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A Thought About Transformers

You know that scene in Clerks where they talk about the second Deathstar explosion being problematic because really it was just bunch of space contractors that got killed? I had my own logical realization about Transformers the other day. Also…

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Avengers Movie Poster

This is the new movie poster for the Avengers. It is official and comes from the Marvel website. Why does it look like everyone is photoshopped in? What is Hawkeye looking at? Does Cap not understand that an alien invasion…

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The Heroic Age?

Wasn’t The Heroic Age supposed to return us to good ol’ fashioned fun in comic books? Wasn’t it supposed to be a shift away from the these dark, gut wrenching story-lines like House of M, Civil War, Secret Invasion, and…

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Miller’s Rant

Frank Miller’s rant on his blog about the Occupy movement is all the talk this week on the comics interwebs.  It immediately brought to mind a 52Q about whether creator personalities and views affect enjoying their work. Miller was and…

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More Than Tracing

I assume that most comic book fans have seen the Kevin Smith movie Chasing Amy.  Basically it’s about Ben Affleck chasing after a girl.  What makes it relevant to comic book fans is Ben Affleck’s character is a comic book…

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Is This Offensive?

The other day I was surfing around on Bleeding Cool News.  While I was reading a couple of articles, I saw on the bottom of the screen a section for most viewed pics.  I saw the picture shown above and clicked…

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Marvel Layoffs

Last week the Twitter-verse was all a twitter about Marvel laying off 15 staffers.  I found one news blog about the financial situation of Marvel and the working conditions there. To tell the truth I was shocked of what I read.…

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about Catwoman

Last week a picture of Anne Hathaway’s costume was posted on our Facebook page.  The question was asked “What do you think?” When I saw the picture, I wasn’t blown away by it (even though Anne Hathaway is beautiful).  It…

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Margaret Atwood: cartoonist?

The National Post has an excerpt from Margaret Atwood’s In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination. It’s a great piece on comic strips, imagination and where that takes us.  Perhaps if Atwood had kept up the drawing Seth and…

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How far would you go?

I don’t know if you’ve seen this elsewhere yet, but this article really struck a chord with me.  Reuters had a story about Herbert Chavez, a Filipino designer who is a huge Superman fan.  He’s had body modifying surgery to…

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Spider-Island

Has anybody noticed that in the middle of the unstoppable juggernaut of publicity that is the new DC#1s or the ubiquitous Fear Itself tie-in fest, there is a really good little Spider-Man story going on? Spider-Island is being done exactly…

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Why are we thinking of this? #10

Terribly sorry for the large intervals between articles but I’ve been held captive by Dr Doom, much like the Scarlet Witch in Avengers Children Crusade! Why doesn’t the Asbestos Man have cancer yet? Professor Orson Karloff was one of the…

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Why are we thinking about this? #9

Apologies for the hiatus but we’re backing with another mindnumbing installment of Why are we thinking about this? What happens to size-changing superheroes that eat before size alterations? In Marc Millar’s Ultimates, it is specifically stated by the Wasp to…

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