Weekly Round Up

| January 14, 2011

Comic movie news galore this week! We have pictures of Sinestro, Spider-Man and Captain America! Will Edger Wright finally get his Ant-Man movie made? Here is a look at a Gotham High, an animated series that never made it to TV…looks pretty cool. Some teaser images of DC’s next event, Flashpoint. Could this be the [...]

Marvel’s Next Big Story

| January 2, 2011

Marvel Comics Announces Fear Itself From an announcement on diamondcomics.com The House of Ideas’ 2011 comic book event is called Fear Itself. The seven-issue limited series begins in April and is written by Matt Fraction with art by Stuart Immonen and Wade Von Grawbadger. Fear Itself features eight of Marvel’s most worthy heroes standing against [...]

Episode #4

| December 14, 2010

12/14/2010 – On this week’s show we review some current titles and wonder what it’s like to be a normal person in the Marvel Universe. Listen Here!

And then there were 16

| November 16, 2010

Voting has ended for the second round of the Mensa Hero Bracket Challenge with the following results: In the Literary Division, Gandalf defeated Hercules and will face Sherlock Holmes, who vanquished King Arthur. In addition, after knocking off Harry Potter, Odysseus goes against Atticus Finch, the winner over Albus Dumbledore. In the Super-hero Division, all [...]

What We’re Reading This Week: 11/3-11/10

| November 3, 2010

Dave Edition I just read that over 8 million people watched The Walking Dead on Halloween. Some of those folks know that ‘TWD’ is based on a comic series by Robert Kirkman. If you are reading this, I’m sure you are one of those who know this, but did you know that Kirkman writes a [...]

Weekly Round Up #2

| October 7, 2010

Some pretty huge movie news this week. Up and comer Emma Stone has been cast in the reboot of the Spider-Man franchise, but not as who you would think! Film legend Sam Raimi will take the reigns on on a new Wizard Of Oz movie. He is planning to make the film a “3-D event”, sounds [...]

Spider-Man Movie Without Raimi & Maguire

| January 12, 2010

Toby is Spider-Man–No More! Ultimate Spider-Man the Movie? Sony/Columbia has decided to pull the plug on Spider-Man 4. Now the studio has decided to fire director Sam Raimi who has helmed all three of the highly successful Spider-Man films and ditch Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst. Variety is reporting that the studio, which could risk losing [...]

And, yet, ANOTHER sneak peek for our blog readers

| October 12, 2009

Spanning the world in my never ending quest to bring exciting items into the shop (and maybe make a few bucks), I scored some nice items Sunday that will be in the shop on Monday, October 12th. And, as promised, our blog readers will know about it first! I wish my finances would have allowed [...]

DISNEY BUYS MARVEL!

| August 31, 2009

Disney and Marvel announced that the Walt Disney Company will acquire Marvel Entertainment in a stock and cash deal valued at $4 billion. Marvel CEO Ike Perlmutter will continue to oversee the Marvel properties for Disney. Disney CEO Robert Iger said of the transaction, “Ike Perlmutter and his team have done an impressive job of [...]

6. We got class and character on Free Comic Book Day

| April 29, 2009

10 Cool Things about Free Comic Book Day 2009 at Captain Blue Hen Comics #6. Aside from risking fatal carpal tunnel syndrome from all the sketching they’re doing, our intrepid band of Guest Artists also take time out to do free drawing workshops next door.  Whether you’re 3, 30 or 50 there’ll be something to [...]

Time to Confess, so Paul will make a contest out of it

| March 22, 2009

For our faithful readers of this site, you’ve gotten an incite into some of the likes and dislikes of Dave and Kita recently. Jesse the Intern has been given the task of reviewing comics that perhaps he wouldn’t have read, had not Dave given him the assignment – I think we may have a convert. [...]

Eliza Dushku as the Black Widow?

| February 12, 2009

Eliza Dushku, who stars in Joss Whedon’s new TV show, Dollhouse, wants to be Black Widow in an Iron Man movie. Dushku was on The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM satellite radio this morning and talk turned to Spider-Man. Stern is a huge comic book fan and brought up how Dushku helped Toby Maguire get [...]

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