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Thursday Trending Topics: Bendis vs Drudge

Published Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:31:13 -0500

Last updated Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:31:26 -0500

It's been a banner year for mainstream coverage of comic books, and in particular, mainstream political coverage of comic books. But even in a transitional era during which many mainstream outlets still use Bam Biff Pow headlines on comic stories, it's been interesting to see how political pundits have treated our characters as almost living and breathing figures — who can't discuss or debate the topics at hand in the media themselves. That's why it's pretty cool to see creators increasingly doing that for them.

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Fanboy Rampage: Brett Booth Vs Merrit Nolan

One fellow called Merritt Nolan, who posts on 4chan/co, emailed Brett Booth, the new artist on Teen Titans. And got a reply. And posted it, seemingly hoping to make Brett look bad.

Bleeding Cool believes it does the opposite…

Brian Bendis Counters Matt Drudge And Glenn Beck Over Ultimate Spider-Man

Talking about the recent Miles Morales media storm, he said;

Walt Simonson To Revive DC's Captain Fear. Again.

Simonson worked on a Captain Fear story with David Michelinie, published in the back of Unknown Soldier in the early eighties. And now, twenty years, he's back. Here are some images that Walt has been posting. Aarrrr!

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Avengers Set Pictures Need Your Expert Eyes

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