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Deadpool #46 - Daniel Way + Salva Espin. Deadpool has it out with his evil twin. A few good jokes but the story is going a little long.

Fear Itself #7.3: Iron Man - Matt Fraction + Salvador Larroca. The best issue of the entire series, Fraction does a good job of getting into Tony Stark's head and his trouble as a man of science dealing with ( Read more... )

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Fear Itself #7.1: Captain America - Ed Brubaker + Butch Guice. Oh, for fuck's sake! One of the numerous problems with Fear Itself was the death of Captain America (Bucky) in issue three. He didn't appear in issues one and two so he just showed up do die. That's bad storytelling. And it didn't feel real in the slightest. Then we get this ( Read more... )

"I'm just thinking this out now for the first time, but if there's a part of you that you hate and fear and always bottle it up, that side of you turns into a monster. But if you're able to confront what it is you hate about yourself - to let it out and see what it is - then those elements you fear may turn out to be not so troublesome at all - ( Read more... )

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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While considering why World War Hulk didn't work as well as Planet Hulk, I actually came to appreciate it more ( 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... )

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Ant Man & Wasp #2 of 3 - Tim Seeley. Our unlikely duo end up battling AIM to retrieve the digital heaven that Hank Pym had created for Bill Foster's soul. Seeley does a great job with this series, and both actions and plot points stem from the characters' histories.
“Halt in the name of science!”

Chaos War: God Squad one-shot - Marc Sumerak + ( Read more... )

Carol & John's Black Friday Midnight Madness Sale on November 26th was, as expected, quite a bit of fun. Becca and Grafton went with me to check it out, but spent most of their time at the Red Lantern bar next door. Heh, a Red Lantern next to a comic book store. Heh heh heh.

I did go to the bar for a little bit and had some of the Great Lakes ( Read more... )

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Astonishing Thor #1 of 4(?) - Robert Rodi + Mike Choi. Looks promising. The story has a couple layers to it and the art is simply gorgeous. Plus, it features the fan-favorite Ego, The Living Planet. What do you mean he's not a fan-favorite? I like him and I'm a fan, eh?
EDIT 2/4/11: I had been looking forward to this, but having read the ( Read more... )

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Chaos War: Chaos King one-shot - Brandon Montclare + Michael Wm. Kaluta. (I wrote about this when it first came out, because it's that good, so you might remember this write-up.) The welcome return of Kaluta's art to a full comic book. He's best known for his work on Starstruck and The Shadow, as well as a lengthy run on House of Mystery in ( Read more... )