Showing posts with label comic books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label comic books. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Book Review: Sex Lives of Superheroes

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Explore these questions and more with this collection of speculative, comedic essays on how superpowers might affect the sex lives of famo...
Thursday, September 5, 2024

Book Review: Frank Miller's Ronin Rising

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A cursed Ronin. Psychological manipulation by a sentient AI. A security commander turned savior. And a postapocalyptic biotech war in the ...
Friday, March 15, 2024

Book Review: Dwellings

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Welcome to Elwich—an oasis of small-town perfection, where the schools overflow with cheery-eyed children, lovingly adorned homes line the...
Thursday, July 13, 2023

Book Review: American Comics - A History

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Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-bas...
Friday, February 25, 2022

Book Review: Secret Identity

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It’s 1975 and the comic book industry is struggling, but Carmen Valdez doesn’t care. She’s an assistant at Triumph Comics, which doesn’t h...
Thursday, December 17, 2015

Star Wars and Me

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A long time ago in a galaxy far far away... It was the summer of 1977 and I was twelve years old living in a small town in western New Yor...
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Sunday, September 25, 2011

Marineman: A Matter of Life and Depth

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Last month, Image Comics released a trade paperback collection of the first six issue of Ian Churchill’s Marineman comic (the first issue o...
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Thursday, September 1, 2011

Flashpoint #5 (***spoilers***)

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Well, here it is...my final monthly comic book. It is Flashpoint #5 (of 5), the last issue of the big summer event mini series and the ste...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 8 volume 8

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Earlier this summer, Dark Horse comics released Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 8 volume 8: Last Gleaming . This collection with an incredi...

Thank You, Comic Shops

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As this Wednesday (8/31/11) will mark my final trip out for weekly comic books, I thought I would take a few minutes to fondly remember and ...
Saturday, August 27, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (8/24/11) part 2

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This is the second half of books for the week, this my final big week of weekly comic book purchasing. Let's get to these final issues....
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (8/17/11)

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As I get closer and closer to my final comic book buying day (August 31st), I am finding every book I read from DC is less and less enjoyabl...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (8/10/11) part 2

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The month of final issues (for me) continues: Batman: the Brave and the Bold #10 - this is one of the books I would have still picked up ...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (8/3/11) part 1

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Comic Books of the Week (8/3/11) As we move into August and what is looking like my final month of collecting new comics (due to the relau...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (7/27/11)

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Flashpoint: Hal Jordan #2 (of 3) - reading about Hal as a pilot-turned-hero isn't so bad. I've always been a fan of his outside th...
Saturday, July 23, 2011

DC Comics - the New 52 Preview

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So, in June DC Comics released the news that coming September the entire line was going to be relaunched. This move entailed a number of th...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (7/20/11)

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Flashpoint: Legion of Doom #2 (of 3) - man, this is one seriously violent book. Yes, I know, it is about desperate criminals trying to esc...
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (7/13/11)

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We continue our countdown until August 31st, my final comic book buying day. Let's get to this week's books: Batman: the Brave an...
Friday, July 8, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (7/6/11)

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Counting down to the end of August and the end of my picking up of new monthly comics... (sniff sniff), let's get to the reviews: Adve...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Comic Books of the Week (6/29/11)

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Flashpoint: the Canterbury Cricket #1 - this one shot was really there to introduce a new character who then joins up with the Resistance a...