Toronto’s comic book store scene has been changing in the last couple years. Both Yesterday’s Heroes and Dragon Lady Comics have closed and now there has been a big announcement regarding Silver Snail. There have been rumours of the Silver Snail moving locations for a while now,...

It was around 1989 that my local comic shop Silver Snail brought Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, on a tour of their stores. Silver Snail in those days had a mini comic empire going on Ontario and it was truly a golden time of creator store signings. Unfortunately I was seventeen and had no idea how...

Really I’m talking about Boxing Day sales, but for those not living in Commonwealth nations I thought to provide a title that would be universally understood. Comic stores don’t run a lot of sales in general: most have something along the lines of an anniversary sale and then...

This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija talk Eisner Award nominees, The Silver Snail moving, a Captain Canuck movie, why the Mouse Guard size format sucks, a World War Z movie, Nicholas Cage’s stolen Action Comics #1 being found and a whole ton more. We’ve also got a great new...

Wherein Pete talks rambles on about Jim Rugg's use of sound effects, Toby Cypress' new graphic Novel Rodd Racer, pesters Image about Rocketo and yearns for the years when the Superheroes of Britain considered Canada a colony.

Fan Expo 2010 is done for me. None of my Sunday goals were reached and the show remained packed; no last day slow down. It’s solid for the retailers but as a buyer I like bargain hunting at the end with dealers who don’t want to haul merchandise home. I wasn’t able to track...