Author: Ryan Kirksey
Starting comic collecting can be an overwhelming and daunting task. Even if you look at just one official account like Marvel and the companies that eventually became Marvel. They published more than 32,000 comics between 1939 and 2009. That was before the variant boom where some new issues
I'm happy to bring you the latest quarterly installment of Undervalued Comics in 2020. If you missed the summer issue here it is. The Comic Industry Today While it was reported in July that 2019 was the largest single-year in history for comic and graphic...
After months of speculation, contemplation, and consternation, we have the most credible piece of evidence yet of the direction Marvel plans to take with its next major villain in the MCU. Deadline reported on September 14th that Jonathan Majors (of Lovecraft Country fame) has been cast...
For the last half of 2020, I am going to try and put several blog pieces together that look back at popular speculative books with the full benefit of hindsight. In doing so, I will try my best to consider books from generally the same time frame...
Perhaps not since we lost the great Stan Lee back in November 2018 has the comic resale market been so affected by the passing of someone connected to its stories than when we lost the incomparable Chadwick Bozeman on August 29th. Let's discuss the morality of posthumous...
It's no secret that the big screen Fantastic Four has been one dreadful mistake after another. In the four attempts to tell a compelling, dramatic story of the First Family of superheroes, Fox failed on every turn. From the campy, cult classic from 1994 that was just...
Almost two months ago, I wrote a piece about my thoughts on the Ultimate Fallout #4 boom which generated a lot of reactions on this site, on Facebook, and elsewhere. At that time, the CGC 9.8 book had just crossed the $800 sales threshold and...
A few days ago I was thinking back through some of my favorite villains from childhood comic collecting. Mainly, I remembered loving Rhino, Abomination (those two especially because I had the comic-record combo for Hulk #171), and Juggernaut. Apparently, I was a fan of large, monstrous...
For the last half of 2020, I am going to try and put several blog pieces together that look back at popular speculative books with the full benefit of hindsight. In doing so, I will try my best to consider books from generally the same time frame...
We have now seen 12 months pass since Marvel officially announced their Phase Four plans at 2019's San Diego Comic-Con, and boy what a 12 months it has been. Primarily due to COVID-19 and its effects on the economy and our general way of life, just...
