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Astonishing X-Men To X-Club For 99 Cents From ComiXology Tomorrow

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Coming down the pipe… If you are enjoying Si Spurrier’s run on X-Men Legacy, then his five issue miniseries X-Club will be 99 cents an issue tomorrow on ComiXology. Along with the post-Joss Whedon Astonishing X-Men #25 to #51, better …

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How To Propose By Arc Reactor

Posted on December 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

From Ed’s Junk; This is by far one of more more fun projects Ive ever done! A little background first, my girlfriend, now fiancé, has always loved projects I’ve made and really enjoys them. She has started calling me Tony …

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Collectors Cornered #28 – Marvel X-Men Wedding Celebration And Gay Marriage

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Collectors Cornered is a weekly video column, filmed inside Collectors Corner in Baltimore. Join us every week as we discuss comic book news from a different point of view and get instant feedback from real customers on New Comics Day, …

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Could “Bullet Training” Be The New “Fridging?” – Earth Two #2 Spoilers

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Okay, I gave it a day. Some people complained that yesterday’s article about Alan Scott, the as yet-to be Green Lantern of Earth Two, proposing to his boyfriend, was a spoiler. I disagreed, stating that if I’d have run the …

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The Green Lantern Gay Marriage Proposal

Posted on June 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Marvel got so much press for its X-Men Wedding Proposal issue, even if it was slightly diverted by press over this week’s DC Comics outing of the original Green Lantern. What would have happened if, at the time, DC Comics …

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Gay Wedding X-Men Gets Massive Reorders

Posted on May 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Time to look at the chart of orders placed after the usual orders are due, which indicates rising trends just before on-sale date. Extra prints and special item are only made available in this way. But it looks like orders …

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The Marriage Proposal Of Phoenix Comicon

Posted on May 27, 2012 by Rich Johnston

You’re at Comic Con. You get your intended a sketch cover from her favourite artist. It asks her to marry you. Thankfully she doesn’t take it as the artist asking her to marry her. She knows it’s from you. And …

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It’s Official… Northstar To Wed Kyle

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Marvel have let retailers sell Astonishing X-Men #50 one day early. Featuring Northstar asking for his boyfriend’s hand in marriage. Not much of a surprise for many. But what happens next… may be. However it resolves, we know that somehow …

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Marvel’s Gay Marriage News To Hit The View

Posted on May 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Just as DC Comics is turning the headlines purple with the news at Kapow that a previously established character would be rebooted as a gay person, so Marvel Comics announced they have their own headlines in mind. Tune into ABC …

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Astonishing X-Men Collection Of The Marriage Issues To Be Called ‘Northstar’

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Okay, we all know who is getting married in Astonishing X-Men #50 and #51. And why it will be such a big deal. Even if Marvel can’t say, for want of spoiling a media PR deal with a national newspaper. …

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A Free Comic Book Wedding Day

Posted on May 6, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Fanboy Comics, in Wilmington, North Carolina, had a very special Free Comic Book Day yesterday. In which comic book fans Adam Mason and Donnita Johnson tied the knot. Using Batman and Wonder Woman wedding rings… WECT6 reports that the pair …

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Marvel To Release Astonishing X-Men #50 One Day Early

Posted on April 30, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Worried that Marvel’s big media release on Tuesday, May 22nd for Astonishing X-Men #50 and the marriage proposal therein will spoil your enjoyment… of the issue on sale the next day? In which either Northstar or Kyle proposes, and the …

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Marvel Still Isn’t Saying It’s Northstar And Kyle Getting Hitched Even When Astonishing X-Men #49 Makes It Blatant

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In today’s Astonishing X-Men, Marjorie Liu and Mike Perkins give us a big old fashioned superhero fight scene between these X-Men and the Marauders, both physical and mental. In which Kyle, Northstar’s boyfriend, find himself involved. Which leads to this …

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Lee Barnett Is The Adult In The Room – Super Tuesday And Gay Marriage

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Lee Barnett writes for Bleeding Cool; “There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.” – Theodore Roosevelt, 1905. While there have been comic book stories …

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Taking Apart The Archie Comics Press Release

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Archie Comics are about to issue one of those self congratulatory PR pieces that the Associated Press are so fond of, and that many sites just cut and paste into their news coverage. But how about we go through each …

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Six Changes For Superman #1

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Superman #1 by George Perez and Jesus Merino was published today by DC Comics. Now I’m no Supermanologist like some, but even I noticed some major changes, So armed with a scanner and access to Wikipedia, I tried to label …

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DC Relaunch To Claim Another Marriage

Posted on September 2, 2011 by Rich Johnston

We know that the DC Relaunch will see Clark Kent and Lois Lane no longer married. But it turns out that the Barry Allen/Iris West Allen marriage is also going the way of Mephisto. Editor Brian Cunningham says; “Yes, folks …

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Now Archie Comics Brings Us Gay Marriage

Posted on July 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Kevin Keller is Archie Comics’ only out gay character. The fact that he exists is a major jump in thinking for the company. Then he got his first mini-series, now an ongoing comic series starring the character. Then today at …

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