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Each week Terry Hoknes and I have a video chat to discuss the spec picks of the week. Here is this weeks for delivery 2/8/17 Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for Comics Delivered 2/8/17”

 Wow. The opening scene in this one had people texting me and chatting all evening, is the Ghost in the Shell Super Bowl ad featuring Scarlet Johansson. Check it out below: Continue reading “Ghost in the Shell Super Bowl Ad”

In a pretty cheeky move, and with the complaints of the ratings drops due to violence, The Walking Dead TV show drops a 16 second tv spot in the third quarter of the Super Bowl. Check it out below. Continue reading “Walking Dead Commercial Airs During Super Bowl”

I know that term is trade marked but I doubt the NFL will care. Another Logan ad aired. Check it out.  Continue reading “Logan Ad Airs during the Super Bowl “

If you are like me (and your team is not in the big show) or also like me (and far away from a tv on the big night) you may have missed out on the trailers. Here is the first new “big game” trailer, Guardians of the Galaxy 2 Continue reading “Guardians of the Galaxy "Big Game" Trailer”

Each week TFAW releases a dynamic list of their top 20 hottest selling books. They are a big online and brick and mortar store, so it is a good snap shot of what people are buying this week. So here we go:
Continue reading “Top 20 Hottest Selling Comics”

In comics, you have to stay on your toes, not only what is hot, but what coming out could be hot. Here is a look ahead at what books we are keeping our eye on: Continue reading “A Look Ahead to Late February Early April”

Thanks to Mel V. for the heads up on this.
Here is one to be on the look out for at your local comic shop. Skybound released a one per store ashcan for their new series Extremity .  Continue reading “Skybound's "Extremity" Ashcans Hits Comic shops”

Thanks to  M&M Comics‘ for sponsoring this Free Comic Wednesday! we are doing the drawing tonight for the set of Justice League vs Suicide Squad #1 Chad Hardin Variant. One winner gets the full set!

Continue reading “Winner: M & M Comics Justice League Vs. Suicide Squad #1”

Thanks to Comicxposure for sponsoring this week’s Free Comic Wednesday.
We are drawing the winner for the “gotta win” one. Up for grabs is a set of J Scott Campbell Amazing Spider-Man #23 and Hulk #1 connecting color and black & white variants.
Continue reading “Winner! J Scott Campbell ASM #23 Hulk #1 Connecting Covers set”

Got another great giveaway tonight. This one sponsored by M & M comics Continue reading “Free Comic Wednesday: Animosity #3 and #4 Mega Set”

What up CHU? ..Mel V. coming live from my staycation. I went hunting through the fine city of New York yesterday and today looking for variants and man it is rough out there. Tomorrow is another day and we have some pretty good ones lined up so lets get into it
Continue reading “Mel V.'s Variant Picks of the Week for Delivery 2/1/17”

It’s National Image Day. So if your lucky, you might be near a comic shop that’s hosting an Image party to celebrate Image’s 25th Anniversary. One shop in my area is having a party, so I might have to swing by and check it out. So feel free to comment if you have an Image Day at any of your local shops with signings, giveaways, etc.
Besides Image Day (which I thought would have more books being released on such a day), let’s get on with my precious picks of what I think you should pick up, whether it’s a flip, a read or you just want to buy it cause it’s so pretty..
Continue reading “Poyo's Picks for February 1st, 2017”

Each week hundred’s of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. Some live up to that potential. We pick the ones we think have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 2/1/17: Continue reading “Comics Picks of the Week for Delivery 2/1/17”

The Walking Dead #163 is out tomorrow. It also only costs a quarter. Buy one for your friend at work who watches the show but doesn’t read the comic. Continue reading “Spoilers: Walking Dead #163”

Here is an odd one. And thanks to Drunk Wooky who was on the case.
In recent weeks, Marvel has been sending out one per store variants that are very similar to their high ratio variants, with minor changes. The Black and white Alex Ross sketch variant for example was an uncolored version of the 1:100 Mighty Captain Marvel #1, the “Sketch McFarlane” cover for Venom #1 is another example. So could Darth Maul #1 have one as well?
Continue reading “One Per Store Darth Maul #1 Cover Coming?”

Image Comics is pleased to reveal interior preview artwork from the forthcoming ROYAL CITY—a new ongoing monthly series written and illustrated by New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lemire (DESCENDER, Sweet Tooth) and set to launch in March 2017. First announced in Entertainment Weekly this Spring, ROYAL CITY promises to be a sprawling, serialized graphic novel that will chart the lives, loves, and losses of a troubled family and a vanishing town across three decades.
Continue reading “Jeff Lemire Royal City Preview”

Greetings to my Comics Heating Up and Awesomesauce families. Thank you all for checking this article out each and every week. Before we get into the list, here are some random thoughts and musing… Continue reading “Blind Adam's Hidden Gems #41”

Independent books are the best books where writers and artists can be creative with such work. They can express themselves as artists to bring us great stories and great artwork without the evil corporate overlords in control. Now agentpoyo wants to bring forth what he is looking forward to on the independent and small publisher in the upcoming months. There’s different types of speculating. One side of it consists of determining if a book will have high demand and could lead to easy secondary market flips. The other side I like to focus on is just great potential reads and books. Continue reading “Agent Poyo's Upcoming Indie Outlook”

Each week Terry Hoknes of www.hoknescomics.com and I sit down and have a video chat about the weeks upcoming comics. We give thumbs up or thumbs down on them as spec picks. We got several comments asking to get the video out earlier in the week. So here is this weeks video for delivery 2/1/17 Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 2/1/17”

On February 1, 1992, seven comics superstars Erik Larsen, Jim Lee, Rob Liefeld, Todd McFarlane, Whilce Portacio, Marc Silvestri, and Jim Valentino came together to form their own company that would change the landscape of comics forever. Current partners McFarlane, Valentino, Kirkman, Larsen, and Silvestri collectively have brought creator-owned comics to the forefront of industry change and, after 25 years of amazing storytelling freedom, Image is pleased to celebrate the milestone anniversary with Image Day—Feb. 1, 2017. Continue reading “CELEBRATE IMAGE DAY ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1”

Matthew Rosenberg mentioned on Twitter last night that We Can Never Go Home is being made into a TV show. Continue reading “We Can Never Go Home being made into TV show”