Yearly Archives: 2012

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News
Hawkeye Shows His Worth in SNL’s Avengers Sketch

By | Nov 19, 2012 | News

This week while hosting SNL, Jeremy Renner reprised his role as Hawkeye for an Avengers-themed sketch in which the question is asked: “How useful is Hawkeye, anyway?” Or, as a woman in my theater liked to call him repeatedly during the film while explaining things to her son, the Hawk guy. To say anything more […]

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Columns
Tradewaiter: The Hole of Tank Girl

By | Nov 19, 2012 | Columns

Alright, boys and girls — lets all face a cold-hard truth: we should all love Tank Girl, and not all of us have actually read Tank Girl. This is a book as important to our sub-culture as Hellboy or Sin City, and yet it does not get nearly as much attention as it deserves. Well, […]

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Friday Recommendation: I Kill Giants

By | Nov 16, 2012 | Columns

It is honestly difficult for me to write a “review” of Joe Kelly and J.M. Ken Niimura’s “I Kill Giants.” After all, the difference between an objective review and, say, commentary is that word “objective” — and I, unfortunately, cannot be objective about the masterwork that is “I Kill Giants.” Why, you ask? Because it […]

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Columns
Strange Love – Part 9

By | Nov 16, 2012 | Columns

What makes a comic “good”? This seems like a stupid question but it’s an ongoing education that I continue to take notes on. What makes the answer so elusive is that when attempting to produce top-notch creator-owned work, your opinion (as a writer) only half matters. It’s certainly important to have confidence in your scripts, […]

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Marvel Drops New Age of Ultron Teaser – AU

By | Nov 16, 2012 | News

After months of teasers dealing with just one word, Marvel has dropped a new teaser full of 0’s and 1’s, teasing something called AU. What is AU? Well, that’s a pretty easy thing to guess: AFTER ULTRON, in relation to that “Age of Ultron” book Brian Bendis and Bryan Hitch are supposed to be working […]

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Reviews
Review: The Phantom Stranger #2

By | Nov 16, 2012 | Reviews

A work of art does many things; it recontextualizes moments of our lives, it challenges preconceptions, it teaches us about ourselves and, most importantly perhaps, it gets us to ask questions. The question that “The Phantom Stranger”#2 begs is clear and obvious from the very beginning. “What the fuck?” Be warned, there are spoilers to […]

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Reviews
Review: Point of Impact #2

By | Nov 16, 2012 | Reviews

Distinguished by some great-looking art, Image miniseries “Point of Impact” is proving to be a stylish if slightly superficial police procedural. Written by Jay Faerber Illustrated by Koray Kuranel Chapter Two of JAY FAERBER’s thrilling murder mystery! The victim’s secret boyfriend is the prime suspect in her murder – and the cop leading the investigation […]

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GI Joe Also Gets A Relaunch

By and | Nov 16, 2012 | News

We host a monthly column called GI JoeVersity, in which writer Chad Bowers goes over all things Joe for you real American heroes out there. However, if you didn’t read the latest one for October, you may have missed him dropping the news that IDW is relaunching their GI Joe books with new creative teams. […]

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Image Reveals the Final Fifth Weapon: Rick the Stick

By | Nov 16, 2012 | News

Alright, so to recap:  Darryl the Arrow, Jade the Blade, Joon the Loon and Nat the Gat. Today? Rick the Stick, the final of the Five Weapons for Jimme Robinson’s new series. So what are the Five Weapons? Well, the recently revealed solicit tells all: 13-year-old Tyler finds himself in a specialized school where assassins send their kids […]

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