Bokurano: Ours
Bokurano: Ours is a manga created by Mohiro Kitoh. The Earth will be attacked fifteen times by a giant robot. The robot will be different each time. Fifteen junior high school kids are “tasked” to defend Earth by piloting a…
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Uncanny X-Men #539
Hope is a special young lady. Saddled with a destiny that will either save the world or destroy it, depending on who you ask anyway, she indirectly leads a team of the first new mutants since M-Day stripped mutantkind of their numbers. Continually a target, Hope has found some refuge on the island of Utopia with the rest of the X-Men.
The Music Of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection
At no point did I ever imagine writing a CD review for Comic Book Daily, yet here it is. I received The Music Of DC Comics: 75th Anniversary Collection in the mail via Sony Music. It’s a collection of 31…
Going Digital
As many of you know I am a big fan of digital comics. Or rather, I am a big fan of Marvel ‘s digital unlimited service. For a mere $60 per year I have unlimited access to over 8000 comic…
Free Marvel Cartoons
The official Marvel site has a video section that is featuring a lot of Marvel cartoons from the last two decades. Highlights include Spider-Man (1967 series), The Avengers: United They Stand, X-Men: The Animated Series and lots more. Other than…
Hal Jordan #1 (Movie Prequel)
By now you'll have seen the Green Lantern movie, and if you haven't, you probably won't at all. To supplement the film, DC opted to release five tie-in one-shots focusing on characters in the movie. Preceded by issues focusing on Tomar Re, Kilowog and Abin Sur, the fourth one-shot centres on Hal Jordan and is penned by Green Lantern guru and one of the film's writers in Greg Berlanti.
Cap Selling…Out
Came across this wonderful letter in my inbox this morning: Captain America has sold out to Corporate America! [quote]Dear Customer, Celebrate Captain America at Baskin Robbins! With the highly anticipated release of Captain America: The First Avenger out this summer,…
Canadian Superheroes
In honour of Canada Day, I decided to choose 5 Canadian Superheroes. #5 Scott Pilgrim This bass playing, video-gaming, vanquisher of evil exes lives in Toronto. He had to fight 7 evil exes of the woman he loves, Ramona Flowers.…
Marvel Mocks DC #1s
If you take a look at the latest copy of Marvel Previews you will see that a number of titles have a “Still #(issue number)”. Marvel seems to be goofing on DC for having all new #1 issues in September.…
#45: What Exactly Is A Comic?
Every week Comic Book Daily asks the question and the crew (and special guests) give their answers; we’ll be doing this for 52 weeks. Tip of the hat goes to the gang at Scans Daily for the inspiration and Scott…
Auction Highlights #56
ComicLink June 2011 Focused Auction The ComicLink Focused Featured Auction has just ended. Of the top 50 sales 45 were Marvel while 4 were DC and there was one Warren Magazine Vamperella #1 (a CGC 9.4 that sold for $2,117.00).…
A Place For Your Stuff
George Carlin said it all in his classic stand-up routine, “You need a place for your stuff”. This is very true when you collect comic books, action figures and other cool things. Where do you put your stuff? Single, married…
Comic Culture June 29th
Another fun show this week. Hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija discuss the Video Game censorship, the Green Lantern movie, DC’s decision to not write comics with trade paperbacks in mind, the passing of Gene Colan, thoughts on the Kirby/Marvel…
Wizard T.O. Now 2 Days
Based on their website Wizard has shortened Wizard World Toronto 2012 to two days: March 24-25. Comic Book Daily attended in force last year and determined two days was really all the show needed: I could see tumbleweeds blowing through…
DC 52 Relaunch Video
Here is DC’s relaunch video/commercial courtesy of Bleeding Cool and Youtube. It hits all the points of the relaunch including young new heroes and digital day and date availability.
Simonson Thor Omnibus
I don’t tend to buy a lot of the Omnibus/Absolute format hardcovers. I tend to believe that comics should be able to be read without causing spine damage to the reader. That being said, the minute Pete DeCourcy opened up…
Green Lantern: Is that all there is?
As one Green Lantern fan said, “It’s the best we’re gonna get, which is not necessarily a good thing.” Well, better late to the party than never showing up, I finally saw Green Lantern. It was all right. Granted, I…
Writing For The Trade
During their retailer summits Dan DiDio made a statement that Modern Myths took note of and posted in their summary on Facebook. [quote]Another change DC is making is that they won’t be ‘writing for the trade’ anymore. Writers have…
Retailer Q | #2: Free Comic Book Day
Welcome to Retailer Q, spinning 52Q’s format at top Canadian comic retailers. Comic Book Daily asks the question and our retail friends give their perspective. [box type=question]Free Comic Book Day is now a huge event and one no retailer can…
Green Arrow #13
As Brightest Day concluded, so did J.T. Krul's run on the title as of issue 12. Writer James Patrick joins Agustin Padilla as the new creative team behind Green Arrow, so let's see how this new team stacks up to the past year of Green Arrow stories.
Mighty Thor #4 Cover
Marvel just released details to The Mighty Thor issue 4, including this stunning Olivier Coipel cover. Reminiscent of the classic Silver Surfer 4 cover by John Buscema it brings an updated and modern approach. Spinning hammer of Thor makes an…