When Good Goes Bad
Recently Scott reviewed Holy Terror. To sum up the review quickly here is the best line from his review “this book is crap: don’t buy it. I want my money back. End review.” Classic stuff. I got thinking more about…
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Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
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How far would you go?
I don’t know if you’ve seen this elsewhere yet, but this article really struck a chord with me. Reuters had a story about Herbert Chavez, a Filipino designer who is a huge Superman fan. He’s had body modifying surgery to…
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 Dragon
Guelph Ontario
Last month I had the opportunity to visit The Dragon in Guelph Ontario. I had heard good things about the store and wanted to see it for myself. The location is in a mall with a unique layout, designed as…
Guelph Ontario
Hidden Gems
The title of this particular post is “Hidden Gems” but I’m not quite sure if that’s incredibly accurate. Most of what’s in here isn’t hidden at all really; if you go into a comic shop, a majority of it will…
My Money is on Spidey!
Our shop sells a good amount of vintage comics. Sales seem to be concentrated at the comic conventions but the odd sale here and the odd sale there at the shop do add up to a respectable figure by the…
Comic Culture Oct 12th
This week Comic Culture hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss a variety of comic book related topics including injured zombies, online digital comic subscriptions, Barnes and Noble vs DC, Archie’s new superhero line, DC’s big September and a whole…
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…
Comics News
I read a good amount of comic news every day, subscribing via RSS to the bulk of comic related websites. Unfortunately I find the bulk of it a waste of time, scrolling on by. The big news this week has…
Cover Story: The DC Comics Art Of Brian Bolland
A wonderful artist who has done a ton of cover work, and not enough interior comic work, Brian Bolland gets his spotlight in Cover Story: The DC Comics Art Of Brian Bolland. [quote]Artist Brian Bolland, best known for his work…
My road to AF 15, Chapter the Third: Back to the B
So when you last heard from me about my arduous endeavour, I had just traded for an early appearance of Herbie aka the Fat Fury. This guy: Now some of you scoffed at my trade, but I knew that Marc…
Man of Steel
Arguably the most recognizable figure in popular culture, transcending generations and outliving his creators – one of (maybe) 3 fictional characters from the realm of comic books whom proudly parade as household names across the world. In comics, the series…
Holy Terror
It’s been heavily promoted by Legendary Pictures, as only a movie studio can do. Preview pages, an animated short, press releases and coverage everywhere. For it’s first foray into comics Legendary has published Frank Miller’s Holy Terror, his response to…
The Road Trip
Ahhh… the majesty of the open road. Music carefully selected for a mix CD. Four friends piled into a pick up truck, barrelling down the highway at 110KM/h heading for the big city. Yes my friends I am talking about…
Daredevil #118
Apparently there was not a single dictionary at the Marvel office in 1975. That is the only reason I can think of for suggesting that circus spelled sideways is death. Also, is that guy throwing live bats as if they…
Next Men Vol 1: Scattered
First off I dropped the “John Byrne’s” from the title so it would be somewhat shorter, and I really don’t like it when a creator’s name is inserted into the title. I had heard Byrne was picking up with the…
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…
Spider-Island
Has anybody noticed that in the middle of the unstoppable juggernaut of publicity that is the new DC#1s or the ubiquitous Fear Itself tie-in fest, there is a really good little Spider-Man story going on? Spider-Island is being done exactly…
Where in the World is Renee Montoya and Other Questions
I will admit, I haven’t really been following the new 52 that hard. As I’ve stated before, I’m basically a “wait for the trade” guy but I have looked at titles I’m thinking of getting in trade and overall, I’ve…
Comic Link’s November
I just received an email from ComicLink highlighting their inclusion of a CGC 9.9 copy of Iron Man #1 for their November auction. Wow, now that is an impressive book. I jumped on their site to read up on the…