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Cammy’s Covers – Astonishing X-Men To Avengers Arena

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Cameron Hatheway writes; Astonishing X-Men #62 by Phil Noto You’re as cold as ice, willing to sacrifice your…looks? With all these younger versions of themselves bouncing around, it was only a matter of time before we started getting covers like …

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Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – Star Wars, Nowhere Men, Manhattan Projects, Peter Panzerfaust, Crossed Badlands, Avengers Arena, Secret Avengers, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Fearless Defenders, Superboy, Ozymandias, Uncanny X-Men, Katana And Batgirl

Posted on March 13, 2013 by Rich Johnston

  It must be a real arse to argue with Luke Skywalker when he pulls lines like this one from Star Wars #3 on you. Arguing about the contents of the fridge probably go the same way. “Who ate the …

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Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen Comics – Manhattan Projects, Morning Glories, Todd The Ugliest Kid On Earth, The End Times Of Bram And Ben, Wolverine & The X-Men, Cable & X-Force, Batgirl, Katana, Powers, Avengers Assemble, Fury, Buffy, Avengers Arena, Ghostbusters

Posted on February 13, 2013 by Rich Johnston

This is the Albert Einstein we always deserved and yet, until Manhattan Projects we never got a whiff of until now. I’m so glad we got Manhattan Projects. Morning Glories does the hideous trick of applying a child’s logic to …

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Avengers Arena Is Game On… But Some People Want It To Be Game Over

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker are taking over still on Avengers Arena in April. With some kind of board game thing. You know, I don’t think these folk will be won round. The cancellation of Avengers Arena by Dennis Hopeless: …

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Last Week’s Comics In Thirty Four Panels

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

The internet’s most opinionated (and Greek) comics column.  By Dr Manolis V. GREEK, LIKE MORBIUS Morbius? Michael Morbius, pasty-rat-faced vampire in a unitard, THAT Michael Morbius? According to AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #699.1 (really MORBIUS #0.1 a backdoor pilot to the upcoming Joe …

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Cammy’s Covers – From Avengers Arena to The Unwritten

Posted on December 23, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool Fables #124 by Joao Ruas I must say, Sir Bufkin looks rather dashing on this cover. His face shows years of battle, while his greatness radiates behind him like the most epic halo imaginable. …

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Avengers Arena Gives Us The Closest We’ll Get To A Captain Britain/Slaine Crossover (Spoilers)

Posted on December 19, 2012 by Rich Johnston

  In Avengers Arena #2 (and talking of which, there’s a hell of a lot of Number Twos from Marvel out this week) we get to meet the kids of the Braddock Academy. Picture a British version of the Jean …

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Cammy’s Covers – From Adventure Time to Avengers Arena

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Rick Verbanas

Cameron Hatheway writes for Bleeding Cool Before Watchmen: Dr. Manhattan #3 (Variant) by Neal Adams Choosing this cover came to be a surprise for me. While I appreciate the contributions Neal Adams has made to the comics medium, his style …

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Ten Thoughts About Ten Comics – Batman And Robin, Sherlock Holmes, Crossed, Before Watchmen, Caligula, Change, Dan The Unharmable, Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four And Avengers Arena

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Batman #13 did this more subtly, but Batman And Robin #15 goes straight for the Killing Joke. Sherlock Holmes: Liverpool Demon #1 lays out its stall. Supernatural crime, met by a man without an ounce of belief in that regard, …

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Marvel Reaping Its Own Whirlwind Of Spoilers

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Warning. There may be Spider-Man and Avengers Arena spoilers at the end of this article. I blame Marvel personally. First it was spoiling all manner of stories in the national press one, maybe two days, before the comic was available …

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Swipe File: Avengers Arena #2 And Lord Of The Flies

Posted on September 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The cover for Avengers Arena #1 was a far too obvious swipe of Battle Royale. The second… not as much. Sure it uses the Battle Royale-styled logo for this, shove a load of superhero teenagers together and make them kill …

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Marvel Launches Avengers Arena In The Manner Of Battle Royale

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I really hope it’s better than Countdown Arena. Dennis Hopeless and Kev Walker are launching a new Marvel title, Avengers Arena, to follow up on the likes of Avengers Academy. And it looks like it may be a little bloody, …

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