I may end up hitting the size limit here because I've got a lot of Hauls here. Since this is primarily a list, a very, very, VERY long one, I'm putting it behind a cut. I have additional notes on some things, but I'm going to do separate larger entries on some of the most significant things.

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So the big news in comics last week was that DC is rebooting their line of superhero books. Come August, a lot of things are ending, and come September, there will be 52 #1 comics hitting stores as DC starts fresh. Some stuff will carry over, but it's not clear how much. But even series that have continuously run since the 30s are not safe. ( Read more... )

All right, let me preface this with the fact that a couple of months ago DC lowered the price on their regular, ongoing titles to $2.99 with heavy advertising of the self aggrandizing catchphrase of "Holding the line at $2.99." People assumed that DC had figured out something that was going over the heads of the folks at Marvel, that the fanbase ( Read more... )

I was recently asked what my favorite five partnerships/romances are. You'll notice that most of these are from extended series as opposed to single novels or movies. That's because what typically makes the relationship interesting for me is to see how it evolves over time.

Booster Gold and Blue Beetle from the Justice League is the first that ( Read more... )

Yeah, most of these are a lot briefer than I'd like...

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Captain America & The Korvac Saga #1 of 4 - Ben McCool + Craig Rousseau. Another all-ages retelling of a classic story, this time it's the Korvac Saga, one of my favorite Avengers tales of all time. I even wrote an essay on it. So I'm finding it weird to see it redone with Captain America ( Read more... )

Such a Thor week. Four different Thor comics, you'd think I like him a lot more than I actually do. It's also a week devoid of anything X-Men related which is just bizarre.

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Ant-Man & Wasp #1 of 3 - Tim Seeley. Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man now calling himself the Wasp, finds himself forced to work with the incorrigible Eric O'Grady, the ( Read more... )

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Avengers & the Infinity Gauntlet #3 of 4 - Brian Clevinger/Lee Black + Brian Churilla. Sure there weren't any Space Pirates zipping about in Space Zeppelins in the original Infinity Gauntlet series... but maybe there should have been.

Deadpool Team-Up #888 - Cullen Bunn + Tom Fowler. DP in a tag-team match with the living legend of Unlimited ( Read more... )

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Incredible Hulks #614 - Greg Pak + Barry Kitson. The Hulks fight the Secret Avengers for the chance to be the first to confront Hiro-Kala and stop him from destroying the Earth. What's with Banner and his boys?
Back-up by Joshua Williamson + Mirco Pierfederici.

Iron Man By Design one-shot - Not a comic, but instead an art book with writes up ( Read more... )

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Atlas #5 - Jeff Parker + Gabriel Hardman/Jeff Parker/Ramon Rosanas. Marvel did their best to keep this fantastic series alive by doing crossover miniseries, tie-ins to events, and multiple revivals, but the buyers just weren't out there. Jeff Parker finally called it quits instead of continuing the struggle to entice readers that refuse to ( Read more... )

Crap, I can't believe how behind I am on this. Oh, well, here we go.

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Deadpool Corps #6 - Victor Gischler + Marat Mychaels. With Marat Mychaels' crappy art it became readily apparent just how crappy the writing is, so I've dropped the title. Alright, so Mychaels' art isn't completely awful, but his faces are pretty consistently off which makes ( Read more... )