Author Archives: Patrick Tobin

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Review: Milk and Cheese: Dairy Products Gone Bad

By | Nov 25, 2011 | Reviews

Written and illustrated by Evan Dorkin A carton of hate. A wedge of spite. A comic book of idiotic genius. The Eisner Award-winning dairy duo returns in this deluxe hardcover collecting every single stupid Milk and Cheese comic ever made from 1989 to 2010, along with a sh*t-ton of supplemental awesomeness. This has everything you […]

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Review: Aliens: Fast Track to Heaven

By | Nov 25, 2011 | Reviews

Written and illustrated by Liam Sharp Beneath the ice of Jupiter’s moon, life teems in lightless oceans. But more spectacular discoveries elsewhere in the cosmos have left Europa’s research facilities underfunded and ignored, a lonely wayside with an orbital station and a decaying space elevator. When one of the elevators stops midway, the rescue team […]

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Review: Doc Bizarre, M.D. / Haunt #19 / Vengeance #5

By | Nov 25, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Joe Casey Doc Bizarre, M.D.Illustrated by Andy Suriano From monsters crippled with pneumonia or demons suffering from incontinence, only one man claims to possess the skills and the training to cure what ails them? DOC BIZARRE, M.D.! He’ll make globe hopping house calls for sick creepers, medically challenged myths and ghouls at death’s […]

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Review: Transformers #30

By | Nov 18, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Mike CostaIllustrated by Livio Ramondelli CHAOS part 4 brings events to a devastating head: Megatron confronts his most formidable opponent yet… The Autobots scramble to keep out of the way of the Decepti-god’s unstoppable rampage… and Optimus Prime faces off against Galvatron, in a battle where the fate of the whole planet rests […]

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News
Wolverine #300 Not a Single-Month Renumbering Stunt, Community Shocked

By | Nov 15, 2011 | News

With Comic Book Resources releasing advance solicitations of February’s X-Men titles, and specifically the solicit for Wolverine #301, it becomes clear that January’s Wolverine #300 is not a single-issue sales-stunt, like Wolverine #900 and #1000, but an actual move back toward the numbering of, presumably, the Wolverine ongoing launched in 1988. (By sheer coincidence, our […]

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Review: Avenging Spider-Man #1

By | Nov 10, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Zeb WellsIllustrated by Joe Madureria This is what you’ve been waiting for! The return of legendary artist Joe Madureira (X-Men, Battle Chasers) and fan-favorite Spidey writer Zeb Wells in a brand new, highly anticipated, monthly Spider-series that teams the wall-crawler up with some of the greatest heroes in the Marvel Universe. In our […]

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Columns
Friday Recommendation: Kill Your Boyfriend

By | Nov 4, 2011 | Columns

This is one of my favorite panels from my single favorite comic book ever made. It’s a comic about loving life, and being young, and taking thrills before you’re too old and soft and boring to forget how. It’s about how the world is stupid and silly and needs a kick sometimes, but how both […]

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Review: Thor: The Deviants Saga #1

By | Nov 4, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Robert RodiPenciled by Stephen Segovia THE AGELESS ENEMIES OF THE ETERNALS TURN ON ASGARD! Beneath the ruins of Asgard, the Deviant villainess Ereshkigal seeks a mystic means of saving her race from extinction–and finds instead a weapon capable of dissolving all reality. With the Eternals who would oppose her mysteriously vanished, Thor stands […]

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Review: Action Comics #3

By | Nov 3, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Grant MorrisonPenciled by Rags Morales and Gene Ha “Superman, Go Home!” In a startling tale only Grant Morrison could bring you, the people of Metropolis turn on their new champion! But why? Plus, shocking secrets from Krypton revealed! In Month Three of Grant Morrison’s re-imagining of Super-History, the dreaded “Putting the ‘Man’ into […]

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Review: Avengers Academy #20

By | Oct 28, 2011 | Reviews

Written by Christos GagePenciled by Tom Raney Avengers Academy loses one student and teacher — but who? Are they traitors? Did they quit? Did they die? Well, they answer the questions in the solicitation copy, at least. (Points off for not noting that it’s an end of an era and everything you know is blah […]

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