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Saturday, July 19th, 2008
If Batman Begins represented a step or several forward from the superhero movies that came before, so does The Dark Knight represent another leap. The Dark Knight retains all that I loved about its predecessor – note-perfect acting[1], solid writing, gorgeous cinematography and art direction – and adds several ...
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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, July 3rd, 2008
Astonishing X-Men #25 might be the twenty-fifth issue of this series (twenty-sixth if you could the Giant-Size issue), but for all practical purposes, it might as well be the first. This issue serves as a fresh introduction to largely the same cast we've been reading about previously -- though ...
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Monday, June 30th, 2008
It's fairly obvious from my reviews that I'm the least studious and analytical[1] of the Thunderdog stable of writers (all three of us), but I am trying to get a little better at the critical review, especially when discussing DC and Marvel's duelling Big Thingies.(See? I'm getting better already.) Despite ...
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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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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Novelists don't always make a graceful transition to the comic/graphic novel form, but veteran crime author Victor Gischler makes the jump look easy, delivering this solid one-shot and whetting our appetites for his upcoming Punisher MAX arc. Avoiding rookie struggles for the most part, he seems natural at giving the artist ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
Brad Meltzer seems like a pleasant enough fella in interviews. I enjoyed a lot of things he put into Identity Crisis. His Green Arrow arc was certainly decent. He is decidedly unabashed in his crush on 1970's DC and the Justice League in particular, so what's not to like?
Apparently his ...
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Monday, July 16th, 2007
New Avengers #32 - Remember this Special Guest Reviewer? What-what does this mean? This month's New Avengers exists to tell us all what-what this means, Danny. And to tell us, and to tell us, and to tell us some more. I thought Bendis was so popular because his dialogue ...
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Friday, June 22nd, 2007
Co-Book of the Week: Flash #13Now that I'm free from the time-wasting chore of y'know, being alive, I can finally catch up on my blogging. I've got a few things to say, starting with this week's Flash.To the Justice League, the Justice Society, the Teen Titans, the Outsiders, Checkmate, and ...
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