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March 8, 2010 0

Weekly Comic Shopping List 3/10/10

By Scott Cederlund in comics

After a nice, small week, it looks like we’re back to another decent sized week for me.

Grendel Behold The Devil HC– This was the 20th anniversary celebration of Matt Wagner’s Grendel series and the collected edition is finally out.  I remember liking how this story firmly tied Hunter Rose’s story into everything else that Wagner [...]

March 2, 2010 1

Review: The Flash Rebirth #6

By Scott Cederlund in comics

?I’m trying to figure out what’s different now; what have we learned about Barry Allen during The Flash: Rebirth?   The answer is kind of surprising, at least to me.  We’ve learned that you can kill Barry’s mom but don’t touch Iris.  We’ve learned that it’s o.k. to Barry if the world thinks his father [...]

February 24, 2010 0

Review: Joe The Barbarian #2

By Scott Cederlund in comics

A giant, armor wearing, warrior, white rat. Who saw that one coming?

You know it’s bad in Joe the Barbarian #2 when Captain Jean Luc Picard is giving up the battle; when he’s passing off his phaser to some boy and then hobbling off to whatever final fate awaits him. We’re talking about the [...]

February 23, 2010 1

Review– Dark Avengers Volume 2: Molecule Man

By Scott Cederlund in comics

Do you remember what Brian Michael Bendis’ first major act as the Avengers’ writer was?

He blew up Avenger’s mansion.

Sure, it’s been blown up before but he annhilated it in Avengers: Disassembled, using the Vision and a quinjet to blast it to kingdom come even after he killed Jack of Hearts (the character’s second death in [...]

November 19, 2009 1

Speed is a state of mind

By Scott Cederlund in comics

Geoff Johns has talked about ,with the revival of Barry Allen, he wants to write about speed.  His Wally West stories are more about family and life in general but Scott Kolins was fantastic when it came to drawing the Flash running around the city and stopping the rogues.
Ethan Van Sciver is a good artist [...]

March 27, 2009 0

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glycon: Big Numbers #3
Supposedly, these are a 3rd generation photocopy of the artwork to Big Numbers #3 before Al Columbia destroyed the originals.
(tags: comics)

March 20, 2009 0

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Grant Morrison Talks Brainy Comics, Sexy Apocalypse | The Underwire from Wired.com
(tags: comics interview grantmorrison)

March 12, 2009 0

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Ohio.com – View-Master ends era
COLUMBUS: Amber LaPointe's introduction to one of the country's greatest tourist attractions came from small square pictures on a white wheel.
found via Twitter and RandomThoughtsEscaping
''It was like you could look into a world away,'' said the 28-year-old from Toledo. ''My only image of the Grand Canyon was from the View-Master.''
The iconic [...]

March 11, 2009 0

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U2 start.com | Bootlegs
(tags: mp3 music U2)

No Line on the Horizon Lyrics by U2: No Line on the Horizon Lyrics by U2
(tags: U2 Lyrics)

March 9, 2009 0

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KomicsKast 104 – Space Family Robinson, Harry Lime, and Comic Apps
I always learn stuff from Bruce's podcasts. Now I want to get home and start downloading Harry Lime radio shows from archives.org.
(tags: comics podcast old_time_radio)

Super Punch: What I've learned in two years of blogging
(tags: blogging)