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How Much Is Six Million Dollars Worth Anyway?

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The Bionic Man #1

Quite the delicacy of first issues this week, and I am beginning to wonder if Dark Horse will retain its mastery of the licensed titles. Both Dynamite and IDW continue to challenge them with impressive offerings, as we see this week with the release of The Bionic Man #1 from Dynamite, and the return of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by Kevin Eastman from IDW. It makes a nice change to not be talking about the DCnU, but on that note – Aaaaaand another thing! I’ve been re-reading Countdown, which at the time was panned and seen as a poor successor to Fifty Two, but compared to the Flashpoint? It’s Read more »

Passion Reawakened

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Passion Reawakened

Regular readers of this column will be aware how much I appreciate the beginning of a new universe, yet how often is it that we are treated to such an event with a universe that already carries such a distinguished pedigree. When I first heard about the Kirby: Genesis project by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, I was initially unimpressed. By their working from the King Jack Kirby’s original notes, it seemed somewhat of a, well, travesty is too strong a word, but it felt like they were walking over sacred territory. Yet I am a sucker for the beautiful covers of Mr. Ross, and could not resist picking up Read more »

New Blood

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New Blood

We are now on the third issue of the newest Vampirella series, taken in a whole new direction from the recent mini-series. No longer do we see the empowering message of ‘we are all Vampirella’ (well, sort of), but we return to the long-term battle between the Daughter of Drakulon and the legendary Dracula himself. At least, that’s how the series starts, but with the latest developments it hints at a more Lovecraftian or Necroscope style take, which harkens back somewhat to the Warren Publishing days, where our Vampi made her name. Now I missed the original Warren days, and still hunt those back issue bins for precious missing issues. Read more »

Thanksgiving Firsts

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Thanksgiving Firsts

So this week Tom DeFalco has returned to one of his old creations with Thunderstrike, and for me this is a return to some of the older more innocent style comics. Well, as much as one can perceive from a first issue. It’s nice to see Kevin Masterson again even if he has turned into the ultimate brat, and also nice to see an Asgardian title that isn’t all ‘Woe is me, Asgard has fallen’. I’m not saying this is the pinnacle of comic story-telling, far from it, but it is enjoyable, and a welcome return for a character missed by many. Speaking of returns however, Dynamite have continued their Read more »

Comics without copyright?

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Comics without copyright?

I had been thinking the past few days about copyright in regard to comics, what with the successes of Dynamite with Project Superpowers and the Black Terror, even as the original Daredevil also appears in the pages of the Savage Dragon and had been a background staple in the pages of FemForce. There have also been hints of characters mentioned in JSA history that I think have fallen into the public domain, such as the The Spider int he lead up to the first appearance in that tile of the King Of Tears. I’ve been reading over at TechDirt (totally comics unrelated) how copyright itself seems to be an inhibition Read more »

The Return To Greatness Of Green Arrow, and Army Of Darkness not so much.

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The Return To Greatness Of Green Arrow, and Army Of Darkness not so much.

J. T. Krul, who impressed me so much with his handling of the Titans in his Blackest Night mini has returned the Emerald Archer (in one single issue) to the levels of greatness of the eighty issue Mike Grell series of the late Eighties. Where as let’s face it, the Evil Dead/Army Of Darkness mythos (and Ash most definitely) is not and never has been ‘great’. Read more »

State of the Multiverse 2

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Brave And The Bold #25

I was too old to read Planet Terry the first time round but that didn’t stop me then, and it won’t stop me now. Read more »