To The Comic Book Store #117

Listening to a pair of young brothers discuss a variety of comic book characters today made the entire trip well worth the hassle of driving in a downpour and getting soaked walking across the parking lot. And here's just a few tidbits...

• Brother 1: "Deadpool is just really awesome."
• Brother 2: "which one is he?"
• Brother 1: "he's the blind guy"
• Brother 2: "no stupid the blind dude is Devil Dare" (pretty sure he meant Daredevil)
• Brother 1: "oh that's right, then Deadpool is just Wolverine in a red suit"

That discussion was followed by...

• Brother 2: "who the heck is that guy" (looking at a giant poster of Watchmen's Rorschach)
• Brother 1: "you know man that's the guy from that movie we watched a couple of years ago"
• Brother 2: "oh so he's a character from a movie"
• Brother 1: "yep it sucked too"
• Father: "you guys do know it was a graphic novel before a movie"
• Brother 1: "yeah sure dad, they made a comic book for that crap" (rolls eyes)

Kids, you gotta love 'em.

And now for this week's comics!

Free Bin:
Paid For:

-GJ

Image of the Day: Elektra Ninja Turtle

Today's image provided by Deviantart user: TetraGyom

-GJ

Image of the Day: Daredevil vs. Catwoman

-GJ

To The Comic Book Store #48

This week was my week to shine. After discussing several different series with some of the regulars, we ended up on the topic of the Marvel Civil War.

Now I haven't read every single issue of the Civil War series, but I have read enough to know what happens. So for 20 minutes or so, the floor was all mine. It was kinda nice because usually I'm the one getting schooled.

Of course the whole time I was talking I was sifting through the freebies, which I scored pretty well on (well a particular Daredevil / Shi issue anyways).

And here's the rest of the swag...

FREE

PAID FOR

-GJ

No Stan Lee Cameo

Sadly we learned via Twitter last night (5/12/11) that creater of the X-Men, Stan Lee, will not be appearing in the upcoming Marvel movie X-Men First Class.

Up to this point Stan Lee has appeared in all Marvel movies featuring characters he created (Spider-Man, Iron Man, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Daredevil, Hulk).

So are you going to miss playing the "Where's Stan Lee?" game?

-GJ