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Longbox Diving – Amazing Spider-Man #574

By | Jan 11, 2012 | Columns

One of my favorite ongoing comics right now that only seems to get better and better each month is Rick Remender’s Venom. Starring long time Spider-Man bully/super fan/friend Flash Thompson as the newest host of one of Spider-Man’s greatest foes, The Venom Symbiote. While for more than a decade, Venom has skirted the line between […]

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Longbox Diving – The Crew

By | Dec 22, 2011 | Columns

Throughout the 90s and the early 2000s, Christopher Priest (or simply Priest for a good while) was one of the most prolific and critically acclaimed writers in mainstream comics. His impact on books like Black Panther and Captain America & The Falcon is immense and the highly politicized, street level storytelling her infused his books […]

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Longbox Diving – The Maiden Voyage(s) of the X-Club!

By | Dec 7, 2011 | Columns

Later today, one of the X-Properties with the most untapped creative potential graduates to its own five issue mini-series (that we will hopefully actually see all five of). However these are not the first X-Club adventures voracious, science loving readers can partake from. Hidden deep within both X-Crossovers Second Coming and Curse of the Mutants […]

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Longbox Diving: Uncanny X-Men #200

By | Nov 30, 2011 | Columns

Earlier this month, I claimed to be somewhat of a “Magneto scholar.” I don’t implicitly know if I would stand by that statement in a court of law, but that silly comment allows me to segue into this week’s Longbox Diving issue: Uncanny X-Men #200, “The Trial of Magneto!” Click behind the cut for some […]

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Longbox Diving – Daring Mystery Comics #1 (2009)

By | Nov 24, 2011 | Columns

After a quick bit of world travelling last week, I returned home to find that several of my favorite Marvel books were on their way into non-existence, including the fantastic Black Panther: The Most Dangerous Man Alive by novelist turned comic scribe David Liss. Liss’ grasp on street level, noir-esque storytelling is very close to […]

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Longbox Diving: X-Men #76

By | Nov 16, 2011 | Columns

Back when this website was first getting its wheels in gear, I “hired” a bunch of guys I had never met to write for me. Among them was one Brandon Burpee, who was an outspoken fan of a character I’d never even heard of at the time: Maggott. Brandon’s love of the character became a […]

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Longbox Diving – The Order

By | Nov 2, 2011 | Columns

Earlier today, we brought you our interview with Matt Fraction from NYCC. Given our fondness of his body of work, it only made sense that this week’s Longbox Diving be somewhat Fraction themed. We already rant, rave and more about Casanova regularly, but there was another book that spun out of the ashes of Civil War which came, […]

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Longbox Diving: The New Fantastic Four

By | Oct 28, 2011 | Columns

What will almost assuredly become know as “90s week at Multiversity” continues! Despite the immensely iconic nature of The Fantastic Four’s line-up, their roster has still fluctuated over the years as one or more of their members shifted through phases of dead, powerless, depressed or in love. However, for one particularly strange three issue adventure, […]

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Longbox Diving – Siege: Embedded

By | Oct 12, 2011 | Columns

It’s been just about 2 years since Marvel began its last line altering event, but while Siege’s effects are still present in the Marvel Universe, one of its more inspired tie-ins seems to have faded into the depths of many a longbox pretty quickly, and that’s pretty unfortunate. Siege: Embedded did not come into being […]

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