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All Things Geek Exclusive: AHOY Comics Publisher Hart Seely’s Scathingly...
AHOY Comics is the new startup company looking to shake up the publishing industry with a bold new format: comic book magazines! You can read about them in my feature: AHOY Comics Previews Debut Comic...
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How To Make Comics a Family Thing
— Issue #5 The First Page A woman reading a comic book is NOT an urban legend. I see them in my local comic book shop browsing and buying for themselves and not for their boyfriends/husbands/other male...
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How the X-Men & DC Heroes Rock the Holidays
— The First Page The closer it gets to Christmas, the closer it gets to the opening of the Aquaman movie. If anyone needs me on December 21 at or around 11:20 am, I’ll be in a leather recliner at my...
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The ‘Beastie Boys Book’ Delivers All the Wild Moments
Ostensibly an oral history of the legendary and ground breaking hip-hop group written with a style as distinctive and eclectic as one of their songs, Beastie Boys Book upends the typical music memoir....
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How Batman Taught Me about Life
— Right off the top, yeah, I’m a comic book nerd, and no I will not apologize for that. Everybody has a “thing” and that’s my thing. If you haven’t picked up a comic book in a few years you may be...
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How Classic Literature and Comic Books Co-exist
— Olivia Twist. Liesel Van Helsing. Robyn Hood. Red Riding Hood. Grimm Fairy Tales. James Bond. Dracula. Frankenstein. The Three Musketeers and the list goes on. These are but a few characters that...
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Your Best New Years Resolution, Runaways and a Twist On Dickens
— The First Page Welcome to a new year of comics! There are a lot of new series starting this month, including a few this week. This week we also say goodbye to two short series from independent...
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This is not your Disney’s Jasmine
— Those of us with daughters are all aware of Princess Jasmine that fell in love with Aladdin, defeated the evil Jafar (although can anyone be that evil if a Robin Williams genie has your back?) and...
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That Comic Book Nerd’s Good Stuff of the Week
— The First Page There’s been so much that we’ve talked about in the past few weeks regarding new series and they’re just now starting to come out, so reviews and good stuff will be coming soon. What...
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Film Review: Reign of the Supermen
My kids and I attended a screening of “Reign of the Supermen”, the final chapter in the latest “Death of Superman” Story from WarnerBros.Animation. Jerry O’Connell and Rebecca Romijn, the voices of...
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Daredevil #1 (2019)
— It was Friday early evening and I was driving to my local comic book shop for Nerd Game Night. A collection of local folk getting together for a Magic the Gathering tourney or to play good,...
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Wonder Twin Powers Activate
— In my world, Saturday Mornings from 1977-1984 cartoons more or less centered on the Superfriends and their teen alien sidekicks Zan and Jayna. And their annoying purple monkey Gleek. I’m sure many...
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The Justice League Fights In More Ways Than One
— Justice League Dark is absolutely one of my favorite series out today, probably because it has some of my favorite characters, many of whom I would guess you have never heard of. The old school...
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What I Look For In a Comic Book
— People have asked me from time to time what I look for in a comic book or what I like about certain comics, so I thought I would address that. First off, I’d like to say happy birthday to my mom, who...
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Lady Death
— If you’ve read even a couple of these weekly columns, you know I’m a big supporter of my local mom and pop comic book shop. This piece is because of my local shop, Comic Force in Branson, MO. I went...
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A Fresh Look at the Comic Book Store
— As I write this, my family is visiting me in the Ozarks from California and that includes a 12-year-old nephew and a 9-year-old niece. Being the awesome uncle that I am, I got them gift cards to my...
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Welcome to Oz
— “Cut off from most of her loyal followers and exiled from the Emerald City, Dorothy is still trapped in a body that is not her own. Now on the run through increasingly forbidding lands, and with the...
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Remembering the Heroes that Protect us This Memorial Day Weekend
— It’s Memorial Day Weekend and what better time to not only remember and thank the real-life people who have served this country and fought to protect us, but to also pay tribute to the heroes from...
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Lady Mechanika: La Dama De La Muerte
— Lady Mechanika creator Joe Benitez makes a departure from the normal steampunk roots that is the character of Lady Mechanika and in this trade paperback, a collection of the while short series, the...
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The Incredible Hulk Last Call
— The book opens in Reno, Nevada at Christmas time, which is odd considering that the comic book was just released this week. But hey, who am I to judge when they set these things, right? We see Dr...
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