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Continue reading “IMAGE COMICS CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY BY LOOKING INTO THE FUTURE WITH IMAGES OF TOMORROW VARIANT COVERS”

We posted the image of this gorgeous Poison Ivy variant for Batman #26 the other night. It is now up for pre-order for 20% off cover price.
Continue reading “Batman #26 Joshua Middleton Poison Ivy Variant Up for Pre-order”

Louie M. attended Phoenix Comic Con over Memorial Day Weekend. He snapped a ton of great cos-play pics. Check the gallery out below. Let us know which is your favorite.  Continue reading “Phoenix Comic Con Cosplay Gallery”

Sorry about the delay on getting this up. Louie submitted it a while back and things being hectic I haven’t been able to get it on the site. Thanks to Louie M. who covers conventions for comicsheatingup.net for doing it.
Phoenix Comicon took place over the Memorial Day weekend in Downtown Phoenix, AZ, and is one of the largest comic cons in the country.
The event kicked off with great excitement given their incredible guests list including Dick Van Dyke, Karen Gillan, Danny Trejo, and Jon Bernthal. If you haven’t heard already, on day 1, a man was taken down by police who was carrying 3 handguns, a shotgun, ammo, and knives.  Word from people who were there was that security was light for preview night (in years past, there were bag checks at the door and prop checks).  Someone noticed the posts this human turd was making on social media and tipped off police. A man carrying that much firepower has bad intentions and I thank God he was caught before he could carry out his plans.  He was posting pics of police he wanted to murder and his plans to assassinate Jason David Frank (Green Ranger). Special thanks to the person who reported him, she could have ignored his posts but chose not to. Continue reading “Louie M.'s Phoenix Comic Con Wrap Up”

Here is something cool. You know I love small press and self published stuff. This is a special giveaway. Check out the story behind it below. Continue reading “Free Comic Wednesday: Billy The Penguin #1 Signed By Owen Marquess”

DC has been ripping it up with their cover price variants ones that have been so good they could be ratio variants people would pay for. Here is one for Batman #26 by Joshua Middleton that just blows me away. I do love Poison Ivy after all.  Continue reading “Variant Envy: Batman #26 Joshua Middleton Variant”

We have mentioned this book several times now, but it seems like What If? Spiderman The Other could be getting more buzz. Continue reading “Back Issue Buzz: What If? Spider-Man The Other”

Batman #24 is in stores today. While the spoilers may be out there, if you missed it here they are. No accompanying text so as to not ruin the mood. Pictures are obscured behind the spoiler warnings, just click and it will open up the images. These are selling out everywhere. Continue reading “Batman #24 Spoilers: Batman's Big Day”

Walking Dead #168 is in stores tomorrow. It is a more relaxed issue, compared to the hecticness of the zombie attack, however, there is some craziness that goes on. We see Negan in fine form too.
Spoiler Alert: Images are obscured, click on the spoiler warning to see each picture. The accompanying text is not secured. So read on only if you do not mind spoilers. Also, it is The Walking Dead, so language warning.  Continue reading “Walking Dead #168 Spoilers”

Just got these in yesterday and they are beautiful. This giveaway is for the full set of Mike Perkins Venom #150 Variant set, one winner gets all three. Thanks to ComicXposure for sponsoring this Free Comic Wednesday.
Continue reading “Free Comic Wednesday Venom #150 Mike Perkins ComicXposure Variant Set”

We have another great giveaway tonight. This is for a three book set of Babyteeth #1. All three books are included, the Regular, Torque Variant, and the Blank Sketch cover. Thanks to Frankie’s Comics for sponsoring this Free Comic Wednesday Giveaway. Continue reading “Free Comic Wednesday: Babyteeth Regular, Torque, and Blank Variant”

What Up CHU? Mel V. here with your weekly dose of variant picks, I got to admit last week’s variant selection was dismal to say the least, and I was looking at this week’s selection I was thinking the same. Then 6 selections later I said this week is not bad at all…got some nice ones on deck so let’s get into it Continue reading “Mel V.'s Variant Picks of the Week for 6/7/17”

Another glorious week for comics, wait.. that’s every week, even the slow weeks. Nothing stops us from heading to the comic book store to spend our hard earned cash on books we intend to sell but end up loving. They become our precious and we turn into grumps and creatures of the caves when our significant others tell us we need to get rid of them.
Let’s get on with the precious picks for the week.. Continue reading “Poyo's Picks of the Week for June 7th, 2017”

Each 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 6/7/17. Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery on 6/7/17”

Kyle Strahm has been a long time friend of the site, going all the way back to the beginning. He and Justin Jordan put out one of my favorite books, Spread. They release some of the sickest covers for Conventions. The 2017 Con Exclusive  features some awesome art by by Baldemar Rivas. Check it out below.  Continue reading “Variant Envy: Spread #21 Heroes Con Convention Exclusive 2017”

So this is a “What If?” story about a what if comic. For the longest time Guardians of Knowhere has been considered the first appearance of Gwen Stacy Venom, AKA Gwenom. She appears on the variant cover to the book as part of Gwen-month. But there is an earlier appearance of Gwen Stacy with a symbiote. Continue reading “What if Guardians of Nowhere #1 Wasn't the First Gwenom?”

Wal-Mart has been trying to get into the comic sales for a while. They started with $5 comic packs, I did a Unbagging Video here. From there, they got into the DC reprint packs, that featured a special printing of recent #1 comics, plus a few other comics in the packs as well. It seems that DC has continued the relationship with War-Mart by releasing a special DC Showcase Magazine in Walmart stores. Continue reading “New 'DC Showcase' Collected Magazine Appearing at War-Mart”

Each week Terry Hoknes from www.hoknescomics.com and I get together for a video chat where we discuss the weeks hot new releases. Here is this weeks for delivery 6/7/17: Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 6/7/17”

Aloha CHUniverse and welcome back to Weekend Specs. This week we’re going to the dark side with that on again off again Justice League Dark film. The cartoon was a success so looks like it might actually happen. Keeping in the dark theme this week a few villains coming to Venomverse to spec on. Lastly my Dark review of why to save your money seeing Wonder Woman pretty spoiler free not that there’s much to spoil. Oh and a toy to spec on, so let’s jump in!!! Continue reading “Alana's Weekend Specs: Tales From The Dark Side.”

Comicbook.com had news that Odette Annable has joined the third-season cast of The CW’s Supergirl in the role of Reign. Reign is a relatively new character that has only appeared in several comics, which make her interesting to the series producers.  Continue reading “Odette Annable Cast As Reign for Supergirl TV show”

What up Uncanny InCHUmans!?! Shawn B., the One Year Later Investigator,  back with another One Year Later round up, where we take a look at some of the comics that Anthony, Mel and Poyo spec-ed on one year ago. Their specs turn out to be quick flips, slow burns, straight up misses, straight up winners and on and on. Sometimes they spec with their hearts out of their passion for comics. Sometimes they spec based on data. And sometimes they spec based off of the word on the street. Either way all of their specs appeal to a few or many collectors whether it is due to them having similar taste in writing or art, or just an opportunity for a collector to flip a book and make money to “support their habit”. So, this is our weekly chance to take a look back at how some of our buys from a year ago are doing today. Continue reading “One Year Later: 6/1/16 Spec Review”

Mattina has become the master of the Venom variant. His style lends itself to doing the sinues and tendrils of Venom. To complement their previous X-23 Venomized Variant, Comicxposure has the new Amazing Spider-Man #29 Venomized Mary Jane variants coming out.  Continue reading “Amazing Spider-Man #29 Mattina Venomized Mary Jane Variants”