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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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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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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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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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