Web Arted Jan 27th

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Kirby, Zaffino, Dodson, Cooke and more!

Silverfin: The Graphic Novel Jan27

Silverfin: The Graphic Nov...

Wandering the aisles of my local comic shop I happened upon Silverfin: The Graphic Novel, A James Bond Aventure. See Young Bond in action for the very first time. It’s James Bond’s first day at Eton, and already he’s met his first enemy. This is the start of an...

DC’s new mark

Last week I was on Twitter and I saw a post from DC about their new logo.  Of course I clicked the link to see what this was all about.  I was very surprised to see that DC had made the change to a new style logo. From what I have read, the whole idea of changing DC’s logo is to give...

Auction Highlights #61

ComicLink’s January Focused Auction. This is my first Auction Highlight of 2012 and I think it’s a good time to try to  take stock of the market, to see where some of the most heavily traded “blue chip” comic books stand. Perhaps these results are barometers of what’s to...

Episode 13: The reality of...

If you're a fan of Moon Knight, some unfortunate news came across the newswire this week. Sadly, with the series not eight issues old, Marvel announced it would be cancelling its Moon Knight title as of the twelfth issue in April.

Marlow the Monster

Poor Marlowe. Life can be hard when you’re a clay monster still living with your mother. But for us, it’s a bitter-sweet and often funny comic. And let’s just decide it’s a single panel gag comic right now and not get into any debates about form. (Although Marlowe also...

Graphitti Watchmen HC

This is my first Bound Together column that’s based on a book I don’t own, but it’s a doozy. In 1988 Graphitti Designs produced for DC a collected edition of Watchmen: a black hardcover in a slipcase with a good amount of exclusive bonus material. Very similar to The Dark...

Pandora’s Eyes Jan24

Pandora’s Eyes

Being a fan of Humanoids and Milo Manara I happily thumbed Pandora’s Eyes when it was released, then put it back on the shelf. For some reason I wasn’t ready at the time, but having thoroughly enjoyed The Manara Library Volume 1 I picked this book up at a Boxing Day...

Ghost Rider #8 Jan24

Ghost Rider #8

With the movie's release in sight, Marvel commissioned a new Ghost Rider series to bring the rider of vengeance back into our hands. This week CBD takes a look at issue eight of the series.

Dark Horse Submission Part...

While I realise a post like this one could be construed as being seriously and sensationally self-indulgent, I also acknowledge the amount of similar ‘dream-seeking’ nerds out there, whom also aspire to create comics like I do – and due to this basic hope and simply because I’m still...

I still don’t like T...

I finally got a chance to check out the Tintin movie the other day and in light of my previous column on the source material I thought I would share some thoughts. As the Vulcans say “only Nixon can go to China”. First I need to add my voice to the every rising chorus of film...

Undervalued Spotlight #110

Tales from the Tomb #1 (02-810-210), Dell Publishing, October 1962 About a month ago I bought a collection of rough shaped old comics. The pile was mostly Charlton War, DC non hero and a hodgepodge of Dells. Hum hum stuff really but about half way through the pile I came across Tales from the...

C.B. Daily Jan 23rd

TCAF 2012 guests annouced, Miracleman and Marvel, DC fighting hunger, The Inifinite finite at issue four, and more.

Batman #5 Jan23

Batman #5

Batman is on trial as the mythic Court of Owls is closing in on the Dark Knight. Issue five of the relaunched series was released last week, bringing with it new revelations about the shadowy cabal purportedly to have run Gotham since the pioneer days.

Celerity Page 7 Jan22

Celerity Page 7

  12 Race Ships/Teams take part in the Grand Race itself – each with its former Apprentice  returning as the Pilot  (with 5 new crew members drafted in) – A Racer, Navigator, Mechanic, Doctor and a new Apprentice.  The Race Ship itself carries 9 individual Race Crafts ...

Celerity Page 6 Jan21

Celerity Page 6

Avalon Cosette – (AKA -Sir, Avi) Avalon:- As a boy’s name is pronounced AV-a-lon and is of Celtic origin.  The meaning of Avalon is “island of apples”.  Celtic mythology:- Avalon is an island paradise… In Arthurian legend, it’s the island where King Arthur took refuge...

The Thrill Is Gone?

Well folks… I’m back. I was sorting and arranging a pile of comic books in my basement, when it fell on top of me.  For the past several weeks I’ve been trapped in my basement, but luckily I remembered the Simpson’s episode from way back in Season 3, when the same...

Web Arted Jan 20th

A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last seven days: Ramon Perez, Tommy Lee Edwards, David Aja, Sean Phillips and more.

Episode 12: I object! (to ...

Last week I saw something truly heinous, truly unseemly, truly asinine: "Daredevil is Marvel's best new comic series of 2011."

C.B. Daily Jan 19th

A new Popeye comic, CBLDF advisory, a look at Parker, new X-O Manowar, DC April '12 solicits, DC logo announcement and more!

Rock and Comics (revisited...

* I’m on a bit of a music geek kick this week and I thought it’d be interesting to revisit something I wrote for somewhere else and maybe spruce it up a bit and update it. The following article was published by Explore Music (July 14th 2009) in conjunction with Alan Cross and...

Captain America & Bucky: The Life Story Of Bucky Barnes Jan18

Captain America & Buc...

I’m a sucker for Marvel World War II material and I love Chris Samnee’s work so picking up Captain America & Bucky: The Life Story Of Bucky Barnes was a given. Think you know the story of Cap and Bucky’s origins? Well, think again. The secret story of the...

Comic Culture Jan 18th

This week join our hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija as they cover this week’s new comic releases and discuss a wide variety of topics including the Powers TV series, a James Bond reunion, Abe Lincoln fighting Vampires, Tintin winning a Golden Globe Award, Toronto’s Dragon Lady...