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2009 November

A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 318

Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Let’s take a look at a cool moment from the conclusion to Batman R.I.P. in Batman #681 (if you haven’t read [...]

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Saturday’s Comfort Zone Wrapup

Finally, our conclusion. Here’s part one, part two, and part three. I really had intended, when I first outlined this, to keep it to one or at most two columns. What can I say? Comfort food’s a staple around here lately. Between cold and flu season, and then hosting our godson Phenix for a couple [...]

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Nostalgia November Day 14 — Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23

Each day in November, I will read and review/discuss/whatever one comic taken from a box of some of my childhood comics. Today, it’s Amazing Spider-Man annual #23. The Nostalgia November archive can be found here.

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Into the back issue box #47

My comic book shoppe had a sale last weekend, and I found a bunch of cheap comics! So we’re back for a while, until I run out of them or he has another sale, in which case we’ll continue! Whoo-hoo! I’m sure you want me to post even more here!

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The Top 75 Most Iconic Covers in DC History – Day 13

Okay, in case you didn’t see the introduction, the concept is that each day up to and including the 23rd of November, I’ll be posting four iconic covers from DC Comics’ 75-year history. On the 23rd, you folks will get a chance to pick your Top 10 out of the 90 choices. I’ll tabulate the [...]

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More Hulk Promos

Marvel sent along a couple more promos for their upcoming “Fall of the Hulks” storyline.

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A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 317

Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! I figure that Friday the 13th is a good time to go waaaay out the expected group of moments, and use [...]

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B&B TV: “The Fate of Equinox!”

Not so much time this week. Let’s be quick and do this bullet-point style!

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Manga Before Flowers — Recommendation Post #2

Today, I get to recommend some of my favorite shojo titles to JimYung, who wrote that “I enjoy Love.Com and High School Debut.  I feel like they’re just the right mix of romantic comedy but I’m not looking for something like Love Hina.” Step up for your personalized manga recommendations, JimYung!

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Nostalgia November Day 13 — Adventures of the Super Mario Bros. #5

Each day in November, I will read and review/discuss/whatever one comic taken from a box of some of my childhood comics. Today, it’s Adventures of the Super Mario Bros. #5. The Nostalgia November archive can be found here.

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Blue Moon Reviews — Silent Möbius: Complete Edition, Vol. 1

The influential sci-fi manga Silent Möbius is back in a new edition from UDON Entertainment, featuring “a new UDON translation, the restoration of the traditional right-to-left reading format, as well as new scans of every page taken directly from the original artwork.” UDON also plans to release a one-volume prequel and two volumes of short [...]

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One Week From Tonight….

…if you should happen to be in the west Seattle area. A great many of my former students are involved in this production. Including, I believe, designing this poster. We are certainly going to be there. The last one we attended was a great deal of fun.

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Comic Book Legends Revealed #233

Welcome to the two-hundred and thirty-third in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Click here for an archive of the previous two hundred and thirty-two. Comic Book Legends Revealed is now part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds [...]

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The Top 75 Most Iconic Covers in DC History – Day 12

Okay, in case you didn’t see the introduction, the concept is that each day up to and including the 23rd of November, I’ll be posting four iconic covers from DC Comics’ 75-year history. On the 23rd, you folks will get a chance to pick your Top 10 out of the 90 choices. I’ll tabulate the [...]

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A Year of Cool Comic Book Moments – Day 316

Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here‘s the archive of the moments posted so far! Today is the final moment from Darwyn Cooke’s New Frontier!

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