Okay, before we get into this let’s get one thing out of the way: Barry Allen is my Flash. I was out of the comic loop in the neighbourhood of 15 years, so naturally I missed all of the Wally West series a lot of people grew up with. Barry Allen died before I was born, my limited time spent with comics didn’t really include much of Allen, if any DC comics at all; I was more hooked on those brain eating Venom series of the early 90s. The point...

Calgary Expo – Day 3 (Tyler) For three days straight, the Calgary Expo put on a solid, organized show. It can’t be stressed enough how much they’ve learned from 2012 and improved on for 2013. But enough about that. Sunday was our day to interview some of the great comic talent that the Expo had to offer. It was a last minute change to do the interviews live, but with the help of a not-too-shabby video taking device all three...

Calgary Expo – Day 2 (Tyler) Saturday. The day for people to go to the Calgary Expo and the same day back in 2012 where Fire Marshal’s almost shut the venue down due to being way over capacity. Thankfully–if you saw Read Comic Books #9 from yesterday you’d have heard–the fine folks over at the Calgary Expo have learned from past mistakes and overhauled the way they run this show. Needless to say, Saturday was very...

Calgary Expo – Day 1 (Tyler) Right out of the gate, let’s put it as plain as possible. This year the fine folks who have organized and planned the Calgary Expo have done an extremely good job of keeping things orderly, organized and running smoothly. Granted, the Friday show only started at noon and it won’t have the same amount of people that a Saturday or Sunday have but it was still leaps and bounds better than what Calgary...

Well, I’m back. Or, more to the point, my column Read Comic Books is back. The last time I did this column, it was all the way back in August when ReadComicBooks.net was but an infant. It was also before the phenomenon known as Marvel NOW! hit us all in the face like a right hook from the Hulk. I stand by my original thought on the name and how “Marvel NOW!” just doesn’t work for me, but for the most part the way I viewed this rebrand has...

Marvel NOW! is a new line of Marvel comics, that launches in October, coming off the back end of the Avengers vs. X-Men event. It aims to attract new readers by putting new creative teams on brand new, or renamed, #1 issues under the MN banner. This is not a reboot, according to Marvel, however; this has been described more as a “R’Evolution”. 12 new series will start and 11 existing titles are slated to be cancelled, and we’ll also be treated...