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The story behind Captain Victory and the Galactic Rangers is almost as convoluted as that of Jack Kirby's Hunger Dogs graphic novel. It started out as a screenplay by Jack Kirby and Steve Sherman; when that didn't pan out, it was repurposed as a 17-p
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Week 12 in "Blood Hunt"
X-MEN: BLOOD HUNT — LAURA KINNEY, THE WOLVERINE #1 (ONE-SHOT): Oh, Laura, you'll always be X-23 to me.
Whatever her name, she goes on a rescue mission. Apparently vampires have been capturing mutants and conducti
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ALIENS: WHAT IF #5
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #258 FACSIMILE EDITION
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: BLOOD HUNT #3
ANNIHILATION 2099 #3
BLOOD HUNT #2 (OF 5) 2ND PTG LEINIL YU VARIANT
BLOOD HUNTERS #4
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY MARK GRUENWALD OMNIBUS
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When Jack Kirby returned to Marvel in 1975, his Captain America was not universally well-received. I personally have always felt that some of his stories were better than others, but it never occured to me to rank them... until today. Here, then, are
Read more…The Fourth of July holiday cut into my reading time, and therefore my review time. So no reviews this week.
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Week 11 in "Blood Hunt"
HULK: BLOOD HUNT #1 continues the storyline from Incredible Hulk, but presumably runs in place while th
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Jack Kirby's The Eternals is a series I honestly enjoy and appreciate more every time I read it. I know I read it circa 2004-2005 and I think I've read it once between then and now. This time I read it in "omnibus" format, eschewing the unwieldy "Mon
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WOLVERINE BLOODIES HIS CLAWS IN ARTGERM’S WOLVERINE: REVENGE #1 VARIANT COVER!
Industry superstars Jonathan Hickman and Greg Capullo team up this August in WOLVERINE: REVENGE, a five-issue
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #53
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION VOL 21: RETURN SINISTER SIX TP
ANNIHILATION 2099 #2
AVENGERS #16
BLACK PANTHER: BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 3) 2ND PTG BLOOD SOAKED VARIANT
DAREDEVIL #11
DARK X-MEN: MERCY C
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Now, some of you might be wondering why I waited another twenty-nine days to post my Answers column. After all, I’m not on a regimented schedule here at Commander Benson’s Deck Log. I can post four entries in one month,
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SPIRITS OF VENGEANCE #1
SABIR PIRZADA (W) • Sean Damien Hill (A) • Cover by Kendrick Lim
KUSHALA VARIANT COVER BY DERRICK CHEW
KUSHALA VIRGIN VARIANT COVER BY DERRICK CHEW
VARIANT COVER BY DECLAN SHALVEY
Read more…We start with The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum, first published on May 7, 1900.
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MOON KNIGHT: FIST OF KHONSHU #0
Surprise! This book was announced June 26 as arriving on July 3, a "surprise shadow drop" that follows from Blood Hunt #4 (June 26) and into Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu #1 (Oct. 16). The reason why is th
LIST OF STAR TREK THREADS
The Baron Watches Star Trek (Spoilers)
a discussion of the original series episodes in broadcast order
original series episodes and animated series episodes
some Next Generation and Deep Space Nine dis
Read more…Short Treks is a new series format that was originally conceived to bridge the time between the first and the second season of Discovery. The series consists of episodes of only 10 to 15 minutes, each of which focuses on one character. These are pret
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Week 9 in "Blood Hunt":
BLOOD HUNT #4 (OF 5) by writers Fabian Nicieza, Erica Shultz and artist Belviso, Giada, Bernard Chang: The Silver Surfer comes to investigate why Earth's skies have gone black, which shou
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There was a time when Black Panther was my favorite character. But I can't tell you exactly how he became my favorite character. Unlike the way John Byrne's Fantastic Four and Walt Simonson's Thor led me directly to the Lee/Kirby runs, my path to Bla
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN ANNUAL #1
ANNIHILATION 2099 #1
AVENGERS BY JED MACKAY TP VOL 02 TWILIGHT DREAMING
BLACK PANTHER BLOOD HUNT #3
BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 5) 2ND PTG LEINIL YU VARIANT
BLOOD HUNTERS #3
DEADPOOL #1 FACSIMILE EDITIO
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This volume includes the last appearance of the Incredible Hulk as we had come to know him, specifically (ironically) #271, his 20th anniversary issue. We were told that, with #272, "Hulk will never be the same again!" but I didn't believe it. That w
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UNCLE $CROOGE AND THE INFINITY DIME #1 by writer Jason Aaron and artists Paolo Mottura, Francesco D'Ippolito, Vitale Mangiatordi, more
I have long wondered why Disney doesn't make use of Marvel Comics, the large
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