After a week or two hiatus of the Lowdown, here is… New Frontiers  here’s the lowdown… The Challengers are on Earth 3 taking on the Crime syndicate… no wait, the Crime  Society The Challengers are about to get their tails handed to them when the Jokester (Earth 3′s hero version of the Joker) jumps in [...]

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World War Hulk #4 (Marvel – Pak / Romita Jr.) – Bash, Boom, Bang! That’s the sound of the Hulk taking on a demon empowered Dr. Strange. The bad news is, it’s just not enough to take down an amped up Hulk. The battle itself is thing of beauty in it’s destructive force. We once [...]

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Star Lord #3 (Marvel -  Giffen / Green II) – Okay, so I know that these books have been out for a few weeks and Star Lord #4 shipped this week, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to give my 2 cents. Bottom line is that I very much enjoy the Star Lord book. [...]

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Army of Darkness: From the Ashes #1 (Dynamite – Kuhoric / Blanco / Nunes) – The adventure and the battle continues for everyone’s favorite S-mart employee Ash. Coming straight out of the fun and somewhat odd war in the Marvel Zombie Universe he makes it back to his Earth (or so he thinks), where his [...]

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The Misadventures of Clark and Jefferson #1 (Ape – Carvajal / Borstel) – This Summer at Wizard World Chicago when I heard the basic premise of the book “Cowboys and aliens”, I thought this is going to go one of two ways… really good or really south .  I am happy to share that Clark [...]

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Awakenings #2 (Archaia – Tapalansky / Eckman-Lawn / Mauer) – In this month’s shipping list, my guess is that you would find no less than two dozen books from mid-range to large publishing companies that might use the word “zombie” in their plot summary. Very few on this list could be as suspenseful as Awakening [...]

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Star Wars; Knights of the Old Republic (Writer: John Jackson Miller/ Artist: Brian Ching, Dustin Weaver, Harvey Tolibao) I got the chance to meet the writer of Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR), John Jackson Miller, at Wizard World 2000 and at the end of our conversation he gave us KOTOR Vol 1 and 2. [...]

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Starting with issue #22, industry legend and Hulk mythos architect Peter David takes over the title… While Dan Slott will be missed at Shulky’s side, he is continuing his fantastic run on The Initiative The Anthology Popgun vol 1 is due out in November from Image comics. This one shot graphic novel will be 400+ [...]

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Paolo Parente’s Rust #1 & 2 (Image – Parente / Mink /  Zampbonin / Fabbri) – Rust was a much different book than I thought it would be.  The art and layout of the book are the highlights of the book in standout uniqueness.  The characters are beautifully done and the action is crisp and [...]

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The Incredible Hulk #110 (Marvel –  Pak / Pagulayan) Pak and Pagulayan knock one out of the park again with Hulk #110.  I appreciate that Marvel is not just giving us the action packed ride of the World War Hulk books, but they are also giving us a look at the Hulk’s state of mind and emotional [...]

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Thor #3  (Marvel - Straczynski / Coipel) – First, let me say that this is the best version of Thor I’ve read in a long time. I liked the Ragnarök story line because it felt like Thor and this supporting cast needed to be rocked in a big way. I would say that killing off everyone in [...]

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One of the biggest pleasures I had while at Wizard world Chicago was sitting down and talking to critically acclaimed filmmaker and producer Kevin Sean Michaels about his new production, Vampira. Vampira is a documentary about the legendary cult actress Maila Nurmi. Along with Mr. Michaels was Ari Lehman, the original Jason, who composed the [...]

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