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New 52: Wave 4

So we've heard a little bit of the New 52 4th wave, in dibs and drabs. Here's what we know so far:

1) Justice League of America is coming. By Johns/Finch

2) Threshhold, a new cosmic Giffen/Tom Raney book is coming up, too. It'll star a new alien GL,

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Why I Left Comics...And Came Back!

In Figserello's blog about DC One Million, both John Dunbar and Jason Marconnet state that they stopped reading comics in the early 90s and reconnect in the late 90s. As not to threadjack that discussion, I thought that I would relate that the same t

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The DC/Vertigo collections for early 2013

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Unusual Sources for Comic Books

This thread will devoted to extremely unusual places where we have secured comics books.

For instance, in the 1960s, there were very few used comic book stores, and so, we relied upon garage sales, yard sales, and swapping and trading with friends, r

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Holy crap, Action Comics #9 just blew my little mind

Grant Morrison and Gene Ha have produced a comic that is so incredibly timely given the Avengers and Before Watchmen stuff that...I'm kinda speechless.  

Go...read it...and see if the irony of the ad placement for Before Watchmen in this issue doesn

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Great article by Neal Kirby about his father

http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2012/04/09/growing-up-kirby-the-marvel-memories-of-jack-kirbys-son/#/0

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Dan Didio's favorite DC comics...since he's been there.

So, Dan Didio listed his ten favorite DC comics, so far, from his time as head of the joint.

Comments are now open...

1) BATMAN 608 HUSH. Work on this incredible run by Jim Lee and Jeph Loeb was started before I joined DC Comics but came out my first

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Back to Fabletown.

As referred to on Cap's blog, here are some of the posts that I put up as I read my way through Bill Willingham's Fables epic.  

 

I saved them before all the Vertigo Discussion group was closed down.

 

Having read 70+ issues, I couldn't take any mor

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DC's new logo

What do you think?

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We Can Be Heroes campaign from DC/Warner Bros begins (press release)

 

 

 

 

Featuring Iconic Justice League Characters, Multilayered Campaign To Leverage All Time Warner Advertising Platforms Generating Significant Awareness of the Crisis

Multi-Million-Dollar Commitment Will Support Three Aid Groups Working in Afric

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Holiday comics 2011

In my stack of comics this week, I was pleased to find four holiday-themed books.  And they were all good!

 

Batgirl #4 has a nice holiday moment with Babs and her new apartment-mate...PLUS a character not seen in years (well, unless you were reading

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Crisis of infinite non-Crisises!

According to Dan Didio, as reported here, there never was a Crisis on Infinite Earths in the new DCU.

 

No Infinite Crisis, No Final Crisis. No Zero Hour and no Identity Crisis.

 

Discus.

 

Edited to add: According to several sources, Identity Crisis

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Minimum Wage and the Prices of Comics [Analysis + Opinion]

http://www.comicsalliance.com/2011/08/26/minimum-wage-price-of-comics/ A very interesting look at the price of comics just before the big new DC launch.

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Mr. Vertigo Reviews Again - 2011

Moving this topic from the old Vertigo group, here are the first groups of reviews from the beginning of the year. I've started posting my reviews in my blog, so I'll add links here. Feel free to comment either here or on my blog!

Bryan Lee O’Malley

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True confession time

There are, really, only four silver age comic book titles that hold up today...for me.

 

Carl Barks' Disney work.

Most of the Archie titles.

The Amazing Spider-Man by Lee, Ditko, and Romita, Sr.

The Incredible Hulk by Lee, Kirby, Ditko and friends.

 

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Worth their weight in gold

http://meonmedia.wordpress.com/2008/12/14/worth-their-weight-in-gold/

 

By Mr Media

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Power Girl #26 is my favorite comic book of the year.

The cover of this comic shows a multitude of Power Girls with various height, weight, and hair variations, in what feels to me to be an homage to the kinds of "silly" covers that were common during the Silver Age. Hey! Let's stick an image in here!

 

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Comics on the island

It's an old question, but a good summer one.  You're trapped on an island...you have food, water, and shelter.  A seagull flies over once a month and drops five comics...which five comic series do you hope fall from the sky?

 

For me:

 

Amazing Spide

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Detective Comics last page shocker (spoilers)

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Holy crap!  In Holly's words, "So...they really went there, huh?".  Not only is James Gordon Jr mentally ill...he's a super crazy, sadistic killer.  Only no one

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Did anyone else pick up Nonplayer by Nate Simpson?

It is a very, very beautiful book with an interesting premise.  I hope he has some issues in the can as it's obvious that each one takes quite a while to do.  So far, all we know is that it's about a girl in a future or alternate world were you can p

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