This One Summer
Mariko Tamaki, writer; Jillian Tamaki, artist
First Second, 2014
This had been on my "to read" list for a long time. The recommendations of Wandering Sensei and JD DeLuzio finally got me to try it, and I'm glad I did. As a story about
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-- Figserello
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1990s comics often get a bad rap. It’s partly because the big two of DC and Marvel responded to the rising challenge of new companies like Valiant and Image by flooding the market and there simply wasn’t enoug
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I'm racking my brain trying to find information somewhere on the 'Net about a parody version of "12 Days of Christmas", but I'm not having any luck. I'm hoping someone can help me out. I can't recall who performed the song, and here are the few thi
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All those battles were really arranged by promoters. And they fixed the resu
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Read more…Alex + Ada Volume 2
Sarah Vaughn: story, script; Jonathan Luna: story, script assists, illustrations, letters, design
Image Comics, 2015
The first volume culminated with the procedure to make the female android named Ada sentient. It's an illegal
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Publisher: VALIANT COMICS
Written by FRED VAN LENTE
Art by TOMAS GIORELLO
Cover A by DAVID MACK
Cover B by JELENA KEVIC DJURDJEVIC
Cover C by CARY NORD
Character Design Variant by ANDRES GUINALDO
Interlocking Mega-Cover Varia
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