Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Discussing the minutiae of comic book collecting.
Detective Comics #27, DC Comics, (May 1939) Graded by CGC at 7.0 with Off White pages sold for $492,937.00 (including the buyers premium) on Heritage Auctions on November 17th. Detective Comics #27 is considered by many to be the second…
Writer: Grant Morrison Pencils: Lee Garbett and Pere Perez Inks: Alejandro Sicat and Walden Wong Colours: Guy Major Letters: Jared K. Fletcher Covers: Andy Kubert and Lee Garbett, with Bill Sienkiewicz Publisher: DC Comics Comic book returns are a dime…
Comic Culture: November 10th This week hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija go it alone (with some help from show engineer James MacIntosh). The boys cover a whole bunch of comic book related topics including DC’s new Arena Tour, Walking…
Comic Culture: The Mike Laidman Interview. Mike Laidman, creator of the MikesStupidComics web comic and member of the ThisWeekInGeek podcast team, joins hosts Chris Owen and Walter Durajlija this week. Mike’s agent and girlfriend Laura Thomas is also a guest…
Few people need an introduction to Frank Miller’s seminal take on Batman in his 1986 series Batman: The Dark Knight. It’s heralded as the birth of the modern comic, along with The Watchmen, and exposed a lot of people to comics…
I’ve read plenty of Colleen Coover’s work; Small Favours ranks among the best ‘erotica’ series I’ve ever read, and her output with Jeff Parker on the X-Men: First Class series basically made me a fan of both of them for…
Every week CBD’s Editor in Chief Pete DeCourcy 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.…
“Under normal circumstances, I would follow Morrison and his ongoing Bat-narrative into the next title hosting it, but that new title is going to experience a 33% price increase, which is just way too much for me to be able…
Batman is one of those comic book characters that every writer and every artist would like a crack at. I have at least two Batman tales logged away in case I ever get the chance at DC. That being said…
DC comics’ executive editor Dan Didio delivered a dynamic duo of tidbits to Batman fans at Friday’s DC Nation panel. Opening the panel, Didio asked fans what they thought about the direction Batman titles have taken recently. Many applauded DC’s…
I love Batman. Maybe not as much as this guy, but maybe that’s a good thing. The last four years have been a very good time to be a Batman fan. Grant Morrison has been giving us a run that…
I don’t really recall where I first came across Jock’s art for the first time, it’s probably the Losers – but chances are it was a Batman cover or something. Either way, he’s quickly become one of my favourite artists…
Writer: Grant Morrison Pencils: Georges Jeanty Inks: Walden Wong Colours: Tony Avina There’s something strange, in the neighbourhood. Who you gonna call? Bat-Zorro! Welcome to another review of Grant Morrison’s Batman mini-series, The Return of Bruce Wayne. We’re up to…
With a release date of July 20, 2012 recently set in stone by Warner Bros, Batman 3 is set to shoot in April of next year according to British acting legend Michael Caine. UK media blog Digital Spy quizzed Caine…
Writer: Gregg Hurwitz Artist: Juan Jose Ryp Colourist: Andres Mossa Letterer: Joe Caramagna Cover: Francesco Mattina Split personalities, post-traumatic stress disorder and vigilantism. Couple that with a history as a mercenary, and a fighting prowess rivaling that of Batman, and…
Many people thought it was pretty strange when DC snapped up David Finch for an exclusive and then barely used him. (Sure, sure a cover here and there, and, like, two pages on Batman #700.) Was this going to be…
Writer: Grant Morrison Artists: Yanick Paquette and Michel Lacombe Shiver me timbers, we’re half-way there! Grant Morrison and company returned this past week with the third part of their epic tale chronicling Bruce Wayne’s return to the DCU. This week…
Well who cares if you would! Adam Schoenke did and he did it anyawys. Check out this 30 minute Batman fan-film entitled “City of Scars” It’s a pretty cool Batman vs Joker story.