Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Guy Ritchie is going to draw on his failed marriage to Madonna to produce and direct a movie based on the Main Man himself Lobo. DC Comic’s ultra-violent anti-hero who, like Madonna herself, killed Santa Claus. According to the Hollywood…
It’s very rare these days to find a writer/artist getting their own on-going series. (Well, unless you’re Paul Pope.. but I’m sure even he had to start somewhere – Kodansha if memory serves.) So the fact that Jeff Lemire, a…
Greetings Comic Book Fans! This past weekend was Fan Expo down in Toronto. Every year, my buddies and I make a weekend of it. We get a hotel, we go out for food and drinks, and we spend way too…
Count the pages! Examine the comic thoroughly before you buy it. Count the pages, check for the coupons, and look for tears, creases, stains and other defects that don’t necessarily show up on the cover. The defects present in the…
Looks like this year’s Fan Expo was indeed bigger and better before with an absolutely crushing number of people attending, almost 60,000! Due to the issues with overcrowing this year, the Fan Expo in 2010 will be held in the…
The DCU Moviepage loaded this sneak peek on to YouTube, enjoy
With all the attention the Disney/Marvel deal got today, Tom Rothman annouced that he’s bringing us another Fantastic Four movie, and for this one he’s bringing out the semi-big guns: Akiva Goldsmith. Yes, the writer behind Batman & Robin. Akiva…
Avenger #71, Marvel Comics, December 1969, 1st Appearance the Invaders Avengers #71 is one of those comic books that is always missing from the Avengers bins. It’s a book I’ll always look for whenever I’m at a comic convention or…
In what would probably have been much bigger news had not the cryogentically frozen body of Walter Disney not purchased Stan Lee’s vital organs. (Or maybe it’s the much less sinister [but not by much] Disney purchasing Marvel publications –…
Danijel Zezelj doesn’t draw comics so much as he chisels with ink. His style is one that can be a little bracing at first; heavy blacks and thick lines dominate his work and gives the impression of – for lack…
Make your way into your favourite comic book store and look for the following items! Dark Horse: ACHEWOOD HC VOL 02 WORST SONG PLAYED PETE: Achewood haunts my dreams. Probably one of the most surreal and hilarious web-comics that’s ever…
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back once more to the Comic Book Daily creator profiles. This time around we have an interview from the Toronto Fan Expo with the new artist for Fantastic Four; Dale Eaglesham. Conducted by our very own…
Fresh from this morning’s announcement the twitterverse is going loco. Here’s some highlights: Gail Simone: I have dealt with Disney several times in the last couple years. I think this will probably be a good thing for Marvel and comics.…
Fresh from this morning’s announcement the twitterverse is going loco. Here’s some highlights: Gail Simone: I have dealt with Disney several times in the last couple years. I think this will probably be a good thing for Marvel and comics.…
The Walt Disney Co. announced today that it has agreed to purchase Marvel Entertainment for about $4 billion. “We believe that adding Marvel to Disney’s unique portfolio of brands provides significant opportunities for long-term growth and value creation,” said Disney…
Nothing like some good old fashioned mud slinging about late art in comic books. Take a gander at the quotes by Bryan Hitch and John Byrne and take away what you can. There’s a lot of great discussion about whether…
It’s good news for one of the best X-Universe series on Marvel’s roaster. Peter David’s series is going to go back to it’s original numbering with issue 200. Marvel has released the solicitation for this issue and it sounds all…
Pfft, Okay, everyone knows that headlines should be written by poets not film school drop outs so don’t judge me for this one. But I come bearing gifts – fresh from today’s Toronto Fan Expo’s DC Universe Panel DC’s biggest…
West Coast Blues is the first book resulting from Fantagraphics’ recently announced commitment to bring more work from French new wave creator Jacques Tardi. Tardi has long been one of the most highly regarded artists in Europe, Art Spiegelman writer/artist…
While the solicitations indicate it’s all about the return of Superboy Prime to the DC Universe, Adventure Comics #4 (written by Geoff Johns and drawn by CBD Favourite Francis Manapul.) is according to comic-doms very own Perez Hilton* Rich Johnson…
Warren Ellis once said, sometime, somewhere long ago that, “the idea of superheroes dominating comic books was as ludicrous as all novels only being written about nurses.” What he means is that we have in ‘sequential art’ is a intelligent…