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MARVEL COMICS
AVENGERS #34, $7.99
Writer: Brian Michael Bendis, Jed Mackay
Penciller: Mark Bagley, Farid Karami
Cover Artist: Russell Dauterman
AVENGERS LEGACY ISSUE #800! EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES mark a critical MILESTONE with eig
Read more…In previous years, this was a memory box so we didn't miss any good nominations for the Cappies. With the Cappies hypertimed away, that doesn't mean we have to discontinue these threads. I've always liked going back at the end of the year and seeing
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This is the second of Oni Press's new EC imprint (following last month's Epitaphs from the Abyss).
SPOILERS - I generally don't like to know in advance if a story has a twist ending. That itself is a spoiler for me because in the back of my mind I try
Read more…Ok, how about this for an idea. We take it in turns to post a favourite (British spelling) comic cover every day. This went really well on the comic fan website that I used to frequent. What we tried to do was find a theme or subject and follow th
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This is the sixth "EC" title from Oni Press following...
ISSUE #1:
I hadn't planned on buying this series, but I was attracted by morbid curiousity. Besides, this was a light week, so might as well launch a discussion and see if it attracts any attention. this series has been described as "an unexplored chapter [of
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The new direction begins in Action Comics #1087. The story opens in the present day, at the Metropolis Expo of Tomorrow, where Superman has provided actual future technology (flight rings) for the exhibit. (Did you know that Perry White is now mayor
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Okay, time for another Supergirl discussion.
This one follows...
Welcome to our re-read of the first and greatest superhero team in comics ... and quite a bit more!
My plan is to re-read and discuss the Golden Age Justice Society of America, which ran from All-Star Comics #3 (Winter 1940) to All-Star Comics #57 (
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I was a big fan of Ultraman when I was a kid. In the early ‘90s I discovered there was a new “Ultraman” show, but unfortunately I was more interested in acquiring episodes of the old show on VHS than I was episodes of the new one. Somewhat later I di
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"Out of the super-star studded firmament of Gotham City, where Batman and Robin shine supreme as masked manhunters -- bursts a brand-new luminary -- Batgirl! And like that very Batman after whom she models herself -- she too battles crime and injusti
Read more…Publishing details for these books will be announced in the coming months.
Yes, but where? -- Jeff of Earth-J, on my weekly Comics Guide.
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Well, maybe here. Or not. I don't know yet.
I've created a new Forum called "Coming Comics." I plan to start
Read more…I'd like to see if I can get this list up to one thousand. I'm sure that I've missed a lot of obvious ones, and even more obscure ones.
In my columns over the years, I've sometimes referred to the "Nerd Canon" (which has amused my editors no end). These are the books that the fanboys and fangirls in my generation sought out as the seminal works we needed to have read to have nerd cre
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As I did with "The Greatest Joker Stories Ever Told" discussion, I borrowed the title from a tpb collection but I plan to go beyond the actual contents of the collection itself. Catwoman has the unique distinction of appearing in the first three cons
Read more…The death of former child actor Jackie Cooper ( not to be confused with the , somewhat less fortunate as an adult and , infamously , ripped off by his parents Jackie Coogan ) inspires me to start a " Celebrity Deaths - That , Um , Don't Have The Most
Read more…By conventional superheroes, I mean the ones the people here are likely thinking of when we hear about superheroes: Superman, Spider-man, Batman, Wonder Woman, the Fantastic Four, Forbush Man, and so forth. They have always existed in a version of ou
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BATMAN #1 - "The Joker"
The Joker got off to a strong start with not one but two stories in the very first issue of Batman. No clown, he, but a psychopathic thief and serial killer from the very beginning whose murders were nothing short of inventive.
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