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Obama and Palin visit Riverdale in December
ARCHIE #616
"Campaign Pain" Part 1.
President Barack Obama and famed politician Sarah Palin get involved as Student Government campaigns spiral out of control at Riverdale High! The race between Archie and Reggie gets hot as campaign chaos reaches to t
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Starman / Congorilla #1
If there’s one DC character I miss it’s Jack Knight. I will, however, attempt to fill the void with appearances by other Starmans (most recently Starman #81, a “Blackest Night” crossover), especially if they’re written by James Robinson. Prior to las
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Captain, my Captain, is this you ...
... in an old Answer Man column, and the kick-off point for a fun post by Snell at his blog, Slay, Monstrobot of the Deep!
http://slaymonstrobot.blogspot.com/2011/01/quien-es-mas-macho.html
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Brave New Worlds - An Anthology
Brave New Worlds, edited by John Joseph Adams, is a book that I picked up recently and have started reading. It's meant to be a collection of dystopian stories. I'll let you know what I think of each story as I go through them.
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I won a copy of the American Vampire hardcover!
Maybe I should have just created a generic "stuff I won from the Vertigo: Graphic Content blog" thread. I just won another hardcover book, the first American Vampire collection. I had already read a library copy, but it will be nice to have one of m
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The Official Cappies 2010 Nomination Thread
Hello Comic Book Fans,
It's the end of the year. And that means it's time to look back at the best of 2010. So here's your chance to nominate the best writers, artists, stories, characters, comics and moments of the year. The categories are list
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Your anachromism in comics for December
From Captain America: Patriot #4
This story is set in 1950. While the middle school concept had been created by then ( the very first middle school in the United States was designated that very year), it would be many years before it caught on thro
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Seduction of the Innocent/Fredric Wertham/EC Comics
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Comic book fans! You probably think you know the
story behind Dr. Fredric Wertham, "Seduction of the Innocent," the
Comics Code Authority, and the fall of the EC Comics horror line.
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Keeping it in the Time Lord family...Tennant engaged to Moffett
The Tenth Doctor is marrying his "daughter" ... the real daughter of Fifth Doctor Peter Davison.
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Oral History of Captain Marvel
Newsarama has been doing a series of articles about Captain Marvel. I havne't read any of them yet but I thought some of you here may find it interesting. You can find it here.
The article I linked to is the most current one but there's links to the
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Batman, Incorporated: Some Observations
I finally read Batman, Incorporated (Bat, Inc) #1 and was impressed by the maturity, for lack of a better word, that Grant Morrison has now given Bruce Wayne. He seems more focused yet less obsessed. He has found (for now) an inner peace. It is still
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Welcome to the Red Lantern Corps
DC has just announced a Red Lantern Corps ongoing to launch later this year, written by Peter Milligan. Thoughts?
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Updates, Please! – 12/02/10 [Spoil away!]
I miss my comics, but it remains financially infeasible for me to purchase them. While I've been able to work around this with the odd title or two I could find at the book store or the library, I'm missing much more than I'm catching.
But then I figu
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Cappies 2010 Memory box
If you, like me, remember what you really want to nominate for a Cappy after the nomination period is over, post them here throughout 2010 as you come across them, so that you can remember next time!
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What brought you back to comics?
In the JLA Revisited thread I made mention that I had stopped reading comics around 96. So Chris asked the question:
Jason, if you dropped out of comics around '96, what brought you back?
I ask because I suspect that many of us have similar storie
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