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the Avengers Keep on Assembling

I like the Avengers, I like Brian Michael Bendis (usually) what I don’t like is the fact that Marvel has decided to continue to saturate their title list with yet another Avengers book, Avengers Assemble. It is not a terrible book, but it is a book that doesn’t bring anything new that we haven’t already [...]

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Enter Sandman

Shy of two months ago I had never read Neil Gaiman’s Sandman Series. I had only heard good things about the series, but was unable to read it because vol 1 seemed to elude me for so long. Two months ago by some miracle I was able to sit down and over the course of [...]

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Super Hero Relationships Are Hard

Relationships are hard, but I’m sure they’d be harder if you were say an alien or maybe the richest man in the world. Comic book characters become more relatable when attached to a significant other, be it a normal joe-shmoe or a fellow super hero. We all know what its like, there are good times [...]

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Comic Book Characters that have kids but probably shouldn’t

Comic Book Characters that have kids but probably shouldn’t

Being a parent, I’m assuming, is tough. It’s probably  a lot tougher when you’re off running around doing evil deeds or saving people from burning buildings. Here are some characters that have kids but probably shouldn’t. Tigra During Secret Invasion Tigra had a love affair with a skrull posing as Hank Pym. After refusing to [...]

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Taking Covers Literally Week 3

Here is another installment of Taking Covers Literally otherwise known as “Angie’s Explanation for Goofy Covers” (If you’re looking for Week 2 its not here, I’ll post it along with next weeks post… Enjoy!) Batman #1 It looks like there’s been an attempted escape in Arkham, but don’t worry Batman and his overly large cape [...]

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Taking Covers Literally Pt 1

Sometimes comic book covers can be ridiculous. They’re meant to draw you in but often times what appears on the cover never even occurs in the book! Next week the first real batch of DC 52 books comes out and I’ve decided to take a good hard look at some of these covers to see [...]

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Bat-sandwich

Bat-sandwich

One of my long running DC jokes has been that the only thing DC can’t bring back from the dead has been Barbara Gordon’s legs. (Tim was being awfully selfish resurrecting his dea d parental unit and not sharing any of that Lazarus Pit with Babs) Well with the new Batgirl #1 her legs have [...]

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