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Comics Guide for Nov. 13, 2013
Fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be another bumpy Comics Guide!
First up this week is a big new title from Valiant Comics: Unity #1, the publisher's first team book. It's clear Valiant has high hopes for it, because they've buried me in press rel
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R.I.P. Nick Cardy, 1920-2013
From Mark Evanier's News from Me: "R.I.P. Nick Cardy"
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Hollywood Original Art Sale: FREAS, PLOOG, WRIGHTSON
Hollywood Original Art Sale: FREAS, PLOOG, WRIGHTSON
Hi. I have been asked to help liquidate a private Hollywood
collection of art and art books. Here are a few sample links.
Please have a look. There is a lot of original art by
Wrightson, Ploog and
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Mr. Bones and the DEO, villains with government backing, Batwoman 24 spoilers
And after this issue I'm not really seeing Batwoman as a heroine either. In a quest to find out who Batman really is Mr. Bones has blackmailed Kate by threatening her sister and he's unleashed a small army of supervillains against Gotham and the
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It Came from the Back Issue Bin- Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight
Years ago I started posting about comics I bought in the back issue bins here. It didn't last long. I sold most of my comics and focused on series I am currently reading and collecting the entirety of Amazing Spider-man. However, I will pick up some
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Comics Guide for Nov. 6, 2013
Let's try something new this week: Let's lead with the comics the publishers are most proud of, judging by the press releases and previews. They're not really my picks, even though I plan to pick up a number of them, as it's the publishers who are br
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New Superman License Plate Celebrates Ohio Birthplace
Just two days ago, I realized that my car's license plates had expired the first of the month.
Ordinarily, I would have caught this as my birthday approaches...except the car I drive is actually licensed to renew on my WIFE's birthday...and though we
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Saw the Hobbit, does Bilbo remind anyone else of Author Dent?
In the beginning at least when he's greeting the dwarves while wearing the dressing gown, for that whole first sequence he came off as very Author Dent like to me.
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Comics Guide for Oct. 16, 2013
CAPTAIN'S COMMENTS: It's another week, which means another Wednesday ... and more cool comics! Here's a guide to this week's offerings, with covers, solicitations, previews where available and occasional comments by your humble narrator. Onward!
DA
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Whatever Happened to the "Carmichael Thinker?"
The last time I saw FIRESTORM's Cliff Carmichael, he'd been turned into the new Thinker in SUICIDE SQUAD. About the time the book ended, he left the Squad. Did he ever turn up again?
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Comics guide for Oct. 9, 2013
3 GUNS #3
Writer: Steven Grant
Artist: Emilio Laiso
THE SEQUEL TO 2 GUNS, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE WASHINGTON AND MARK WAHLBERG!
On the run from the power-hungry Russians and the insane revolutionaries, things are looking worse than ever for Bobby
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Lone Wolf and Cub
I just bought the first Dark Horse omnibus -- the somewhat larger, 700-page reprintings of the earlier digest-size Dark Horse printings of the book. I think they'll be issuing these bi-monthly; the second volume is already out, and the third one is d
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Nine Beers with Ninjette
I know Empowered not one of the higher selling books, but I've grown to love it. Part of the reason is because of the character of Ninjette, a New Jersey Ninja who's history is detailed in this title in a series of flashbacks each related to the n
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SUPERHEROES: A NEVER-ENDING BATTLE DOCUMENTARY
A new three-part documentary, SUPERHEROES: A NEVER-ENDING BATTLE, will air on PBS stations on three successive Tuesdays either beginning October 8th or 15th, according to different accounts. Each episode will be one hour long. Even though this articl
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Why I don't even care about "Revolving Door of Death"
I know a lot of people get tired of characters who get bumped off in comics coming back to life. Me, I just don't care. It has seemingly always been this way. It was happening well before I was born, and will continue (if comics are still going I gue
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The Top 70 most iconic Marvel Panels Master LIst
Amazingly enough, most aren't from the last ten years."
I do disagree with a few though.
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Top Shelf's 2013 Sale
Once again Top Shelf is having their annual huge ol' sale. With a ton of $1 and $3 books. As well as others deeply discounted. Details here.
I've taken a huge advantage of this the past few years, so I'm not sure what is left for me to get. A lot of
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Thoughts While Filling Out Previews #300
I didn't see that Jeff had done this for this month, yet. Kind of shocked really. This is for comics and other stuff that will theoretically be sold in November.
1. Sorry Dark Horse that last Ghost miniseries didn't interest me enough to now buy into
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Madame Tussauds honors Marvel movie stars
From the Las Vegas Press Enterprise: "LAS VEGAS: Madame Tussauds Devotes Room to Marvel Heroes"
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