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| Phonogram: The Singles Club #5 |
This is the story of Laura Heaven, the girl who didn’t exist. She speaks in quotes of Long Blondes songs. In many different ways, both real and metaphorically, she covers up the damage that’s been inflicted on her. Even in her own story, she is defined by her relation to… |
Scott Cederlund |
11/17/09 |
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11/17/09 |
| Getting ready for AMC’s The Prisoner |
On Sunday, November 15th, AMC will begin its The Prisoner, a remake of the cult favorite 1967 British show starring Patrick McGoohan. In this new, updated version, Jim Caviezel and Ian McKellan about a man who’s abducted and sent to live in the Village against his will. As with any… |
Scott Cederlund |
11/14/09 |
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11/18/09 |
| Stumptown #1 |
Dex Parios reminds me a lot of early Atticus Kodiak, Greg Rucka’s one time bodyguard character from a series of novels. In the novels like Keeper, Finder and Smoker, Atticus is a bit of a screw up. The plot of Rucka’s novels resolved more around how Atticus made things worse… |
Scott Cederlund |
11/10/09 |
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11/10/09 |
| Detective Comics #858 |
Greg Rucka is not a showy or bombastic writer. Maybe that is why during his and J.H. Williams III first four issues of Detective Comics, most of the discussion was about Williams’ luscious artwork. Williams brought the same storytelling sensibilities he developed for Alan Moore’s Promethea to Rucka’s Batwoman story. … |
Scott Cederlund |
11/03/09 |
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| Blackest Night #4 |
For a Green Lantern-centric event, there’s a distinct lack of Green Lanterns in Blackest Night #4. The first three issues of this series were more of a buddy event, having Green Lantern and the Flash team up to fight zombified versions of their friends and teammates. Geoff Johns started out… |
Scott Cederlund |
11/03/09 |
1 |
11/03/09 |
| Daredevil: Return of the King tpb |
Daredevil: Return of the King is almost a perfect mirror to Ed Brubaker and Michael Lark’s first Daredevil book, The Devil, Inside and Out Part 1. In that first story, they began with Matt Murdock in jail, forced to ally himself with his enemies to survive and escape. By the… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/27/09 |
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| Sugarshock (one shot) |
Joss Whedon is given to flights of fancy. Sometimes it works like “Hush”, the silent episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer and sometimes it doesn’t as evidenced by any number of episodes of his latest television series Dollhouse (what does that man see in Eliza Dusku, anyway?) Sugarshock is as… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/27/09 |
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| Adventure Comics #3 |
Geoff Johns’ tale of Superboy readjusting to life has been a surprisingly sweet story. From the farm fields of Smallville to the sewers of Paris, Conner Kent is trying to rebuild his life by reconnecting to the people who matter to him. First it was with his surrogate mother Martha… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/20/09 |
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| Bloom County The Complete Library Volume One: 1980-1982 |
Bloom County began on December 8th, 1980 with a kind of lame joke about Burger King’s then current ad slogan promising that you can have a burger “your way.” A grumpy looking old man orders a Whopper but hold the bun. After going back and forth for two panels, a… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/20/09 |
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| Planetary #27 |
Planetary was always about the ripples; about how they interacted and magnified each other. It was about stories and how one story rippled and echoed into another. The story about giant monsters on a Japanese island was reflected in a later issue about giant Australian spirits around Ayers Rock. A… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/12/09 |
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| The Umbrella Academy: Dallas |
In The Umbrella Academy V1: Apocalypse Suite, writer Gerard Way and artist Gabriel Ba quickly built a world equal parts Teen Titans and Bugs Bunny, where super hero and intelligent monkeys work side by side to defend the world against… well, honestly, the biggest threat to the Umbrella Academy is… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/06/09 |
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| Fantastic Four #571 |
Let’s face it, The Fantastic Four has always been your father’s comic book and Reed Richards has always been your father. As the head of the Fantastic Four family, he’s the ultimate patriarch in comics, always wise and gentle but strong and firm when the bad kids like Paste Pot… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/06/09 |
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| Haunt #1 |
Here’s the solicitation copy for Haunt #1 from Images website: McFARLANE & KIRKMAN’S HAUNT HAS ARRIVED! Daniel Kilgore is dragged into his estranged brother Kurt’s secret life of murder and espionage… by his ghost. With no training whatsoever, guided by the spirit of his secret-agent brother, Daniel must now solve… |
Scott Cederlund |
10/06/09 |
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| 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man |
One of the first things you’ll remember from Kindt’s book is the images. Images like the giant man wading down the Venetian canals or the single panel that shows his father getting shot in the forehead and having the bullet ricochet off the back of his skull and exiting through… |
Scott Cederlund |
09/29/09 |
3 |
11/09/09 |
| Blackest Night #3 |
It’s easy to think about what I may have wanted Blackest Night to be; an adventure tale that really dug into what death meant in comic books. It’s a cliche to say that no one other than Uncle Ben and Captain Mar-vell stays dead, but for the past 5 years,… |
Scott Cederlund |
09/20/09 |
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| The League of Extraordinary Gentlmen Century: 1910 |
I want to live in the world created by Alan Moore and Kevin O’Neill’s The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Century: 1910. Not because it looks like a paradise or even a nicer place than where I live now but because there’s a strange fictional logic to their world where Ismael… |
Scott Cederlund |
05/15/09 |
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05/18/09 |
| Point Blank |
Point Blank is not a superhero comic book. That may be weird when you take a look at the Wildstorm stable of books and the origins of Wildstorm—the WildC.A.T.S. Jim Lee’s WildC.A.T.S. were unabashedly the superheroes of the 90s—all flash and little substance. Cole Cash, the Grifter, was the bad… |
Scott Cederlund |
05/09/09 |
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| Blackest Night #0 |
I’m not generally a fan of when Geoff Johns tries to pull off quiet, introspective moments. He used to be able to do them nicely back in the Teen Titans and his original Flash run but since Infinite Crisis, his quiet moments have been awkward and ill-paced. In Green Lantern,… |
Scott Cederlund |
05/03/09 |
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| Free Comic Book Day: The Avengers |
One of my favorite periods of Avengers history is when the West Coast Avengers were around. The rivalry between the two teams sparked off some great drama as the East Coast Avengers thought of themselves as the “true” Avengers while the West Coast Avengers (or “Wackos” as they were also… |
Scott Cederlund |
05/03/09 |
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| Buck Rogers #0 |
To me, Buck Rogers has always seemed like Flash Gordon-lite even though Buck preceded Flash by a few years. Even if the Buck Rogers television show back in the early 1980s was better than the Flash Gordon movie around the same time, Flash Gordon is the hero icon of early… |
Scott Cederlund |
04/24/09 |
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| Detective Comics #853 |
Thanks to Grant Morrison, the last few years of Batman have been a bit of a mess. Is Batman crazy? Is his father alive? Is Batman’s father really Alfred? Is Batman dead and, if so, when exactly did he die? What’s up with all the other Batmen running around? What… |
Scott Cederlund |
04/24/09 |
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04/26/09 |
| 100% |
In Paul Pope’s artbook Pulphope, Pope includes a one-page comic strip about a conversation with his nephew. As Pope sits down at the breakfast table, his nephew says “You kinda remind me of cartoon characters.” When Pope naturally asks why is that, his nephew says “Cuz you’re always wearing the… |
Scott Cederlund |
04/17/09 |
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| Flash: Rebirth #1 |
Grant Morrison had the easy part in bringing Barry Allen back. In Final Crisis, Morrison got to bring the Barry Allen Flash back, use him to defeat the big bad and then just leave. He didn’t really have to offer much of an explanation how or why Barry was back… |
Scott Cederlund |
04/03/09 |
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| Seaguy: Slaves of Mickey Eye #1 |
I wonder what Grant Morrison dreams about. Are his dreams anything like his books- confounding, unexplainable and surprisingly meta? Or since his books can be dreamlike, are his dreams mundane, where he’s working a 9-5 job at a desk somewhere waiting for quitting time so he can go home and… |
Scott Cederlund |
04/03/09 |
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| American Jesus Book One: Chosen |
I think any of us who were gawky adolescents growing up and reading about super-heroes fighting super-villains all had dreams about being those super-heroes. We were Superman or Captain America fighting Lex Luthor and the Red Skull to the bitter end where we would always come out triumphant in the… |
Scott Cederlund |
03/27/09 |
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| Daredevil: Lady Bullseye tpb |
I’m really struggling to find a reason to care about Matt Murdock? He may be a hero but he’s a lousy human being and writer Ed Brubaker is really digging into that aspect of the character. It’s hard to deny that since Frank Miller first handled the character that he… |
Scott Cederlund |
03/27/09 |
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| Powers: The 25 Coolest Dead Superheros of All Time |
In 2000, Powers started out as a story about two cops in a world of super heroes, super villains, the death of one of the most popular super-heroines around, Retro Girl, and the mystery of who killed her. Christian Walker and Deena Pilgrim were just your normal, everyday cops living… |
Scott Cederlund |
03/20/09 |
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| Charlatan Ball #6 |
There’s this old Marvel Two-In-One annual featuring the Thing and a bunch of other Marvel super-heroes in a boxing match with The Champion, a blue skinned Elder of the Universe who basically boxes people to judge their race. Yes, it’s an incredibly silly concept but, unlike a lot of other… |
Scott Cederlund |
03/13/09 |
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| Guardians of the Galaxy #11 |
This isn’t so much a review as it is an explanation of why I’m quitting Guardians of the Galaxy. For the first four or five issues, I thought that DanAbnett and Andy Lanning could do no wrong with Guardians of the Galaxy. Naturally spinning out of a couple of Annihilation… |
Scott Cederlund |
03/13/09 |
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| Agents of Atlas #2 |
Sure, the Greg Land cover to Agents of Atlas #2 makes the team look like superheroes, brave and gallant, flying off to meet some unseen foe. In flashbacks interspersed through this issue, you see them as 1950’s super heroes and they even look quaint and a bit naive facing some… |
Scott Cederlund |
03/06/09 |
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| Doctor Who: The Whispering Gallery |
All things considered, I’m still a fairly recent convert to the fandom of Doctor Who. While I’ve always wanted a 30 foot scarf (and once secretly plotted against a housemate who actually had a 30 foot scarf,) I could just never get into the cheesy BBC special effects and painted… |
Scott Cederlund |
02/28/09 |
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| House of Mystery: Room and Boredom |
Review By Cornelius A. Fortune I think people fall into one or two categories as far as Bill Willingham’s work is concerned: on one side you have those who view his Fables as on a par with The Sandman (which I don’t agree with); then you have others who are… |
Scott Cederlund |
02/28/09 |
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02/28/09 |
| Batman R.I.P. |
After all, you don’t get much more mainstream than writing for the X-Men, the Justice League or Superman nowadays. Grant MorrisonMorrison has become a mainstream star like Geoff Johns and Brian Michael Bendis, servicing the needs of their corporate overlords and characters and yet there’s something different about Morrison’s work… |
Scott Cederlund |
02/20/09 |
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02/22/09 |
| Scott Pilgrim Vs. The Universe |
At the end of Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together, the fourth volume of this series, it looked like Scott Pilgrim actually got it together. He had a job, a girl and everyone was happy at the end of that book. If Bryan Lee O’Malley had ended the series there, it… |
Scott Cederlund |
02/13/09 |
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| Agents of Atlas #1 |
It was easy to ignore the Agents of Atlas #1. Well, at least it was easy to ignore the title a couple of years ago when Marvel, for some inexplicable reason, launched a new miniseries by a then relatively unknown Jeff Parker featuring a team whose What If? debut was… |
Scott Cederlund |
02/07/09 |
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| Final Crisis #7 |
By my accounts, this has to be the fourth or fifth apocalypse that Grant Morrison has written in comic books. From Animal Man to DC 1,000,000, The Invisibles and even New X-Men, Morrison has poked and prodded at the panels on the comic page, twisting and bending them while trying… |
Scott Cederlund |
01/30/09 |
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02/27/09 |
| Never As Bad As You Think |
Never As Bad As You Think started off as a webcomic but that shouldn’t really affect how you look at this book. We should just say that Never As Bad As You Think is a comic book by the wife and husband team of Kathryn and Stuart Immonen. If this… |
Scott Cederlund |
01/23/09 |
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| Final Crisis #6 |
I’ve heard it said and am starting to agree with the idea that DC should have approached Final Crisis the same way it allowed Morrison to approach Seven Soldiers with a series of mini series bookended by issues that kick everything off and then bring everything back together. Imagine Final… |
Scott Cederlund |
01/16/09 |
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01/22/09 |
| Justice Society of America #22 |
The new year isn’t even a week old and I think we may have already gotten the image that will define DC’s year. It’s not from Final Crisis, “New Krypton”, Trinity or any other “event” book but it’s from the pages of The Justice Society of America. In issue #22,… |
Scott Cederlund |
01/04/09 |
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| Incognito #1 |
Sean Phillips isn’t a pretty artist. His artwork doesn’t shine with the incredibly polished looks that seems like he pored over every panel for hours until all the energy and life was drained from it until it appeared just “perfect” to him. Instead, his pages are filled with blotches, shadows… |
Scott Cederlund |
01/04/09 |
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| Supeman and the Legion of Super-Heroes |
Review By Cornelius A. Fortune Having spent my childhood in the mid-to-late 80s, I’ve been able to reap some of the benefits – like seeing my favorite comics turned into films (still waiting on Power Pack though). By the 90s I’d mostly moved on to “real books,” but I’d never… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/26/08 |
1 |
12/30/08 |
| The New Avengers #48 |
Remember when the X-Men books were the home to Marvel’s melodrama? In those pages, you would find missing babies and characters always returning from the dead? You’d see Wolverine drinking beer and smoking cigars. And occasionally you’d even get Jessica Drew, Spider-Woman popping up. Maybe Brian Michael Bendis secretly wants… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/26/08 |
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| Madman Atomic Comics! #12 |
A worm’s eye image of Madman jumping up into the sky against a backdrop of criss-crossing power and telephone lines is a wonderful image. Ever since he brought Madman back, Allred has appeared to be more concerned by the story idea and concept, exploring his perennial questions of life, death… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/19/08 |
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| Larry Marder’s Beanworld Holiday Special |
Since its earliest days back in the 80s (has it really been that long?,) Larry Marder’s comic Beanworld has carried the tagline “A most peculiar comic book experience.” It’s been 15 years since Marder shared the experience of Beanworld with us but the new Larry Marder’s Beanworld Holiday Special is… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/19/08 |
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| Phonogram: The Singles Club #1 |
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie launch the second Phonogram miniseries, The Singles Club, almost completely opposite of how they began the first one. The opening of Rue Britannia was loud, brash, rough and undeniably male-centric. David Kohl, Rue Britannia’s lead character, was all about sexual conquest through Brit pop. Kohl… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/12/08 |
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12/17/08 |
| Batman #682 |
Since his first issues, Grant Morrison has been paying tribute to all the Batman stories ever, cleverly bringing golden age, silver age and modern adventures of the character together in his depiction of the character. A Bane-like character can easily share the same pages with Bat Mite. Unlike a lot… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/06/08 |
2 |
12/11/08 |
| Secret Invasion #8 |
So yeah, an Avenger died in Secret Invasion #8 but what does it really matter? We all know that some day, writer Brian Michael Bendis, Dan Slott, Greg Pak or some unknown up-and-comer will bring her back. Heck, my money is on Bendis, the man who killed her. After all,… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/06/08 |
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12/30/08 |
| Y: The Last Man Deluxe Edition Book 1 |
By Cornelius A. Fortune Most people by now have heard of, read, and are probably familiar enough with Brian K. Vaughan’s Y: The Last Man. It’s a critic’s darling and rightfully so, garnering mainstream attention as well as the comic industry’s coveted Eisner Award (a multiple winner in fact). Doubtless… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/06/08 |
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| City of Dust #2 |
Review By Cornelius A. Fortune Phillip Khrome is a detective living in a futuristic-looking Gotham City with lots of shadows and dark alleys. But this highly advanced society comes at a price: namely your freedom. Books in Niles’ world are very wrong evil things, especially a children’s book depicting the… |
Scott Cederlund |
12/06/08 |
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| The Umbrella Academy: Dallas #1 |
Umbrella Academy Dallas #1 begins the day after. Well, it may not be the day but it is soon after the events of Apocalypse Suite, the reunion of the childhood team and adopted family after years apart when their surrogate father died and one of them went crazy. As reunions… |
Scott Cederlund |
11/29/08 |
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