The Comic Connoisseur

Coming Soon To Walmart Collector-Con! Marvel Legends Retro Card Kraven the Hunter

Every year leading up to Comic-Con, Walmart has their own collector-centric event called Collector-con. It appears as a section on their site that sells items that appeal to fans of different properties and fandoms. Marvel Legends usually has a couple of items listed and one has just been revealed. Here are the images of the…

Squadron Supreme! Hasbro Reveals Hyperion/Doctor Spectrum Two-pack

Time to start a new team! Today Hasbro has revealed their new two-pack with Hyperion and Doctor Spectrum. Hyperion previously had a figure released years back in the Hulkbuster wave(?) I think. The figure was pretty bulky and has a cape that is a bit too long. This new mold is a bit more streamlined…

New TMNT Minimates Turtle Blimp Deluxe Box Set Up For Preorder

A Diamond Select Toys release! The heroes in a half-shell are back, for an all-new box set of 2-inch Minimates! This time, the set captures five classic 1980s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon characters – Donatello, April, Shredder, Bebop and a Foot Soldier – in a slipcover box set, depicting the iconic Turtle Blimp from…

Comics You Should Check Out: Marvel Legacy #1

Alright, Secret Empire is over and it’s time for the next big Marvel Event to start. Wait. Didn’t they say no more events for a while? Legacy #1 feels like it could be an event book, but it’s more of a jumping off point for the next phase of the Marvel Universe. The issue opens…

MAKE WAY FOR MORE ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN THIS NOVEMBER

Cartoonist Kyle Starks (SEXCASTLE, Rick and Morty) continues his hobo-riffic historical fiction series with ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN #5, which kicks off the second, and final, story arc—and reveals the dramatic origin story of the World’s Toughest Hobo. We travel through deals with devils, world wars, trench battles, magical artifacts, shocking turns, and tragic decisions. The world’s…

Hasbro Reveals Upcoming Star Wars Black Series Action Figures

Most of the years big movies have come and gone and have made their way or making their way to home video. The two remaining movies that are still on my must see list are Thor: Ragnarok and The Last Jedi. Figures for the Thor movie have made their way to shelves and now we…

DC Gallery Justice League Animated Flash PVC Diorama

Joining Batman, Wonder Woman and Superman is the new DC Gallery PVC featuring everyone’s favorite speedster, Flash!This PVC features Wally coming to a stop with the Speed Force under his feet. I would have liked to have seen him in a running pose with the Speed Force crackling off him, but this works. You can…

Marvel Legends Spider-woman! Paladin! King Cobra!

Last week Hasbro sent out a lot of hi-res images of upcoming Legends figures. Somehow, I forgot to post three. They are Spider-woman in her modern costume, Paladin and King Cobra. Spider-woman and Paladin will be apart of an upcoming Spider-Man wave of figures and King Cobra will be in the next Avengers wave. King…

Marvel Select Netflix Dareflix In Stores Next Month!

Next month the Marvel Select family is growing again! The new Netflix Daredevil figure will be hitting online and comic stores and your wallets(not really)! This figure features Daredevil in his Season 2 costume and comes with batons and an extra set of hands. He will all come with a flight stand to get him…

Marvel Legends Dark Phoenix Saga Two-Pack Images & Impressions

This two-pack has finally reached full saturation so it not difficult finding them anymore. I wanted this Toys R Us exclusive primarily because it has versions of characters from my favorite period of X-Men stories, The Chris Claremont/John Byrne era. The Cyclops figure is fairly simple. It features him in his classic all blue suit…

October’s PREVIEWS Cover Features DC Entertainment’s Dawn of the New Age of DC Heroes

The October edition of Diamond Comic Distributors’ monthly PREVIEWS catalog arrives in comic shops on September 27th and features comic books, graphic novels, toys, and other pop culture merchandise scheduled to go on sale beginning December 2017. ON THE FRONT COVER: Launching out of Dark Nights: Metal, DC Entertainment introduces The Immortal Men from James…

KITTREDGE & INGRANATA TAKE ON THEWITCHBLADE

Witchblade Returns This December In An All-new Ongoing Series

Battle of the Droids! BB-8 vs. BB-9E!

Okay, so it’s not a battle, but Star Wars fans have been excited to see the return of BB-8 and the introduction of the First Order version of the spherical astromech droid – the BB-9E in Star Wars: The Last Jedi! Sideshow and Hot Toys are delighted to introduce a special sixth scale collectible set…

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