Author Archives: David Harper

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Off the Cape: God Hates Astronauts

By | Jul 12, 2011 | Columns

On this week’s Off the Cape, I cheat. This comic features capes, but I can promise you, Ryan Browne’s webcomic God Hates Astronauts stars superheroes quite unlike any you’ve ever seen. I was going to describe it, but that truly won’t do it justice. I’ll let Browne’s Twitter page do that for me. The worlds […]

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News
Phil Noto’s Art Blog is Better Than Yours

By | Jul 8, 2011 | News

With the recent Wolverine and Jubilee mini-series, I became a big fan of Phil Noto’s art. I’d been exposed to it previously, but something about that mini-series brought a perfect match in subject and artist, and made me realize that this guy is one hell of a talent. Recently I took a look at his […]

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Off the Cape: The Sixth Gun

By | Jun 28, 2011 | Columns

This week on Off the Cape, we have a look at Cullen Bunn and Brian Hurtt’s increasingly popular but deserving of more love supernatural western thriller The Sixth Gun (say that sentence ten times fast). This Oni Press book started off strongly with an arc that, in many ways, felt like it told the primary […]

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Longform
Multiversity 101: How Alan Moore Saved Comics

By | Jun 27, 2011 | Longform

Pretty soon, everyone can own Action Comics #1 and Uncanny X-Men #1. These collectors items, previously likely to set you back somewhere between thousands and millions of dollars can be acquired for a cool $3.99. Not bad for a legendary collectors item. Except they aren’t the genuine article. The former is a renumbering of the […]

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Multiversity vs. the DCnU: A Look at the Edge Titles

By | Jun 15, 2011 | Columns

After DC began announcing the 52 relaunch titles they are coming out with in September, perhaps the most surprising (besides maybe Horror) was the Edge grouping. Combining less popular characters from the DCU with a litany of characters from the previously dead and disconnected Wildstorm Universe, Edge could easily be considered a codename for “less […]

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