Super Comic Fun Time!

OMG! It is National Comic Book Day 2017 and as I furiously type the day is nearly over! As I think of things to type, I am only aware of the ticking of the clock! I only found out late in the day that it was National Comic Book Day when I got an email (that I can no longer find) giving five ways to celebrate. I decided to make the above video and discuss why we love/are obsessed with comic books? I suppose we could get obsessed with anything but comic books for me were always this visually appealing medium that also always satisfied my desire for story.  In the first grade, I started to develop a taste for mythology. While I was raised Catholic, the idea of the Greek gods always fascinated me? In one sense, I could buy into the idea that myths were simply away of explaining natural events prior to the development of reason and the scientific method, on the other hand, the characters in the myths had needs and desires I could comprehend. Luckily, I hadn't read the Metamorpho...

Today I was a bit at a loss as to what to do. My time feels very limited as to what I can devote to this blog/YouTube channel as well as learn how to try to make a few dollars off of it. I had plenty of ideas when I woke up this morning but nothing appeared in my mind as that shining diamond of light to actually take action on. After doing some of my daily chores, I thought I might go over the Planet Hulk Omnibus I made a video about the other day, but that didn't feel quite right. Partly because I have a few chapters left to read in Age of Apocalypse and partly because I wanted to look into some of the more business aspects of being a YouTuber. At any rate, in between my chores and deciding what to do with the free time I had, grabbed the Planet Hulk and pickup up some of the Marvel comics from that big box of comics I opened in my first video on this channel and I picked out the oldest Avengers comic in the box, Avengers 219. I chose this issue for a number of reasons,...

As I said in one of my previous videos, the main reason I started this channel is to keep other people who interested in omnibus editions up-to-date with upcoming titles. Especially the ones I am most interested in. Now at any given time there are a boatload of new and reprinted omnibuses coming out as well as collected editions, collected editions usually being the trade paperback that generally contains 6-8 issues of a given title. Sometimes collected editions are lumped in with omnibuses but an omnibus is usually an event comic that contains the main event title and all the related tie-ins. Other times an omnibus will contain an entire run of a title or, as in the case of my most highly anticipated omnibus of the next few months, an entire line of comics. Currently scheduled to be released on December 12, 2017 and part of the Kirby 100 celebration is  Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus   is my number one 'get' of all the upcoming omnibuses. It is impossible to und...

The new Planet Hulk Omnibus dropped today and I found my copy in my mailbox after work! The Incredible Hulk is one of those characters that seems very hard to write for over a long period of time. The standard man-transformed-into-monster storylines get run through very quickly but in the case of the Incredible Hulk they were very fortunate to have a successful live-action TV show in the 1970s. Now, the technology for transforming a regular sized human into a hulking monster wasn't as sophisticated as it is today, CGI, if it existed at all was in its infancy and very expensive. It would have been used for seconds here and there in commercials and not in a weekly television show or even a full-feature movie. What the writers of the Incredible Hulk TV show did was to draw inspiration from an older successful TV show called The Fugitive starring David Janssen which, itself, drew inspiration from the French novel by Victor Hugo called Les Misérables about a paroled prisoner Je...