About two or three times every day I get a phone call from someone trying to sell their collection of comic books. It almost always begins something like this: “I have a really old collection of books, still in their plastics and I’m sure they’re worth a bunch of money,” states the eager seller. Juett [...]
Monthly Archives: November 2012
…just add violence, teenagers, and superpowers. Stir well.
So the premise of this comic is as follows: all of the Earth’s superheroes go off into space to fight the big bad nasty. They all get smoked. Earth now has a ton of super powered sidekicks running rampant because with great power comes great responsibility…how many people really think that teenagers can handle [...]
OMG, the internet ate my comic sales!
For the last 3 years one of the major concerns in the comic book industry is digital media. You folks all remember back in the day when there were music stores on every corner? Or when Blockbusters was a household name? Bookstores in all the malls? And then along comes that devil….DUN DUN DUUUuUuUhhh (yeah, [...]
A dog, a cat, and a rabbit walk into a dictator’s house…
In general I’m the kind of comic book fan who follows a writer as he goes traipsing from one title to another. I’ll admit it: I’m kind of a literary snob…I think it stems from decades of reading sci-fi and fantasy novels. I reminisce about all of those late nights hiding under the covers [...]
