The Bodhisattva

As a VALIANT fan this is an extra cool contest to present for me. It’s about time we have more contests with books with pictures and along with that we have a limited lithograph to offer. We will have two winners, each will walk away with a new copy of newly released Archer and [...]

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I just put up a review of a one-shot from DC Comics, Last Will and Testament, Brad Meltzer’s and Adams Kubert’s contribution around the Final Crisis event. I kind of just read it, felt something, and wanted to review it. This is basically how I roll with reviews, regardless of medium and I thought Melzter [...]

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In a previous post I commented on a recent pick-up and my appreciation for Silver Age DC Grey/Wash tone covers and I just got another of my favorites today.

This Green Lantern#8 (1961) It’s also the first 5700 A.D. cover/story! Nowhere near the highest graded but a solid mid-grade with white pages that has a sweet [...]

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I just posted my review of Harbinger: The Beginning at the ‘bookspot. This was the hardcover release from VALIANT last year that collected issues 0-7 of the original run by Jim Shooter and Dave Lapham and also included an original 8-page story entitled The Origin of Harada by Jim Shooter and Bob Hall.
VALIANT is just [...]

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This is for the benefit of continuity in my blog posts and to establish that one can never say the Bodhisattva does not deliver! A mere day ago Gabe (when remarking on my lastest grab) said:
“I loved the fact Adam Strange played such a prominent role in DC’s “52″ storyline. Classic stuff.”
I have a few [...]

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Today I was able to grab  a comic  that’s on my constant want list:

Now you can do a search for this book and there are a couple of copies on ebay in various conditions and a couple at Metropolis Comics as well and you’ll notice none of them are really in high grade. Some of [...]

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I’ve kind of stopped doing these promos for non-bookspot related stuff but I’m so incredibly jealous of any group of people who are putting out a Comic book related magazine on their own coin, I feel like it deserves a mention.  I already made a mistake, as it isn’t Comic-related, it is about Comics, which [...]

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Besides being the title of my book coming out in 2047 (pre-order now) they are also two principals in a new original art page I just bought (and on the way). This is straight out of childhood here but first some some commercial reference goodness:

There are two really classic vehicle duels in the MARVEL G.I.Joe [...]

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I listen to a lot of comic book related podcasts as kind of background while I’m doing Bookspot related stuff and when I work out.  While I’m sure also of are used to hearing our names it always strikes me dumbfounded when I hear it on what is essentially a radio. No matter how short [...]

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I bought this some time ago but I finally got it in the post today. Some people may know I’m a huge fan of Dave Lapham and a huge fan of VALIANT in general and this is the original art from a page in Harbinger#1 (penciled by Lapham). You know how Super Hero teams - [...]

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If you gravitate to comic communities I participate in this is where the broken record starts - I loved Final Crisis#1 and one of the main reasons I’m glad Heidi MacDonald is reporting that Dan Didio is getting an extension (after a really silly internet-spawned attempt at a Shellian neighborhood watch meeting with people a [...]

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Some may know I’m a bit of a comic art enthusiast, I both read these things and like purchasing the original art. I ran across some color-guides recently (which aren’t strictly OA, but in books of this era and older they are at times what are colored upon in the process of making the pages). [...]

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I am not one of these people that pimps a certain publishers products (on a personal level) even though I have to balance being the 8,092th most powerful non-professional web-based SF/F personality (according to some publication in the Vellum and whisper in the Dreaming) and as a webmaster (who has no tech knowledge - in [...]

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I was going to do comics stuff at Illart, but the more I thought about (or rather the first time I thought about it - sometimes I skip that part as I travel the Azath) it doesn’t make sense not to do it here now that the Bodhisattva is part of the Bookspot fiefdom, plus [...]

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As I said in a previous post Damon was at the NYC Comic Con and before he got kicked out by the Empire for harlaning the Princess he was able to steal some con exclusive goods:

Signed books, comics, posters and magazines for the faithful!
If interested just say the word and you’re in!

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