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Saturday Trending Topics: Understanding (DC) Comics

Published Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:56:24 -0500

Last updated Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:56:38 -0500

Love it or hate it, the beautiful thing about Heather Kenealy's post is how much discussion it provoked. I even saw some [meta] on twitter about reviewing biases and reliability in comics. It's sometimes easy to nod your head and move on in reaction to a review, but something about that rarefied point of view on display in this piece makes it a bit more likely you'll put your own two cents on the record. I only hope we'll get a diehard DC fan to review some Marvel books as a followup. For starters.

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