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Calling all Legionnaires! Comics and journalism question needs YOU!

Naughty Zoot! Bad Zoot! She has set alight the beacon, which I just remembered, is Captain Comics shaped! With apologies to Monty Python, I am in fact asking for help from the Legionnaires. I'm thinking of a "comics and journalism" topic for my mast

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Great comic mashups

http://ryandartist.blogspot.com/2009/10/comic-strip-mashups.html Fantastic Family Circus...Dennis the Phantom Menace...Little Zemo in Slumberland...take a look...

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Thoughts while filling out Previews

Back to, well I guess my demand. I just finished filling it out a few minutes ago while catching up on Pardon the Interruption.

• Dark Horse is back for me this month. Two new miniseries, and I am picking up the Blacksad trade
• I like the idea of DC do

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In defense of the X-Men Australia years

http://www.comicswaitingroom.com/claremont.html My friend, Marc, writes a nice article about why he really likes this run of Claremont comics...even though it's not the fave of most fans.

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Doc Savage, The Batman, The Spirit, Wildcat, The Avenger, Black Canary get own universe

http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=23294 OK...after reading this, I'm pretty excited...

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Titans/X-Men...love it

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New Guy

Hello. I'm new here. DC fan since 1962. Bought EVERYTHING off the rack until about 1975. Sold all those early Marvels for chump change. Mom never threw mine out. Now, I'm just a comics reader with a DC loyalty. See you all around.

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Halloween 2009

What's everybody doing this year? Halloween falls on a Saturday which is cool. I don't have any plans, yet...

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Wednesday Comics -- ratings

Y'know, I'm surprised that Wednesday Comics reached its end without some discussion here. Overall, I was pleased and would like to see it done again. As someone once said on the old new board, we've got to encourage these things, even when they don't

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Magneto in Tallahassee

http://www.tallahassee.com/article/20091028/NEWS01/910280319&referrer=FRONTPAGECAROUSEL I had no idea he was going to be in town.

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Bloomingdale's celebrates DC's 75th anniversary

http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/2009/10/bloomingdales-to-offer-dc-comics-merchandise/ That scarf is pretty rad...

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Pre-Code Horror

I'd like to read some pre-code, non-EC horror. In short, pre-code trash with little, if any, redeeming qualities. Does anyone know if any collections or reprints of such material exists?

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Best of the Week: Thanksgiving 09

Wow, there were some good comics out this week. I picked up Beasts of Burden 3, Criminal 2, Fantastic Four 573, Green Lantern 48, Wonder Woman 38, Justice League of America 39, Blackest Night 5, and Detective Comics 859 -- and the only real disappoin

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Scots Universities Offer Courses in Comics

Article here

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NBM sale

NBM, which mostly features European comics for American audiences, is having a $4 sale on several titles. Most of their books are 100 pages or more, so that's a pretty good deal! LINK TO THE SALE

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Deathlok Masterworks

I didn’t think I was in the mood to read a Deathlok Masterworks… until I started to flip through it! I didn’t read Deathlok’s run in Astonishing Tales when it was new; it was one of those series I picked up on the cheap in college rather than, y’know

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Goodbye, Mirage.

Goodbye, Mirage. You made comics worth collecting. Heck, I'll still pick up whevere is still being produced until the last one rolls off the presses. I may be able to get the $10 ones as well.

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Happy birthday, Tony Isabella!

Tony Isabella, comicbook writer and CBG columnist, is 58 today.

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Happy birthday, Dan Spiegle!

Artist Dan Spiegle is 89 today.

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We're Baaaaaaaack: Comic Book Issues Rise From The Dead.

It is one thing to bring fictional characters back from the dead. But an entire comic book title?! What are your opinions on DC comics looking to bring one-shots of previously cancelled series? Here is past information on the topic: http://www.comic

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