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Captain America (Cassaday)

Recently I had been reading the Captain America by Mark Gruenwald omnibus specifically to determine why that run didn't appeal to me. Once I found that answer, I lost all interest in the project a dozen or so issues shy of the end of the volume. Wher

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Justice Warriors

This series just didn't click with me the first time I read it (or started to). After an issue or two I decided to set it aside to read sometime when I'm more in the mood, now that I had a better idea of what it was like. Then last week, The Justice

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Avengers Assemble #1 Reactions (SPOILERS!)

First, as is my custom, here are some irrelevant images to provide spoiler space:
 

1. We begin with the Red Skull's daughter, Sin, slaughtering some archaeologists in Germany in order to steal the helmet of Eirda, the Greek goddess of hate.  I would've

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Superman: The Triangle Era Omnibus

Superman: The Triangle Era omnibus ships next week. It comprises Superman #49-64, Adventures of Superman #472-486, Action Comics #659-673 and Superman: The Man of Steel #1-8. It is named for the sequential numbering of the four regular series which a

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Comics shipping week of Sept. 16, 2024

Wonder Woman #13

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #260 FACSIMILE EDITION ($4.99)
AVENGERS #18 ($3.99)
DAZZLER #1 (OF 4, $4.99)
DEADPOOL #6 ($3.99)
DEATHLOK 50TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL #1 ($4.99)
GHOST RIDER DANNY KETCH OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC ($

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The Legend of Grimjack

Grimjack remains one of my favorite characters/series despite the fact he hasn't had a regular series since 1991 or a new adventure since 2010. I think more about his entire life has been revealed than has about most other comic book characters who h

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Mapping Out the Multiverse

I've lost count of how many times [DC has] re-discovered the multiverse. Well, first it was 52 parallel universes. Then they discovered those were just the "local" multiverse. 

Last week while I was reading a DC comic book from 2006, I came across DC

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Comics shipping week of Sept. 9, 2024

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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #57 ($4.99)

AVENGERS ASSEMBLE #1 (of 5, $4.99)

AVENGERS BY BUSIEK & PEREZ OMNIBUS VOL 2 HC (New Printing, $125.00)

BLOOD HUNTERS #2 (of 5, $3.99)

CAPTAIN AMERICA #13 ($4.99)

DAREDEVIL BY SALADIN AHMED V

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Planetary

Interest has been expressed in a Planetary discussion so I guess I'll start one and see where it goes. I have never read it before. I don't plan to do in-depth summaries because those who expressed said interest have, and some have committed to readi

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The DC Comics "All In" and "Absolute" discussion

It begins.

Next month, DC Comics will split in two. When "Absolute Power" comes to an end -- and we have a thread on that HERE -- something happens that creates, for lack of a better term, a new Earth-2. This new parallel universe will be published i

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Deadpool Team-Up

It has recently come to my attention that my comic book collection is deficient in "Deadpool" comics; I have only two and I have read only one. To that end I have set out to correct this deficiency by reading Deadpool Team-Up by character "creator" R

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DC Comics Style Guide - Tom King Interviewed

TWO-MINUTE LISTEN

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Comics shipping week of Sept. 2, 2024

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AGATHA HARKNESS THE SAGA OF THE SALEM WITCH TP

CARNAGE TP VOL 02 SYMBIOSIS NECROSIS

DAREDEVIL #13 

DARKHOLD THE SAGA OF THE BOOK OF SINS TP

DEADPOOL EPIC COLLECT TP VOL 05 JOHNNY HANDSOME

EXCEPTIONAL X-MEN #1 

GET FURY #

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Marvel Comics solicitations for November 2024

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #61
JOE KELLY (W) • ED McGUINNESS (A/C) • VARIANT COVER BY GLEB MELNIKOV
THE THING! VARIANT COVER BY AARON KUDER • VARIANT COVER BY SIMONE BIANCHI
DISNEY WHAT IF? VARIANT COVER BY PAOLO MOTURA
BLACK AND WHITE DISNEY WHAT IF? VARIAN

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Supreme

Rob Liefeld came to Image bursting with "neat ideas" but he was unskilled at developing them. For example, his "high concept" for Youngblood was that, if superheroes existed in real life, they would be treated as celebrities, much the same as movie

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Comics shipping week of Aug. 26, 2024

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ALIENS VS AVENGERS #1

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #56

AVENGERS TWILIGHT TP

BLADE VOL 2: EVIL AGAINST EVIL TP

BLOOD HUNT RED BAND #1 (OF 5) 2ND PTG PEPE LARRAZ VARIANT

BLOOD HUNT RED BAND #2 (OF 5) 2ND PTG PEPE LARRAZ  VARIANT

BLOO

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Archie solicitations for November 2024

Archie Comics November Solicits/September Previews

ARCHIE IS MR. JUSTICE #1 (of 4)

BRAND-NEW 4-PART ARCHIE PREMIUM EVENT LIMITED SERIES! Young Archie Andrews is your typical teenager, except for the fact that he has superpowers and an undying urge to

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DC solicitations for November 2024

Sorry for the lack of art, but there's this weird thing that's been happening the last few years, where downloaded art turns purple and green when posted. The fix, I've found, is to to open the file in Photoshop, export it as a jpg (which it already

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Comics shipping week of Aug. 19, 2024

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ALIENS EPIC COLLECTION: THE ORIGINAL YEARS VOL 2 TP

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #259 FACSIMILE EDITION

AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY ZEB WELLS VOL 10 BREATHE TP

AVENGERS BY JASON AARON VOL 5 HC

CABLE: UNITED WE FALL TP

DAREDEVIL: WOMAN WI

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Cruel Universe

This is the second of Oni Press's new EC imprint (following last month's Epitaphs from the Abyss).

SPOILERS - I generally don't like to know in advance if a story has a twist ending. That itself is a spoiler for me because in the back of my mind I try

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