After a week of travel, Chad’s Attic is back with a focus on Marvel’s “Infinity Gauntlet,” new and old. Also talking about “Ms Marvel” and looking forward to new cases of Vertigo.
For Scott Baker:
Ms Marvel 16-18, From Under Mountains 1, Infinity Gaulntlet (2015) 3&4, Infinity Gauntlet (1991) 1-5
This week in Chad’s Attic we look at “Star Wars” by Aaron and Immonen, “D4VE2,” “Robin, Son of Batman,” and the beautiful and sunny, “Starfire” plus a look back at “Starfire” circa 1982.
Granitecon yesterday in Manchester, New Hampshire was a fun day. The drive was pretty easy, even though I have never been to Manchester. The venue was nice. There were nice places to eat downtown. All in all I had a pretty good day. I also bought a stack of comics, which I talked about in this week’s video.
This is the first two-camera Chad’s Attic shoot, even though camera two is an iPod.
This week in Chad’s Attic; A mini haul, DC’s “Prez” a sign of good things to come?, and “Wayward,” urban fantasy meets manga. Also we go into the boxes…err. bookshelves for a couple of choice bits from Neil Gaiman.
I did this one three times. I usually do them twice, once just to run through and another for production. This time I got downstairs to edit and thought my audio was messed up. I went back up and did it again, and then I came back down and found out it was my headphones, not my audio and the second one was fine. I used the second one.
Here is a link to the Bleeding Cool News story on, “Batgirling.”
If you want a blank copy of the Excel file of my twelve-cent Marvel Bingo card, Click here.
In the new “Chad’s Attic,” “Green Lantern Lost Army” carries on where the Corps left off. “Archie” continues to reinvent, and Lemire and Perez rise to the task of keeping “Hawkeye” great. That sends me “Into the Boxes,” looking for some early Hawkeye books.
In case you missed it, last Sunday an article I wrote about my comic book collection and my YouTube show appeared in the Sunday newspaper. I explained how it came about in a prior post, but the short version is I work at the newspaper. I linked to the web version in that post. If you want to see what it looked like in the newspaper click here for a pdf. The pictures were taken right after I did Episode X3
On the web article, they embedded first Episode X3, which I didn’t think was the best one ever, both because of how hot it was, and also because of the noisy microphone. Later on Sunday, I uploaded a new episode, X4, which I thought was better and I had completed just that day. So between the debut of X4, and the article in the paper, plus the upload of a new 40 second-ish channel promo, made out of pieces of X4, I had 120 views last Sunday. The highest I’ve ever had in a single day prior to that was 57.
I picked up seven YouTube subscribers in the three days Sunday-Tuesday. At least some of them came from the newspaper article.
I posted the link to my Facebook page and got 50 likes.
The newspaper article listed the URL to this page (chadsattic.com), which got 55 pageviews on Sunday, and 19 more on Monday, when the paper posted on Facebook and linked to the web version of the article. That was up from the almost no pageviews this site gets regularly. My old site, Southwestharbor.com gets way more (30-50 a day) and I barely ever touch it.
I had a lot of people tell me how they enjoyed the article, for which I thank them. I had a couple of people where I do business often say things like, “I didn’t know you collected comics!” and then tell me about their own comic book experiences.
All in all, it was a pretty positive experience, and I know everyone will forget about it in a month, so that’s cool too.
In addition to today’s newspaper article, I also cranked out a new episode of “Chad’s Attic.” I discussed “Birthright,” which I caught up with after my sons returned my copies, “Secret Six,” 1995’s “Astro City” on its 25th Anniversary, “Alias” to gear up for Netflix’ “Jessica Jones,” and Japanese Samurai comics and what we all learned from them.
A few weeks ago,at the media organization where I work, I showed the features editor some of my comics videos. She asked me if I could write something for the newspaper, and I said yes and I dashed off this article, which appeared on page E4 of the Maine Sunday Telegram today alongside some great photos by my friend Gabe Souza, who crawled up in the attic in the heat after last week’s show. If that story brought you here, welcome! The real action is over at You Tube and Facebook.
This is me in my Superman suit around 1967. Maybe 66. along the bottom hem of the shirt it had imprinted in little yellow letters something like “Warning! This suit can not make you fly. Only the real Superman can fly”
Hey this Sunday it’s possible my face might be in the local newspaper. I’m just grateful it’s not a mugshot. I’ll post a link if it happens.
Bleedingcool.com says there are only 10 comics from the last 30 years that are worth more than $300, assuming they’re in really nice shape. I have one of these that I bought new, but my copy is damaged (stupidly by me when no one knew it would be worth anything.) which cuts its value in half or more. I’m pretty sure I had another, but traded it away years ago for some books that were by far better cartoonists than Rob Liefeld.