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Captain America was dead, shot down live on the evening news by an assassin on a court house’s steps. Ed Brubaker’s Death of Captain America story was oddly prophetic, coming out just before the near-fatal collapse of the American financial system and one of the nation’s lowest moral periods. The killing of Steve Rogers could [...]

Last week in his column over at CBR, noted retailer Brian Hibbs point blankedly asked “are publishers trying to kill the periodical comic?”  And his answer now, as it has been for at least the last couple of years I think, is yes.  “Certainly no, multiple anemic ship weeks, followed by a double-wide donkey dong [...]

Guild #1– When this was solicited, I had absolutely no interest in it.  Then I watched all 3 seasons of The Guild online at watchtheguild.com and this became a must-buy for me.  Felicia Day’s web series is truly funny, a fantastic view of fandom that is easily identifiable no matter what type of fandom you [...]

Small week. Joe The Barbarian #3– This is good in a “waiting for the really good stuff to begin” kind of way. I don’t know about anyone else but I kind of like my Morrison to be incomprehensible.  Mysterius The Unfathomable TP– This mini was the critical darling of 2009 and now I’ll finally get [...]

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 [...]

?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 is [...]

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 captain [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]