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Follow-up on the Un-American Superman
I can now expand on my post of six days ago about Superman saying he’s ashamed to be an American. My advice to jwd over at Dixonverse, reposted here, led to some spirited discussion this week, all of which has been quite exciting. At the time, I was working off of the first part of…
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Frank Miller has Batman fighting al Qaeda
Seems to me that this was news a month or two ago, but for some reason it’s just hitting the wires now: Batman to Go After Bin Laden The oddball thing is: where is all the outcry? Two years ago CrossGen announced that Chuck Dixon would be writing “American Power”, with a #1 issue cover…
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Superman says he’s ashamed to be an American
Over on the Dixonverse, poster JWD comments on something in Superman #226 that bothers him greatly. I’ll have him tell it. (I’m reposting it here because Dixonverse does not have an archive.) Posted by jwd on February 10, 2006 at 08:29:11: The gist of the story is that our current Superman is in the midst…
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My dreams come true!
Showcase Presents: Elongated Man debuts in July. This 560 page black and white volume will reprint the screwball mystery series “Elongated Man” which ran in the back of Detective Comics. This may, in fact, reprint the entire run. I did a rough count over on Dixonverse where we’re discussing these and I came up with…
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Zoo Crew
I haven’t commented on the “Whatever Happened to Captain Carrot?” storyline in the recent Teen Titans because I was too disappointed in it. I’m not a basher of Geoff Johns, as you all know; I think he’s been the best thing since Mark Waid in turning the comic industry back towards “fun” from the dark…
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DC First Look at Ion #1
Comics Continuum has the First Look of Ion #1. Ron Marz, creator of Kyle Rayner, retuns to writing Kyle as, One Year Later, he once again has more power than any Green Lantern.
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Eric Spratling kneals before Zod!
Our own Eric Spratling, long gone from these pages while doing his military service, is apparently considering supporting General Zod in the 2008 Presidential election! Q. As a General, do you feel that your military experience will make you more a qualified candidate than your future (foolish and soon-to-be-crushed) opponents? Have you, for example, won…
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A real, honest to goodness ANNUAL?
Just perusing the DC releases in upcoming months and spotted this: Teen Titans Annual #1 by Geoff Johns and Marv Wolfman! Holy cow! An honest and for-true boney fido annual! An annual just like my mother’s comic book company used to make. The kind of epic extra-long story that needed extra pages but didn’t cost…
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…for this reason, I have sent them my only son
Remember what I said the other day about Christ figures? Remember how some people were annoyed about the obvious Christian symbolism in the new Superman Returns trailer? Well, just in time for Christmas, Dial B For Blog puts together quite an interesting presentation.
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Why Aquaman should swim naked
IMAO: Aquaman’s Revenge Here’s a question: how big does an aquatic creature have to be for Aquaman to control it? Can he send swarms of Sea Lice towards Ocean Master or Black Manta? Then he could just let them get away and tackle them later at the hospital while they’re covered in nothing but a…