Marvel has been playing a very strange game with the pricing of their comics. They want to push the $3.99 price tag as much as they can to milk what they can out of the direct market. The strange thing is some of the books like the recent Captain America books have been priced right…
Apple officially announced their tablet device today, the Ipad. Newsarama has a good write up on the technical specs of the device. This has of course lead to all sorts of chatter about what this means for comics. The common reaction has been that this will be the game changer and that comic shop owners…
Another year has passed us by, and, while 2008 was a pretty stellar year for the superhero genre of movies, 2009 proved to be a different beast entirely. If there’s one thing that we can all agree on, right up front here, it’s that movies featuring superheroes this past year were pretty terrible across the…
Newsarama quoted Dean from Krypton Comics on Marvel’s offer to trade for unsold DC comics. Dean Phillips, owner of Krypton Comics in Omaha, Neb., said he liked the fact that Marvel is trying a promotion, but not one this economically unfeasible. “Unless you are choking on unsold quantities of those books, it’s just not worth…
So Marvel is cancelling all the Avengers books, with the obvious assumption that they’ll bring back the adjectiveless Avengers and resume the original numbering. New Avengers and Mighty Avengers used to be two of my favorite monthly books. Then New Avengers jumped to $3.99 a month and Dark Avengers showed up. I wasn’t going to…
DC today announced Justice League: Generation Lost as a 26 issues bi-weekly series. It is the same format as the Brightest Day series announced yesterday. Essnetially the two books with trade off each week. The surprising thing about Generation Lost is that it will feature the classic Justice League International team, comedy and all. It will be…
DC’s official blog the Source had quite a bit of news today announcing the Brightest Day as a fallow up to the Blackest Night event. It will essentially be to Blackest Night what 52 was to Infinite Crisis, just with a bi weekly release of 26 instead of the weekly, that is two issues a month for…
The 2010 CES, Consumer Electronics Show, saw a flood of news about computer tablets. PC World has a nice break down of all the major tablet related announcements. The most notable being the HP tablet that will run on Windows 7. It looks like HP and Microsoft wanted to strike first with Apple likely to announcement their tablet…
While I have been finding manga that I enjoy, I have still been plagued by the problem of not knowing where to look for quality manga. From the start I was frustrated that no one could point me in the right direction based on my interest in everything by Naoki Urasawa (Pluto, 20th Century Boys, and Monster)….
I’m slowly but surely finding my way through the endless stacks of manga. Takehiko Inoue’s art has been by far the best I have come across in the manga that I have read or seen. His work is the only manga that strikes me the same way that American style comics with great artists due….