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DC Comics in September
DC's September solicitations, courtesy of Comic Book Resources.
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Dwayne McDuffie fired from JLA for "revealing too much"
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/05/28/dwayne-mcduffie-fired-from-jla-for-saying-too-much/ This is just sad on a lot of levels...this man was a major force in making the JLA cartoon the great thing it was... ...I hope to see a lot more McDuffie i
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Scrooge and Mickey to return through Boom!
From "Lying in Gutters" today: "I understand that Boom Studios has won the comic book license for "Walt Disney Comics And Stories," "Mickey Mouse And Friends," "Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck," "Donald Duck" and more. Boom has recently shown much
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Five greatest Michael Jackson moments in comics
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2009/06/26/the-5-greatest-michael-jackson-moments-in-comics/ Yes...he really did try to buy Marvel Comics once...
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Captain America fans...#600 on sale today
As the storyline leads into a BIG event on July 1st (which has been spoiled in NY newspapers)...Marvel has decided to give #600 a couple days head-start this week and allow comic shops to start selling it today...Monday.
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Library Haul
Stopped by the library again today (I know, shocking!) and came home with the following: Heroes for Hire: World War Hulk Jack of Fables, vols. 1-5 New X-Men: Childhood's End vols. 2-5 New X-Men: Hellions Spider-Man/Red Sonia World War Hulk: Frontlin
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Marvel Divas
OK...this is a pretty great book that I and about 10 other people will read and enjoy. It's very much Sex and the City in the Marvel Universe with a really horrible cover. I know that Joe Q said that without a sexed-up cover the fanboys wouldn't even
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Happy birthday, Chris Fluit!
Happy birthday, Chris! Give 'em a good sermon and go celebrate!
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Your favorite Annual (s)
Ah, the Annual. When I first started reading comics in the late 1970's, I loved 'em. And why not? For a few extra coins, you got a much bigger comic. And back then, the story mostly stood (or fell as the case may be) on its own. Almost always a done-
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Previews for August, 2009
Here's my order...only eight of these comics will be kept by me...the rest go to a bunch of other people (though I may read them first). ;) Dark Horse Usagi Yojimbo #122 DC Comics Batgirl #1 Batman and Robin #3 Detective Comics #856 Batman #689 B
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I'm perilously close to dropping Invincible
I had a bad feeling about this month's issue when I saw that it featured the hero with a graphic compound fracture right on the cover. This last issue was so over the top in violence that it simply wasn't enjoyable at all. The reason I was initially
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Black Canary origin question
In his weekly "Things that Made Me Happy in This Week's Comics" post, Scipio mentions a severe change to Black Canary's origin. Anyone know what's he's talking about? I assume it happened in Green Arrow/Black Canary.
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Amazing Spider-Man - American Son (spoilers)
So, this is the one that leads into #600...this is the one that has Peter finally say "I know Norman Osborn and I can't stand by and let him lead the country...I just can't". I can't wait...
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Underground, Steve Lieber and Jeff Parker's new book...hits a speedbump
I don't know much about the book, but I know Jeff Parker has a lot of fans on this board, so when I saw the news via Colleen Coover's twitter feed, that Steve Lieber and his wife's laptops had been stolen and their house burgled, I paid some attentio
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Who are the most creative creators?
Going back to my ongoing plea that today's comic creators spend less time on flatlining 'events' and more on creating new characters and concepts, who are the writers and artists looking to the future rather than constantly raiding the past? I don't
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Happy birthday, Neal Adams!
Neal Adams is 68 today! I wish the world looked more like he drew it...
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