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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”

Image Comics is pleased to reveal a special limited variant cover of LOOSE ENDS #2 by series artists Chris Brunner and Rico Renzi.
LOOSE ENDS, written by Jason Latour, is a slow-cooked Southern crime romance. This second issue finds Sonny and Cheri on the run for their lives, though the biggest spectres lie not in front of them, but in the rearview mirror. Continue reading “Loose Ends #2 Variant Cover Revealed”

Writer/artist Daniel Warren Johnson (Space Mullet) joins forces with colorist Mike Spicer and letterer Rus Wooton for EXTREMITY, an all-new post-apocalyptic tale of revenge, family, and true strength coming this March from Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment. Continue reading “New Skybound Series EXTREMITY Announced”

Drunk Wooky reminding Star Wars fans that the John Tyler Christopher Action Figure Variant for Darth Maul #1 goes on pre-sale at 6 PM tonight.  Continue reading “Variant Envy: Darth Maul #1 Darth Sidious Action Figure Variant”

Here is a cool one for the signed comic fans (me included) you can grab copies of Wolverine #16 signed by artist Nik Virella for cover price.
Continue reading “Wolverine #16 Signed by Nik Virella”

The new series was mentioned in the Previews article earlier.
Bestselling writer Meredith Finch (Wonder Woman, Little Mermaid) and fan-favorite artist Ig Guara (Batman: Arkham Knight, Blue Beetle, The Ravagers) team up for their first creator-owned series with Image Comics in ROSE—an all-new fantasy series set to launch this April. Continue reading “WONDER WOMAN WRITER MEREDITH FINCH AND IG GUARA LAUNCH NEW HIGH FANTASY IN ROSE”

Joe, Sam, and I got the New Smugglers Bounty Box in. While Funko does a great job spoiling the boxes by doing videos BEFORE the boxes ship, the kids and I still like doing the unboxing. This one was pretty sweet! Continue reading “Star Wars Smugglers Bounty January 2017 Unboxing video”

Sorry for the delay in getting this up. I filmed my portion in a way higher definition than needed to be, as a result the file was huge and had to be converted down…. Long story short will not film in Ultra 4K again.
Each Week Terry Hoknes from www.hoknescomics.com and I have a video chat discussing the weeks new comic releases and which ones we feel are thumbs up or thumbs down if it is a good pick. Here is this weeks for new series releasing 1/25/17: Continue reading “New Comic Spec Review Video for 1/25/17”

A young heroine, accompanied by her feline companion, battle sinister forces in Meredith Finch and Ig Guara’s Rose for  Image Comics. 
The February edition of Diamond Comic Distributors’ monthly PREVIEWS catalog arrives in comic shops on February 1st and features comic books, graphic novels, toys, and other pop culture merchandise scheduled to go on sale beginning April 2017. Continue reading “Image Comics' New Fantasy Rose Covers the February 2017 PREVIEWS”

American Gods, the comic book adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s novel, is coming out from Dark Horse comics in March and could be a good pick up. Retailers got two things in the mail that could be of interest as well. Continue reading “American Gods #1 and #2 fully returnable and Ashcan released to stores”

Thanks to Comicxposure for sponsoring this week’s Free Comic Wednesday. 
This is one of those “gotta win” ones. 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 “Free Comic Wednesday: J Scott Campbell ASM #23 Hulk #1 Connecting Covers set”

What up CHU? Mel V. back at you with more variants!
WHEW! what a week last week huh? Variant collectors were out in full force trying to hunt down the Gamora and Mighty Captain Marvel variants. Not to mention the one-per-store WWE, Batman I am Gotham Vol. 1, and Curse Words variants. I do love a good hunt and this week its a couple worth being hunted. So lets get into the getting into Continue reading “Mel V's Variant Picks of the Week for 1/25/17”

It’s a new week, a new comic book week. Because that’s what we all look forward to right? Not to spend time with family or the kids, but to read comic books and hide from those who don’t understand our addiction problem in buying paper with pretty pictures made from ink on them.. Continue reading “Poyo's Picks of the Week for January 25th, 2017”

Each week, hundreds of new comics hit the shelves, each with potential. We pick the ones we feel have the best shot at heating up. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 1/25/17: Continue reading “Comic Picks of the Week for delivery 1/25/17”

TEAM UP FOR THE CREEPY, UNSETTLING
“This is the weirdest sh!t I’ve ever read. I love it!” —Robert Kirkman
Writer Doug Wagner teams up with artists Daniel Hillyard and Laura Martin for a chilling new crime series—PLASTIC.
Continue reading “New Image Series, PLASTIC, by DOUG WAGNER, DANIEL HILLYARD & LAURA MARTIN”

Donny Cates (GOD COUNTRY) teams up with artist Lisandro Estherren and colorist Dee Cunniffe for an all-new Southern vampire series—REDNECK—set to launch this April from Image Comics/Skybound Entertainment. Continue reading “THE SOUTHERN VAMPIRES IN SKYBOUND’S REDNECK WILL PUT TRUE BLOOD TO SHAME”

Hype is the new 64 page original graphic novel by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray. It comes out January 24, 2017 from Adaptive Books. I was sent an advance copy and sat down with it.

Continue reading “Advance Review: Hype by Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray”

Our friends over at More Great Collectibles have a pretty cool homage to a great Super Sons cover. Their Frank Quitely variant features an throwback to Worlds Finest #221. Check it out below:
 
Continue reading “Variant Envy: More Great Art Super Sons #1 Frank Quitely”