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Friends, I’ve never taken the time to say this before, but I deeply appreciate the fact that you’re reading this.  It means you’re taking time away from the Big Game on TV, or from nibbling at the bowls of pre-feast snacks, or discussing politics with your oddball uncle, the one who insists that the Commies spiked our drinking water with saltpeter back in the ‘50’s to reduce…

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By Andrew A. Smith

Scripps Howard News Service

 

The Flash has always been an important character in DC Comics mythology, and Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, co-writers of the super-speedster’s newly re-launched title, plan to keep it that way.

 

“I think he’s a central character,” Buccellato, who is also the…

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I’m not the Silver Age expert on this site.  We have Captain Comics, Commander Benson and Mr. Silver Age for that.  Hey, I wasn’t born until almost halfway through the ‘70s.  But I thought it would be fun to put together a list of the best characters from the ‘50s and ‘60s anyway.  Consider it an outsider’s perspective on which characters were interesting, timeless,…

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ALIENS FAST TRACK TO HEAVEN HC

ALL STAR WESTERN #3

ALPHA FLIGHT #6

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AQUAMAN #3

ASTONISHING X-MEN #44

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BART SIMPSON COMICS #65

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BATMAN THE DARK KNIGHT #3

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'Marzi' demonstrates life behind Iron Curtain through child's eyes

 

By Andrew A. Smith

Scripps Howard News Service

 

I doubt very many of us have wondered what it was like to grow up as a little girl in Communist Poland, but after Marzi: A Memoir (DC/Vertigo, $17.99), I doubt many of us will ever forget it.

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Short films featuring DC comics' characters will be shown on the Cartoon Network channel in 2012.  It would be interesting if persons from the indie film and indie comic book industries would be invited to use  the company's characters.to tell stories.  

 

 

"We have met the enemy and they are us" -- Pogo Possum

 

The latest episode of The Walking Dead had me thinking about the line above, perhaps the most famous quote from Walt Kelly's long-running comic strip, Pogo. It reminded me of a thought that occasionally flits across my frontal lobe about how so many of our iconic monsters seem to represent the threat not just of death, but also -- and maybe moreso -- turning Us into Them. If you squint just right, it…

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I read an article last week on Grantland.com in which editor Bill Simmons tried to challenge the conventional thinking on film star Eddie Murphy.   He argued that Murphy had one of the greatest runs ever for a comedian and that a swoon later in his career doesn’t take that away.  He claimed that Murphy’s later work, while inconsistent, hasn’t been entirely bad (Bowfinger and…

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By Andrew A. Smith

Scripps Howard News Service

 

It doesn’t seem probable, but a new graphic novel with Batman at the center of a classic Christmas story is simply terrific.

 

Lee Bermejo writes and draws Batman: Noël ($22.99, DC Entertainment) which tells of a Batman/Joker battle through the lens of A…

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #674

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By Andrew A. Smith

Scripps Howard News Service

 

Occasionally someone executes a standard storytelling device with such dazzling skill that it reminds you why that device became standard in the first place. Rebecca Guay is that someone, with A Flight of Angels (DC/Vertigo, $24.99).

 

An award-winning…

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BLACK PANTHER MOST DANGEROUS MAN ALIVE #525

BOYS TP VOL 09 BIG RIDE

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Ginger or Mary Ann?

 

The Addams Family or The Munsters?

 

Darrin # 1 (Dick York) or Darrin # 2 (Dick Sargent)?

 

 

These are three of the great television debates of the 1960’s, and thanks to the magic of…

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