12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 6 Giveaway”
Covrprice.com launched recently and has quickly 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:
Continue reading “CovrPrice.com Top Ten Selling Comics for Week of 12/12/18”
This is something new I think will be fun with an ongoing spotlight of some of the comic book industry artists. This first one I wanted to do a spot light on In-Hyuk Lee who I think has been on fire lately with some pretty impressive covers.
On the fifth day of Christmas, Secret Agent Poyo is giving out to thee….
Continue reading “12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 5 Giveaway”
Welcome once again to the another installment of the One Week Later Report. This week we’ll cover the books released on 12/5/2018. This week had some great indie books hitting the shelves, so let’s dig in to what’s happened since they were released into the wild.
Continue reading “One Week Later Report for December 5th, 2018”
When you go out comic shopping tomorrow, do not forget to check the stacks for this flip opportunity. Grumble #1 is the new book by the pug-loving artist Mike Norton. Continue reading “Check the Stacks: Grumble #1 (A Comic Heating Up)”
On the fourth day of Christmas, Secret Agent Poyo is giving out to thee….
Continue reading “12 Days of Christmas Giveaway – Day 4 Giveaway”
Batman Who Laughs #1 is in stores tomorrow. These spoilers may be re-tread for some as similar spoilers were already leaked out, however, if you haven’t seen it, here you go. Continue reading “Spoilers: Batman Who Laughs #1”
Detective Comics #994 is in stores tomorrow. This starts the countdown to Detective #1000. The story line kicks off strong. The story focuses on Dr. Leslie Tompkins and a mystery involving Bruce Wayne’s parents. Continue reading “Spoilers: Detective Comics #994 Someone is Making it Personal Against Batman”
Batman Damned #2 is out tomorrow. The question has been “will they are won’t they?” about full frontal for Harley. Spoilers are below. The images are redacted the comments are not, so only proceed if you do not mind spoilers. Continue reading “Spoilers: Batman Damned #2 Channeling The Killing Joke”
This book originally sold out at most online retailers last week when listed.
Continue reading “Back in Stock Alert – Ogre #2 Source Point Press”
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 216th edition of the open forum! Continue reading “Wednesday Open Forum”
What Up CHU? Mel V here With Your Variants of the Week for 12/12/18
End of the month and year coming soon. Getting together my Variants of the year. Should be interesting, got a late candidate this week as well. Lets get into what I’m feeling this week
Continue reading “Mel V’s Variant Picks for December 12, 2018”
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. Continue reading “Pre-Game Report: 12/12/18 Comic Sales”
Last week was fun. I actually had a chance to hit up the local shops at open time and sadly they got absolutely nothing. No good variants, no good ratio’d variants and almost none of the indie books I wanted.
Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for December 12th, 2018”