Last week, I thought I had finished my say regarding the topic of digital comics, and here I was all set to take a week off, but sure enough, I thought of a couple of footnotes. Like what, you’re dying to know? I will tell you, and you can’t stop me. In IWTY #22, I…
DetailsWelcome to another edition of RETRO REVIEW. This week I’ll be talking about DC Comics’ Camelot 3000, cover dated December 1982. This is the first of twelve issues, in what was DC Comics’ first Maxi-Series! Nope, not a little three or four issue mini-series. No sir, this was going to be a whopping twelve issues,…
DetailsIn this Back to the Past Special Report, Superman: Friend or Foe, we host 3 different opinions on Superman renouncing his US citizenship. What do YOU think?
Weekly madness from Back to the Past for May 2nd! What is Mullins running from? End of an era this week. DC holds the line at $21.00? Superman renounces his US citizenship. Free Comic Book Day is this Saturday! Ask for our posters book! eBay Spring Spectacular II is underway! Next auction is May 24th!…
DetailsLast week, as you’ll remember, I spoke of some of the early missteps made by publishers looking to enter the digital comics market, citing how that many either used new tools like flash animation and special effects to simply create multimedia digital versions of print comics, or unwittingly moved away from what comics were and…
DetailsWelcome back to this week’s installment of Greg Turner’s RETRO REVIEW, and this week we’ll be looking at Iron Man # 55, from Marvel Comics, with a cover date of February 1973. The cover features Iron Man in battle with two creatures, billed as The Blood Brothers, and a third figure who is crashing through…
DetailsIn this episode of video awesomeness… Found: Key ring. Juvenile giggling commences. Pete wants payback on a favor. Who’s Gretchen Kelly? Auction went great, here’s a few ways we’re improving the next one! Don’t forget your guesses about that roll of film, it’s $20.00 worth of your time! Mullins ponders M&M’s. FREE COMIC BOOK DAY!…
DetailsLast week, as you’ll remember, I spoke of the rather narrow-minded perception of digital comics commonly held by many, from readers right on up to the publishers themselves. You don’t believe me, do you? Fine, see for yourself and check out IWTY #22. Go ahead, I’ll wait. But you’d better come back. Or maybe you…
DetailsToday I bring you Cerebus the Aardvark # 4, cover dated June 1978, from Aardvark Vanaheim. The little independent comic that just wouldn’t go away! Dave Sim began this comic with a one page submission, showing a funny aardvark character bouncing up and down on a horse, riding into a town, drawn in a…
DetailsIn this video update, the Back to the Past crew keep you current on the fun stuff happing around the shop. We had a great time at the costume contest at Motor City Nightmares! Mike Mullins ponders the universe! The big comics auction is coming up on April 23rd! Pete’s GI JOE sale is underway…
DetailsLast week, as you’ll remember, I spoke of Diamond Comic Distributors and iVerse Media’s recent launch of Diamond Digital, a partnership that’s intended to give both companies a definitive place in the emerging world of digital comics publishing. A rather interesting facet to this plan is its attempt to hold a place in that online…
DetailsAndy and Mike from Back to the Past announce the Motor City Nightmares 2011 costume contest winners.
