COMICSHEATINGUP

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”

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”

DC is going full steam ahead with ration variants. The latest chapter in the Sandman Universe arrives in August with The Dreaming: Waking Hours #1! Writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Nick Robles team for this new series, featuring Dream’s latest creation: Ruin, the nightmare of catastrophic failure — who lives up to his name a little too well. Continue reading “THE DREAMING: WAKING HOURS #1 GETS A NEW VARIANT COVER ARTIST PLUS A NEW 1:25 VARIANT COVER”

The third issue of Dark Nights: Death Metal, the hit series of the summer, is on Final Order Cutoff on July 6 — and now, DC reveals the variant covers for this issue. Continue reading “DC REVEALS VARIANT COVERS FOR DARK NIGHTS: DEATH METAL #3”

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 July 2, 2020”

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 2, 2020”

People have said over and over again that Free Comic Book day books aren’t worth anything, but time and again books pop up that end up being worth money, even with the comics being mass produced in great quantities. The Halloween Comic Fest Version of Ultimate Fallout 4 is a great example (OK I know it is technically not a FCBD edition, but same thing really). Here is one worth looking for. Continue reading “Alana’s Quick Spec: New 52 FCBD”

This review was originally published on Drunkwooky.com.

Reader beware, there be spoilers ahead!

All-America Comix #1 is a frustrating book. It’s enjoyable in its own right, but frustrating. At first glance, you think this book is a standalone America Chavez book from Marvel. And you’d be half –er 33%– right. Upon closer inspection, the book is of course an Image comics release, but written by Joe Casey, America’s original creator from Marvel’s 2011 Vengeance.

Continue reading “DrunkWooky Comic Review: All-America Comix #1 (2020, Casey, Nguyen)”

Looks like Steve Geppi is taking a more hands on role in his company Geppi Family Enterprises. The full press release follows:

Continue reading “Steve Geppi Steps Back in as President of Geppi Family Enterprises”

Sorry. For some reason this was scheduled and not published.

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 7/1/20”

Empyre is Marvel’s next big crossover. We know there are some changes in store for characters. We know She-Hulk is becoming Immortal, but there is another change coming for another character that may be of note. Continue reading “One To Watch Pre-Order: Empyre #2”