Superstars (Morrison, Johns, Bendis, Wood) and Mighty Muggs – Dave’s Picks of the Week (4/30-5/6)

| April 29, 2008

DC UNIVERSE: ZERO – Everything you need to know about DC to lead you into the Final Crisis by writers Grant Morrison and Geoff Johns and artists George Pérez, Tony Daniel, J.G. Jones, Aaron Lopresti, Ivan Reis, Philip Tan and Carlos Pacheco. Oh, yeah, and it’s just 50 cents. LOCAL #11 (MR) – Brian Wood [...]

New Comics Arriving WEDNESDAY, April 30

| April 25, 2008

On Saturday, May 3 – Choose from many of the Free Comic Book Day selections ACTION COMICS #864 – $2.99 ADAM STRANGE ARCHIVES HC VOL 03 – $49.99 ALTER EGO #77 – $6.95 ARCHIE #584 – $2.25 ARCHIE DOUBLE DIGEST #188 – $3.69 AVENGERS INITIATIVE #12 – $2.99 BACK ISSUE #28 – $6.95 BIG AMOEBA [...]

Diamond BookShelf – A Graphic Novel Resource for Educators and Librarians

| April 25, 2008

Reprinted from a Diamond Daily announcement from Diamond Comics Distributors Diamond’s BookShelf website is another innovative effort to foster the growth and acceptance of comics and graphic novels, providing a wealth of information and encouraging librarians and teachers to visit their local comic shops. Additionally, it is an excellent tool for retailers currently in partnership [...]

Farscape Comics From Boom! Studios

| April 24, 2008

Boom! Studios announced at New York Comic Con that it now has the rights to publish comics based on the Farscape television series. Boom! will publish the comics in a series four-issue miniseries, each of which will be collected into trade paperbacks. The first series will launch later this year. Farscape is making a comeback [...]

Top 100 Graphic Novels & TPBs for March 2008

| April 23, 2008

GN = Graphic Novel; HC = Hard Cover; SC = Soft Cover; TPB = Trade Paperback; VOL = Volume; (MR) = Mature Readers 1. BATMAN KILLING JOKE SPECIAL ED HC 2. FABLES 1001 NIGHTS OF SNOWFALL SC (MR) 3. NARUTO TPB VOL 28 4. DMZ TPB VOL 04 FRIENDLY FIRE (MR) 5. FRUITS BASKET GN [...]

Top 100 Comics for March 2008

| April 22, 2008

1. DARK TOWER LONG ROAD HOME #1 2. NEW AVENGERS #39 SECRET INVASION 3. THOR #7 4. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #552 5. UNCANNY X-MEN #496 SECRET INVASION

Mercenaries, Oscar Wilde, TV Monsters, Geek News, and Previews – Dave’s Picks of the Week (4/23-4/29)

| April 21, 2008

DEADPOOL CLASSIC TPB VOL 1 – The Big Book o’ the Merc With the Mouth. Collecting New Mutants #98, Deadpool: The Circle Chase #1-4, Deadpool (1994) #1-4 and Deadpool (1997) #1. MAC BOLAN THE EXECUTIONER DEVIL’S TOOLS #1 – This is the character that was the inspiration for Marvel’s Punisher character. MARVEL ILLUSTRATED PICTURE DORIAN [...]

Too much Iron in Diet leads Man to Public Display

| April 19, 2008

It’s time again for another collector showcase. This month we’re featuring Tony Stark in all his armored glory. That there happens to be an Iron Man movie opening on May 2 is strictly a coincidence. Really. Imagine our surprise. So without further ado here’s the bio of the man behind the metal, our collector of [...]

New Comics Arriving WEDNESDAY, April 23

| April 18, 2008

SPECIAL NOTE: Due to circumstances beyond our control the New Comics list and email will go out Friday evening/Saturday morning rather than Fridays at noon. 1001 ARABIAN NIGHTS ADVENTURES OF SINBAD #0 (MR) – $.99 ARMY OF DARKNESS XENA WHY NOT #2 (MR) – $3.50 AVENGERS DISASSEMBLED THOR TPB – $16.99 BACK IN STOCK AVENGERS [...]

Comic Book Coming Attractions: JUNE 2008

| April 18, 2008

Dave’s PREVIEWS PICKS – Cool comics from the April edition of Previews Parents, look for the logo for great all-ages picks! AIT/PLANETLAR Hench Graphic Novel – Adam Beechen (Robin) writes this story of a super villain “goon”. [p. 203] BOOM! STUDIOS Station #1 – Sorry, this is not a comic about the alien from Bill [...]

Free Comic Book Day Update

| April 17, 2008

Character Schedule Spider-Man Noon-2pm Batman 2pm-4pm Darth Vader & TIE Fighter Pilot TBD Polaroid pics for $3 donation or bring your own camera Newark Arts Alliance Free Comic Book Day Activities The Captain Blue Hen Artists do talks from Noon-4pm “To-Go” activity: Decorate your own mask – all day Newark Arts Alliance is located next [...]

Three Caps, A Corpse, and an S-Mart Guy – Dave’s Picks of the Week (4/16-4/22)

| April 15, 2008

ARMY OF DARKNESS #8 LONG ROAD HOME – Somehow they keep finding creative ways for Ash to fight Deadites. This title sells out fast! CAPTAIN ACTION #0 – In this tribute to the multi-outfitted action figure, C.A. is a super-spy. CAPTAIN AMERICA #37 – Could this be the best superhero/spy comic ever? Is it consistently [...]

Tax Time!

| April 14, 2008

Tomorrow is April 15th and you could spend it standing in line at the post office with everyone else who sat back and waited until the very last minute to get their taxes done (like I can talk, I’m one of them) OR you could spend it at CBH stocking up on Pauls Crazy Tax [...]

ARTIST JIM MOONEY DIES AT AGE 89

| April 13, 2008

Taken from DC COMICS DIRECT CHANNEL #877 – April 1, 2008: Jim Mooney, the prolific artist who worked on memorable DC Comics features including Batman, Supergirl and Tommy Tomorrow, has died at age 89. “Jim Mooney’s beautiful women and noble men graced the DC universe for decades, showing up (sadly uncredited for much of the [...]

New Comics Arriving Wednesday, April 16

| April 11, 2008

100 BULLETS #90 (MR) – $2.99 76 #3 (MR) – $2.99 AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #557 – $2.99 AME COMI POWER GIRL VINYL FIGURE – $45.00 AME COMI SUPERGIRL VINYL FIGURE – $45.00 AMORY WARS TP 01 SECOND STAGE TURBINE – $14.99 ANIME FIGURINES TOKYOS TOP 100 ANIME – $15.00 ANNIHILATION CONQUEST #6 – $3.99 ARCHIE & [...]

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