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I was thinking about my ultimate life's goal of owning every appearance of Spider-Man in print ever (not even close, by the way), when I remembered that includes stuff like this: I actually do own this issue, but I swear it's only for the Spider-Man appearance (which consists entirely of Spidey showing up and saying, "Wow, but this guy is a credible and not remotely fucking ludicrous crime

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Garish as it may be, I've been thinking about gracing my digits with some rings.  Time to narrow my choices. 1) Green Lantern Power Ring - At it's essence, the Power Ring can construct whatever the wearer wills it to.  Which means it can really do anything.  Even make other rings.  The drawback is that you need to charge it every 24 hours ("Earthman time") and it has a whack weakness to the

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Here I'm going to crop sections of a cover and make insightful craptacular comments on it. The cover to Fantastic Four #10 (dated January 1963).  Click images to enlarge Here it means something, at the time of publication this may have been Doom's third or fourth appearance, only. (Fact Checking reveals it was the second) so this is really a legitimate RETURN of comics most nefarious

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When you think about it, the title sequence serves no purpose.  How often are you sitting to watch a movie from the beginning without any awareness of what it's called.  But it's not there so much to tell you the name, so much as to present the name (and the key individuals involved in production). So, here are some great presentations. 2001: A Space Odyssey - 1968 Apocalypse Now - 1979

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Really?  I don't want to wait anymore. But that image may hold me over. Who am I kidding, Gimme gimme gimme.

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I'm not gonna lie, I dig Marty's work (we're on a first name basis here).  So, naturally, I've got an extensive collection of Martin Scorsese DVDs.  I admit, I don't own New York, New York (nor do I ever wish to), but I'll rank it anyway.  Because that's how my list works. Because I've bought some of these multiple times (I've got at least three copies of GoodFellas) they'll get listed more than

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It's hard to define just exactly what is wrong with contemporary Simpsons episodes.  There's little consensus on just what made them bad and when.  What's not hard to see is the definite drop in quality between an episode from, say, the 4th Season to one airing currently. (When we say "bad" in reference to a Simpsons episode, it's important to note the term is relative) For me personally, I can

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Personally, I really love reading this kind of crap, so I figured I'd knock one out. At the start of the month DC puts out solicitations for coming comics. I'll look through them, and talk about the ones I feel like talking about.And with that we're gonna jump into it. Marvel will come soon, and then a "miscellaneous" entry (hopefully, I might just be too lazy).SUPERMAN #700 - J. Michael

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I was already excited by the prospect of a Batwoman title written by Greg Rucka, but this phenomenal cover art is blowing me away. I don't have much to say, but it's easily among the best covers I've seen the past few weeks.It really sells an action-suspense-mystery atmosphere, I've got a great feeling about this book. With Bruce gone DC's making some great moves with the Bat franchise.

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Updates coming this month include a review on Power Girl #2, music analysis, and hopefully some other stuff. So, yeah.

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All things considered, there are worse episodes in the Ninth Season of The Simpsons than Das Bus. Maybe I'll even review one soon (I have a bone to pick with Realty Bites). However, this episode in particular exhibits the growing laziness on the part of the writers to adhere to basic show structure.Structure is a vague term, and I'm not going to define it here, suffice it to say it's

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Sometimes in comics you just get a really gorgeous panel, here's one of them.I'm referring to the last panel, the look conveyed on Vader's impliable armored visage is marvelous. The lighting in the previous panels were beautiful too. But the use of shadow in that expression is priceless. Here's a link to a closeup of the panel in question.You can also find it in the Trade Paperback, Star Wars

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Yesterday I bought a copy of Fantastic Four #265. I was excited, it's a good little issue, with a great cover, and it's the introduction of She-Hulk as a member of the Fantastic Four. And it was in John Byrne's run, so all told a nice issue to have.Then reading it I was reminded of the great un-ironic nature of the advertising.Fancy stuff. You should see the ad for "Joust" on the inside front

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I really don't like this cover. For multiple reasons, actually. But mainly for Black Canary's cleavage. My point: Black Canary doesn't have exposed cleavage. Not just in this book, but ever. Now, I'm not railing against boobs, far from it, but I'd like an at least marginally accurate depiction of a favorite character of mine on her own book. Fuck me, but isn't that a reasonable expectation?

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I previously expressed my love for Power Girl (and not just her cleavage), and now that we've got us a Bona Fide Power Girl solo series, maybe we can get a monthly review going.Now, this isn't a groundbreaking series. It's not Watchmen, it's not Maus, it's not Bone. It's a Superhero book, and a damn fucking good one. One issue in, the best way to describe the serie(s) is as "fun".If you've

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I really like Howard Shore, but he pissed me off with his soundtrack to Dogma, The late 90's Kevin Smith picture. The climax to the film, in front of the church with the angelic massacre, has virtually the same score as The Lord of The Rings.I know LotR came later, but its inclusion in this movie cheesed me to no end. I mean, really. It's not like he's as bad as John Williams (who does this

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I'm conflicted on the Superman/Batman series. It's a good concept, but it's been used forever. I sort of like the writing, but sort of hate it. Ditto on a lot of the art. I'm not a standard comics art reviewing nerd. I don't get heavy into specifics, because I have minimal visual art training. I just go with what I dig aesthetically, which is what you're gonna get here.Anyway, this is the

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Note: I wrote this for another site, and felt like putting it here too. Not to promote the show too heavily, but I really like it.Unwilling to take the easy road as a mere shallow parody of Jonny Quest, Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer have instead shaped the complex Venture universe into the best show on television. The Venture Bros operates on the concept of a mix-and-match world of differing

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Yep, total racist.

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You know what I hate? When they can't keep the little things straight. This set is advertised as "The Venture Bros. 3rd Season." The others were "The Venture Bros. Season 1 and/or 2". You know what I love and makes up for that? Motherfucking cool packaging. This Faux-retro Atari package-design is easily the coolest thing I've seen since the boss packaging for the Season 2 set. And I haven't

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