February 2012
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Image! 2012!
… Pretty sure a good 80% of these new Image titles sound and look completely awesome. They’re even going to get my money on a Mark Millar book thanks to Frank Quitely’s art.
Hot damn.
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Casanova!
I have, at last, jumped onto the Casanova bandwagon after an extensive recommendation from the sales guy at Forbidden Planet. Pretty excited to tear through the first two volumes I’ve got sitting here, though I do feel somewhat obligated to watch the Knicks game? Relaxation: the new stress.
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Get Him While He's Hot
To celebrate the suspiciously under-reviewed sequel to the almost universally panned 2007 film, ComiXology is currently having a massive Ghost Rider sale. Issues 20-32 of Jason Aaron’s spectacular run can be yours for an appropriately demonic 13 bucks, and I’d really recommend them — or at least, the first storyline, Hell-Bent and Heaven-Bound, though I can’t imagine...
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Problem Child: The Ups and Downs of Peter Tomasi's...
I’ll admit it: moments after cracking open this week’s Batman and Robin #6, which immediately confronts the reader with an image of the young Damian Wayne poised to put a bullet through someone’s head, I was tempted to put the issue down and call the whole thing off altogether.
The moment pays off later, but it’s problematic no matter how you look at it. In the issues...
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… Like it or hate it, I think we do all have to admit that the “Before Watchmen” regurgitation is at least eight million times more interesting than the “Avengers vs. X-Men” one? Shots fired, Marvel.
Also, the Times article about the whole thing is really fantastic. Quotes from Alan Moore and even Jonathan Lethem, to put the whole thing in perspective.