The Ottawa Comic Book Guy

While doing research for my gorilla cover comics article this week, I came to two realizations: one, that I have way too many empty coffee mugs in my computer area; and two, there are so many articles already done on gorilla comics that the subject has almost been done to death. Like myself, Boris was surprised: So I have decided to change the focus a little bit on the article and talk about different genres of comic collecting instead. Now, in this I am going to avoid one-character or one series collecting, as this is pretty straight forward (I am a little guilty of this as I seem to major in the Super-Family titles even ones such as DC Comics Presents... ), but instead I will focus upon different genres and types. Subject covers - This would include gorilla covers, which by far seem to be the most numerous, but also include various other types, such as robot covers as pictured above. The five most popular cover subjects as I have found in my research are: gorillas, robots, b...

If there are two truisms in life, one is that there is never enough time; although time itself is (allegedly) infinite, we humans have only a finite amount of it. This week has seen me working too much and family has taken up the rest of the time. (The other truism that taxes (cue Prinicpal Skinner's "oh yeah, the taxes" thing), which just depletes the resources needed for more comic books.) So, as I have not had enough of "me" time this week to begin writing my article on gorilla comics, I thought I would show some interesting covers of books of the subject I shall be covering soon. Luckily for me, school is winding down for the boy (meaning less school events to go to) and time should free up again soon. (Please note I am not complaining truly as I would do anything for my kids first and foremost.) So without further ado let's get our monkey on... I tried to get a mix of comic book companies, but DC has by far the mo...