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A Comic Show – We’ll Have To Wait Until 2099 To Get Peter Back!

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Aaron Haaland writes; Hey Fandom, it’s me, Aaron! This is A Comic Show’s New Comics Now where I talk about the books I liked each week. I just got back from c2e2 and am loving comics! Action is still bitter …

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Times They Are A’Changing Back For Animal Man And Swamp Thing (SPOILERS)

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Rich Johnston

This was how Animal Man #19 ended, the first time around. But a few issues later, after a journey into the very meta narrative of the DC Universe itself, and after meeting Grant Morrison, Buddy Baker came home to a …

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Thirteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – New Avengers, Secret Avengers, Hit Girl, Avengers, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Earth 2, Snapshot, All New X-Men, Superior Spider-Man, Hellboy, Youngblood, Epic Kill and Mudman

Posted on February 6, 2013 by Rich Johnston

New Avengers #3 is full of lots of important Marvel Universe moments that will no doubt have implications for stories across the next year. But it also has a rare Doctor Strange moment using his earlier skill as an actual …

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Blackbriar Thorn Has Never Looked Quite As Much Like Alan Moore As He Does In Animal Man #16

Posted on January 9, 2013 by Rich Johnston

So anyway, in Animal Man #16, out today, Animal Man and his crew go up against Blackfriar Thorn, who seems to have grown a little bit. As has his beard. Is it me or is it a familiar beard? Maybe …

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Sandman, Solo And Grant Morrison’s Animal Man Get Omnibuses

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

DC let us know about a bunch of hardcovers coming our way a few days ago. But they didn’t tell us everything. Like the Animal Man Omnibus collecting Grant Morrison’s 25 issue run, a modern masterpiece. Or Sandman beginning a …

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Twenty-One Thoughts About Twenty-One Comics – Detective Comics, Avengers, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Action Comics, Kevin Keller, Wake The F*ck Up, Deadpool, Amazing Spider-Man, Hawkeye, Hellboy, Daredevil End Of Days, Avenging Spider-Man, Ultimates, Thunderbolts, All New X-Men, Fashion Beast, I Love Trouble, Great Pacific, Minutemen And Creator Owned Heroes

Posted on December 5, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  There are more aspects that tie into Death Of The Family in some of the non-tie books that with today’s die cut cover Detective Comics #15. At least on the surface. But this juxtaposition rather fits the themes in …

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A Comic Show – Avengers #1 Gangnam Style

Posted on December 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop of Orlando, Florida writes; Hey Fandom! Today has the biggest Marvel Now books yet: Hickman’s Avengers #1! It’s big, a huge team, and cosmic threat, and bi-weekly shipping! Thunderbolts is Marvel’s Expendables, Deadpool beats …

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Is Red Hood For The Chop?

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

From the solicitations of Red Hood And The Outlaws #17, part of Death Of The Family • In the wake of “DEATH OF THE FAMILY,” Bruce Wayne confronts Jason Todd! • You DO NOT want to miss this! With a …

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What Happened To Your Favourite DC Characters In Rotworld?

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

These are the rules of Rotworld. If you are personally connected to the Red or the Green, you survived. If you’re not, you didn’t. One Year Later and the New 52 is dead. So Beast Boy and Black Orchid are …

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A Comic Show – Avengers Vs X-Men Ends

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Aaron Haaland of A Comic Shop in Florida writes; Hey Fandom! This is another one of those weeks that reminds me just how much a freaking love comics! We have the end of AvX and a super frosted-side fun of …

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Sixteen Thoughts About Sixteen Comics – Skeleton Key, AvX 3, Earth 2, Amazing Spider-Man, World’s Finest, Animal Man, Supurbia, Batwing, Detective Comics, Invincible Iron Man, Exiles, Hulk Smash, Swamp Thing, Daredevil, Epic Kill and The Spider

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Lots of good comics this week. Just in time for Free Comic Book Day… Before there was Locke And Key, there was Skeleton Key by Andi Watson. A key that opened doors into new and different worlds. And the Skeleton …

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Now Grant Morrison Tackles DC, Siegel And Shuster In Action Comics?

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It’s all going a bit meta. The other week, Joe Michael Straczynski spoke to Aint It Cool News and said, talking about Before Watchmen. But how is it any more wrong than the way any comics creators were treated, especially …

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A Couple More DC Nation Clips – Animal Man And Super Best Friends Forever

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Brendon Connelly

There’s a few nice beats in this clip from an animated Animal Man short, but there’s way more crammed into the second clip, another brief taste of Super Best Friends Forever. So, a month in, how are we finding DC …

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Thirteen Thoughts About Thirteen Comics – Supreme, Savage Dragon, Daredevil, Supurbia, Animal Man, Swamp Thing, Action Comics, Fanboys Vs Zombies, Danger Club, Hulk, Mudman and Wolverine And The X-Men

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Another week, another chance to look through a bucket load of good comics. So what do we have? What goes around, comes around. Supreme going on hiatus for years, and now having Alan Moore’s final issue finally drawn (weirdly, his …

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Seven More Thoughts About Eight Comics Out Today – Fairest, Amazing Spider-Man, Action Comics, Hell Yeah, Swamp Thing, Animal Man, Age Of Apocalypse, Avengers Academy

Posted on March 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

So apparently there were some other comics published today. Courtesy of Fairest #1, out today, for the first time I really want to live in the Fables universe. I don’t care about all the fairytale characters integrated into our world, …

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New Vertigo Sci-Fi Series From Scott Snyder And Sean Murphy – And American Vampire: London

Posted on December 26, 2011 by Rich Johnston

March sees a flurry of new series from DC Vertigo… but it seems there are more to come. In an podcast interview with Orbital Comics (whose half price sale starts today), Scott Snyder revealed that he is writing a new …

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Steve Pugh Back On Animal Man At DC Comics

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Rich Johnston

When Steve Pugh drew Animal Man in the nineties,written by Jamie Delano, it was some of the best work of his life. Page after page with ink and paint piled up in a topographical fashion, creating rich, layered characters and …

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Speculator Corner: Bottoming Out On The DCU New 52

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Bleeding Cool Staff Writer

When DC took the reins of the top slot on the sales charts for the first time in years due to the launch of the New 52, they also took over the back issue market, with sellouts across the board …

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