Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
Happy Guy Fawkes Day! What is it? Well it is the day to commemorate the Gunpowder Plot that happened in 1605. On that day Guy Fawkes and a group of other conspirators tried to assassinate the King of England. What does…
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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Mullaney Interview
Comic Book Resources has a wonderful interview with Dean Mullaney, creative director of The Library Of American Comics, an IDW imprint that has given us a wealth of comic strip reprints. We’re in a golden age of reprints and Mullaney…
Wizard World Toronto: New Date, New Home
So I just got the official email that Wizard World Toronto will be held April 14-15, 2012 at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre (Scott: press release). Check out ticket info here. This is good news in terms of a more…
Corto Maltese: New English Editions
Mark your calendars for March 13th 2012 because Corto Maltese: The Ballad Of The Salt Sea will be hitting North American bookshelves in English.
Captain America on Blu-Ray Oct 25th
Captain America: The First Avenger comes to Blu-Ray (and DVD) this Tuesday (Oct 25th). In case you don’t know the story, Steve Rogers is just a regular kid from Brooklyn. He is small (and sickly) and he just wants to…
Walking Dead Season 2
This won’t come as any surprise since it was the most watched cable episode in history, but season two of The Walking Dead started last Sunday. As a treat AMC has posted the first episode on their site for viewing…
New Tintin Trailer
Another trailer for Tintin was released yesterday. After viewing my skepticism has evaporated: it looks great. We’re introduced to the film’s nemesis and see a ton of great action scenes, comedic episodes and overall wonder.
Halloween FCBD (Free Comic Book Day)
Diamond announced at New York Comicon this week that starting in 2012 there will be a second free comic book day event in October for Halloween. Here’s a snippet from ICv2: [quote]…but Diamond indicated that it had managed to interest…
Green Lantern on Blu-Ray Oct 14th
Oct 14th Green Lantern is coming out on Blu-Ray and DVD. This is Green Lantern’s first appearance in a live action feature film. Three different releases will be available: 3D/Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Combo, Blu-Ray/DVD/Digital Combo and a straight DVD copy. Some of…
The Avengers Trailer
Yesterday Marvel released the official trailer for The Avengers. The Avengers is the movie event of 2012. As you can see in the trailer it looks like there is going to be lots of action (and humour… love that Tony…
Batman Garter Belt
So, many of the team at CBD love Batman. And many of the team are married. But did any of the CBD team have a Batman Gun that shoots garter belts for their wedding reception? No. No they did not.…
New Batman: Year One clip
A second Batman: Year One clip was released today. Another example of being extremely faithful to the source material. As well there are those flashes on manga influenced looks to the material, but it’s so slight I may be hallucinating…
DC Digital Graphic Novels
Amazon launched their new Kindle line yesterday, most notably the Kindle Fire, a 7″ colour tablet. Along with this came word from ICv2 that Amazon will have 100 exclusive DC graphic novels available. [quote]…with 100 exclusive DC graphic novels, including…
Justice League Doom Cast Announced
I was playing around on the “Twitter-verse” yesterday and saw an interesting tweet from Nathan Fillion that said “Wonder-Twin powers… ACTIVATE!”. I was intrigued and clicked the link. The link was for a news report from TV Guide that said the…
77,840 Attend Fan Expo
Hobbystar just sent an email that attendance for Fan Expo 2011 was 77,840, unofficially making it the third largest comic convention in North America after San Diego and New York. Crowd control was smooth this year: organized lines managed by…
Transformers Dark Of The Moon Blu-Ray
Transformers Dark Of The Moon hits the Blu-Ray and DVD shelves Friday September 30th. This installment of the Transformers franchise has the Autobots fighting against their nemesii Decepticons and a former ally. Aiding the autobots are Sam Witwicky, Capt. Lennox,…
Artists Alley
The big draw for me at Montreal Comiccon 2011 was the bandes desinee artists that would be attending the show. I’ve been reading a lot of translated European material and was hoping to pick up some original art. Overall it…
Batman: Year One Trailer
A trailer has been released for Batman: Year One animated direct to DVD feature film. Based on the clip I have two impressions: it’s very close to the comic and I don’t care Batman’s voice. But that’s just me.
MCC 2011 Recap
This will be the first of 2 or 3 Montreal Comic Con posts, as it was a busy weekend. The con was well attended and well organized, but not without some bumps in the road. First I should make it…
Chat with Pia Guerra
Pia Guerra was at the Montreal Comiccon this past weekend (Sept 17 and Sept 18). I had a brief opportunity to chat with her after she completed a sketch for me. She is probably most known as the artist for…