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Planet of the Apes

Last Wednesday, Boom! Studios released a new Planet of the Apes comic book series. According to editor Ian Brill, the new series is set in continuity with the five original films, and takes place some 1200 before Taylor “fell from the stars.” The art

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New Daredevil and Punisher creative team rumor mill

It seems the internet has leaked the two new teams as being:

 

 

Punisher #1 - Greg Rucka and Marco Checchetto, with Laura Martin on colors. Daredevil #1 - Mark Waid and Paolo Rivera. That ain't bad, if true.

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Fan of Bronze: The '70s JLA/JSA Team-Ups: Some Observations

This is where my Golden Age (as Mister Silver Age wisely says) begins. Though that's not entirely true as my first comic was Justice League of America #103, but I read this one two or three years later.

I'm also going to split this up by issues at le

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What's Your Avatar

I had to change my avatar away from a Wally West Flash.  I kept mistaking myself for Rob Staeger.

 

I'm now going with a picture of Jon Snow, from George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.

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May's Previews for July comics

My order form looks like this:

 

Dark Horse - Hellboy and Usagi Yojimbo...per usual.

 

DC - The Green Lantern books, most of the Batman ones, Teen Titans, and all of the Superman family.  Plus Tiny Titans, Brave & Bold, Scooby-Doo, and Young Justice

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New Teen Titans Omnibus later this year

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/140123108X While about half the size of the Marvel versions, this has the first 16 issues of the classic NTT by Marv and George. Yeah...I've already ordered it.

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What was that Science Fiction comics item?

Way back when I saw a comics item I'd like to identify. I remember it as a large paperback. It contained a number of stories, or a long story divided into parts. I thought it contained a collected series, but I may have been wrong about that. I also

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Should Batman's Arch-Enemies Be Retired?

Watching Doc's Batman Live clips made me think again about how dated the Dark Knight's most well-known villains are. This has nothing to do with the arena show but it does seem to downgrade Gotham's worse into Ice Capade territory!

The Joker: I have

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The Day after Doomsday

I came across a reference to "The Day After Doomsday," which was apparently a series that ran in Weird War Tales and other comics in the 1970s. Does anyone know anything about this series - premise, creators, etc.? Was it tied into any other existing

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Gifts?

Does anyone know how that "Gifts" option is supposed to work?

Except for the free red ribbon, and one would think there would also be at least a pink and yellow one available too, everything else is listed as costing 75 credits?

What credits?

How doe

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And the new White Lantern is...

...I know, but I'm not telling.  But I'm actually pretty pumped by this.

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Batman Live previews

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So...I read The Legion of Super-Villains one-shot and...

....dang it!  Now I'm friggin' hooked on the Legion books again.  The Comic Geek Speak crew talked up the Villains book, so I picked it up.  The whole Saturn Queen plan sucked me in...destroying the three worlds in the future which keep good people d

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For no particular reason...

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/03/30/history-of-swamp-thing-comics-everybody/ You might want to read this...

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How Jonah Hex Returned to the 19th Century

Jonah Hex first appeared in All-Star Western #10 (re-titled Weird Western Tales with #12) in 1972 and his feature ran through #38 before being granted his own eponymous title. In 1978, the 68-page “dollar comic” Jonah Hex Spectacular revealed the cha

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Jimmy Olsen’s Big Week

This one-shot is a collection/continuation/conclusion of the back-up feature which recently ran in Action Comics. Regular buyers of Action Comics may feel “cheated” into buying a partial reprint in order to complete the story, but don’t; you’re going

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Hey, if this "Flashpoint" thing is about the Flash, then how come the promo on the Comic Shop News...

..has Aquaman doing his Captain Nazi impersonation?

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Dark Horse Presents

Did anyone else get Dark Horse Presents #1? What did you think of the stories?

 

My faves:

 

Concrete. Man, I've missed Concrete so much... but Chadwick hasn't missed a step. 

Finder: Carla Speed McNeil delivers a fun little short story starring Jaeg

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Scream 4

SCREAM 4 opens this week-end . ( Wot ? - no Roman numerals in the title ?

  What has happened to our nation's educational system ??!?!?!?!?! ) I even bought the ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY w/a cover story on it .

  I liked the original trilogy much . Althou

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Canceled Before Their Time: The Comic Book Edition

My friend John Moret started a thread with a similar title about television series of the past that ended before they should have. When I first went there, I thought it was about comic books, hence starting this companion thread.

Now we all have our

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