Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I was pretty obnoxious in my pronouncement earlier this year that I was buying summer blockbusters Final Crisis and Secret Invasion, and that was it. No tie-ins, no reprint "catch-up" books, nothing extra.
That was stupid. I'm still buying at least 2 or 3 comics a week, but now I almost ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
(Y'know when someone prefaces their monologue with, "I don't want to be a dick, but..."? That usually always means, "I'm about to be a dick".)
Too much Anti-Life Equation, that's the only explanation I can come up with for this to have made it into the published version of this week's ...
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Thursday, June 26th, 2008
Tim: Unlike any other previous miniseries or even regular story arc, I've decided to read the entire series as a whole each time a new issue comes out. Sure, my comic-buying process required me to immediately read the latest installment over Chinese on New Comics Day, but I did read ...
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Tuesday, June 10th, 2008
So I'm starting to formulate what I'm sure is an entirely off-base, probably nonsensical theory about Grant Morrison's Final Crisis. [1] This idea of mine comes both from some history of Morrison's and from, of all places, statements by trade dress designer Chip Kidd and artist Gene Ha, who doesn't ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2007
Allen had a point related to DC's upcoming Final Crisis yesterday:
DC has always seemed to work much more in a cyclical fashion than Marvel has, and I think twenty (or so) years since the last universal shakeup probably means it's about time for the cycle to end and begin again...
Quite ...
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
As you've no doubt seen by now, DC released their first teaser image for next year's Final Crisis event yesterday. The tagline -- "Heroes Die, Legends Live Forever" -- certainly implies to me some kind of large-scale DCU reboot might be coming at the end of what I sincerely hope ...
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