Informed Comic Book Speculation and Pop Culture News
Welcome to this weeks spec and drek. This is where we pick the winners each week we (or shall I say myself) think will be spec worthy, a great read or just cool looking art on the cover. I also dive into the pesky drek, the book you should probably avoid if you can or perhaps not invest so heavily into.
Another FOC Monday is upon us comic book collectors and speculators. FOC is the last chance to put in your orders with your comic shops and likely get at a discount for pre-ordering.
It’s that time again, where I tell you what’s really grinding my gears for the week of May 29th, 2019.
Some weeks it’s mostly likes, other weeks it’s dislikes.
So what’s grinding my gears this week?
Continue reading “Things I Like and Don’t Like for the Week of May 29th, 2019”
He’s one of the most popular and well known characters in the Marvel Universe nowadays. Probably one of the most common cos-players hitting the isles at conventions centers.
Continue reading “Throwback Thursday for February 7th, 2019”
You miss out on the Deadpool Garbage Pail Kid Variant? Well, not so much a variant but an Awesome Cover A.
Continue reading “Another Contest – Deadpool #5 Nic Klein Garbage Pail Kids Variant Giveaway”
Is the world ready for Deadpool to be King of Wakanda?
Continue reading “Panther-Pool Anyone?”
Welcome back to my world of rants and praise. Each week I’m going to tell you what I like and what I don’t like for that particular week. It goes beyond comics but doesn’t drift too far out of the pop culture spectrum that revolves around comics.
Continue reading “Things I Like and Don't Like for The Week of May 23rd, 2018”
Thanks to Kevin for this one.
So Marvel has Deadpool and DC has Harley. By far the two hottest characters in existence in the comic book world. In the most recent Harley Quinn issue, DC creates a Deadpool of their own.
Continue reading “DC gets a Deadpool of their own”
Just days away from the start of Deadpool and with it we are getting new trailers. The ones we have been seeing lately have been recuts of previous footage. The three new ones just released show some additional footage: Continue reading “Three New Deadpool Trailers Show New Footage”
Hey CHU, DrunkWooky checking in. Deadpool #6 is out tomorrow and as Anthony had in his picks of the week, it features the first appearance of Deadpool 2099. The interesting thing about the book is it is sold out at Diamond. It is also now sold out at Midtown and TFAW.
With this being said, I crunched the Comichron sales numbers for the new Deadpool series today. Continue reading “Deadpool #6 Market Analysis”
The official Deadpool Trailer just aired on Conan. It is essentially the same trailer that leaked out of SDCC, but of course, much clearer. The trailer just went online at the official Deadpool website, which takes you directly to Youtube currently. So without further ado, Deadpool the Trailer. Continue reading “Official Deadpool Trailer airs on Conan”
I have never been a fan of Marvel’s first family. The comic series never appealed to me. The original two films never had anything of interest other than Jessica Alba. However, the newest trailer has piqued my interest for one reason: Deadpool Continue reading “New Fantastic Four Trailer features Deadpool”
It has been a few weeks since the Deadpool trailer leaked online at Sdcc. By now, many expected the trailer to air, but alas it has not. Today, the “Deadpool Trailer” trailer hit.
Continue reading “Deadpool trailer for the trailer “
A couple of stills were released the other day and in the business that is Wednesday I just didn’t get a chance to put them up. So here are a couple of the shots: Continue reading “Deadpool movie images released”
Adult (not that kind) coloring books are all the rage, just ask my wife. They are great stress relieving tools. Marvel is coming out with a line of Coloring books for grown ups and has added Deadpool to the mix. Continue reading “Color your own Deadpool”
Just wanted to put a last call out for a signing this week end. A couple people contacted me and wanted to allow last chance before I finalize everything for the signing. Continue reading “Deadpool #45 / 250 Signed by Mike Hawthorne (DP Artist) last call”
The villain Ajax has been cast in the upcoming Deadpool movie. Actor Ed Skrein (Game of Thrones) posted the following tweet:
Continue reading “Ajax Cast in Deadpool movie”
We have been mentioning the early appearances of Deadpool and the potential for them to pop. Some of them have, and others are starting to. X-Force #2 being the obvious one. Continue reading “X-Force #11: A Comic Heating Up?”
So last nights piece on the first 10 appearances on Deadpool sparked a lot of conversation, one thing that was brought up was Deadpools supporting cast appearances. I thought it was a good idea and wanted to revisit it. So this goes out to Ckret Iskwrel for asking the question. Continue reading “Deadpool supporting cast appearances”
So we ran the first 10 Deadpool appearances last night here. Got the question “are people really chasing these books?” Looks like the answer is yes. Someone was obviously paying attention because Bleeding Cool ran the following story today:
Speculator Corner: X-Force #1 Bagged With Deadpool Card. Really?.
Dear me no… another one to go back issue bin diving for. In this case, the local landfill may also prove fortuitous.
When Marvel relaunched New Mutants as X-Force #1with Rob Liefeld, they did so by bagging the comic with one of five trading cards, encouraging people to buy all five, plus one to open and read. And they sold five million of the bastards.
So that’s one million of each trading card variant.
And just as X-Force #2and its second appearance of Deadpool is getting bizarre speculator behaviour considering how many were printed, so are X-Force #1
And so what was once a fifty cent book, rose to two dollars… then to four… and then to eight.
More, much more to come, it seems.
With the Deadpool movie announced for 2016, it is time to be proactive. Many of the earliest Deadpool appearances are dirt cheap in many stores back issue bins. These books could be great pickups, especially considering how well Rocket Raccoon appearances and Groot appearances have done leading up to and since the Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Most of those books were ones people would not have normally touched, and suddenly they were huge.
Continue reading “First 10 Deadpool appearances”
It is not a hoax, it is not a dream, it is not an What If? story, it is official, Deadpool is coming to he big screens in 2016. Continue reading “Deadpool Movie is official for 2016”
There has been some talk of the Hastings Variants for several books in the comments section so I wanted to bring that talk over into the posts.
Continue reading “Comicsheatingup Chatter Hastings Variants”
Diamond Advanced Reorder List
One way to guage how hot a comic is/will be is by the Diamond Comics Advanced reorder list. This gives retailers a chance to up their orders for books that may have caught some heat before the release and before the final order cut offs. So without further ado, this weeks advanced reorder list (Dominated by X-Men #1):
1. X-Men #1 – Marvels mutant Juggernauts (no pun intended.) Lead the charge. Stores getting increased interest in this new X-Men book.
2. East of West #3 – Strong sales on the first two issues and increase in price on the secondary market keeps bringing in new readers.
3. Wake #1 – New DC book
4. Injustice Gods Among Us #5 – Popularity on the video game tie in series continues. Prices strong on 1 & 2.
5. X-Men #1 Skottie Young Variant – Boy people love these baby covers.
6. Adventures of Superman #1 – Dc’s New Superman Series, how many titles above 52 are we now?
8. Injustice Gods Among Us #4 2nd print – see above…
9. X-men #1 50th Ann. Variant Variant
10. X-men #1 Deadpool Variant- People love Deadpool.
12. Clive Barker’s Next Testament #1 – Boom Studios new Clive Barker book looks fantastic and would be worth speculating on.
14. X-men #1 Blank Variant – I personally love having these to get sketches on.
16. Superman Unchained #1 – Jim Lee returns to Superman. Worth picking up. Will be pretty heavily printed so should be easy to get.
20,21, &25. Morning Glories #27 variant covers B (Frison) ,C (Guillory), E (McKelvie) Second season of the hit Nick Spensor book begins. Great jumping on point for new readers. #26 was $1 so might draw in new readers. Early ‘Morning Glories’ are hard to find and you will pay to get them.