Marvel Comic Presents #2 (Marvel – Various) -  There isn’t much I can say about anthology series, except that they are anthology series.  Let’s go with the play by play of all four stories within this issue.  First we have Vanguard, in my opinion clearly the best of the series.  Stacy Dolan, NYPD, is trying [...]

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Uncle Sam and The Freedom Fighters #2 (DC – Palmiotti / Gray / Arlem) – This is the second issue of the follow-up series to the some of the best writing in 2006.   Uncle Sam is the “conscience” book of the DCU… Who should heroes help? Why should heroes help? Who should be heroes?  [...]

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Black Panther #31 (Marvel – Hudlin / Portela) – from Marvel “Yikes! With Zombies chomping at their heels, the new Fantastic Four take another wrong turn on the dimensional superhighway. And this time, they’ve landed in the middle of the Sub-Atomica Universe! Can a skirmish with Psycho-Man be far behind? It’s clobberin’ time”.  I started [...]

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Scott Pilgrim – Gets it together Vol. 4 (Oni Press – O’Malley) – To give you a little bit of a background, in case you haven’t heard of the everyday adventures of Scott Pilgrim, Scott Pilgrim was both Entertainment Weekly’s and Wizard Magazine’s 2006 Indie book of the Year. Scott is an early 20-something trying [...]

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H1ghwaymen #5 (Wildstorm – Bernardin / Freeman / Garbett) -  “Two men, one shoots, one drives. thirty years of bad blood between them… and called back into service”, this intro hooked me in the first issue and my attention hasn’t swayed yet.  We follow our two couriers as they try keep Grace Anderson, their newest [...]

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So what does one do when he hasn’t been to the comic store in three weeks? He looks to the pile of reviews that life has been keeping me from! So here are a hand full of reviews of some great things on the shelf from Dark Horse.           Deadlander #1 [...]

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She-Hulk #22 (Marvel – David / Moll / Olazaba) – Let’s be honest, following Dan Slott on his figurehead series would be really tough.  But let’s be honest… he’s Peter David.  There are only a handful of people who could pick up the series and run with it in a positive direction and the fantastic [...]

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Disasters, Great and Otherwise… So Here’s the Lowdown On Earth 8, the Challengers continue to battle Lord Havok and Monarch Jason Todd guts Earth 8′s version of Aquaman / Namor and tells Monarch he is wants in Monarch is unimpressed with Jason’s ability to turn sides and doesn’t trust him As a sign of trust, [...]

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Ruin #2 (Alterna Comics – Pinchuk / Gallagher / Gallagher) – If the Pulp writers of yesteryear were alive and kicking today… if they weren’t writing Ruin, they would at least be reading it. Ruin is your classic Science Fiction / Fantasy Pulp story space opera. In Ruin, Black Zero is our reluctant hero who [...]

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Fantastic Four #550 (Marvel – McDuffie / Pelletier / Magyar) – Marvel’s synopsis “Reed and Sue team up with the New FF in a desperate gambit to find the source of the disease wracking the fabric of spacetime itself. Only one being can follow such an ineffable trail but a resentful Silver Surfer is in [...]

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Dear Sean McKeever, I wanted to write you a thank-you letter and let you know that it is because of you that Teen Titans is still placed in my pull box each month. You see, I felt that the Titans characters were becoming stale and flat to me. Keep in mind that I am an [...]

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G4 will debut “Heroes” with all-day marathons of season one episodes on Saturday, October 27 and Sunday, October 28. The network will begin airing episodes from the current season with a mini-marathon of the first six episodes of “Heroes” season two on Saturday, November 3 from 5:00-11:00pm et/pt. G4 will then regularly air each week’s [...]

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