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Truth and Justice: Graeme Wonders When Superman Started Living In The Real World

July 29, 2015
Tagged as: Action Comics, Superman

Beyond the headline-grabbing “Lois Lane finds out!” element of Superman #42, there’s something else very interesting going on under the covers of Gene Yang’s second issue as writer; something that speaks to the (wonderful, still…

Bands Don’t Play No More: Graeme Visits Blackcross

July 28, 2015
Tagged as: Blackcross, Project Superpowers, Warren Ellis

Reading Dynamite Entertainment’s Blackcross is like visiting a ghost town, in many ways. In one sense, that’s by design; the atmosphere for the series in both writing and art is purposefully spooky and unsettling, and…

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Yup, one of us saw it.

Greetings, Whatnauts! Welcome to the 181st (or so) episode of Wait, What? The 181st! It sounds like it should be a platoon or a squadron or something, right? “The Fighting 181st!”

Anyway, start listening, and join us behind the jump for show notes detailing our battles on the shores of Ant Man (The Motion Picture), revealing how we stormed the first issue of Strange Fruit, and pointing out there may have been some minor infringements of the Geneva Convention in our discussion of the first two volumes of My Love Story!!

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The Colonizer and The Colonized: Jeff Reviews The Primate Directive #1-5

July 26, 2015
Tagged as: David Tipton, Jeff, Planet of the Apes, Rachael Stott, reviews, Scott Tipton, Star Trek, The Primate Directive

Brainstorming. Vision Boards. Writing prompts. In the last week, I’ve used all of these with one single goal in mind: how can I write something topping last week’s piece in its combination of old nerd obsessiveness and…

Because You Vaguely Approved Of It: More Capsule Reviews From Matt!

July 23, 2015
Tagged as: Ales Kot, Ben Caldwell, Bloodstrike, Cyborg, David Walker, Ivan Reis, Jason Aaron, Mark Russell, Matt, Matt Taylor, Prez, reviews, Rob Liefeld, Weirdworld

Something I had forgotten about weekly comics reviews is just how weird it can be to try to review a random middle issue of a long-running comic book series — JOGGERS #235 or whatever —…

Baxter Building Ep. 7: “Wadda You Know About Nightmares?”

July 20, 2015
Tagged as: Baxter Building, Fantastic Four

http://theworkingdraft.com/media/podcasts/BaxterBuildingEp7.mp3 Previously on Baxter Building: Having survived Galactus, a fake Ben Grimm, the return of the Inhumans and Doctor Doom stealing the Power Cosmic so that he could catch a wave made out of air…

Trash and Treasure: Jeff Reviews….More Stuff and Stuff.

July 18, 2015
Tagged as: Alex Ross, David Cabrera, Dynamite, Fantagraphics, Jeff, JIm, Jim Kuhoric, Jim Woodring, Juan Antonio Ramirez, reviews, The Six Million Dollar Man

Welcome back to the latest installment of “Where Did The Time Go?” in which I rhetorically ask questions like “hey, where did the time go?” before admitting I barely made headway on my tall stack of pending books,…

Matt vs. Capsule Reviews! And Only One Will Walk Away!

July 16, 2015
Tagged as: Al Davis, Al Ewing, Captain Britain and the Mighty Defenders, Geoff Johns, Green Lantern: Lost Army, Invader Zim, Jhonen Vasquez, Justice League, Matt, Where Monsters Dwell

So these first few weeks, I’m kind of trying to figure out what the best approach is here. Last week’s post decided to turn itself into a lovenote to the Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire Justice League, which … well, fair…

And Then Graeme Went To Comic-Con

July 14, 2015
Tagged as: Comic-Con, San Diego Comic-Con

I said on the podcast at one point that I had the idea that I’d keep a diary of San Diego Comic-Con this year, and that I’d post that here on the site afterwards as…

Update, Up Late: Jeff Starts in on Star Lord: Guardian of the Galaxy

July 11, 2015
Tagged as: Batman, Chris Claremont, John Byrne, John Warner, Star-Lord, Steve Englehart, Steve Gan, Terry Austin

I had these ridiculously open days last week: Graeme was off to SDCC so this was skip week; my Wednesday comic run got pushed back to Thursday night so I could help celebrate Doug Slayton’s birthday;…

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Month: July 2015

Truth and Justice: Graeme Wonders When Superman Started Living In The Real World

Bands Don’t Play No More: Graeme Visits Blackcross

Wait, What? Ep. 181: Crying Shame

The Colonizer and The Colonized: Jeff Reviews The Primate Directive #1-5

Because You Vaguely Approved Of It: More Capsule Reviews From Matt!

Baxter Building Ep. 7: “Wadda You Know About Nightmares?”

Trash and Treasure: Jeff Reviews….More Stuff and Stuff.

Matt vs. Capsule Reviews! And Only One Will Walk Away!

And Then Graeme Went To Comic-Con

Update, Up Late: Jeff Starts in on Star Lord: Guardian of the Galaxy

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