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One Month to Live #1: Marvel Universe vs. Mortality
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: September 1, 2010
Comic books are full of characters getting second and third chances. Resurrection, redemption, time travel, and deals with the devil are so commonplace, that superpowers might just as well come with a big undo button. Dennis Sykes isn’t so lucky. He works a soul-crushing job as a banker, only to come home to his wife [...]
The New Adventures of Hitler: Oh, the Controversy
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: August 30, 2010
Sorry, guys. It’s time for another history lesson. So! In 1910, some Irish lady named Bridget Dowling moved to Liverpool and married a German guy named Alois Hitler waaaay before that name meant anything to anybody. In 1914, Alois abandoned his family, faked his death after WWI, and bigamously married some German lady. In 1939 [...]
Batman Beyond #1 and Why Bruce Wayne Will Never Again Be Batman
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: July 2, 2010
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When I was a young’un, I’d wake up early every Saturday morning to watch the crap out of some Batman Beyond. For whatever reason, a Batman in the future kind of seemed like one of the most awesome things ever (even if the show was pretty much just made up words, Seth Green, and day-glo [...]
Jurassic Park #1: My Childhood’s Riding on This One
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: June 24, 2010
So, remember in October 2009 when Maggie and I put together that post about which licensed properties we’d like to see made into comics? Apparently, the comics gods have been paying attention. Last week, we were ecstatic when BOOM’s Darkwing Duck: The Duck Knight Returns popped up on shelves. Lo and behold, this week I [...]
Justice League: Generation Lost #1: Ooh, Do I Hate You, Maxwell Lord
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: May 14, 2010
Confession time: I’m kind of going into this blind. When Justice League International broke up in 1994 in a Zero Hour tie-in, I was seven and turning my nose up at anything that wasn’t a back issue of West Coast Avengers (don’t judge me!). Before today, my knowledge of JLI was limited to the group [...]
Kill Shakespeare #1: Kids Who Enjoyed Junior Year English, Rejoice!
Posted by: Maggie_C on: April 13, 2010
The soaring popularity of Alan Moore‘s League of Extraordinary Gentleman and Vertigo’s Fables has inspired a slew of seeming copycats, enough that at this point the meta-literary comic could be given its own sub-genre. This month, IDW offers up Anthony Del Col & Conor McCreery’s Kill Shakespeare, a story that “pits Shakespeare’s greatest heroes against [...]
The Green Hornet #1: Not Your Grandpa’s Hornet
Posted by: Robert Bazz on: March 4, 2010
About six months ago I got into this weird Bruce Lee phase where I pretty much fell asleep watching Enter the Dragon every night. After tiring of that, I went around checking out his other projects, eventually watching a bit of him on the 1966 TV show, The Green Hornet. At the conclusion of the [...]
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Comic Book Self Awareness Part 1: The Unfunnies
Posted by: Preston Wheatley on: March 24, 2010
“Mark Millar” is a name recognizable to anybody who reads modern comics. One cannot deny his enormous impact due to works like Marvel’s Ultimate Universe or the acclaim he has received for works like Kick-Ass. Enter a little-read title from my favorite indie publisher Avatar Press called The Unfunnies. I’m not sure whether to laud [...]