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In One Week, In Two Weeks
Aaron Haaland from A Comic Shop may have declared this week to be the best comics week of the year But the next two weeks look quite spiffy too Next week brings the final chapter of my Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne in Dark Horse Presents #10, a new Goon, finding out if Justice League[...]
A Comic Show – "I Will Kill Myself If You Don't Like Saga"
Okay, this is the real A Comic Show today from Aaron and Tony of A Comic Shop in Florida, looking at what they are calling the best week in comics this year, with Saga, Thief Of Thieves, Saucer Country, Adventure Time, Avengers Assemble and Crossed Crossed Crossed Crossed Crossed… and why Avatar is racist. Get 25% off[...]
Eleven Thoughts About Eleven Of Today's Comics – JiM, Demon Knights, Crossed Badlands, Batwoman, Peter Panzerfaust, Queen Crab, Batgirl, Saga, Saucer Country, Fantastic Four and Avengers
Journey Into Mystery, while being one of Marvel's most entertaining comics full stop, has spectacular recap pages Rather than present a series of panels to show what went on in previous issues, we get the plot narrated by a variety of characters In today's issue? Cadaver Thor. Look I know there's no chance of a series[...]
Orbital Comics Goes Crossed For C-Day
Free Crossed comics, a new Crossed series by Garth Ennis and Jacen Burrows, masks, all sorts of giveaways… and a number of stores have transformed themselves into dens of gore to join in the celebration. This is Orbital Comics of London and their staff today Si Spurrier, writer of the Crossed Wish You Were Here webcomic, also[...]
Danny The Street Officially Appears In This Week's Superboy
Look for more in Teen Titans #7. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London, currently celebrating C-Day for the release of Crossed Badlands. 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[...]
Fantastic Four #604 Goes Back To The Beginning
Or if you want the bold familiarity of noticing the similarities – and the differences. Make your choice. Here are the first two pages of Fantastic Four #570. Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics of London, currently celebrating C-Day for the release of Crossed Badlands. Today's Fantastic Four from Jonathan Hickman and Steve Epting goes back to the[...]
Grace Randolph's Stacktastic! – Numbercrunching Marvel Stats
She's looking at the sales performances of Ultimate Spider-Man over the years, and the recent Circle Of Four crossover, examining Marvel's motiovations and the problems they face, as well as looking through tomorrow's comics, with Avengers Assemble, Womanthology and Saga… [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUtIow1PXtQ[/youtube] Grace Randolph hits the numbercrunching hard for Think About The Ink and Stacktastic! for Bleeding[...]