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283. Nexus

The only comic I’ve ever read with the Steve Rude/Mike Baron Nexus character was the Nexus Meets Madman crossover. I still don’t know much about him other than he is cool looking. I went to see Thor: The Dark World. I enjoyed it. I am saving more in depth thoughts about it and Gravity for …

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Goodbye, Local Comic Shop

For the past year, I have been ordering my comics through a mail service. It’s a really good discount, and when I switched, I felt bad for “abandoning” my local comic shop. To alleviate the guilt and to continue to support a small local business that I had been loyal to on a weekly basis …

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Lots of hub-bub yesterday about Andrew Garfield – the star of the new series of Spider-Man movies – talking about something that’ll never happen in a million years: the possibility of making Peter Parker gay. I shouldn’t say that. It’s a possiblity it could happen, it just seems improbable. I’m betting there’s a guy wearing …

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I’m not a fan of the 4th of July. The American Empire has been crumbling for about the past 14 years or so (possibly longer) because… all Empires fall. We’re in a constant state of Us vs. Them, a philosophical civil war that will not end civilly. America will collapse in on itself within my …

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Just want to give a thanks to Jason Young and Jim Purcell for their response to the triple digit comics inquisition from yesterday. Also to Keith Callbeck, Dragon Fan Blog & Erik Larsen himself over on Twitter for throwing out some titles that hadn’t been mentioned here, like Witchblade, The Darkness and Usagi Yojimbo. It …

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Hell, Blazed

NOTE: I wrote this about the loss of the comic HELLBLAZER and what that book means to me. However, since then, I have gone through a much worse and meaningful loss – the loss of a pet. Max was a fat, quirky stray cat who came to live with my parents about six or seven …

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