Informed Comic Book Speculation and Pop Culture News
“Oh man this book pushed EVERY crime fiction button for me… Noir bleached to bleakness. Bliss.” —Patton Oswalt
PORTLAND, Ore. 08/10/2020 — Hot off their instant, bestselling megahit Pulp, crime noir masters Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips Continue reading “ED BRUBAKER & SEAN PHILLIPS MAKE HISTORY WITH ORIGINAL GRAPHIC NOVEL SERIES—RECKLESS—THIS DECEMBER FROM IMAGE COMICS”
Another great show falls due to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Check out the full details below. Continue reading “NYCC 2020 Physical Show Canceled Due to Covid-19, Online Con Scheduled”
Scout Comics has had a few sellouts lately that have been going to second prints. Grit #1 joins those ranks. Continue reading “Scout Comics Grit #1 Sells Out and Goes Back for Second Print”
Greetings my Comics Heating Up family. Hope your August is safe and that your all well and healthy. Not going to spoil but the Robin King is #awesomesauce. Stargirl is amazing as well. Now lets make the money with comics cause you can’t teach that. Continue reading “Blind Adam’s Hidden Gems Vol. 126”
Welcome to this weeks spec and drek, where we pick the winners each week we think will be spec worthy, a great read or just cool looking art on the cover. I also dive into the pesky drek, the book you should probably avoid if you can or perhaps not invest so heavily into.
I normally do these picks for Monday’s but hey, being early never hurts right? Plus I got my Nintendo Entertainment System LEGO set today and I might be spending some spare hours putting that sucker together.
Here is one for the Peach Momoko fans. A chance to grab a Momoko for cover price. Continue reading “Peach Momoko Covers Spider-Woman #5”
So Dark Night Death Metal #3 is out next week and everyone who’s on the Robin King bandwagon is likely waiting in anticipation of what this issue will bring forth for this new sidekick..
Continue reading “Spoilers: Dark Night Death Metal #3 – Robin King!”
FOC is the last chance to put in your orders with your comic shops and likely get at a discount for pre-ordering.
Continue reading “Poyo’s FOC Highlight Books for Last Call 08/10/2020”
New cover art to homage Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Ice Cream Man #20 by W. Maxwell Prince and Martín Morazzo is being rushed back to print in order to keep up with the overwhelming demand of critics, retailers, fans, and all the whos in Whoville for this deliciously dark standalone story. This second printing will feature a cheeky homage to the iconic Dr. Seuss book Oh, the Places You’ll Go! Continue reading “ICE CREAM MAN PULLS SECOND PRINTING OUT THE CAT’S HAT”
As promised, the Covrprice.com runners-up list. Think of this as the second half of the top 20. Continue reading “CovrPrice Runners-Up for 8/6/20”
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.com Top Ten for Week Ending 8/7/20”
This article was originally published on DrunkWooky.com.
Beware spoilers abound!
Dark Nights Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights is probably the comic with the longest name this week and probably the one most talked about. It has the first appearance of Robin King inside (depending on how you look at it) and some background on a lot of Batman Who Laugh’s Dark Knights. If you were expecting full on origin stories for each Dark Knight, this book delivers with varying degrees of success. Some of the stories are only two pages long, after all. Continue reading “DrunkWooky Comic Review: Dark Nights Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights (Snyder, Capullo, Various 2020)”
Welcome once again to another installment of the One Week Later Report. Haven’t done one in a while, maybe now since we’re almost getting weekly hot books, seems worthy again to start pumping these reports out.
This week we’ll cover the books released on 07/29/2020, which was last week. Can be books we anticipated getting hot, total surprise winners and perhaps books that we hyped and ended up as duds. Also could be a good list to use when out picking up this weeks pickups..
Continue reading “One Week Later Report for August 5th, 2020”
Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day.
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 296th edition (and the 15th quarantine edition) of the open forum!
Its been a while since we could do one of these. It feels good to have comics shipping again. Also feels good to have new comics popping again. Here is what you need to know tonight for books in stores tomorrow. Continue reading “Pre-Game Report for 8/5/20”
Every week, hundreds of new comics hit the stands. Each with potential. We pick the ones we think will have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 8/5/20. Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 8/5/20”
Batman #96 is in stores tomorrow, or today in some cases. It features the first appearance of Clownhunter, a character we were well warned was coming. Check out below for issue spoilers and his first appearance. Continue reading “Spoilers: Batman 96 – Clownhunter Emerges”
Welcome to this weeks spec and drek, where we pick the winners each week we think will be spec worthy, a great read or just cool looking art on the cover. I also dive into the pesky drek, the book you should probably avoid if you can or perhaps not invest so heavily into.
It has been a while since we did one of these. Some very cool inexpensive slabs on eBay $25 and below price point. Continue reading “Cheap Slabs on eBay”
Our friends over at InkInk Collectibles in Singapore have launched two new exclusive covers for the upcoming 2020 Street Fighter Swimsuit Special. We will have copies to give away once the books are released. Check them out below: Continue reading “InkInk Collectibles Launch Two New Exclusives for 2020 Street Fighter Swimsuit Special”
FOC is the last chance to put in your orders with your comic shops and likely get at a discount for pre-ordering.
Continue reading “Poyo’s FOC Highlight Books for Last Call 08/03/2020”
It has been a long while since I did one of these. I have the new studio almost finished so it was time to do one again. Here are the hot new releases for August 5, 2020: Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 8/5/20”
Seems Dark Night Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights #1 is the talk of the town due to this new Robin King. Well, you probably seen or saw the one pane spoiler but we got more than that today for you folks. So sit back and enjoy some spoilers cause there’s more in Legends than Robin King.
Continue reading “Spoilers: Dark Night Death Metal Legends of the Dark Knights #1”
Anthony from comicsheatingup.net shows off more of his grabs this week. More spec/flip books as well as some cheap bronze age classic horror books and a pre-code horror grail. Continue reading “Anthony’s Pick-ups for 7/28/2020”
As promised, the Covrprice.com runners-up list. Think of this as the second half of the top 20. Continue reading “CovrPrice Runners-Up for 7/30/20”