Well with convention season in full swing, I thought it was time for a look into the crystal ball and take a look and see what we may have in store for the future. Before we begin, these predictions are based on theories, a bit of evidence and some detective work. NOTHING I am predicting has...

Hey everyone. I know, I know, there was no column yesterday. Part of that is because in Toronto, it’s Anime North this weekend! Anime North is probably the biggest fan run anime convention in Canada if not North America and my podcast, TATANS is covering it our second straight year...

Unfortunately another of the masters has left the mortal plain. Frank Frazetta has passed away at the age of 81. The influence Frazetta has had on the worlds or art, comics, fantasy and film is almost immeasurable at this point. His painting are fantastic, how Frank depicted Conan not only...

Sometimes the giants walk the Earth and remind you of how awesome their might is. Case in point. New comic day, I head to the Blue Beetle as I know a new issue of Buffy is out (due to an msn conversation). I’m scanning the shelves trying to find something else to bring back with me and...

Ah lovely readers, it’s another week where there is a ton of stuff that I have to comment on so here we go with another Grab Bag addition of Just a Thought. Gene Colan could use a bit of help Gene Colan is one of the masters. Tomb of Dracula is one of those books that up and coming...

Hey it’s toot Brent’s horn week on Just a Thought…urgh maybe I shouldn’t call it that…sounds kind of dirty… and not in my usual fun dirty way. First off, I got a great response from Jennifer Dupuis about my column last week. So good in fact I thought I...

You ever wake up one day and realize how much you like a someone’s work? About a month ago, I happened upon a documentary about Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers called Runnin’ Down a Dream. Great doc by Peter Bogdanovitch. Having nothing else to watch, I tuned in and it started...

It’s been a while since I’ve done a full grab bag edition of Just a Thought for a while. Not much goes on comic news wise until convention season hits it’s full stride in the summer. But we did get a few big bits the last few weeks. DC’s Restructuring. We knew it was...

There is a type of magic that comes with a writer and artist that click. While there is something to be said about writers who can also draw like Mike Mignola or Frank Miller, there’s something special about comic book writers who work well with a particular artist. And there are a lot...

John Constantine has done quite well for himself as far as characters go. The character essentially started off as kind of a throw character that Alan Moore created because then Swamp Thing artists Steven Bissette and John Totleben wanted to draw a character that looked like Sting. As in the...

DC has a problem. The current slate of Marvel film projects looks pretty awesome and what’s more, they are interconnected.  And much like the kid next door, DC wants the same thing. DC, I am here to solve your problems. In various articles through my time with Comic Book Daily, I have...

I am a huge fan of movies. I’m also a big fan of movie history and trivia and love hearing about projects that disspapeared or never quite got finished. Movies like The Fountain. Sure it did finally get made but originally Brad Pitt was supposed to star. Mad Max 4 which was going to...

“I must hurry back to my comic book store, where I dispense the insults rather than absorb them.” Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons Last week I briefly mentioned the comic shop I go to in Barrie called the Blue Beetle and the reasons why I shop there as opposed to other...

My comic shop is Blue Beetle Comics in Barrie, Ontario, Canada. I’ve been going there for about two years now. The staff is knowledgeable, fun and most importantly the store is clean and it’s easy to find stuff. On the off chance you can’t find something, the staff knows...

“Sling us a web, you’re the Spider-Man Sling us a web tonight ‘Cause we all sure could use us a hero now And we think that you’ll do all right “ Ode to a Superhero by Weird Al (via Billy Joel) Well it’s official, Sam Raimi, Tobey Maguire and everyone else are...

It’s the beginning of a new year. A year of hope, a year of promise and hopefully a year of kick ass comics. To start this year off I’m going to talk about…well a bunch of things. Come on! It was the holidays! Nothing really big happened….or did it? Marve/Disney Deal...

So a lot of people are doing end of year and end of decade lists for what their favorite this is and what their favorite that is. …okay I’m one of those people. In fact my co-host and I have built a whole episode around it and turned it into a parody awards show called The...

There are a few sad things about the late artist Dave Stevens. Obviously the fact that a man so talented was cut down fairly young by cancer is pretty predominant. In conjunction with that is the fact we only ever got one real complete comic work from Dave. There are a ton of pin-ups and a...

Previously Brent took a look at 2000 to 2003, highlighting all the good, the bad and the interesting.. now he tackles 2004  to 2009 and then takes some guesses at what we can look forward to in 2010. 2004 Identity Crisis begins at DC. A murder mystery that becomes fairly well received by...

Well, we are at the end of a decade. And surprisingly, comics have had a very solid run this decade, on all fronts. As I’ve been doing some research into the decade, I’ve found a lot of interesting material to cover: creatively, business wise, and even some general gossipy sort of...