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Flippin’ through Previews – February 2012

Are people really upset about that Wonder Woman cover? Really? If you don’t know already, see it on the latest Previews, #281, below!

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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 24: Fantastic Comics #16

Every day this month, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. Today’s page is from Fantastic Comics #16, which was published by Fox Feature Syndicate and is cover dated (from what I can discover) March 1941. It was reprinted in I Shall Destroy All Civilized Planets! by Fantagraphics in 2007. Enjoy!

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Frantic as a cardiograph scratching out the lines, Day 21: Out Of This World #4

Every day this month, I will be examining the first pages of random comics. Today’s page is a story from Out Of This World #4, which was published by Charlton and is cover dated June 1957. This is a Steve Ditko story collected in Unexplored Worlds: The Steve Ditko Archives volume 2, which was published [...]

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Flippin’ through Previews – January 2012

Happy New Year! Let’s celebrate by scouring Previews #280 for obscure comics that we can read!

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Flippin’ through Previews – November 2011

Wolverine #300? How do they even know anymore? The answer lies inside Previews #278!

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Flippin’ through Previews – October 2011

What lurks in the depths of Previews #277? Join me to find out!

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What I bought – 21 September 2011

He lay with a pack of panting dogs on a hill overlooking plains where antelope grazed. He marched with ants, and labored in the rigors of the nest, filing eggs. He danced the mating dance of the bower bird, and slept on a warm rock with his lizard kin. He was a cloud. He was [...]

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Flippin’ through Previews – September 2011

You know it’s a new DC when Aquaman graces the cover of the latest Previews. Has the world gone insane?!?!?!?

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Joint review time! with Celluloid (NSFW)

Let’s get this out of the way right away: There are DEFINITELY GOING TO BE SOME TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK images underneath the cut. Just so you know! And I asked our own Kelly Thompson to review this with me, ’cause that’s just how I roll, yo.

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Flippin’ through Previews – July 2011

Oh, no – is it the Apocalypse?!?!? Only Previews #274 knows for sure!

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Flippin’ through Previews – June 2011

Let’s check out this month’s Previews with the full knowledge that these are the last times we’ll see all these DC titles in their current incarnations!

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Review time! with The Arctic Marauder

Jacques Tardi is pretty awesome, y’all. But then, you already knew that.

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Flippin’ through Previews – May 2011

It’s a bit later than usual, but I hope you’ll forgive me – I’ve been busy. But now it’s time to check out the latest issue of Previews!

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What I bought – 20 April 2011

For it is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge. (Caleb Carr, from Killing Time)

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Flippin’ through Previews – April 2011

It’s getting on to summertime, which means … more and more comics! That’s always odd to me – it’s not like movies, where the kids are out of school. If you buy comics, you buy them all year, right? Anyway, Previews has what you’re looking for!

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