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Review: “Parallel Man: Invasion America” #1
Full disclosure right up front. Christopher “Chris” Jones is a friend that I see at the Midwest Comic Book Association cons in Minnesota, and we’ve known each other for about a decade. We talk on Facebook, but I’ve never had him over for dinner or helped him move, so that’s made clear our level of…
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The Keeper Box: Detective Comics #526
Amongst my collection of some 30 boxes of comic books, I have one long box of precious comics that I won’t sell. Now, at long last, I reveal…what is inside…THE KEEPER BOX! Detective Comics #526 Writer Gerry Conway Artist Don Newton Inker Alfredo Alcala Colorist Adrienne Roy Letterer Ben Oda Cover Artist Don Newton, Dick…
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The Birthday haul (a/k/a “Game reviews to come”)
I had a lovely little birthday party with my wife, Melinda, and niece, Jenny. They bought a glittery banner and I realized I’ve never had a banner for my birthday party before. They also restarted a long-abandoned tradition of lighting a candle on the cake for every year I’ve been alive, and there’s a reason…
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First new comics in ages!
Recently, I finally found a copy of the out-of-print TPB “Hitman: Local Heroes”. Zombie Night at the Gotham Aquarium is still one of the best comic book stories I’ve read. It has page-turner panels, splash pages, hilarious dialogue and a unique premise. If Hitman were to ever be adapted to the screen, it would…
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I Can Write Almost As Much as Alan Kistler!
Check out my new blog I just started for an in-depth look at why comic books have lost my general readership and how I long for the good ol’ days of JLA with Grant Morrison and Mark Waid! It’s a long one that I should go back and edit sometime, given that I finished it…
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52 Week Thirty-One
I gather from various message boards that, while 52 is selling quite well in general, most of the people I know aren’t reading it, or they dropped it. They don’t like Montoya the smoking drunk depressed whining drifter who is now going to become The New Question despite not having the personality to be the…
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Cinnamon: El Ciclo
I’m going over a few of the better books I bought from Scott Beatty during his last clearance sale. “Cinnamon: El Ciclo” is fantastic! I wish I’d bought this and supported it at the time. It’s a taught thriller with compelling characters, plenty of violence and grit (though without anywhere near the swearing and gore…
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Here’s what happens when you neglect a comic character
Justice League of America #1 debuted today. Brad Meltzer’s story is off to a slow start, typical of the “write for the trade” style. Sure, once it’s all assembled, there will be action in the story, we just don’t get to see it in this installment. That said, it makes for an intense read with…
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REVIEW: “Cobb: Off The Leash”
I promised my bud Beau Smith that I’d review his comic “Cobb: Off The Leash” when it came out, and I apologize that I haven’t had time to do so til now. And yes, I said buddy. In the interest of full disclosure, I must tell you all that I like Beau Smith, he and…
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Reviews: Resurrection Man, Rose and Thorn
I spent my weekend cataloguing and filing all of the comics I bought at Wizard World (along with filing 2 long boxes’ worth of comics that hadn’t been filed in well over a year). It took three days but I finished! Now I just have to add 800 more listings from my old database, price…