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Comics : Comic News
The Blue Plague
Fourteen creative writers and artists are looking for a few, good creative minds

Dec 5, 2008 - 22:51:05 PM

Comics : Comic Reviews : More Comics
Archie and Friends #117
Archie, assorted pals, and several high school teachers travel to London with promised trips to Madrid, Nairobi, Rome, and Zurich

Nov 23, 2008 - 8:09:19 AM

Comics : Comic Reviews : Back Issues
Action Force #20
Action Force was a 24 page, magazine-sized comic book published by the British division of Marvel Comics every week

Nov 16, 2008 - 14:12:20 PM

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Speed Demonz #1
The Speed Demonz is “an underground street racing syndicate painting the city streets with death and violence.”

Oct 24, 2008 - 21:27:50 PM

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Betty & Veronica Spectacular #78-83
Who reads about Archie's girlfriends, Betty and Veronica, in Betty & Veronica Spectacular?

Oct 11, 2008 - 9:32:43 AM

Books
Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko
This critical retrospective celebrates the work and life of one of comic’s most original and fiercely independent cartoonists in the last fifty years, Steve Ditko

Sep 20, 2008 - 10:10:50 AM

Comics : Comic Reviews : Back Issues
Sonic X #s 20-26 & 28, 29
The simple plot is the same in every issue: Sonic the Hedgehog or one of his supporting cast stops Eggman (aided by his robots) from becoming the Emperor of the World

Jun 8, 2008 - 3:51:28 AM

Books
Meanwhile A Biography of Milton Caniff
The sad thing is that the praise lavished on Caniff by his admirers in this tome about his professional and personal life is completely justified

Jun 8, 2008 - 3:25:58 AM

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Jughead’s Double Digest #s 131-134 & 136
Yep, here’s another one of those thick, digest collections of the antics of Archie and his various pals

Mar 27, 2008 - 8:35:45 AM

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Graphic Classics: Mark Twain
This collection adapts several of the lesser works of American novelist, Mark Twain, and lesser is meant as a pejorative

Mar 27, 2008 - 8:33:37 AM

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Graphic Classics: Special Edition
If you’re fast, you can get this collection of adaptations of short works by Poe, Bierce, Lord Dunsany, Conan Doyle, and Mary Shelley for free!

Mar 27, 2008 - 8:24:58 AM

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Sojourn: The Berserker’s Tale, Volume 6
Are you suggesting this book is not worth reading, oh sage reviewer?

Mar 2, 2008 - 10:09:33 AM

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Robotika: For a Few Rubles More #1
The first issue of a comic book series is similar to a first date. It’s impossible to learn everything about the object of one’s initial interest

Feb 9, 2008 - 10:13:03 AM

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Archie’s Pals and Gals Double Digest #s 113-116
So what new does one write about Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals since all of the approximately sixteen Archie titles are basically interchangeable?

Feb 9, 2008 - 8:20:10 AM

Comics : Comic Strips
Growing Old with B.C.: A Fifty Year Celebration
Look up “fun∙ny, adv.” in Wiley’s Dictionary, and you’ll find a drawing of Johnny Hart

Feb 9, 2008 - 8:12:53 AM

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Graphic Classics: Stoker
If he had only written Dracula, Bram Stoker would have been a master of horror

Feb 9, 2008 - 7:57:39 AM

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Tales from Riverdale Digest #20-23
Tales from Riverdale differs only slightly from other Archie titles because of the ‘minor’ features inside

Dec 24, 2007 - 12:05:08 PM

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Sabrina The Teenage Witch #s 85-87
If you know Sabrina, the teenage witch, from the old situation comedy on television (the one with the obviously mechanical talking cat), you don't know Sabrina, the comic book

Dec 24, 2007 - 11:14:20 AM

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Cyber Force: Rising from the Ashes
What does one do when you want to write or draw the superhero team, the X-Men, but can’t for any number of reasons? Why, you write or draw Cyber Force

Nov 9, 2007 - 19:47:46 PM

Comics : Comic Reviews : Back Issues
Cyber Force/X-Men #1
Remember those TV commercials where peanut butter is accidentally mixed with chocolate to produce a surprisingly tasty new confection?

May 14, 2007 - 22:15:24 PM

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Graphic Classics: H. P. Lovecraft
Many consider H.P. Lovecraft to be the greatest horror writer who ever lived

Apr 27, 2007 - 9:23:03 AM

Comics : Comic Strips
The Hot Rock Glide
Hot Rock Glide (HRG) reprints an episode from 1938-1939 that introduced several of Jack’s most important characters

Apr 13, 2007 - 8:51:57 AM

Comics : European Comics
Okko: The Cycle of Water #1 (of 4)
"Okko the ronin heads a small group of demon hunters, wandering the realms of Empire" reads a blurb promoting a new comics title from Archaia Studios

Apr 6, 2007 - 9:07:32 AM

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The Dreamland Chronicles: Book One
Alex falls asleep to awaken to adventure in his dreams!

Mar 19, 2007 - 20:55:55 PM

Comics : Comic Strips
Even White Boys Get The Blues
The South has risen again, ya'll, in one of those rare anomalies, a comic strip that is actually funny

Mar 10, 2007 - 11:01:23 AM

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Ed's Terrestrials
Three cute little aliens escape from a planet that is one giant, intergalactic, food court

Mar 10, 2007 - 10:49:28 AM

Comics : Comic Reviews : Back Issues
Vampirella vs the Cult of Chaos
Going to the source of Vampirella

Feb 9, 2007 - 20:36:15 PM

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Para
A horrific disaster left a super-collider, the granddad of particle accelerators, highly radioactive

Jan 12, 2007 - 23:55:00 PM

Comics : European Comics
Métal Hurlant # 8
Once upon a time there was a French comics magazine named Heavy Metal

Jan 8, 2007 - 23:58:10 PM

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The Trouble With Girls
The Trouble With Girls is that it's too much and too little.

Jan 8, 2007 - 23:16:27 PM

Comics : Comic Reviews : DC Comics
Jack of Fables
The original Aesop, Mother Goose and Grimm fairy tales we grew up reading have been redacted! Ad-mittedly, they were pretty nasty

Dec 2, 2006 - 10:27:39 AM

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Archie And Friends #101
Archie Andrews is 65 years old, but he doesn't look a day over seventeen.

Nov 25, 2006 - 9:05:40 AM

Comics : Comic Strips
Happy Hooligan
A founding father of the world's most popular artform, Frederick Opper was born in Madison, Ohio in 1857

Nov 6, 2006 - 7:16:07 AM

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Decoy: Menagerie, Part 2
It isn't easy being green for either Kermit the Frog or Decoy the little alien. Both have seen better days

Oct 20, 2006 - 9:30:00 AM

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Bill Mauldin's Army
Bill Mauldin became the most famous cartoonists of his generation by recording his first-hand experiences of the bone-weary drudgery and horror of World War II

Sep 23, 2006 - 9:07:00 AM

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The Hire
Need to get from point A to point B as fast and as safely as possible? Need a read that jacks up your adrenaline level with adventure, humor and mayhem?

Sep 15, 2006 - 7:28:00 AM

Comics : Comic Strips
Our Gang
If you love the Our Gang films and the comic strip Pogo, then you'll love Walt Kelly's Our Gang, right?

Sep 1, 2006 - 9:01:00 AM

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Elephant Man #1
Well, there's this elephant named Ebony wearing a huge overcoat who walks and talks like a man, and this cute little girl with a bunny rabbit backpack named Savannah who wants to be his girlfriend

Aug 25, 2006 - 8:59:00 AM

Comics : Comic Reviews : Back Issues
The Preposterous Voyages of Iron-Hide
IronHide is stick figures from a tiny IronHide Tom atop a submerged monster on the front cover to the final panel of a despondent Tom stranded on some alien planet
Aug 18, 2006 - 7:52:00 AM

Comics : Comic Strips
Pogo Revisited
Choosing a book from one's own library is like selecting a bottle of wine from your own stock, with one exception

Aug 11, 2006 - 8:57:00 AM



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Comics
Richard Sala's Delphine #3
In the belly of...
Dark Horse Puts Deadlocke on Shelves
Comic book based on the novel, Venomous, now available.
Xeric-Winning Haunted Due in January 2010
Orion Books to release Joshua Smeaton graphic novel, now available for pre-order.
Brilliant Blue: Volume 2 (DokiDoki)
Will professional and family concerns end this new love?
Movies
Dark Horse Releases Tim Burton Skins
Cell phone and laptop skins now on sale.
Paranormal Activity
The buzz is real. This delivers scary.
Paranormal Activity Officially a Blockbuster
Paramount Pictures insists you know this - via a press release.
UGO Battlestar Galactica Contest Edges Towards End
Deadline for entry looms!
Action Figures
Dark Horse Announces New Domo Merchandise
New wave of collectibles due in March 2009.
Get Your Color Corps Rings
Fans of the Color Corps need to pre-order a selected set of books to ensure they get a full set of these limited edition rings.
Dick Tracy at San Diego Comic Con
Shocker Toys returns to San Diego Comic-Con Booth #3849 with five, count ‘em, five, exclusives, the return of an old favorite and one can’t miss party
Dark Horse Does More Tim Burton
New items includes figures and merchandise.
Video Games
Review: The Ballad of Gay Tony
Despite some dated graphics, this addition to the already massive sand box game is very welcomed.
Review: Halo 3: ODST
With great visuals, audio and addictive multiplayer mode, this game is a great addition to the series.
Review: The Beatles: Rock Band
Harmonix keeps delivering a new experience each time. This game is an absolute must have for Beatles fans and music lovers alike.
VIZ Media Announces New Naruto Games
New Naruto Shippuden games arrive for the DS and the Wii.
Books
A Kiss Before The Apocalypse: A Remy Chandler Novel
Thomas E. Sniegoski’s first adult novel is also the first in a hopefully long line of new urban fantasy adventures.
The Official xxxHOLiC Guide
The manga guide for the rest of us.
Legacy: A Novel by Thomas E. Sniegoski
The son of a superhero must struggle with his father's legacy in order to determine his own future.
VIZ Media Publishes Death Note Novel
Novel based on hit manga and anime now available.
Interviews
James Armstrong 2009 FanExpo Interview
FanExpo 2009 Toronto Interview with James Armstrong
Optimum Wound
Crime Noir comic book series web comics by Optimum Wound
Tara Tallan
Tara Tallan Creator of Galaxion Web Comics
Jeremy Dale Interview
Jeremy Dale Interview artist on Miserable Dastards comic book
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