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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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Tony Lee To Write Superboy. For A Bit.

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Rich Johnston

I understand that Tony Lee, writer for IDW’s Doctor Who and the adapter of Pride, Prejudice And Zombies, will be filling in on Superboy, dialoguing over Tom DeFalco’s  scripts on Superboy #18 and writing in full the WTF issue #19, …

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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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ComiXology All Over The World – China For Superboy, Israel For All Star Superman, Everyone Else For Batman And The Walking Dead

Posted on December 13, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Louis Falcetti writes; It’s time for another report from the Comixology digital battlefield, which would’ve been a great opener were this a week with a new issue of Garth Ennis’ Battlefields on the stands (so happy that book is back, …

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I Thought DC’s Bunker Was Meant To Be Out Of The Closet?

Posted on November 21, 2012 by Rich Johnston

From Superboy #14. Third caption box… Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London.

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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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Brett Booth For Nightwing, Eddy Barrows For Superboy?

Posted on September 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Yesterday, we reported that Brett Booth was leaving Teen Titans with issue 16. But where is he going? We did a little detective work… he’s moving to a solo book it seems. He’s choosing to move, so it might be …

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Superboy #0 And Demon Knights #0 Retcon Their First Issues

Posted on September 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Retcon. Retroactive continuity. How we have missed thee. It’s often the case that new writers taking over a book reinterpret certain events we have seen in the title’s past. From dismissing them as fiction, to delivering new meanings, to inserting …

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Superman, Superboy And Supergirl Go To H’el

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Earlier today, DC Comics clearly got fed up with Marvel teasing and announcing their November solicitations and decided to drop the bomb concerning their upcoming Super-crossover with Superman, Supergirl and Superboy fighting some bad guy called H’el with a Kryptonian …

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Tom DeFalco Takes Superboy From Scott Lobdell

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Last month, Bleeding Cool ran the news that Scott Lobdell would be taking over Superman from September. It was pooh poohed by some. Could even Scott Lobdell write four books a month for DC Comics? No. Today, we discover that …

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Swipe File: Superboy And Obama Watcher

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

From Teen Titans #1 cover…     And from a man watching Obama talk about gay marriage. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, …

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Danny The Street Officially Appears In This Week’s Superboy

Posted on March 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It’s just one page in this week’s Superboy. But it gave me a massive grin. One of my favourite characters, Danny The Street, a sentient transvestite street that moves around the world, cities and towns making space for him wherever …

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And Now… A Superman/Supergirl/Superboy Crossover

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Yesterday, we learned of the upcoming Batman/Detective Comics crossover Night Of The Owls from the official DC Source blog. But also at the Superman Homepage, Matt Idleson talked about a Superman, Superboy and Supergirl crossover this summer. He wrote; Many …

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Jerry Siegel’s Superman #1, CGC 5.5, Breaks $200K

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Bleeding Cool Staff Writer

After starting off the evening with a heavy focus on Marvel’s Bronze Age, with titles like Marvel Premiere and the previously discussed Marvel Spotlight, Friday’s auction on ComicConnect.com shifted over towards the Golden Age and Silver Age at DC, with …

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Fourteen Thoughts About Fourteen DC Comics – Batwoman, Batman And Robin, Batgirl, Huntress, Penguin, Legion Lost, Green Lantern, Demon Knights, Superboy, Suicide Squad, Resurrection Man, Mister Terrific, Grifter and Frankenstein

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Twleve issue threes and two issue twos, the DC relaunch is starting to bed in. Which is probably why so many books try to do a little something different this week. Resurrection Man is into its third issue and already …

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The Sexist Truth About Superboy #1

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Forget Catwoman #1. Forget Red Hood And The Outlaws #1. Did anyone take a close look at DC’s Superboy #1 from last week? Written by the same writer, Scott Lobdell, who so offended the internet with his portrayal of Starfire …

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Wednesday Comics Reviews: Batman and Robin, Batwoman, Deathstroke, Demon Knights, Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E., Green Lantern, Grifter, Legion Lost, Mister Terrific, Red Lanterns, Resurrection Man, Suicide Squad and Superboy

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Rich Johnston

Another week, another thirteen titles, courtesy of Orbital Comics of London. Check out their own podcast on the new DC titles as well, see if we match up. Superboy #1 by Scott Lobdell and RB Silva is a real surprise. …

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The Mystery Redhead In Superboy #1, Revealed

Posted on September 12, 2011 by Rich Johnston

In the preview to Superboy #1, we noticed a prominent red haired young woman, and the internet has been abuzz with her possible identity. Her name is Red in the comic, but that’s not the name she was born with. …

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