Informed Comic Book Speculation and Pop Culture News
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 258th edition of the open forum! Continue reading “Wednesday Open Forum”
Each week hundreds of new comics hit the shelves, each with potential. Some live up to the potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 10/9/19. Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 10/9/19”
Here is another bit of spec from New York Comic Con worth looking into. This time it is Source Point Press’ Franklin and Ghost that gets the spotlight. It was announced at New York Comic Con that not only will the book have an animated series but a voice cast has signed on, and it is pretty impressive. Continue reading “Franklin and Ghost Animated TV Cast Announced at NYCC”
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, 10/7/19’s FOC list. Continue reading “Final Order Cut-Off Highlights for 10/7/19”
Sorry this is late but things got delayed while at NYCC 2019. Here’s my FOC pick of the week..
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 October 9th, 2019”
New York Comic Con is always a blast, it is incredibly difficult to push through all the news as it is happening. I am running some of the highlights from the Diamond Retailer breakfast. So to start off, here are some of the announcements for returning Image titles. Continue reading “Nailbiter, Saga, The Goddamned and More Returning from Image”
It’s that time again, where I tell you what’s really grinding my gears for the week of October 9th, 2019.
Some weeks it’s mostly likes, other weeks it’s dislikes.
So what’s grinding my gears this week for NYCC 2019?
Continue reading “Things I Like and Don’t Like – NYCC 2019 Edition”
That’s right, we love giving away books. A kind sponsor is giving up their Diamond Retailer Exclusive from the Appreciation Breakfast at NYCC 2019.
We reported last year that Long Lost had been optioned for a TV show. Well, we have additional news to report today that hasn’t officially been announced yet. Standing in the right place at the right time Continue reading “Overheard at NYCC: Long Lost going to Amazon”
Overheard an interesting conversation by Ghost Rider writer Ed Brisson. He was talking about his previous creation, Sheltered . Continue reading “Overheard at NYCC: Sheltered Coming To TV”
NYCC has been a blast so far and for anyone who wants to meet up…..
It’s NYCC 2019 and I’m in the giving away mood, cause all you people I know love getting a chance at winning a free book.
Continue reading “NYCC 2019 Marvel Ghost Rider #1 Glow-in-the-Dark Giveaway”
Coming to the CHU meetup tonight? We will be doing a ton of giveaways, including the following books thanks to Ed McGuinness and More Great Art. Continue reading “Special Giveaway”
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 10/2/19”
Diamond Comics had their retailer breakfast this morning. They gave away a ton of great books, we will cover those later, but one of the hottest books coming out of NYCC (minus Spawn) is Something is Killing the Children #1 NYCC Retailers Appreciation Continue reading “NYCC Hot Comic Something Is Killing The Children #1 Retailer Exclusive”
Check out the image from the Diamond Breakfast about Marvel reprinting Hulk #180 and let the debate begin Continue reading “NYCC 2019: Marvel Comics to Give Facsimile Edition Treatment to Hulk 180”
News coming out of Diamond Appreciation Breakfast at NYCC 2019
Continue reading “Star from Captain Marvel gets Own Mini-Series”
The Vertigo/DC Comic DMZ is coming to HBO. A pilot has been ordered and a director is onboard. Continue reading “DMZ A GO – HBO Orders Pilot”
Scout Comics will be offering six NYCC exclusives this year, four of which are first issues of some current and upcoming Scout titles: HEADLESS, MIDNIGHT SKY, WHITE ASH, and WRETCHES.
These exclusives will be title-free covers on gorgeous 100lb heavy card stock.
Continue reading “Scout Comics 2019 New York Comic Con Exclusives”
Green Lantern #12 is in stores tomorrow. It is being billed as the last Green Lantern title until next year. Grant Morrison is taking the Lantern lore in a different direction. Needless to say, this is a bit of a bizarre issue. check it out below. Continue reading “Spoilers: Green Lantern #12, an End of an Era”
Spider-Verse #1 is in stores tomorrow. We get a ton of first appearances some more interesting on others. Some goofy, and at least one that could be big later down the road.
Continue reading “Spoilers: Spider-Verse #1, The Coming of Spider-Zero”
At first I was going to try and keep this short… and then I got a good look at some of the books, which left me with this week with a whopping 19 books, 1 of them had sold out and looks promising as far as near term liquidity, but the rest are dealers choices . 4 are by known home-run hitting cover artist. 6 are character storyline driven 8 are indies; The rest are covers that I just want for the collection.