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3 weeks 4 days agoApril 21, 2012
07:11
I’ll be releasing the first batch of results later today, but I thought I’d make a quick mention that I’ve decided to drop the Ultimate characters from the poll. Only three Ultimate characters showed up in either of the two polls, and they were all bunched together at the bottom of the Supporting Cast poll [...]
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01:59
There are lots of trends in pop culture that make me feel like I missed a memo somewhere. Comes with getting older, I suppose. But the one that has consistently baffled me more than any other is the vampire thing. Specifically, the vampire-as-teen-heartthrob thing. Oh, don’t get me wrong. I totally get the “vampire-as-sexual-metaphor” idea. [...]
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April 20, 2012
14:00
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks (more or less), with each week devoted to a single writer. This pseudo-week: Warren Ellis. Today’s page is from Hellstorm: Prince of Lies #17, which was published by Marvel and is cover dated [...]
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11:15
Welcome to the three hundredth and sixty-third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. This is a special All-Psylocke edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed! Today, learn whether Psylocke was meant to die during the Psi-War, discover what the deal was with Psylocke and Cyclops’ flirtations [...]
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01:55
Every week, I will spotlight strange but ultimately endearing comic stories (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of all the installments of this feature. This is the 50th installment of I Love Ya But You’re Strange, so you know I had to give y’all an especially [...]
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April 19, 2012
21:31
“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” (Italo Calvino, from Invisible Cities) I’m kind of in a mood today (not really a bad one, just a mood), so I decided to have some [...]
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14:00
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks (more or less), with each week devoted to a single writer. This quasi-week: Warren Ellis. Today’s page is from Lazarus Churchyard: Alraune, which was published in Blast! magazine #7 (I think) and is [...]
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11:50
While it is obviously far far from a direct comparison, I thought of Watchmen when I writing my latest Music Urban Legends Revealed about how the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” came about. In the case of Rudolph, the creator of the character, Robert May, was given the rights to his creation by the CEO [...]
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April 18, 2012
20:40
Go follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Greg Hatcher, Chad [...]
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15:41
Dare I court controversy? I don’t mean to, but I’m very confused about this comic! Blue is the first comic by Australian creator Pat Grant. It’s published in the States by Top Shelf and in Australia by Giramondo, and it costs a mere $14.95. Let’s delve into it, shall we? First of all, Grant’s art [...]
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14:00
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks (more or less), with each week devoted to a single writer. This quasi-week: Mark Waid. Today’s page is from The Unknown #2, which was published by Boom! Studios and is cover dated June [...]
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12:00
Adapting ancient parables and mythology is a large part of current comic book lore, as writers seek to imbue their creations with weight by borrowing from more established folklore. But in doing so without context, we’re ignoring the reasons why these stories worked so well, and what they would have meant in their original eras. [...]
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10:48
Every week you’ll get a brand-new comic cover theme game! The game works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a connection between all three characters, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something obvious like “They [...]
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April 17, 2012
15:45
Random Thought! If DC does a “Death of Superman” story for the ‘New 52,’ part of me hopes it happens because he has sex with Wonder Woman. It’s Random Thoughts time! Get excited! Link Thought! GraphiContent for comics. butterbeatleblog for popculture. 411mania for wrestling reviews and the occasional CD review. Random Thought! I don’t know [...]
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14:00
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks (more or less), with each week devoted to a single writer. This QUASI-week: Mark Waid. Today’s page is from Empire #3, which was published by DC and is cover dated November 2003. Enjoy! [...]
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10:00
Every week, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs.” An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So [...]
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06:22
This Sunday, the New Rochelle Public Library is having their annual “CelebriTea” fundrasier, where authors discuss their work while attendees listen, interact and well, have tea (and fancy pastries). All to support the New Rochelle Public Library! This year’s crop of authors include David Hajdu, essayist, columnist, critic and author of the classic Ten Cent [...]
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01:38
I name two comic book characters. You then have to connect the two using only shared appearances in comic books (official appearances in comics only – no cameos like Terry Austin sneaking Popeye into the background of a panel and no outside comic book appearances, like cartoons and the like). You have to do so [...]
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April 16, 2012
14:00
Every day this year, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. This month I will be doing theme weeks (more or less), with each week devoted to a single writer. This pseudo-week: Mark Waid. Today’s page is from Ruse #7, which was published by CrossGen and is cover dated May 2002. Enjoy! [...]
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11:00
IT’S EPISODE 038! CLICK HERE TO LISTEN, DOWNLOAD, AND/OR SUBSCRIBE TO ITUNES NOW. Inside this episode! We review the first issue of the new mini-series America’s Got Powers by Jonathan Ross and Bryan Hitch, and Paul Cornell and Ryan Kelly’s Saucer Country #2. We then talk to writer Marjorie Liu about her new book Astonishing [...]
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