by Chris Marshall on March 8, 2010
Yesterday, it seems that all of Comicdom was under the spell of Amazon.com and their temporary pricing glitch. As far as I know, Bleeding Cool broke the story that Amazon had discounted many high priced items like Absolutes, Omnibuses, hard covers and trade paperbacks from a number of companies including DC, Marvel IDW, Image, Top [...]
by Chris Marshall on February 17, 2010
Collected Comics Library Podcast #258
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In the third installment of the Steve Ditko career retrospective, Ditko goes back to Marvel Comics to work on Machine Man and The Micronauts. He also works with Pacific Comics, Eclipse Comics, Dark Horse and Fantagraphics. all for a very limited time.
In the late 1990’s and up until today, [...]
by Chris Marshall on January 6, 2010
Collected Comics Library Podcast #252
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It’s time once again for my annual Adopt a Character show. You are welcome to play along, it very easy and fun to do. Simply pick a character that you have always wanted to know more about and go out and do it! You have a full year to [...]
by Chris Marshall on December 16, 2009
Collected Comics Library Podcast #249
22,074Kb; 23m 16s
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As another year winds down, holiday shopping reeves up. That means that publishing houses want to get their best stuff out just in time so it can be bought for that special someone. One of those books comes from Marvel, or more specifically their Icon creator owned line. I’m [...]
by Chris Marshall on November 24, 2009
Collected Comics Library Podcast #246
29,397Kb; 31m 05s
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I’m a sucker for nostalgia, and when old becomes new again – and it gets right – it’s great. You know what I mean: George Clooney as Frank Sinatra’s signature role in Ocean’s 11, throwback sports uniforms like you’ll see on Thanksgiving when the Detroit Lions play in their [...]
by Chris Marshall on November 18, 2009
Collected Comics Library Podcast #245
23,042Kb; 24m 18s
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If you’ve come by the blog or downloaded the podcasts recently you’ll notice that things have been out of sync. That’s because both my kids have been sick (at different times) and my computer got a nasty trojan which caused me to be offline for a few days. I’m [...]
by Chris Marshall on September 1, 2009
I was on Twitter Monday morning at 9 am when the news broke.
My initial reaction was: Holy Crap! This is big news (which it was).
My second reaction was: Why?
My third reaction was: How will this effect Marvel and Disney Collected editions?
My fourth reaction was: It probably won’t; at least for a long time.
In order to [...]
by Chris Marshall on August 11, 2009
Sorry I didn’t get this out yesterday. I got caught up in watching the Mad Men marathon on AMC, then the Tigers/Red Sox on ESPN. This is funny because I don’t watch a whole lot of TV anymore, let alone a full day’s worth. Let’s get to some links
At the request of Marvel Comics, TwoMorrow’s [...]
by Chris Marshall on August 7, 2009
Every Wednesday afternoon Diamond updates any Product and Shipping changes that companies may have. I check the list and make any updates to the CCL Shipping Schedule and I have on occasion listed multiple significant changes on the blog. This past Wednesday Marvel made a discreet title change to the Marvel Bromance Trade Paperback; it [...]
by Chris Marshall on July 16, 2009
For the past nine days it’s all been about Wednesday Comics, Blackest Night and gearing up for Comic-Con International; let’s see what’s been going on in the world of Collected Editions:
Stumptown Trade Review has Annotations for Asterios Polyp, a book that I talked about on this week’s CCL podcast. The list is extremely helpful.
Rich Johnston, [...]