Author Archives: Illustrator X

Comic Convention season begins!

March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

So, it’s March. And with the sun shining and the snow melting, one’s thoughts turn inevitably towards… convention season. Yes, we’re coming up on that time where at some point, you will be within driving distance of an immense gathering of comics, toys, industry professionals, and the occasional Stormtrooper unit. It’s one of the great […]

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Glamourpuss targets an audience of zero

February 24th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

My local comic store owner was kind enough to lend me his dealer’s copy of the upcoming Glamourpuss #1, the latest release from the fertile imagination of Dave Sim. Gotta tellya folks, this is exactly what he warned us he’d be doing —- amazing drawings of women alongside whatever stream-of-consciousness happened to pop up in […]

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Mod madness! JFK-a-Go-Go!!

February 4th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

Hey hey!  Illustrator X here with news of the best single issue to come out in 2008!  Yeah yeah; it’s only been a few weeks, but I doubt there’ll be anything to top this.  I refer to the Teen Titans “Lost Annual” — the best superhero story I have read in ages.  This is one of […]

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Meet the new boss… same as the old boss…

February 4th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

One thing I’ve noticed about comics is that they keep modernizing characters so that they’ll appeal to current readers. DC revamped their entire universe of stories back in the 1980s’s, and have made a fine tradition of it ever since. Hell, right now they’re so magnanimous they’re saying that there are officially 52 “universes”, although […]

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Who are New Hampshire’s heroes?

January 27th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

In case you didn’t know, SciFiCo is proudly located in the first-primary-in-the-nation Granite State itself, New Hampshire.  Kudos and accolades to you, you think, but wait — did you know that we have our very own superhero team?  That’s right!  See, when Marvel wrapped up its “Civil War” last year, it was decided that every […]

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First post of 2008

January 6th, 2008 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

Welcome to the first post of 2008, the year in which, if we can believe the hype, “everything changes”! At least, that’s what Marvel and DC are hyping, but so what? Marvel just decided to erase two decades of continuity by having the Devil change history so that Peter Parker and Mary Jane never got married. That means, every single Spider-Man comic you bought over the last two decades — TWENTY YEARS WORTH OF COMICS — never happened. So sorry. Please throw them all away.

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Back Issue Bonanza

December 24th, 2007 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

‘Tis the season and all that for your local comic stores to have their annual back issue sales. Even if they’re not, that $20 you got in that card from Grandma is burning a hole in your pocket, and what better way to spend it than by filling the holes in your collection?

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Buffy and Vikings

December 9th, 2007 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

This week in Marvel and DC… who cares? The latest issue of Buffy The Vampire Slayer came out from Dark Horse Comics…

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Comics update

December 2nd, 2007 | Posted in Comics, Daily Rants

Hell froze over as a new issue of All-Star Batman & Robin hit the stands this week. You may not remember the last time this happened, as the printing press had just been invented and Gutenberg was going on about how Bibles were both literature AND furniture.

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League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: The Black Dossier

October 10th, 2007 | Posted in Comics

This is the first comics article I’ve written in a while, mostly because there hasn’t been all that much to write about.  Marvel’s taken a break from killing off their characters for a Skrull invasion, and DC’s Infinitely-Counting-Down-To-Another-Crisis makes me pine for the days of the Space Canine Patrol Agency.  What’s got me excited is the […]

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