Superman vs Batman, Most Expensive Comics

First edition Superman comic sold U.S. $ 1 million in an auction that took place on Monday (22/2/10). This number broke the record for most expensive in the world of comics.

1938 issue of this comic book, sold by someone who kept his name and also bought by someone whose name is kept secret. This hardback comic book images of Superman is lifting a car and the price listed is only 10 cents.

This comic sales, conducted by the auction website, ComicConnect.com. Stephen Fishler, one of the owners of this website, saying that Superman comics seller is a famous person in New York and has a collection of comics. While comic book buyers are customers who previously bought rare comic.

This Week

It's been a pretty draining week, physically and emotionally. My parents came out of mediation today but I'm not 100% sure what decisions were reached. My legs are caning from the change in running patterns. Still haven't been able to summon up any work outside of the comics (or inside for that matter), but I have a couple of pitches sitting in pretty nice places that I'm hoping work out for the best!

Been doing tonnes of research lately. Dinosaur evolution, deep sea biology, the Earth, and sifting through all the Mirage Turtles books, making notes for the upcoming Universe guidebook. I hope people dig it... Jake (Black) and Murphy have already done a heap of work on it. Kinda neat to have my first kinda real editing gig... kinda!

Picked up my comics for this week too. Here's what I had in:

Deadpool #900

Deadpool #900 johnson variant

Web of Spider-Man #1

Web of Spider-Man #1 Zombie variant

Batgirl #3

Batman #691

Blackest Night Batman #3

Detective Comics Annual #11

Pick for This Week, List for Next

Okay, this week I read through:

Spidey, Elektra, New Avengers, Avengers: Init., Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, X-Force, The Hood, Gotham Gazette, Green Lantern, Usagi, Ghost Rider, Wolverine: Origins, Old Man Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy, Aliens and Spidey's Short Halloween. My pick for this week?

Tough one...

Right now, it's New Avengers and Moon Knight in equal first. Very close behind that is Amazing Spidey, Elektra and Gotham Gazette.

While I dug how nicely Moon Knight wrapped up what has been a pretty fuckin' rad story by Mike Benson, New Avengers just had so many "moments" that I count as awesome. Spidey's "Power Man and Iron Fist" jab was hilarious, and Bucky Cap's sniping was very slick, and for some reason I dug the hell outta Hellstrom and his cockiness.
Joe Kelly's dialogue in Spidey was fantastic, and I always love the Spiderman/Wolverine "moments" too, and there's a great one here. Spidey's confrontation with Norman in the Dark Reign era is something I've been waiting to see for a while now, and this was pretty damn good. Not perfect, but the start of that sequence is fantastic, as is Norman's dialogue.
Elektra has just been a fantastic read all round, and this issue really started building some intrigue (I love intrigue). Gotham Gazette, while I haven't really been enjoying Battle for the Cowl, I did like the way this sorta wrapped it up and kicked things off from this point on. I hope Vale will have a bigger part in things from this point on though. She was great here.

Anyway, here's my list for this coming week, with a prediction for the pick:

MARVEL
Agents of Atlas #6
Amazing Spider-Man #596
Black Panther #5
Dark Avengers #5
Dark Avengers #5 pham incentive
Deadpool Suicide Kings #3
Mighty Avengers #25
New Avengers The Reunion #4 (of 4)
Thunderbolts #131 2nd print
Timestorm 2009-2099 Spider-Man
Ultimate Spider-Man #133
Ultimatum #4
War of Kings #4

DC
Batman and Robin #1

INDEPENDENT
Muppet Show #3

I'm thinking it'll be toss between Dark Avengers, Spidey and Batman and Robin. Leaning towards Dark Avengers though, based purely off the previous issues and the preview Marvel put out there.

What I'm Getting This Week...

MARVEL
All-New Savage She-Hulk #2 (of 4)
Black Panther #4
Dark Reign Hawkeye #2
Dark Reign Young Avengers #1
Deadpool Suicide Kings #2
Secret Warriors #4
Ultimate Spider-Man #132
Wolverine #73 70th Anniversary Variant Cover


DC
Azrael Deaths Dark Knight #3

INDEPENDENT
GI Joe COBRA #3 Fuso Cover
Street Fighter II Turbo #6 Brownish Cover
Walking Dead #61


TRADES & HARDCOVERS
TMNT Adventures TP Vol 01 Heroes in a Half Shell

Teasity-tease-tease! Tales of the TMNT #59 and #61

Introducing (sorta), my new favorite character. Anyone who does anything creative knows that you sometimes become a little overly protective/attached to certain things you come up with, and, well, this character is mine... perhaps purely because of the last two panels. Paul and I didn't really even discuss the look of the character, he just did it and she turned out perfect. Everything about her is spot on! Anyway, here's a little more...

I crack up every time I see these two panels.

Here's a full page just to hold you over until June.



Also, as noted in the title of the post, here are some teasers from #61, with art by Andres Ponce! Love the nod to #36 too! More on all that later!

Get this shit offa me. I iz pissed!

Der Fastcar ist norty!

Leo: I can haz volleyball?
Don: You are in my base, ruining my carpetz.

Huey Lewis.

Street Pizza

Nice Project

Project Fanboy gave Tales #56 a nice little write up! Always love seeing that people are still surprised that there is a comic book. That REALLY needs to change!

Comics for the 25th of March

Picks for the week ahead...

MARVEL
Amazing Spider-Man #589
Daredevil #117
Dark Reign Elektra #1 Bermejo Cover
Guardians of the Galaxy #12
Immortal Iron Fist #24
Mighty Avengers #23
Ms. Marvel #37
New Avengers #51
New Avengers #51 Bachalo Variant
Thunderbolts #130
Thunderbolts #130 Langley Variant
War Machine #4
X-force/Cable Messiah War Prologue XMW

DC
Battle for the Cowl Commissioner Gordon #1

INDEPENDENT
GI Joe Origins #2 DiVito Cover
GI Joe Origins #2 Scarlett Cover
Indiana Jones and the Tomb of the Gods #4
Muppet Show #1 Cover A
Muppet Show #1 Cover B
Street Fighter II Turbo #5 Cover A
Transformers All Hail Megatron #9 Hutchinson Cover
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel Alliance #4 Cvr B
Usagi Yojimbo #119

TRADES & HARDCOVERS
Transformers Beast Wars Omnibus

IGN Comics Digs It

IGN Comics just reviewed Tales of the TMNT #56, so click here to check that one out! Thanks to everyone who let me know!

Comics for the 18th of March

What I'll Be Getting:

MARVEL

Amazing Spider-Man #588
Amazing Spider-Man Extra! #3
Dark Avengers #3
Dark Avengers #3 1 in 15 incentive
Deadpool Games of Death
Moon Knight #28
Punisher #3
Wolverine #71
Wolverine Origins #34

DC
Azrael Deaths Dark Knight #1

DC/WILDSTORM
X-Files #5

INDEPENDENT
Angel #19 Runge cvr
GI Joe COBRA #1 fuso cvr
Groom Lake #1 cover a
Tales of the TMNT #56
Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel Defiance #3 Alex Milne Cover

Apparently Dark Horse's Turok Archive book is supposed to hit this week too, which I'll be grabbing. Big week. Good thing my brother still owes me...

Hunter Mason to See Release in Under a Month

Just got word from Mr. B over at Mirage: "Tales of the TMNT" #56 will ben in stores March 23rd! Tell your friends, and if you don't have a comic shop nearby, check out this link for the best places to order online!

TMNT Sneak Peek

If you're a fan of the TMNT, then I suggest you hit Paul Harmon's blog now.

Click HERE

Certified Cool

Diamond loves Turtles.

See!

Been Away for Work, Busy Busy, Comics, Jim Lee!

Been busy of late, abominormally so. Been in dire need of substantial moneys (like, savings "goes towards important stuff" moneys) so I've been doing my bit for the man. I'll respond to the comments just after posting this one blog though...

Last week, the Armageddon Expo came to Melbourne, which was cool to see. It's seriously nothing compared to the likes of San Diego or New York's Comic Cons, but it's one of the two bigs in Melbourne. Anyway, Jim Lee and the Wildstorm crew were there signing, and I got a wicked sketch (which I'll post later), but my goddamn, stupid mobile phone cost me a fuckin' one on one interview with Jim Lee! I had tried to organise something through the organiser of the show, but was unable to get in touch with him (instead having to leave messages on voicemail). I never heard back, or so I thought...

Last night my phone alerted me to the fact that I had four voicemail messages. All of them were from over a week ago -- INCLUDING the organiser of the show saying I could do the interview, I just needed to call him back before the show! I hate mobiles! I hate my mobile! Why did you not alert me IMMEDIATELY AFTER I missed the fucking call?!? NNYYYAAAAARGH!!!

(Thanks to Scott for doing his part in hooking that up though, even though technology failed me!)

Anyway, immediately after doing Armageddon and catching up with some mates (including Darren Close, creator of Killeroo -- something very cool to post on that tomorrow!) I had to shoot down to the Peninsula for work! Busy, busy, busy!

Still, I am home now and will have some cool news in the coming days.

Now for some regular/semi-regular fun:

Amazing Spider-Man #577
Wolverine #69
Batman Cacophony #1
Batman Cacophony #1 variant
Batman Cacophony #1 1 in 50 variant
Batman Confidential #23
Detective Comics #850
Nightwing #150
Nightwing #150 1 in 10 variant
Cthulhu Tales #8 cover a
Cthulhu Tales #8 cover b
Ghostbusters the Other Side #2
Michelangelo The Third Kind #3
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #52
Aliens Omnibus Vol. 5

Comics for this (coming) week!

Graham Crackers has their list up, so here's mine!

Amazing Spider-Man #575
Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1
Avengers The Initiative #18
Avengers The Initiative #18 1 in 10 Zombie cvr
Daredevil #111 2nd printing
Deadpool #2 2nd printing - Again, best book I'm reading at the moment.
Immortal Iron Fist #19
Nova #18
Nova #18 1 in 10 Zombie var
Secret Invasion: Thor #3
Secret Invasion: X-Men #3
Thor #11
Ultimate Spider-Man Annual #3
Cthulhu Tales #7 cvr a
Cthulhu Tales #7 cvr b
Usagi Yojimbo #115
Zero G #2 drawn superbly by fellow Melbournian, and good mate Jason Badower (of Heroes fame). Check it out!
Ghost Omnibus Vol 1 TPB
Joker HC - This looked unreal when I saw some pages from it at SDCC last year!
Marvel Previews #63
Previews #11

Comics This Week

What I'm picking up this week:

Amazing Spider-Man #572 2nd print
Amazing Spider-Man #574
Daredevil #112
Daredevil #112 zombie cvr
Ghost Rider Danny Ketch #1
New Avengers #46
Secret Invasion #7
Secret Invasion #7 yu sketch
Secret Invasion #7 yu variant
Secret Invasion: Spider-Man Brand New Day #3
Thor: Truth of History
Thunderbolts #125
Batman Gotham After Midnight #6
GI Joe A New Beginning #0 atkins
GI Joe A New Beginning #0 meyers
GI Joe A New Beginning #0 sketch incentive
GI Joe A New Beginning #0 templesmith incentive
Tales of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #51 (this should be the first issue to kick off the reviews I mentioned earlier)
Evil Dead TP
Indiana Jones Magazine #4

Economic Final Crisis

Next week is a positive bonanza for me in terms of comics. I am excited verily. Good thing I scraped myself some petty cash by selling weed to those ki--

Before you ask, I'm a completist freak when it comes to certain titles and covers. Amazing Spiderman is very obviously one of them.

Amazing Spider-Man #571 2nd print
Amazing Spider-Man #573 colbert cover
Amazing Spider-Man #573 jrjr cover
Amazing Spider-Man #573 maguire cover
Amazing Spider-Man #573 zombie
Deadpool #1 2nd print
Ghost Rider #28 cover a
Ghost Rider #28 cover b
Guardians of the Galaxy #6
Iron Man #34
Mighty Avengers #19
Moon Knight #23
Secret Invasion: Front Line #4
X-Men #503
Batman and the Outsiders #12
Ghostbusters the Other Side #1
Ghostbusters the Other Side #1 GCC exclusive
Michelangelo The Third Kind #2
Street Fighter II Turbo #1 cruz
Street Fighter II Turbo #1 lee
Welcome To Hoxford #3
Ghostbusters GN

Two Down (almost)...

I had a massive breakthrough on a script that was causing some troubles for me of late. It's the heavy hitting introduction of a character who is new to the comics and will hopefully be around for some time! His name (at the moment) is Hunter Mason, and we have seen him before (in one way or another)!

By the way... This is just concept art, and nothing definite for any of my stories, but Paul whipped this up for me to help me with some writer's block!