7.2 Loot from Buckeye comic con

I'm just gonna give the highlights of the cool stuff I got. My best find was an issue two of TMNT first print of the Mirage run. A book like this is selling for well over 50 on ebay and I got it for 15 smackers, talked down from 20. Woot. I also got some earlier issues of Invincible, 14 17 and 18 for five bucks each. They are in great condition and just what I have been looking to add to my collection. All I need now are issues 1-13, and that will probably cost me. I also finally got issue 33 of Brave and the Bold featuring Zatanna, Wonder Woman, and Batgirl (Barb) which is pretty hard to find and also hard hitting with the twist on the end. Thank to the CGS guys for recommending it. I also got a we bit of Ultimate Spider-man, Ultimate Fantastic Four, and Ultimate Avengers 3, with a lil chunk of Green Lantern to fill in some holes. Great show and looking forward to the next one.

Post 7.1 - Graphic Biography on Malcolm X and I Missed Another Post

I missed another post, but I'll do two again today, the second of which will be a rundown of my loot from the buckeye comic con.

Right now, I'll be talking about a graphic novel of Malcolm X's biography. Too me Malcolm X is just the other side of the same coin Martin Luther King Jr is on, and they both are some historical figures that I look up to. I had read this graphic novel, by Andrew Helfer art by Randy Duburke, a few years ago and found it very enlightening. Up until that point I had only had the Spike Lee movie 'X' to influence me. This book had some details in it about Malcolm's life that I did not know about, along with corrections the movie had changed. I was finally able to buy the book when I was in New York and I stopped in to an activist book store and coffee shop.

If your into American history, civil right leaders, or just true stories about tragic lives you should check this out.

Post 5 - My Favorite Comic Strip

I have never been much of a comic strip guy, excepted for Garfield in the 5th grade and now with the Boondocks. This post is about the latter.

I was and am a big fan of the show, and this inspired me to check out the source material. This stuff is pretty funny. It is very sharp witty humor about politics, society, and culture. I got a couple of the books; hilarious all the way through.

Post 4.2 - Why I am a DC guy

You may or may not be able to tell that I am a DC comic guy. In the past I have not put much thought into why, I just read a lot of Batman, Green Lantern, and Lobo (it was the 90s.) Now that I have put some thought into it, I still don't think I really know why, but I will do my best to explain.

I guess, the first reason to come to mind is because they have my favorite characters, but that's a pretty cheap reason. To me their characters were more believable in their world. I know that sounds odd because its a world with supermen and living gods, but hear me out. Marvel stories took place in New York City or at least visited regularly, and this was cool, but it took me out of it because I never saw spider-man swing through, the FF fight a Moleman, or the Avengers beat Loki in time square. See, Marvel took our world and built on top of it, where DC built their world, seemingly, from the ground up. Gotham was maybe a city I could visit and see some strung up bad guys hanging from a lamp post, or travel to Metropolis and see Superman fly by. The whole world was believable to the child me for this reason. It was a completely different world from the ground up, so everything meshed to me; real New York and Marvel New York did not.

Second, to me they had more action, and that was what I was looking for as a kid. Marvel was fine and all but all there characters were out of their costume almost as much as they were in them; this did not appeal to me. I remember reading some current random issues of Spider-man and X-men in the 90s, then I remember reading Green Lantern and Superboy around the same time and the DC stories grabbed me more because of the action.

Last, I have stuck with DC pretty well this long because it has grown with me. They have come out with those more mature stories that hook me now as opposed to the straight action that had me before. It seems the more I learn the more there is to learn, and I love that about the DCU.

Now, While I have digressed in the past by picking up some normal Marvel U books, this has pretty much been eliminated because of the Marvel price point. I'm not saying they are not good stories, I just cannot afford them.

post 4.1- leaked Batman Rising set video (spoiler footage?)

Well, I missed my first post of my 30 day challenge. I thought I would at least make it through the first week, but whatever (2 posts today). Moving on, a buddy of mine (who actually was supposed to make posts on this blog along with me) sent me a link to a Superherohype.com article that featured leaked footage that looked to be from a handheld camera on the set of Batman Rising. They say that the footage is spoiler footage, but I don't get how it could be spoilery seeing that all you get is a out of context fight seen shot from a long way off. No dialog. I mean we know he fights Bane eventually in the move, right? Though, the images are pretty cool to see, they make me ask more questions then they answer. I don't condone this type of leak usually because I like to be as surprised as possible at a movie, especially a Batman movie. I cannot not post though, you know.

Post 2 - Time for the second biannual Buckeye Comic con August 7th @10am

This is one of my favorite times of year, time for the Buckeye comic con. This is a biannual show once in March then in August. This is a cool show to for me because I can fill holes in my collection on the cheap. In past shows there have been about 50ish dealers; a couple of the larger tables deal in more classics from the silver age w/ some golden age stuff for normal wall prices; most of the tables are selling modern stuff on the cheap(don't pay more than half price for a trade at this show); then there are several dealing in toys(mostly action figures the prices are all over the place but you'll find deals); there are normally a few local creators there also.

I am really looking forward to hitting the cheap trades table. Earlier this year I found a limited edition hardback of Marvels for 5 bucks! Great deal and I picked up like 3 other trades for less than 15.

My comic shop Capital City Comics will be there, most likely with some more cheap trades (at most half price) along with half price on sets of singles issues.

Hopefully I will be able to fill in some holes in my collection, along with picking up some things that I am actually collecting not just reading. I am always looking for Black Panther Stuff I don't have, I also started trying to scoop up Eastman&Laird TMNT plus Alan Moore's Miracle Man series. I found some early issues of TMNT for 2 dollars an issue at the previous show along with issue 11 of Miracle Man for 11 ducats which I talked down to 8. Holes I'll be filling will be in Robin (haven't found much in that prior), New Avengers, 90s Green Lantern issue 51 and up with Kyle (this is my original GL), and then there is other stuff I'll be on the look out for. Its always the stuff you find that your not looking for that is the best.

Post 1 - New comic/nerdy podcast you should check out: The Black Tribbles

You should check out The Black Tribbles. It is awesome. Basically it is a podcast full of blerds (aka. black nerds) and it is sweet. They are only up to cast 13 as of right now, but it is all solid. They don't stick to straight comics but they have some pretty great not so serious episodes about anime and video games, and them some relatively serious conversations about race in nerd culture. I was hooked after listening to episode 6 entitled, Growing up Geek in Black America, and they talked about so many things that I myself had thought and felt while being myself a geek in black America.

They do their show live Fridays 10pm-12am and streaming to here and then put up in podcast RSS here. The show feels like a real radio show with live call ins and the semi regular musical interlude. This podcast is now my second favorite podcast, just under CGS, and that is only because CGS comes out multiple times a week. If Black Tribbles was put out even twice a week it would be putting up a fight for my top spot.