Happy Miracle Monday, everybody!
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Week 4 in "Blood Hunt"
BLOOD HUNT #2 (OF 5) by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz: I haven't read Blood Hunt #1 (or the ancillary books), but I have kept up with the storyline elsewhere. And it looks like the vampires' first stri
Read more…It has occurred to me that discussing upcoming comics in Comics List and Comics Guide the week they ship isn't very utilitarian these days, when most people order from their LCS or online two or three months in advance. With that in mind, I'm going t
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #50
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN BY ZEB WELLS TP VOL 9: GANG WAR
AVENGERS EPIC COLLECTION TP VOL 11: THE EVIL REBORN
BLACK WIDOW HAWKEYE #3
BLOOD HUNT #2
BLOOD HUNT RED BAND #2
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY NICK SPENCER OMN
Read more…He was the King of the B Movies. I can't begin to guess how many of his pictures I've seen. I know that something like seventeen of his pictures were used on MST3K.
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Week 3 in "Blood Hunt"
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 3) by Justina Ireland and Marcelo Ferreira:
"Blood Hunt" will leave Amazing Spider-Man proper alone now, with Spidey's participation moving to this three-issu
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ALIEN: BLACK AND WHITE BLOOD #4
ALIENS: WHAT IF #3
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #256 FACSIMILE EDITION
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN: BLOOD HUNT #1
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN EPIC COLLECTION: ASSASSIN NATION TP
ASTONISHING ICEMAN: OUT COLD TP
CAPTAIN AMERICA EPIC C
Read more…As the Silver Age moved into the early 1960’s, Mort Weisinger’s concept of Imaginary Stories became established. Fans grasped and accepted the idea of a Superman tale that was completely out of continuity. All that was necessary was to put a blurb
Jeannie Epper, a founding member of the Stuntwomen’s Association of Motion Pictures, and the chief double for Lynda Carter on The New Adventures of Wonder Woman, passed away at 83. She also doubled for Linda Evans and Kathleen Turner over a 40-year c
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Week 2 in "Blood Hunt":
BLOOD HUNTERS #1 (OF 4) by Mark Russell, Christos Gage, Erica Schultz, Bob Quinn, Javier Garron and Bernard Chang: For some reason, Hawkeye is on the run from the law. And from vampires, like eve
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AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #49
AVENGERS #14
BLOOD HUNTERS #1
CAPTAIN AMERICA #9
CAPTAIN AMERICA BY J MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI VOL 1: STAND TP
CAPTAIN MARVEL #8
CAPTAIN MARVEL BY ALYSSA WONG VOL 1: THE OMEN TP
CONTEST OF CHAOS TP
DAR
Read more…As I mentioned last time out, the unbroken popularity of DC’s “Big Three”---Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman---had put the company solidly at the top of the comics-publishing industry. Not wanting to tamper with success, the powers that be insiste
Harvey Pekar (American Splendor) might have enjoyed this ... or else gotten angry about it!
Question: when is an Imaginary Story not an Imaginary Story?
While you think on that for a moment, I’ll set the Wayback Machine for a little trip. The time: 1959. The place: the National Periodical Publications building at 2d and Dickey Streets,
Read more…After I heard that Marvel had acquired the rights to the Marvelman/Miracleman franchise, it sent me scrambling to find my back issues published by Eclipse. I had read the Alan Moore run in TPB form shortly after its U.S. publication and most of the N
Read more…Some of you may have noticed that I’ve resumed making entries in my Deck Log column and are wondering what that speaks to developments in my personal life. As you’ll recall, I’d suspended my regular Deck Log entries (other than my annual Silver-Age
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Week 1 "Blood Hunt"
BLOOD HUNT #1 (OF 5) by Jed MacKay and Pepe Larraz: This week Marvel launches its gigantic, linewide summer crossover, called "Blood Hunt." You might as well settle in, as it will run for five months
Read more…Marvel's next big crossover begins May 1, a linewide battle with the MU's vampires called "Blood Hunt." I've gotten so many press releases on Blood Hunt #1 (of 5) that I'm not even going to try to condense them. Here are the ones I didn't hold for la
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BLOOD HUNT #1
CABLE #4
CAPTAIN AMERICA OMNIBUS VOL 1 HC NEW PTG
CARNAGE VOL 1: BORN AGAIN tp
DEADPOOL WOLVERINE WWIII #1
GET FURY #1
IMMORTAL THOR #10
INCREDIBLE HULK #12
INVINCIBLE IRON MAN #18
MIGHTY MMW DAREDEVIL VOL
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