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The fun part of a character going evil (Knights of the Dinner Table 207, spoilers)

It can be fun. Sara in the KODT series is usually portrayed as the level headed female of the all male group. While the other three members of the group use the game to hack and slash and have fun with greed even if they do play lawful good character

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Clockwork Game: The Illustrious Career of a Chess-Playing Automaton

This graphic novel tells the history of “The Turk,” the mechanical chess player of the 18th and 19th centuries. It has been serialized online over the course of six years, and has finally been collected in printed form. The story itself is true, but

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Daredevil by Mark Waid Vol 1 - The Weekly TPB

When a hero has been around for 50 years, there are bound to be various interpretations.  When I started reading Daredevil in the late 70s / early 80s, Frank Miller was first the artist and later the writer and artist on the title.  He put a stamp o

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No Luthor in the Adventures of Superman 1952 series?

I was watching the Kirk Allen Superman serial Superman versus the Atom Man when I realized I couldn't recall if there was ever a Lex Luthor in the 1952 tv series. Was there?

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Dragnet, the Captain Lightning episode

Say this today, it was on the ME tv channel and they've been running Dragnet. I dvr it sometimes if there is an episode I sort of remember from when I was a kid. I remember this one for some reason and this was long before I knew what comic books or

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Enchantress Career ups and downs, is she dead now?

  I was going through the dvr yesterday and I spotted the episode of Avengers Earth's Mightiest cartoon where the Enchantress is going after Zemo and looses, then gets dragged into some sort of hell to serve Surtur (?).  That reminded me that I hear

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Comics Guide for April 16, 2014

The Captain's Comments

It's a week chock-full of first issues, and for a change they're not all Marvels!

Dyamite has an exceptional week, with the first issues of Solar: Man of the Atom and Captain Action Cat: The Timestream Catastrophe, and the 100t

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The Star Wars EU...

Disney now owns both Star wars and Marvel. It's fun to think that, after all the snide disrespect hurled at it over the years, the Marvel Star Wars series would be the most logical thing for them to keep in continuity.

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Original Sin (SPOILERS)

OK, just read issue #0.  It involves the current iteration of Nova, who is apparently a kid named Sam Alexander, whose father was an old drunk who claimed to have been an intergalactic space hero, and who eventually disappeared. In time, the son disc

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Comics Guide for April 9, 2014

THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS

Every week Marvel hogs the Comments section with a flood of number ones, and this week is no different. But at least we get to start with a number one from another publisher: Dynamite. Because Flash Gordon #1 comes out this wee

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Doctor Strange and the Hulk---the Real World's Finest??

One of my favorite books growing up in the 70s was The Defenders with their seemingly mismatched yet powerful though hardly stable roster. But it was clear that they won because of the leadership and mystic prowess of DOCTOR STRANGE and the sheer pow

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Comics Guide for April 23, 2014

THE CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS

Here are some of this week's books worth special mention:

START ME UP

Two big summer stories launch this week with single issues.

The biggest is Original Sin #0 (Marvel, $3.99), which is numbered accurately -- it isn't the firs

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Diamond adds comic book targeted to those with autism

Usually publishers have to jump through a number of hoops to get signed to Diamond. That these guys did it so fast tells me Diamond is bending over backwards. That's just speculation, though.

Anyway, I post this as a public service, in case any Legio

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The episode of JL animated where Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman fight Mongul in the Fortress

 Can anyone remember what issue of the comics that was based on?  For Free Comic Book day I think my LCS is going to have a sale on back issues and I'd like to keep an eye out for it.  

  Still remember it as one of the more brutal fights Diana ever

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ACTION and DETECTIVE ~ What do They Mean , Anyway ?

I bought recent/current issues of ACTION COMICS and DETECTIVE COMICS at my OCS recent times I was there IIRC , #27 and #28 respectively . What in a sense is the " meaning " of these titles now ?????

  They are , of course , the original titles that t

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Substitute Comics Guide for April 30, 2014

EDITOR'S NOTE: After assembling the Comics Guide throughout the week, and spending six hours writing and editing it today (Sunday, April 27), I have accidentally deleted it. 

Yes, the whole damn thing. Twelve takes, an untold number of man hours, a c

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Marvel invites readers to pick stories for '75th Anniversary Omnibus'

I thought you guys would want to know about this. Frankly, I'm not sure what I'd pick after the obvious origin stories, first Galactus story, etc. What would you guys pick?

Here's the press release:

Choose the Contents of Marvel’s Massive 75th Annive

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Legend of Bold Riley 1

  This caught my attention because of the cover.  Inside is an Indian or Far Eastern tale that reminds me of a sword and sorcery Conan or Red Sonja story, but with more clothing and no blood.  The main character is a princess who renounces her thrown

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UPC codes and differing prices/trade dressing .

So I went to http://comics.org/series/3345/covers/ looking for a certain THE ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN issue and saw , not only something that reminded me of a (Self-hating comment ~ spectacularly nerdish/what the Brits call " anorak/trainspotter/saddo/

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Justice League Dark 30, Spoilers

Deadman has a brief confrontation with a drunk Constantine (who last issue not only ran out on all of them but got tossed out of the House of Mystery by the house itself) and flies off. Zatanna is trying to adjust to her new role as leader, something

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