Wednesday, May 30, 2012

On the need to change without actually improving

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The Batman Annual, part of the pretty damn good if I say so Night of the Owls Bat-event features the New 52 origin of Mr. Freeze, who played...
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Monday, May 21, 2012

On the introduction of a very specific change to a major character

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Of all the announcements from this weekend's Kapow! Comic Convention in Britain, the one that has set the most lips flapping is the anno...
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Sunday, May 20, 2012

On what happens when you give someone the job they were born to do

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The idea of nobody dying in comics was really put in place by the Comics code - Most pre-code superheroes were quite calavier about killing ...
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

On a look at the Red Circle part 4 - The Web

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Continuing my series of histories on the MLJ / Red Circle heroes in preparation for the first issue of New Crusaders on May 16th, here...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

On a look at the Red Circle part 3: Steel Sterling

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Pop quiz - what's the first comic book character to be known as "The Man of Steel"? Wrong. Steel Sterling had to stop a...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012

On a look at the Red Circle part 2: The Comet

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Continuing my series of histories on the MLJ / Red Circle heroes in preparation for the first issue of New Crusaders on May 16th, here'...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

On a look at the Red Circle: The Shield

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Archie Comics has been doing some of the most risky things in comics of late.  Over in the eponymous books, they're running parallel ...