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2011 January

I Saw It Advertised One Day #18

We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!

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A Month of Cover Theme Games #14

Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]

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Friday in the Swipe File

I rarely get requests for things to cover here, so when I do, it’s difficult to ignore. Especially when it was something I was thinking about doing anyway.

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Comic Book Legends Revealed #295

Welcome to the two-hundred and ninety-fifth 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 ninety-four. Comic Book Legends Revealed is part of the larger Legends Revealed series, where I look into legends about the worlds of [...]

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I Saw It Advertised One Day #17

We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!

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A Month of Cover Theme Games #13

Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]

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What I bought – 12 January 2011

“I was in the Resistance,” he went on. “There were thirty Germans for every one of us, and they came here like beasts, not soldiers – shooting children, hanging women, cutting off people’s hands – but we never surrendered.” He put a cigarette between his lips and turned back to the sea. “There is nothing [...]

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Comic Critics #145!

Here is the latest installment of the Comic Critics strip, courtesy of Sean Whitmore (writer) and Brandon Hanvey (artist)! You can check out the first hundred and forty-four strips at the archive here and you can read more about Sean and Brandon at the Comic Critics blog. Enjoy!

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The Line It Is Drawn #23 – Comic Book Character/Animal Mash-Ups!

Go follow Comics Should Be Good on Twitter (if you have Twitter, that is – if you don’t, you can go sign up). Here is our Twitter page… http://twitter.com/csbg. And here are the Comics Should Be Good writers who are on Twitter (the links go to the person’s Twitter account) – myself, Chad Nevett, Kelly [...]

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I Saw It Advertised One Day #16

We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!

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A Month of Cover Theme Games #12

Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]

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Committed: Passing Periods, my favorite mini-comic

I’ve got a guilty secret within my guilty not-so-secret of comic book love and that is Joey Sayers’ hysterical mini-comic book; Passing Periods. This is one of those hand-stapled, photocopied, crappy little things, or at least that is all it appears to be on first glance, until you bother to read it and let the [...]

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I Saw It Advertised One Day #15

We continue a MONTH of I Saw It Advertised One Day! Each day this January you’ll get a piece looking at advertisements in comic books over the decades that amused me for whatever reason. In each installment, we’ll take a look at three ads! Here is an archive of all installments of this feature. Enjoy!

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A Month of Cover Theme Games #11

Every day this month, I’ll give you a new cover theme game! If you don’t know the game by now, it works like this: I’ll show you three covers. They all have something in common, whether it be a character, a trait all three characters share, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something [...]

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Top 11 #111 Issues of All-Time!

What the hell, I still have some time left in 1/11/11, so let’s take a look at the top #111 issues of all-time! Let’s begin!

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