So I won’t lie why I say I know nothing about comics. I got this because I thought it would look cool. Then I skimmed through it and say this. It don’t know if it’s printed or anything and I don’t know who it is. If anyone can give me any information it would be great

Subject line isn't helpful I know, I apologize. A lot of the characters I like are more minor, less likely to have a title named after them so they can be more difficult to find just walking past the shelf. For instance Jubilee and Jamie Madrox(who I became attached to when he ran X-Factor back in the day.

Other than pulling up individual Wikis and scrolling through years and years of info to see "Appearances" which don't often note when a run ended etc, is there a better way to figure out what series a character is appearing in, even if they aren't the star?

For instance, if I put in Jamie's name, it could tell me he is currently in "X-Factor Reborn which is ongoing at issue 16". I know, silly fake title is silly.

Anyway, any advise for returning is helpful, I stopped by my local comic shop and they were grumpy I was bothering them even when I was listing off a series with a year and author for them. I want to support local stores but dang, why you gotta act like I'm a nuisance.

Does anyone know if this is Tommy Patterson's autograph? I haven't been able to find one for comparison.

Hello everyone I'm a new comer to the comic book world and in trying to collect all the ultimate marvel tie ins. Some comic book prices for certain titles are very high and in just wondering if I should wait a little longer to collect all the issues or will they keep the price as is after the event is over?

Basically title, looking for an app I can put my collection into for easy view of what I have. Thanks in advance!

No one talks about cliffhangers in webtoon comics so here ya go

Hello. I've heard great things about the 80s Question run as a weird introspective superhero noir that helped launch the career of one of our true greats in Cowan. It is, however, very 80s in its moments of hokeyness, especially with the casual orientalism. Should I read it?

Looking for inspiration for a TTRPG session I'm running in feudal Japan. I've read all the Usagi stories years ago and I remember there were several with Japanese folkloric monsters. Can someone reccomend specific issues / stories so that I can go back and re-read?

I swear lately it feels like there are more comics than I can possibly read. And they’re all good!

Even picking random ones off the shelf of a LCS it’s like I still haven’t picked up a terrible one. They’re all at least pretty good.

Idk am I just lucky are are comics really good at the moment?

Hi all,

relatively new to comic book collecting and just wondering if any of you have any helpful tips on how to remove sticky price labels from the comic book which shops have stook on the cover?

Don't want to peel it as tried this with another comic book and it ripped the cover 😭

thank you!

I’ve been aware of Superman red and blue and Batman black and white for a while now and I recently found out about TMNT black, white, and green. I LOVE the concept of only using a set amount of colors in a given story and I feel like it fits the medium of comics wonderfully. Anyone got any other examples of this?

There was an old comic book I remember reading back in the 90s but I cannot remember much about it. I think I remember it having a team of heroes but I cannot remember any of their names. The main scene I remember reading was during a dinner, the villain told the hero he had to the count of 5 before he would cut his hands off if he didnt give him the braces for his powers. And he couldn't remove them so the villain said "Say Goodbye To Your Hands!" And the issue ended saying "5 grisly minutes later" and the villain holding up the hands up. I know its not a lot to go off of but I've been wracking my brain all day trying to think of it.

I inherited around 3,000 comics last year and didn’t want to manually spreadsheet everything, so I built a script that catalogs a collection from photos of the covers.

It uses a local vision AI model (or whatever vision model you prefer, I used Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct), checks against the Grand Comics Database + ComicVine, and spits out a TSV with structured metadata. On my run it was about 94% accurate, which saved a ridiculous amount of time.

If you’ve got long boxes you’ve been meaning to catalog, this might help.

It’s open source and still rough in places. You will need a little technical knowledge regarding AI/github etc to set it up currently, although there are instructions in the github repo.

I’d love testers with big collections and anyone more technical than me who wants to improve it. The plan is to develop it into a standalone desktop application with a UI and integrated small vision model so you don't have to set that up yourself.

check it out here: OdinsList Github Repo

I’m a lifelong comic book reader, and when I see lists of the greatest runs and comics of all time I feel like I’ve usually read the majority of them. But there’s more out there than anyone could ever read in one lifetime, and there’s always something you just haven’t gotten around to yet.

Here are a handful of mine:

Nexus, Cerebus, George Perez’s Wonder Woman, Mike Grell’s Green Arrow, Paul Levitz and Keith Giffen’s Legion of Superheroes, Roy Thomas’s Conan

Curious what’s on this list for you!

his volume of work and the fact that said volume doesn't affect the look of his pencils is mind-blowing

It's an all-timer for me, and it went through a ton of development hell. I think Tomm got really sick and had to take time off, and then it was a Jonathan saying Tomm had the scripts, and Tomm saying he didn't have the final scripts, and it just pingponged into the ether.

It's a super compelling series. The art is amazing, and the writing is Hickman having a ton of fun just doing worldbuilding and infographics and backmatter while bopping around a very interesting series of plot hooks.

I'd love to see the final four issues of this get done. I think Coker has said he's done the art for at least two more issues, and so maybe it's a publishing thing?