Monthly Archives: August 2011

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Columns
This Month in Comics: August 2011

By | Aug 31, 2011 | Columns

The above Achewood strip represents my relationship with comic books, particularly my genuine attempt (key word: attempt) at reading the fifteen million billion Flashpoint and Fear Itself tie-ins that came out this month, solely for the sake of this feature. I feel that it provides necessary context for the article that follows after the jump. […]

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Longbox Diving – X-Men Icons: Iceman

By | Aug 31, 2011 | Columns

2001 was a good year to be an X-Fan (at least for lowly 14 year-old Josh). The first X-Men movie had just hit and Marvel was investing pretty heavily in the Mutant side of their universe. By bringing in talent like Joe Casey and Grant Morrison to revitalize the line, it created one of the […]

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Reviews
Advance Review: Angel & Faith #1

By | Aug 31, 2011 | Reviews

Angel & Faith #1 Written By: Christos Gage Illustrated By: Rebekah Isaacs Left in a near-catatonic state following the events in Buffy Season 8, Angel will need a seriously rude awakening if he’s to make amends for his ill-conceived deeds. Enter rebel Slayer with a cause–Faith Lehane. Together they’ll have full access to the Watcher […]

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News
Review: Justice League #1

By | Aug 31, 2011 | News

Written by Geoff JohnsIllustrated by Jim Lee Comics superstars Geoff Johns and Jim Lee make history! In a universe where super heroes are strange and new, Batman has discovered a dark evil that requires him to unite the World Greatest Heroes! This spectacular debut issue is also offered as a special combo pack edition, polybagged […]

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The Blue X-Team Gets A Few New Members As Well

By | Aug 31, 2011 | News

In addition to the Gold team image we just posted, there is an additional image with more Blue team members. Storm is joining Gischler’s X-Men, and Gillen is keeping Juggercolossus (Colossusnaut?) and adding Magik to the main title. As I mentioned, there is at least one fully unsilhoutted image out on the internet revealing more […]

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Wolverine’s Gold Team Gets A Few New Members

By | Aug 31, 2011 | News

Revealed today, Marvel has put out part of their Gold team post-Regenesis teaser with a few unsilhoutted characters: Deadpool on X-Force, Iceman on Wolverine’s X-Men team, and Layla Miller, Shatterstar and Rahne still on X-Factor (no big surprise there). There is, however, a noticable lack of unsilhoutted characters on Rogue’s X-Men Legacy team – which […]

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Artist August: Phil Noto (Art Feature)

By | Aug 31, 2011 | Columns

We’ve talked before about how great Phil Noto’s art blog is, but recently Noto started a new series of images: From The Hank Pym Photo Archives. Featuring classic Marvel characters in retro settings, the series acts as photographs of familiar faces in entirely non-superheroic settings. Or, to put it much more simply, it’s just a […]

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News
Happy DC Relaunch Day!

By | Aug 31, 2011 | News

Last night at midnight, Flashpoint #5 and Justice League #1 were released for comic book fans everywhere to read and either enjoy or deride, depending on the person. It’s an exciting time to be a comic fan no matter who you are, though – and nothing quite sums it up like the above video. Watch […]

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Image to Release Thought Bubble Anthology

By | Aug 31, 2011 | News

Image Press Release Like Image Comics, UK’s Thought Bubble festival celebrates sequential art in all its forms and genres. Now the leading creator-owned publisher is joining forces with the non-profit Thought Bubble organization to celebrate the fifth year of the festival with THOUGHT BUBBLE ANTHOLOGY, a collection whose proceeds will go to the charity Banardos. […]

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