Friday Morning Spec Catch-up
Another good week for media news on options and other media happenings dealing with comic books. Here is a wrap up of the mid-week forward events.
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Poyo’s Spec and Drek for March 11th, 2020
Welcome to my own weekly spec which includes the weekly drek picks. 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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for March 11th, 2020”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for March 4th, 2020
Welcome to my own weekly spec which includes the weekly drek picks. 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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for March 4th, 2020”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for February 26th, 2020
Welcome to my own weekly spec which includes the weekly drek picks. 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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for February 26th, 2020”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for February 19th, 2020
Welcome to my own weekly spec which includes the weekly drek picks. 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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for February 19th, 2020”
Flashback Friday – One Year Later
One year ago, we spec’d on new books hitting the shelves. Now it’s time to see what books from a year ago are doing now on the secondary and direct market.
Things I Like and Dislike for the Week of January 15th, 2020
It’s that time again, where I tell you what’s really grinding my gears for the week of January 15th, 2020, which is my first one of the new year. Some weeks it’s mostly likes, other weeks it’s dislikes. So what’s grinding my gears this week?
Poyo’s FOC Highlight Book for 12/30/2019
It’s that time again, where I pick the FOC book of the week right before final cutoff.
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for December 18th, 2019
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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for December 18th, 2019”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for December 4th, 2019
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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for December 4th, 2019”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for November 27th, 2019
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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for November 27th, 2019”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for October 30th, 2019
Welcome once again to my spec and my drek and Happy Halloween Eve.. if there is such a thing. 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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for October 30th, 2019”
Variants of the week 10/02/2019
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 … Continue reading “Variants of the week 10/02/2019”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for October 2nd, 2019
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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for October 2nd, 2019”
Variants of the Week 09/25/2019
This week I chose 15 books, 3 of them have high opening interest and interesting presales, but so far all of them have low degrees of liquidity. 4 are by known home-run hitting cover artist. 4 are character storyline driven 2 are indies; The rest are covers that I just want for the collection. Note: … Continue reading “Variants of the Week 09/25/2019”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for September 18th, 2019
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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for September 18th, 2019”
Variants of the Week 9/18/2019
This week I chose 14 books, 4 of them have high opening interest and interesting presales, but so far all of them have low degrees of liquidity. 6 are by known home-run hitting cover artist. 4 are character storyline driven 6 are indies; Some of them…Well I just like the cover. Estimated Print Runs are … Continue reading “Variants of the Week 9/18/2019”
Variants of the Week for 09/11/2019
This week I chose 13 books, and every single one of them with low degrees of liquidity. Only one really showed high Open Interest, presale. 4 are known home-run hitting cover artist. 4 are character storyline driven 3 are indies; one has Showbiz Buzz surrounding it, one of them is a new comer with … Continue reading “Variants of the Week for 09/11/2019”
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for September 11th, 2019
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 … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for September 11th, 2019”
Poyo’s FOC Highlight Book for 09/09/2019
I want to try something new and start posting about new books that are on my hitlist right before FOC. These can be reader books, books that might heat up or just books I want to check out.
Things I Like and Don’t Like for the Week of August 14th, 2019
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for August 7th, 2019
SDCC is now behind us. We have two months until NYCC which gives us around 8 more Wednesdays. This is usually the busiest time of the year for comics, new and ongoing. So let’s see what’s in store for us to kick off August.
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for July 31st, 2019
It’s the 5th Wednesday of the month. These are usually the lame duck of the new comic book days but this one doesn’t look half bad. There’s a lot of small publisher and indie books hitting shelves this week that are worth checking out.
Comic Picks of the Week for Delivery 7/24/19
Each week, hundreds of new comics hit the stands, each with potential. Some live up to the potential. Here are our picks of the week for delivery 7/24/19
Poyo’s Spec and Drek for July 24th, 2019
So we started reviewing some of the suggestions from the Venom #3 Giveaway and a few suggestions were to move our picks a little earlier. So we’ll see how Monday’s go for our picks. It’s the second to last Wednesday in July, SDCC is behind us now with what I’d call a lot of buzz … Continue reading “Poyo’s Spec and Drek for July 24th, 2019”