Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Welcome back to another fantastic installment of the Comic Culture radioshow with your hosts; Walter Durajlija and Christopher Owen. This week, they are joined by the illustrious Laura Thomas of Big B comics in Hamilton, Ontario. She’ll be weighing in…
Is that what I think it is? Quite a large collecting community exists for comic books that contain hidden or camouflaged messages and innuendo. Usually sexual in nature (but not always), these
The Beat just broke the news of Marvel’s newest line: Girl Comic. In light of some of the scathing commentary regarding the anti-female vibe that seems to permeate the Marvel titles, it seems funny that Marvel would come out with…
It’s just pretty. Okay, not sure what Marvel or Disney will make of the $15.99 copyright/trademark-infringing print. But who cares.. it’s awesome looking.
It’s been a pretty busy weekend here at Comic Book Daily Head Quarters, we’ve been scouring the interwebs looking for fun links to get your through the usual Tuesday blahs. As always if you come across an interesting link or…
A few years back I picked up a TPB called “the Annotated Mantooth” it was a slim enough volume and the cover had a tuxedo clad Gorilla adjusting his tie while a bunch of bloodied luchadores lay beaten in the…
Today(ish) in Twitter is a regular column wherein our staff troll through the best of the 140 letter updates of the comic book world. ComicBookDaily is not responsible for the content of these tweets, but we will admit to laughing…
Nick Cage is a weird actor. He’s only good when he’s playing really off the wall characters – whenever he goes for ‘quasi-normal good guy’ I tend to hate him. Have you ever watched National Treasure? Holy god was that…
Welcome back to the ComicBookDaily Progressive Shop Profiles! Comic shops often get a bum rap; they’re seen as dingy little holes in the wall that you wouldn’t want to take your mother into. It’s ComicBookDaily’s mission to dispel this false myth by…
I’m the first to admit my limitations so here goes. I’m not much of an indy comic guy. It usually takes something special to grab me in terms on indy comics. Bone for instance grabbed me the minute I saw…
Web of Spider-Man #18, September 1986, Marvel Comics. As we all know Eddie Brock turns into Venom in the now classic Amazing Spider-Man #299 and #300
This is all the e-mail said: “THERE IS CHAOS IN THE UNDERWORLD.” Then this image from Fantastic Four #575. Jonathan Hickman and Dale Eaglesham’s Fantastic Four run has – thus far – been incredibly solid. When you’ve got a title…
Video Games | Spike TV VGAs 2009 | Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 Exclusive Debut Trailer XBox 360 | Playstation 3 | Nintendo Wii At last night’s Spike Video Game awards, it was announced and a trailer was shown for the…
According to Variety, Princess Amidala is about to kick some zombie ass in the adaptation of the Jane Austen parody. Not only is she going to star in the movie, she is going to be a producer as well. Portman will…
The Cover: Has Superman sunk to a new low? He’s found out that someone has been blackmailing Lois Lane and instead of trying to help her out, he pretends to be the blackmailer himself and figure out the secret himself.…
Walking Dead trades are flying off the shelves (Zombies make great gifts). Let’s see if the early issues are holding their value.
Welcome back to another fine installment of the Comic Culture Radioshow with Christopher Owen and Walter Durajlija. We’ve got a great show lined up for you this week as the guys talk about: black and white comics and the silver…
A shocking and pretty sad story for comic art fans out there. Frank Frazetta JR has been caught breaking into the Frazetta Family musuem with the help of an accomplice. They used a backhoe to break in and run off…
This week there is no over arching theme to the column. I’ve got a pretty big one in the works about the last decade in comics and I’ve written a bunch of articles this week on various comic topics but…
DC Comics’ week of announcements continues this morning with news of the return of Bruce Wayne in a time-traveling miniseries written by Grant Morrison. Debuting in April 2010, the aptly named Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne finds the character…