Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
It might seem like I have been playing a lot of video games lately, but mostly that is due to the release schedule of the video game industry. The majority of big titles hit the shelves during the fourth quarter to maximize profitability via the Christmas shopping season. After I had saved Gotham City in Batman: Arkham Origins I barely had time recharge my controller before diving into Lego Marvel Superheroes. A tough job, I know, but somebody has to do it.
The boys cover all kinds of stuff including New This Week, Industry News and Chris spins some great tunes. Now would be a good time to sit back, relax and enjoy this week’s Comic Culture.
Oh yes, and please, please make sure you go out and support your local comic book shop.
A couple of interesting original art pieces by Edmond came up on Heritage this week and this made me want to draw attention to his WECA work in this week’s post.
The year end is almost upon us and I thought to gather a list of reprints from the last year that I greatly enjoyed. Use it as a Christmas list for discerning comic fans on your shopping list.
Where Jack Kirby was explosive chaos, and John Romita beautiful women and great storytelling, nobody ever drew like Gene Colan. Before or since.
Gene's artwork moved with a graceful flowing motion. His characters looked like members of your family, or your friend's family. His mastery of light and shadow was exquisite in its flawless perspective.
Marvel Value Stamp Book Series A, Marvel Comics, Spring 1974 I’ve always been able to talk myself out of doing this post. Obviously I’ve caught myself at a weak moment. Perhaps its fitting though that I pull my 1-80 on…
Four stories written by four punk rockers and drawn by another one. What's not to like?
The Death of the Family storyline crossed over into Batman, Detective Comics, Batman and Robin, Batgirl, Nightwing, Catwoman, Teen Titans, Suicide Squad and Red Hood and the Outlaws. Each title had their star "Bat-Characters" match wits against the evil and diabolical Joker, whose ultimate plan was to get rid of Batman's allies, who in Joker's mind were weakening the Dark Knight and keeping him from being the hero that Gotham (and the Joker) desperately needs.
TrekWARS webisode 7.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
A hearty greeting to our neighbours to the south on their Thanksgiving Day. Enjoy this classic Winsor McCay strip from 1905: apparently humour was vastly different 108 years ago.
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter “Slurpy Jones” Durajlija are joined by producer Shekky Feldstein and sound engineer Andrew “Young Buck” Roebuck for an hour of comic culture banter. The boys cover all kinds of stuff including…
One great result of having a forum to make posts about WECA comics is that the readers can make corrections and cleanups of what I’ve written as well as offer new information that can fill in essential blanks, see my post from two weeks ago for example. Here are a couple more “blanks” for you all.
Hi folks, welcome to ARCHIE G’s. I’m your waiter, Raoul. Here at ARCHIE G’s, we don’t think you can make a dependable Pull List decision based on the first serving of a comic. Publishers throw everything they’ve got at a…
Now my Mom and Dad knew I had ordered some comics by mail order and weren't too pleased about it. They thought I spent $20, when in actuality I had spent $200 or so in US funds.
The package was about 10 inches high and had been strapped together between cardboard and wrapped again in brown wrapping paper. The corners were somewhat torn and slightly blunted but the contents were intact.
Avengers #263, Marvel Comics, January 1986 Quick trivia question. What comic featured the 1st appearance of the X-Factor? Well, if you said 1963’s X-Men #1 you wouldn’t be wrong. Angel, Beast, Cyclops, Jean Grey and Iceman all indeed made up the…
Another high profile Heritage auction ended over the weekend in Beverly Hills, with a large selection of original art going for record prices. No iconic pieces this time around but an excellent collection of material ranging from Alex Raymond Jungle Jim to Wizard Spider-Man.
We have been living in the age of Marvel Now! for almost two years now. On the whole, Marvel Now! has been pretty successful. There have been some great books come out under the Marvel Now! banner. Most notably those have been Thor: God of Thunder, Indestructible Hulk, and Iron Man. These titles have changed the status-quo for the characters, and have been very entertaining comic books.
TrekWARS webispode 6.
A gathering of wonderful art spotted by yours truly these last few days.
Heritage Auctions A very solid Heritage Auctions session ended on Wednesday November 21st with some very strong results. I took a keen interest in the CGC 9.6 Strange Tales #110. This book is being heavily speculated on at the moment and I…