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Aloha CHUniverse and welcome back to Weekend Specs! This week we are dusting off the Bush CD’s and talking everything Gwen. This will be an easy one for me with little to no research as I’m the Vice President of the Gwen fan club the only bigger fan is our President of Gwen fandom Poyo. All the spider incarnations are hot as lava right now and Gwen is no exception so let’s dig out her keys and be prepared for Gwendemonium, let’s jump in! Continue reading “Alana’s Weekend Specs: The Gwentacular”
Captain Marvel #18 is in stores at the end of this month and Captain Marvel takes the title and mantle as the new Accuser in the big Empyre event (happens in Empyre #2, in which some are trying to claim the 2nd print is the one to grab as it was likely under ordered and FOC has already passed).
But what most aren’t talking about is who she discovers when she is tasked on her first mission as the Accuser to go and you know, Accuse.
Continue reading “Spoilers: Captain Marvel #18 – The Accuser Accuses Who?”
According to 9 to 5 Mac , that specializes in all things Apple News, Snow Blind by Ollie Masters and Tyler Jenkins has been picked up for Production Continue reading “Snow Blind Picked Up By Apple TV+ as Latest In-House Production”
We all know Knull is coming. It had been one of the most talked about storylines in a long time. Marvel announced a new event series coming out this December, The King in Black.
Continue reading “Marvel Announces The King in Black This December”
This article originally appeared on DrunkWooky.com.
Warning! There be spoilers ahead!
This article arises from a discussion I had last night with Anthony over at comicsheatingup.net. We were discussing whether House of Secrets 92 or Swamp Thing #1 was truly Swamp Thing’s first appearance. An easy question right? House of Secrets 92 was published first! Not so clear as we’ll see.
Continue reading “DrunkWooky Retro Comic Review: Swamp Thing #1 (Len Wein, Bernie Wrightson, 1972) or “The Tale of Two Swamp Things””
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 7/2/20”
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 for Week Ending July 9, 2020”
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 Book(s) for Last Call 07/13/2020”
FIRST ORIGINAL COMIC SET IN THE WORLD OF THE BESTSELLING PLAYSTATION 4 GAME!
Titan’s new Horizon Zero Dawn # comic book series – co-created by Anne Toole, one of the writers of Horizon Zero Dawn, with artwork by fan-favorite artist Ann Maulina – takes place after the events of the game as Talanah, a strong and determined hunter, struggles to find purpose after her trusted friend Aloy disappears. When a mysterious threat emerges in the wilds, she sets out to hunt and to defeat it, only to learn that a whole new breed of killer machines stalk the land! Continue reading “Horizon Zero Dawn #1 Comic! First Look at Artwork!”
Here’s a preview of the latest from writer James Tynion IV and artist Jorge Jimenez. A nice 5-page preview of Batman #96 Continue reading “Batman #96 5-Page Preview”
More comic book TV show goodness with the Umbrella Academy Season 2 Trailer dropping. Get those Umbrella Academy Dallas issues ready. Continue reading “Umbrella Academy Season 2 Trailer Drops”
Good day for comic book TV show trailers. Today the Boys Season Two trailer dropped. Check it out below. Continue reading “Boys Season 2 Trailer Released”
Reader beware, there be spoilers ahead! Continue reading “DrunkWooky Comic Review: Strange Academy #2 (2020, Young, Ramos)”
For all you military and war history buffs out there, I’m completely onboard with the graphic novels that depict war, past, present and future. Particularly the stories based on true stories.
Here’s the Fall 2020 lineup coming out of Dead Reckoning which even has one that’s a movie streaming on Netflix currently, which looks like a great addition to my Netflix queue.
Wednesday, the best day of the week, new comic book day.
We open things up to hear from you. A free for all.
The 292nd edition (and the 11th quarantine edition) of the open forum!
Every week, hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 7/1/20. Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 7/8/20”
Greetings my Comics Heating Up family. Hope you had a safe 4th of July and came back with all your fingers. I hear since many places canceled fireworks many neighborhoods sounded like war zones with all the illegal fireworks going off. Now lets make some money with comics because you can’t teach that. Continue reading “Blind Adam’s Hidden Gems Vol. 123”
Legendary horror publisher, FantaCo is Kickstarting a new Gore Shriek Delectus. This is a giant collection of horror stories from the epic series. The 128 page soft cover or hard cover just launched. Continue reading “Kickstarter Spotlight: Gore Shriek Delectus 2020”
Welcome to this weeks spec and drek. This week looks a little more promising than the depressing last week for new comics.
Scout Comics acquired the rights to former WWE stars Marc Copani and Shad Gaspard’s debut comic book a year or so ago. Tragically, Shad died in May of this year while saving his son from drowning. We here at Scout are proud to present two special tribute covers of Marc & Shad’s comic, with all profits going to the Gaspard family. Continue reading “Assassin and Son #1 – Tribute Charity Variant Covers Now Available”
Free Comic Book Day, mass producing cheap copies of comics for shops to give away in hopes of gaining new customers. While the print runs on the books are large, many are store stamped, or ripped apart by kids, or just not treated well. Not saying they are rare, but they can end up being valuable. We have seen this with Sixth Gun, Umbrella Academy, My Hero Academia, and more. Here is a spotlight on the FCBD Star Wars books, some of which are doing well on the after market. Continue reading “Spotlight on FCBD Star Wars Books”
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 Book(s) for 07/06/2020”
Aloha CHUniverse and welcome back to Weekend Specs! This week we focus on the Green Lanterns coming to media and the Flashpoint movie. Flashpoint should be easy for most as we already have done a weekend specs for it when it happened on the CW. Green Lanterns are a good cheap spec and we will focus on not Hal, Alan, John, or Guy but the other lesser known Lanterns. Let’s jump in! Continue reading “Alana’s Weekend Specs: DC In Full Force”
So DC put out a DC Previews that has spoiler pages for a bunch of their books coming out in the coming weeks. The first one is Batman #94 where it seems this could be the identity reveal of The Designer.
Now that Previews seems to be updating now with new books from most if not all publishers, I’ll break down my own picks coming out of Previews.
This article will cover Image books hitting store shelves in the very near future.