Informed Comic Book Speculation and Pop Culture News
The Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List is a great speculator tool. It shows what books retailers are going back to get more of, in advance of their release. They are actually putting their money up betting these books get big. These are the books people are talking about in shops, message boards, and websites. Here is the Diamond Comics Advance for 10/4/15: Continue reading “Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List for 10/4/15”
Who cleans up after the Hulk Rampages the city? Who fixes potholes where Thor’s hammer falls? That would be Marvel Comic’s Damage Control. Now they are getting their own tv show. Continue reading “Damage Control Coming to TV”
Blindbox, the new comic and variant subscription service from our friend Court Gebeau at www.comiconart.com has successfully funded their initial Kickstarter goal of $8,000 (sitting at $9,220 at time of posting) and now has opened up some Stretch Goals. If you are unfamiliar with Stretch Goals for Kickstarters, these are bonuses sent to all funders at incremental levels. Check them out after the jump. Continue reading “BLINDBOX Subscription Box Funded, Moves to Stretch Goals”
October is here! That means the Halloween season is upon us. My favorite time of the year. Need to get the decorations out and start setting up my Yard Haunt (includes me dressed as a scary scare crow to scare the crap out of some of the kids.) Anyway, it is also time to focus on horror books as this is an excellent time of the year to sell horror back issues (really is.) Mel shot me a text about this one and I instantly fell in love. Survivors Club is out next week and should be worth the check out. 
Continue reading “One to Watch: Survivors Club”
A new trailer for Flash Season 2 shows the classic character Professor Zoom. Check out the video after the jump: Continue reading “Flash Season 2 Trailer features first look at Zoom”
It is hard to make it out to all the cons and get all the variants and exclusives being offered. ComicXposure is making their variants available before the show. Check them out below: Continue reading “Can’t Make it to NYCC? ComicXposure has you covered”
Alterna announces that THE CHAIR #1 Blank Cover Variant has sold out through Diamond Comics Distributor.
Plus check out the trailer for the upcoming movie below with Roddy piper. Continue reading “The Chair #1 sold out at Diamond plus Movie Trailer”
Marvel Agents of Shield is moving towards a “close to Marvel Universe” feel by adding in Inhumans. This will of course be the lead up to the Inhumans movie coming out in a few years. Check out the first look at Lash. Continue reading “First Look at Inhuman Lash on Marvel Agents of Shield”
Mel does a great job looking at the small press books in Big Gems from Small Press, but there are other books worth looking at as well. Here the books on our radar for the end of November and December: Continue reading “A Look Ahead to November and December”
Each week Terry Hoknes of www.hoknescomics.com releases a video spotlighting the hot new comics of the week. Here is this weeks, for release 9/30/15:
Continue reading “Hoknes Comics Hot New Comics for 9/30/15”
Third and final drawing of the night. Will be putting up another drawing today or tomorrow, so keep an eye out. This one is for the Famous Monsters of Filmland t-shirt.
Continue reading “Winner! Famous Monsters of Filmland Candy Skull T Shirt”
Second Drawing of the night. Same rules as before you have 48 hours to contact me to claim. Continue reading “Winner! Comicxposure Enormous Vol. 2 #1 Reverse Variant”
Here we go with giving away last weeks contests.
First up, Scooby Doo Team Up #12
If you have been a fan of Godzilla in Hell, and especially the subscription covers by Matt Frank, you will want to check out the new American Gothic Press series “Project Nemesis”. AGP will be bringing an exclusive cover out for Local Comic Shop Day.
American Gothic Press will be partnering with ComicsPRO for the first annual Local Comic Shop Day. The event, scheduled for November 28, 2015 at particpiating stores, has been publicized by ComicsPRO as a way to celebrate and appreciate independent comic shops for their donations to pop culture. Many publishers, including Marvel, BOOM!, Image, Oni, Black Mask, IDW, and Archie will be providing exclusive items for shops participating in the event. Continue reading “AMERICAN GOTHIC PRESS BRINGS PROJECT NEMESIS TO LOCAL COMIC SHOP DAY”
This one is completely different so please read the full rules.
DrunkWooky is giving away (via CHU) two copies of Valiant’s Book of Death #1 Nerd Store Variant
Continue reading “Free Comic Wednesday: Book of Death #1 Nerd Store Exclusive Variant”
With the death of Four Color Grails, we have been wondering who will step in to offer up some comic subscription box goodness. Our friend Court Gebeau of www.comiconart.com is just the man to do it. He is launching Blindbox Comics. Continue reading “Blindbox is new comic focused Subscription service”
Seriously, NYCC is bigger than SDCC. Attendance last year was higher at New York than San Diego. Crazy huh? No wonder comic publishers want to get there books out in front of comic fans there.
Dark Horse announces the full line up of 2015 NYCC exclusives, available in the Dark Horse Comics booth #1636!
Dark Horse has produced incredible items for this year’s show, as well as secured a few other extremely limited edition items from our partners!
The list can be found below, available only at the Dark Horse Booth at New York Comic Con 2015!
Continue reading “Dark Horse Announces NYCC Exclusives”
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 51st edition of the open forum!
Each week hundreds of new comics hit the shelves, 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 9/30/15: Continue reading “Comics Picks of the Week for Delivery 9/30/14”
What’s Up CHU, Mel V. back at it again after a little rest from my Baltimore trip, fresh with a few new variants for the week.
Remember, some variants go up, some go down, but as long as you are buying art you like you cannot go wrong. Continue reading “Mel’s Variant Picks of the Week”
Another small week for myself and last week I managed to only go $10 over my budget. I know what your thinking, why is Poyo on a budget? Well, I’ve just been buying too much that I intend to sell but then never sell cause I end up liking the comics too much. So I’m trying to cut back some, the piles of comics are getting hard to manage and quite frankly, my policy of reading everything I buy is getting even harder to manage.
Regardless of my own buying habits, I’ll still spread the love of what I think is a hit, a spec or maybe just a good read. So let’s get on with the picks shall we. Continue reading “Agent Poyo’s Picks of the Week for Delivery 9/30/15”
Hey, CHU! Sorry for the delay, but I’m back from Salt Lake Comic Con and ready to give the final run down.
Saturday was mostly about back issue hunting. We’ll get to that in a second, though. First, I want to let everybody know that the Nerd Store in Salt Lake City, Utah, were kind enough to sponsor a Free Comic Wednesday for CHU from the SLCC floor!
Keep an eye out in the next couple weeks for a Free Comic Wednesday featuring the Nerd Store’s exclusive Book of Death #1 variant! We’ll have two winners for this giveaway, so thanks to the Nerd Store for their generosity!
Ok, on to the show floor!
Continue reading “DrunkWooky’s Salt Lake Comic Con Wrap Up: Day Three”
The Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List is a great speculator tool. It shows what books retailers are going back to get more of, in advance of their release. They are actually putting their money up betting these books get big. These are the books people are talking about in shops, message boards, and websites. Here is the Diamond Comics Advance for 9/21/15: Continue reading “Diamond Comics Advance Reorder List for 9/25/15”
Attention Anime and Manga Fans:
VIZ Media has previewed a comprehensive and exciting collection of show exclusives, advance manga and anime releases and other special items available for purchase at the VIZ Media booth during New York Comic Con 2015.
Continue reading “Viz Media Announces New York Comic Con Retail Exclusives”
Hey, CHU, it’s DrunkWooky. Burning the midnight oil to see what Secret Wars titles are trying hard to stay secret.
If you’re a CHU reader, you probably have heard some contributors talk about low print runs. We care because, obviously, if something heats up and has a print run in the low thousands, that can mean huge value increases. Most of the time this is an advanced prediction. Notwithstanding retailer exclusives where tiny print runs are part of the advertised allure of collectability, we usually don’t know actual numbers until after the fact.
Well, hot from Comichron, here are August’s sales totals for all North American comic shops. Because most publishers print close to direct market orders, Diamond’s sales figures act as a good proxy and barometer for print run figures. Let’s see where your recent purchases stack in the scheme of all of last month’s releases.
Continue reading “Big Things Come in Low Prints: August 2015”