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Matt Gives In And Does Capsules For A Good Week Of Comics

• November 13, 2015
• Tagged as: Al Ewing, All-New Wolverine, Batman & Robin Eternal, Darkseid War, Doc Shaner, Esad Ribic, Jason Aaron, Jonathan Hickman, Kenneth Rocafort, Matt, Max Landis, Nick Dragotta, R.M. Guera, Scott Kolins, Secret Wars, Steve Orlando, Superman: American Alien, The Goddamned, Tom King, Tom Taylor, Ultimates

Usually when there’s one of these huge weeks of comics, I do a bit where I’m like “Whoa, hey, this was a great week of comics! Wow!” Then I write about, like, some random Impulse issue…

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Joys of The Comic Swap: Graeme Is Glad He Didn’t Pay Full Price For DC Challenge

• November 10, 2015
• Tagged as: DC Challenge

Every few months here in Portland, there’s something called Frankenstein’s Comic Swap. I might have written about this before; it’s a swap meet for comic dealers, essentially, a small room filled with longboxes and cheap…

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First Things First I’ll Eat Your Brains: Jeff Talks Monstress #1

• November 7, 2015
• Tagged as: Jeff, Marjorie Liu, Monstress, reviews, Sana Takeda

MONSTRESS #1:  As you’ll hear when the podcast goes live on Monday, Graeme and I a bit of talk about Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda’s Monstress #1, which just came out from Image Comics.  And, as…

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Marvel Unlimited and Chill: Matt Rambles About Netflix-For-Comics and an Old Warren Ellis Book

• November 6, 2015
• Tagged as: Carlos Pacheco, Marvel Unlimited, Matt, Starjammers, Warren Ellis

Looking back over the reviews I’ve written recently, a couple of things stuck out to me: I’ve said a few times that I wouldn’t pay for a title but would read it on Marvel Unlimited…

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Highfather Knows Worst: Graeme Thinks About The New 52’s New Gods

• November 4, 2015
• Tagged as: Green Lantern/New Gods: Godhead

Out of all the New Gods that received a New 52 makeover, I think it’s fair to say that Highfather had it worse. Sure, Orion was transformed into what was essentially Cosmic Guy Gardner in…

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That’s Really Super, Supergirl: Jeff Looks at Adventure Comics #416-419

• October 31, 2015
• Tagged as: Adventure Comics, Alex Freakin' Toth, Alex Toth, Black Canary, Bob Haney, Carmine Infantino, comixology sales, Frank Frazetta, Frank Giacoia, Gray Morrow, H.G. Peter, Howard Purcell, Jeff, Jim Mooney, Johnny Double, Johnny Thunder, Merry The Girl of a Thousand Gimmicks, Mort Weisinger, reviews, Supergirl, The Enchantress, William Moulton Marston, Wonder Woman

Okay, so it’s unlikely that, between Halloween, the end of Daylight Savings Time, and all the usual stuff that goes into the weekend that this post will truly help you BUT JUST IN CASE let…

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Matt Claims That Supergirl: Cosmic Adventures in the 8th Grade Is A Perfect Comic Book

• October 29, 2015
• Tagged as: Eric Jones, Landry Q. Walker, supergirl: cosmic adventures in the eighth grade

I don’t generally think of these reviews from a commercial perspective. I don’t think of these posts as buying advice, for the most part, especially since most of my reviews wind up boiling down to “Yeah,…

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“Al Milgrom Can Boogie With The Best of ‘Em”: Capsule Reviews from Jeff

• October 25, 2015
• Tagged as: Al Milgrom, An Entity Observes All Things, Box Brown, Captain Marvel, Darwyn Cooke, Gilbert Hernandez, Jason LaTour, Radioactive Spider-Gwen, Robbi Rodriguez, Steve Englehart, The Twilight Children

It’s almost Halloween and I am currently very much enjoying the fruits of my labors…although you have to understand I’m using the term “labors” in the 21st Century First World definition, which is to say “purchases.”…

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Matt Reads Karnak #1 And Somewhat Inexplicably Keeps Reading Batman & Robin Eternal

• October 23, 2015
• Tagged as: Batman & Robin Eternal, Gerardo Zaffino, Karnak, Matt, Paul Pelletier, Warren Ellis

You might think that taking part in an 800,000 word roundtable conversation that started with discussion of Batman & Robin Eternal #1 would’ve exhausted everything I had to say about that particular lightweight action-adventure superhero romp….

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There’s Been An Awakening Of Synergistic Potential – Can You Feel It? Graeme Goes On A Journey To Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Shattered Empire

• October 21, 2015
• Tagged as: Star Wars

Perhaps it’s because I have written more words than any human being should, over the last few days, about Star Wars, but I keep finding myself surprisingly blocked when it comes to expressing how I…