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Brian Cronin

One Last Reason to Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

“The is week we have spotlighted the various levels at which people can join the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. The last membership level, at $1000, is the Champion level. With this, donors receive the exclusive CBLDF membership card (designed by the great Cliff Chiang), the button set, featuring the CBLDF logo, and several more, [...]

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Comic Book Legends Revealed #352

Welcome to the three hundredth and fifty-second in a series of examinations of comic book legends and whether they are true or false. Today, learn whether Spider-Ham was really inspired by Cerebus, discover what Marvel character was nearly Captain Marvel and marvel at the oddity that is the comic book baseball team in the Ken [...]

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I Love Ya But You’re Strange – That Time Batgirl and Wonder Woman Both Fell in Love With Batman

Every week, I will spotlight strange but ultimately endearing comic stories (basically, we’re talking lots and lots of Silver Age comic books). Here is the archive of all the installments of this feature. Today we take a look at Brave and the Bold #78, where Wonder Woman and Batgirl fight for Batman’s affection in yet [...]

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More Reasons to Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The next membership level we will look at is the $250 [...]

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If You’re Perusing the Before Watchmen Creators List and Amanda Conner is Throwing You Off?

Then you have some problems. Amanda Conner is an awesome artist. She totally belongs in a group that seems like it is based on the idea of “hey, let’s get our top artists on this here project.” I won’t knock any of the other artists in relation to her, but let’s just say that she [...]

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The Line It Is Drawn #75 – Anniversary Issues That’ll Never Be!

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, Greg Hatcher, Chad [...]

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Cover Theme Game for 2/1

Every Wednesday you’ll get a brand-new comic cover theme game! The game 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 connection between all three characters, a locale, a creator, SOMEthing. And it isn’t something obvious like “They [...]

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Another Reason to Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The next levels of CBLDF membership we are focusing on are [...]

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So….Watchmen Prequels…

Here is the talent on the seven prequel mini-series… – RORSCHACH (4 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: Lee Bermejo – MINUTEMEN (6 issues) – Writer/Artist: Darwyn Cooke – COMEDIAN (6 issues) – Writer: Brian Azzarello. Artist: J.G. Jones – DR. MANHATTAN (4 issues) – Writer: J. Michael Straczynski. Artist: Adam Hughes – NITE OWL [...]

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Comic Book Easter Eggs – Bizarro Sterling Gates and a Battlestar Galactica Cameo!

Every Tuesday, I will be sharing with you three comic book “easter eggs.” An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/in-joke that a comic book creator (typically the artist) has hidden in the pages of the comic for readers to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So [...]

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Comic Book Questions Answered: Was Superman, the “Big Blue Boy Scout,” Ever an ACTUAL Boy Scout?

Comic Book Questions Answered – where I answer whatever questions you folks might have about comic books (feel free to e-mail questions to me at bcronin@comicbookresources.com). Reader Enrique M. wrote in to ask a question on behalf of his girlfriend. While Superman is often referred to as “The Big Blue Boy Scout,” was he ever [...]

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You Should Become a Member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

All this week I will be spotlighting the various rewards you can get by becoming a member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund as part of their membership drive. There is even an extra incentive if you join because of reading these posts! The basic CBLDF membership is the aptly named “Member” level (http://cbldf.myshopify.com/products/2012-cbldf-membership). [...]

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Name That John Constantine Artist!

Every week, I will be sharing four panels featuring a comic book character. They will each be drawn by four separate pencilers. I will be featuring only pieces of art where the penciler did full pencils (as otherwise it would be way too difficult). Your challenge is to, simply put, name that artist! E-mail me [...]

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Five Goofiest Moments in Green Lantern #31-35

Every week, I’ll examine the five goofiest moments from a five-issue stretch of a particular comic book series. Here is a list of the moments featured so far. This week, we look at Green Lantern #31-35, written by John Broome (#31), Gardner Fox (#32-35), penciled by Gil Kane and inked by Sid Greene.

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The Abandoned An’ Forsaked – Alley-Kat-Abra is a Murderer?!

Every Saturday, we will be examining comic book stories and ideas that were not only abandoned, but also had the stories/plots specifically “overturned” by a later writer (as if they were a legal precedent). Click here for an archive of all the previous editions of The Abandoned An’ Forsaked. Feel free to e-mail me at [...]

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