Comic Book Hunt

2012 Summer Komikon

2012-01-26T04:07:00.000+08:00

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HAULS: The New Avengers

2012-01-17T12:33:00.000+08:00

What a sweet present! Last Christmas, a friend of mine gifted me this New Avengers book. Its a collected edition containing the "Revolution" story arc which came out in New Avengers #26-31. Written by Brian Michael Bendis and illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu and Alex Maleev. This will go on the shelves, not in the box, along with my other trades.

HAULS: An Amazon; A Blood Sucker, and One Big Community

2012-01-17T12:21:00.000+08:00

Here are some recent purchases I made. From Comic Odyssey's Sale bins, I got Wonder Woman # 604 and Tomb of Dracula : Throne of blood one-shot. Comic Odyssey had a sale from December that's still ongoing, i think, until they move to their new home in Robinson's Galleria. I never really got around to collecting the new Wonder Woman before DC rebooted into the New 52, so I guess now's a good time to start.

I made a trip to the bookstore last week and got me Pugad Baboy 21. Finally! I think there are 2 newer editions, but they weren't available at that time, so I wasn't able to get them.I also bought a Black Widow: The Things They Say About Her, because I thought I didn't have that issue yet. Well, it turns out that I do. That's what happens when I go out without my list.

HAULS: 3 X-Men Comics

2011-12-02T13:11:00.000+08:00

A friend of mine gave me these comics one weekend.She found them bundled together at a shop in Cubao, and knowing that I love the X-men, she bought them and gave them to me as an early X-mas present. Bundled in the bag were X-men: Earthfall and X-men/Brood: Day of Wrath 1 & 2. As is evident on the covers, the story of all three books center on the Brood, a parasitic alien race.

X-men: Earthfall is somewhat of a reprint. It collects Uncanny X-men # 232, 233 and 234 into one volume. Penned by Chris Claremont with artwork by Marc Silvestri, X-men Earthfall shows the Uncanny X-men as they battle the Brood who have once again tried to stage an invasion by infecting members of a religious organization, one of whom was infected with a Queen egg. The cover is by Ian Churchill and Al Vey.

X-men/ Brood: Day of Wrath is a special, limited series printed in 2006. The story takes place several years after the events that occurred in X-men Earthfall. It is a follow-up to the story featured in X-men Earthfall and centers on the religious group infected by the Brood, more specifically, the person infected with the Queen Brood egg. The Brood's Queen Mother has ordered the termination of the new Queen on Earth, who has refused to give in to the control of the Brood, and sent a group of elite Brood assassins to do her bidding. The X-men Battle these assassins in order to save the target queen. John Hitch wrote the story, and issue #1 was pencilled by Bryan Hitch. He shared penciller duties with Sal Velutto.

Overall, all three books were a very good read. The three had the feel of God Loves, Man Kills, one of my favorite X-men stories. X-men: Earthfall provided a good start to tale that Day of Wrath finished quite nicely.

EVENTS: 6th Christmas Toy Fair and The 1st Philippine Die Cast & Custom Car Show

2011-12-02T12:10:00.001+08:00

6th Christmas Toy Fair and
1st Philippine Die Cast & Custom Car Show
December 16-18, 2011
Megatrade Hall 1, SM Megamall
10am-9pm
Entrance Fee: Php 50.00

http://www.toyconph.com/

EVENTS: Harvey Tolibao's DARE TO DRAW

2011-11-25T10:37:00.000+08:00

I love Harvey Tolibao. He's fun, wacky, and an over-all nice guy. And he draws really well, too. The pic above is a sketch he did in my notebook at the 2011 Toycon last July. He ran out paper so I handed him my notebook for him to sketch on. Incidentally, this is my first sketch by a Marvel Comics artist. XD

Tomorrow, he takes on the public with "DARE To DRAW" at Vinyl+Splash at Fully Booked BHS. Something Harvey Tolibao fans shouldn't miss!

Harvey Tolibao's DARE TO DRAW
TopShelf,
5th Flr, Fully Booked BHS
November 26, 2011
10 Am to 6 PM
Admission is FREE

EVENTS: TOEInty Five! Toei Animation Philippines 25th Anniversary!

2011-11-22T17:31:00.000+08:00

TOEInty Five! Toei Animation Philippines 25th Anniversary!
November 26, 2011
10A.M. to 10P.M.
Eastwood City, Libis
FREE ADMISSION

http://toeinty-five.net/
http://www.facebook.com/TOEIntyFive

EVENTS: The 3rd San Pablo Comics Festival

2011-11-22T01:11:00.001+08:00

The 3rd San Pablo Comics Festival
December 3, 2011
9:00 AM- 7:00 PM
Ultimart Mall, San Pablo City
Laguna

http://sanpablocomicsfestival.blogspot.com/

EVENTS: Komikon 2011

2011-11-09T14:56:00.001+08:00

7th Annual Philippine Komiks Convention

Bayanihan: Komiks Moving Onwards

November 19, 2011

10am to 7pm

Bayanihan Center, Pasig City

Tickets available at the venue and at Comic Odyssey branches @ Php 100.00 each.

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EVENTS: Vinyl + Splash: The Ultimate Collectible & Comic Convention

2011-11-07T08:00:00.001+08:00

Vinyl + Splash: the Ultimate Collectible and Comic Convention
Top Shelf, 5F Fully Booked Bonifacio High Street
November 26, 2011
Gates open @ 10:00 a.m.

Admission is FREE!

Vinyl + Splash: The Ultimate Collectible and Comic Convention is presented by Fully Booked, Red Nimbus, Vinyl on Vinyl, and Comic Odyssey. For more information, check out their Facebook page and Flipgeeks.

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EVENT: 2nd Artist Signing at Comicxhub

2011-11-06T14:48:00.000+08:00

Next weekend, Comicxhub plays host to another comic book artist signing at its warehouse. This time around it's Stephen Segovia, Heubert Khan Micheal and Carlo Paguluyan who'll be giving out autographs for their fans. Aside from the signing, Comicxhub also offers great discounts for customers that day. Customers can avail of 20% discounts for new releases for that week as well as upto 50% on paperbacks and hard covers. An added bonus are free comics and/ or free prints for the early birds.

The event happens next Saturday, November 12, at the Comicxhub store/warehouse at the 3rd floor of Bloomingdale Plaza on Shaw Blvd in Pasig city. Event starts at 10 A.M. More information is available at the Comicxhub website and Facebook page.

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EVENTS: Artists Galore!

2011-11-06T14:20:00.000+08:00

Stephen Segovia (right) with Harvey Tolibao at last year's Komikon.

Yesterday was a very busy day for most comic book fans in the metro with two signings and one talk by local, but internationally known, comic book artists.

New comic book store Comicxhub hosted a signing for comic book artists Mico Suayan and Gerry Alanguilan. Photos of the event can be found on their Facebook page. Over at Robinson's Galleria, Comic Odyssey hosted a premiere signing for comic book artist Stephen Segovia for his new Marvel Comics series: Thor, The Deviant's Saga.

Later in the day, Secret Fresh hosted a talk with industry veteran Tony De Zuniga.

With all that activity, you'd think I would have been dead tired from event hopping. But I wasn't. I never made it to any of the above *facepalms*.

FINDS: Wonder Woman #10 and Catwoman #70

2011-11-06T13:33:00.001+08:00

I went to the mall to meet up with some buds to get some stuff and hang out, but a trip to two comic book stores found me spending some dough. I got me these two yesterday: Catwoman 70 and Wonder Woman 10. Both books are part of the Amazon's Attack mini-series which I'm trying to complete.These were bargain finds: Catwoman for Php 30.00 and Wonder Woman for Php 50.00.

Getting these brings me much closer to finally completing the series. All I need now are 2(?) more Catwoman titles and Amazon's Attack #2.

Collecticon 2011 Day 1 Report

2011-10-10T01:29:00.001+08:00

Collecticon 2011 was held last weekend at the Robinson's Midtown Mall and some buddies and I decided to trek to Ermita, Manila to check it out during the first day last Saturday. Day 1 wasn't as packed with people as I expected. The selling area was crowded, but still navigable. There were booths selling comics for as low as 10 pesos and graphic novels at 50% off. Obviously most of the stuff being sold there were toys. There were lot of boxed and loose Marvel and DC toys, as well as Gundams and other Japanese anime toys.I also saw a booth that sold costumes and wigs; a dog tag booth and one that sold collectibles like Coca-Cola memorabilia.

Some booths sold vintage items. Spotted all in one booth were the three vintage Transformers figures below. The seller also had vintage trading cards for sale. Most were single sports cards from what I gathered, but he also had unopened boxes.

Noticeably absent on Day 1 were the cosplayers. There were only a handful that afternoon, and I was only able to take a pic of three of them. If it were the same as last time where cosplay wasn't part of the program for the first day and was reserved for the collectors to be able to shop without the mayhem (throngs of adoring fans) that cosplay sometimes brings, then it was a good call by the organizers. For that, I am grateful. It would have been hard to go around the selling area especially if you carrying something as heavy as I was that day. Seen below are Superboy, Superman, and Captain America.

But even without huge throng of people, there was still an incidence of stolen merchandise. I'm not sure how many incidences there were, but I heard one lady from a stall saying four items were stolen from their table, even though there were security going around the venue. I know incidents like that happen all the time at conventions, but it's still shocking and disheartening to hear.

Some local toy groups exhibited toys from their collections as well. The area around the stage was used for glass cabinets and tables to house those. Some of the figures displayed in glass cabinets were action figures from the Marvel Legends and Marvel Universe lines; cars; anime figures, 12-inch Hot Toys figures, as well as some custom toy designs like Captain Barbell below. Another custom exhibit at Collecticon was the Custom Gundam Exhibit, where there was some on-the-spot activity happening at the same time.

I can't remember how many dioramas were there but I do remember those that were almost behind the stage area, near the stairs. There was this cool diorama of the X-men's "Danger Room" showcasing Marvel Universe figures in a classic combat training session .

Across from this diorama was a table set up with three dioramas. on the left side was a diorama with several Alien Figures. On the far right is a church tower with Assassin's Creed Altair standing on the roof ledge, with a Spawn figure in front sitting on what I'm guessing is a thrown. In between these two dioramas is my favorite: the God of War diorama featuring four different Kratos figures.

There were two photo exhibits at the back of the stage. One was an exhibit of toy photographer Bleau Aquino's work; and the other was the Collecticon Toy Photo Contest. Entries were divided between "Edited" and "Non-Edited" categories. I was surprised to see that there weren't as many entries this year as compared to some incarnations of the con where there were a lot. But it's just the first day anyway. Maybe more were submitted the next day.

I initially wanted to join, but couldn't decide on what to submit, so I opted not to join this year. Still, I saw some really nice work among the entries. I hope my fave entry won!

With all this going-around-the-venue, you're probably wondering if we bought anything. My buddies bought some Lego (wherein some fondling was involved); I on the other hand went home with a DC Direct Identity Crisis Zatanna. No comics for me this con though, since none of the stuff on my list were available. Something I'm actually very thankful for because I didn't bring a lot of cash with me hahahaha. I do kinda regret not picking up those C.I. Boys though. Oh well. There's always next year!

A big thank you to Drew for letting me use some of your photos!

Trese 4 Launch and Book Signing at Best Seller

2011-10-01T06:01:00.000+08:00

Fans of local indie comic Trese rejoice! I was browsing Azrael's blog and I came across news about Book 4's launch and signing at NBS Best Seller at Robinson's Galleria. Creators Budjette Tan and Kajo Baldissimo will be there to sign copies at 5p.m.

The Avengers on EW

2011-10-01T05:40:00.000+08:00

It's the Avengers on the cover of Entertainment Weekly! This week's issue, which hit stands yesterday, features the Scarlet Johansson, Robert Downey, Jr, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Jeremy Renner and Chris Evans dressed in their respective character's garb. EW.com also has a gallery of exclusive photos from the set of the movie, whose release date is May 4, 2012.

COLLECTICON 2011

2011-10-01T05:02:00.000+08:00

I.Am.Evil.

2011-09-13T03:46:00.005+08:00

67 %... that's a huge difference!

I chanced upon this interesting quiz while browsing Zenescope's website. I'm a sucker for online quizzes. I can spend hours browsing through quiz sites and answering quizzes that range from 1-question types to those that span several pages long.

Accordign to the site:

"There are only 2 sides in the world: GOOD vs. EVIL. You belong to one. But which one? Take the survey to find out..."

Which I did. And it turns out that I'm EVIL.*insert evil laugh here.* What about you? Which side are YOU on? Go ahead and take the quiz to find out.

Collecticon: The Nuvali Collector's Fair

2011-08-14T00:52:00.002+08:00

Thanks for the heads-up, Joint Junkie! I want to go, but damn. Whattafar!

Super Heroes For Your Feet

2011-08-05T17:44:00.001+08:00

Speaking of Superman, check out what I got at the mall:

Superman flipflops! It's Php 150.00 per pair and I think only comes in black. There are three other similar designs with the Flash, GL, and Batman . There are also two or three Wonder Woman designs, but those are only for the ladies. The male characters are also only in men's sizes. Still thinking if I should get the other three.

First Look at Henry Cavill as Superman

2011-08-04T23:03:00.000+08:00

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OMG ANOTHER SALE!!!

2011-07-26T12:09:00.000+08:00

Captain America: The First Avenger Movie Poster

2011-07-22T13:36:00.001+08:00

Here's the Captain America movie poster. Captain America : The First Avenger opens in theaters today. I'm so excited to see it! This and more posters here.

The Amazing SpiderMan Trailer

2011-07-22T03:20:00.001+08:00

The Dark Knight Rises Teaser Trailer

2011-07-19T11:33:00.000+08:00

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