A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Frazetta, Kirby, Kane, Byrne, Golden, Crandall and more!

Last year Scott reported about the release of the DC New 52 Hardcover book.  There was some discussion about the book in the comments section of the article.  I made the comment that I would buy that book, and further down in the comments Scott said “Talk is cheap but money buys the...

Auction Highlights #66 ComicLink’s May Featured Auction has just ended. All books below sold between Tuesday May 22nd and Thursday May 24th. It was nice to see a bit of a mix in the top 50 books by value. These top 50 are usually dominated by Silver Age Marvel’s but this auction only saw...

Thanks to Titan Magazines I had the opportunity to read CLiNT Magazine 2.1, their relaunch issue. Three brand new comics begin in a special relaunch issue! Supercrooks – Part 1 of Mark Millar and Leinil Yu’s new comic The Secret Service – Mark Millar teams up with his...

Big news out of Heritage Auctions is that they have landed the privilege of selling what is most likely the best Silver Age Marvel comic collection in existence. Doug Schmell’s #1 ranked CGC registry set of Marvels goes on the block July 26th-27th. What makes this all the more interesting of...

Well G.I. Joe fans, the “interwebs” exploded Wednesday afternoon with the news of G.I. Joe Retaliation’s release date being pushed back from June 29th (which is a mere month away) to March 29th of 2013. I have to tell you, hearing that is like getting kicked in the...

I picked up Green Lantern Vol 1: Sinestro HC last week as I’m a Doug Mahnke fan and wanted to see what the New DC 52 had in store. Looks like a straight continuation of the story, including references to plot points that you wouldn’t get if you didn’t read the previous...

This weekend in ol’ Blighty saw the Kapow!  comic convention role into town, boldly claiming the London Business Design Centre as its own for 2 full days in the capital’s North East.  The show was much hyped online by the English nerds and managed to gather an impressive momentum in the...

DC announced on the weekend that a major male character, previously heterosexual, will be reintroduced to the new DC 52 as gay. And they are about to reintroduce a previously existing DC character who was previously straight and now will be “one of our most prominent gay characters.” As...

Ultimates #1, Marvel Comics, March 2002 You know what’s been a tough book to snag at a good deal lately? Strange Tales #135 from August 1965! Perhaps it was my spotlight a while back that did it? The book features the 1st appearance of Nick Fury Agent of SHIELD. Nick Fury was a reworking of...

Sebediah Aziza Racer See Page 1 Every five years on the night before lights-out,  all new and existing race-crew members must attend the extremely high profile and prestigious Grand Race Academy Prom. In addition to a flock of hand-picked, political and media-centric figures, crew members...

Galloway Park creator Dennis De Pues is back at it again. Crash!!! Dennis’ new web comic made exclusively for comicbookdaily.com will start up next week. I’ve had a sneak peak and I think you’ll enjoy...

The Avengers So Marvel’s The Avengers has been in theatres for a couple of  weeks now.  We’ve all had the chance to sit back and digest what we’ve seen and experienced.  Are you happy with what you saw? I love it. The Avengers is what we’ve been looking for in a...

Superheroes are known for their extra special abilities that make them better than the average human. It gives them the ability to fight crime or foil evil. But, sometimes these superhuman characters are just like everyday people, even those with disabilities. Listed below are a couple...

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Weaver, Woodson, Cho, Fox, Bullock, Kirby, McFarlane, Lee and more!

The latest from Humanoids, bringing English translations of European works. Megalex was a three-volume work released in French in 1999, 2002 and 2008. This is its first English release. On the planet-city of Megalex, urban sprawl and technology consume all, leaving only a few bastions of...

Impact #1, E.C. Comics, April 1955 Last week I posted about the $45 million paid for Roy Lichtenstein’s Sleeping Girl. A great debate ensued on the merits of comic book art and whether some of it should be considered fine art. Even before that post this site has had commenters complaining...

This time we’re going out of this world. While at Wizard World I ran into Stephen Daymond whose work I had noticed before but hadn’t followed up on. Specimen B28 is a little bit 70′s UFO culture, a little bit Tripping the Rift and a bit Douglas Adams, all wrapped up in a...

The summer is almost upon us and as such seems to mark a dramatic slowdown in my comic buying. I’m not quite sure why but every summer material I’m interested in dries up and my ordering list gets smaller and smaller. In the old days it was believed summer output from Marvel and DC...

Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija are back from a couple weeks hiatus and they don’t miss a stride as they dive right into topics like the Avengers movie success, how things are looking for the new Batman movie, comic book art selling for $45 million, news of the next Star Trek movie...

I was going about my business yesterday lunchtime in the most normal way with a trip to Tesco’s for a £2.50 meal deal: a ploughman’s sandwich, a packet of prawn cocktail crisps and a Kit Kat.  I then meandered over to Waterstones to peruse the grovels and generally loiter around the nerd...

A visit to TCAF always gets me thinking about small press comic books and their relationship with “mainstream” books. Like other artistic media there is a divide with the mass-market popular books that make a tonne of money and those that reach a smaller audience but are considered more...

First debuting in 1963, it has taken nearly 50 years for Earth’s Mightiest Super-Heroes to reach the big screen.  By all accounts, it has been worth the wait. The  movie is a smash hit, receiving rave reviews and setting box office records. This weekend it achieved over $1 billion in...