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The Mighty Avengers feels like it is supposed to be the “widescreen” version of The Avengers. After Brian Michael Bendis has spent the last few years redefining the team in the pages of New Avengers, Mighty Avengers feels like it should be the big action, larger-than-life team that New Avengers really never was. [...]

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Is it wrong to criticize a collection because it feels like six smaller stories strung together? Atomic Robo Volume One isn’t a bad book, but it is a collection that just doesn’t read well. In an age of six issue storylines that fit one story nicely into a trade paperback collection, [...]

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I’ll have a more formal review up about Astonishing X-Men #25 in a couple of days but for now, I wanted to highlight something that stood out to me– Simone Bianchi’s page layouts.

Look at the strong angle on that page, leading you from the upper right hand corner down to the lower left and then [...]

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My official notes and musings are now up on Pop Syndicate.
Wizard World Chicago started with a guy dressed up as Venom.  Only he was also dressed up as a pimp.  See where I’m going here?  Yes, Wizard World Chicago  had its own pimp-daddy Venom, strutting around the show all day on Friday.  Stepping onto a [...]

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The guys over at Around Comics released last Friday’s Podcast Panel at Wizard World Chicago as their weekly podcast this morning.  Check it out here.
I’m probably going to have a short podcast up tonight or tomorrow night to talk a bit about the experience as well as maybe talk about the panel as well.  There [...]

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While I may have my own issues with the story in Identity Crisis, none of those were involved around the artwork. Rags Morales on the interiors was a great pick to do this story and Mike Turner’s covers did what covers should– they enticed the potential reader without giving too much of the story [...]

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Salt water into testicles? Warren Ellis reading.

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Hulk angry.

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I’m here.

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The con begins tomorrow so I think it’s a good time to revisit some rules I laid down for myself last year:
1) Park in the CTA lot.
2) No buying recent comics for more than $2.
3) No buying books I can easily pick up through my local comic shop, Borders, Barne & Noble or Amazon.
A) A [...]

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This episode was supposed to be a continuation of Duck Month with a thorough look at Marvel’s Essential Howard The Duck but, just as I was really getting into reading it, the book dissolved in my hands.  So instead, I take a side track from Duck Month (don’t worry, it’ll continue with the next show) [...]

 

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When you get to the third page of Guardians of the Galaxy #2 and see the talking raccoon saying “Talking pets give me the willies,” you’ve got to realize that this isn’t going to be your standard team comic book. And when you realize that the talking raccoon is referring to a talking Soviet [...]

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I find it curious to see that in a week where Marvel is dumping 34 books on the market (see here and here,) I’m only getting three Marvel books, compared to the four from DC, 1 from Dark Horse, 1 from Image and 1 from Oni. Just because there are a lot of books [...]

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I just got the following email from TwoMorrows:
As a past reader of COMIC BOOK ARTIST or WRITE NOW magazine, I wanted to alert you to a big sale we’re having on back issues of both magazines.

Through June 30, existing back issues of both magazines are available for only $2 each plus shipping. These savings of [...]

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Note: With the release of the movie Wanted this weekend, here’s a look at the sixth issue of that mini. This review originally ran on the now defunct Mediasharx website in January, 2005.Wanted #6 Dead or Alive Published By: Image Comics/Top Cow Written by: Mark Millar Drawn by: J.G. Jones & Dick [...]

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I know that Y The Last Man ended months ago for most people but I’ve held off reading it, waiting for the trade to complete my set a nice ten volume series. I half debated getting issue #60, to see how Brian K. Vaughan and Pia Guerra would end the series but I [...]

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First I miss the Friday Night Fights and then Angela has to go and call me out about it on Twitter.  Actually I may have made it in if I hadn’t spent the last half hour fighting with my scanner.
Don’t make Howard angry, Mr. McGee.  You wouldn’t like Howard when he’s angry.

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My friend and coworker Matthew J. Brady is on vacation for a week or two so he has a bunch of people contributing pieces to his blog Warren Peace Sings the Blues while he’s away and I snuck in with one review of a couple minicomics by Jeff Lemire– The Essex County Boxing Club and [...]

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From Wizard’s own site:
Things to Do On Friday
2-3 p.m.
COMIC BOOK PODCASTING
The Jim Mooney Room: 4
Podcasts are the newest way to get news and opinions on comics culture. Join moderator Sean McKeever and podcast hosts to find out how the medium has grown and where it’s headed.
And in case you want to know who’s [...]

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