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Constantine's choice in JLD 29, Right for the character? (Spoilers)

  To me since I've only known him in the past few years he's always been like Tony Stark, a guy who will do the right thing but only after manipulating, abusing and down right stabbing his colleagues in the back, a character so borderline that it pu

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Brave & Bold

I just discovered this Batman series on Netflix after refusing to give it a chance during its initial run, and I wish I knew what I'd been thinking. Pure silver age goodness. Seeing 'Mazing Man and the Creature Commandos animated was probably the hig

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Thoughts While Filling Out Previews #307

Here’s what caught my eye this month.

INFINITY MAN AND THE FOREVER PEOPLE: One of my favorite series to come out of DC’s “New 52” was the short-lived OMAC. Her is another Kirbyish series by the same creative team. Here’s hoping it lasts more than eig

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Bugs on TCM tonight (Tuesday morning)

I spotted THEM, Cosmos Monster (which I've never seen but the guide says that it was insects from outer space) and the Wasp Woman.

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The Weekly TPB----Starman Vol.1---A Prologue

Before I start the discussion on Starman: Sins of the Father Vol.1 on Sunday (hopefully), I thought that I would get the historical info out of the way.

STARMAN (Ted Knight) first appeared in Adventure Comics #61 (Ap'41), created by the prolific Gard

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Saw the Days of Future Past trailor

Doesn't look too bad.

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The Weekly TPB--STARMAN: Sins of the Father

In the wake of Zero Hour, DC tried several concepts utilizing some of their older concepts. The best of them, indeed, the best of the last twenty-five years was Starman by James Robinson and magnificent artwork by Tony Harris and Wade Von Grawbadger

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What are the best Captain America stories?

I was thinking about writing a column about the five Captain America stories you should read after seeing "Winter Soldier," like I did for Superman after "Man of Steel." But with Superman it was really easy to think of five great stories; in fact, I

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Green Lantern #40 - Krona - Higgs and Particle Fever

If you have not seen the new documentary, PARTICLE FEVER, do so.  It is a film which documents the building and launch of the Hadron Particle Collider in Switzerland.  If you are familiar with DC Comic History and the role of Krona, you will understa

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Jim Aparo cover ~ American-published ?

http://www.comics.org/issue/579515/cover/4

 

 

 

   Above is a cover for an Australian-market reprint album titled "" SUPER-VILLAINS ALBUM " from the 80s with a plenty dang spiffy! cover by Jim Aparo !

  Was this cover published in America ? After al

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Who was the first disembodied brain villain in comics?

  Was it the Brain from the Doom Patrol comics?

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Roses of Berlin - help needed

Much of the dialog in Alan Moore’s latest, “The Roses of Berlin”, is in German. It’s a language that’s been the bane of my existence through two years of high school and four years of college during which I proved I have no facility for learning a fo

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Biggest shift in character?

I was thinking about Reed Richards recently.  When Fantastic Four began, Reed was a gutsy, he-man type who also happened to be extremely smart.  These days he's a guy who's really smart, but it seems all the rest has been left by the wayside. If you

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What other X-Men might Fox movie-ize ?

Since Fox Studios' rights to the X-Men for movies apparently requires them to have a new movie out every - three ? four ? - years or lose the movie rights , and I guess that solo X-men movies count against that (Perhaps with a requirement of " X-MEN

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Hawkeye #17

What a piece of crap. 18 of its 20 pages were done in "funny animal" style. (Okay, I guess that makes it 90% crap.) I wish I had flipped through it befor I bought it. Oh, well. at least there were two issues of Stray Bullets last week to make up for

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G.I. Joe #1(Hundred Penny Press Edition)

There aren’t many comics I’ve sold or traded over the years that I haven’t come to regret, but G.I. Joe #1is one of them. I used to play with G.I. Joes when I was little… the real dolls, not the little plastic “action figures”… but by the time the Ma

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Tales of Honor 1 (Spoilers)

Usually I think that the modern printing methods are a bit wasted on comics. It's nice to see a good blur effect and brighter colors but to me it's mostly been an excuse to ramp up the price. Tales of Honor is a space opera though and in this case th

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All-Purpose Archie Comics Line

This is my line started for all titles/companies-lines published by Archie Comics , including MLJ Comics , Radio Comics , Red Circle Comics , Stan Lee Comics...Including , most of all , <<"THOSE">> Riverdale teenagers...But since I did this with " Co

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FF Masterworks , Vol. 10

At my LCS I bought the TPB 2day (Cut down on the abbreviations , PDQ ? :-)) of the MARVEL MASTERWORKS , FANTASTIC FOUR , Vol. 10 , by Lee and Kirby (+ Jazzy Johnny) !

  It contains the LOST ADVENTURE " directors' cut " of that Jack Kirby story , whic

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Fantastic Four by James Robinson

Can anyone recommend it?

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