"He Didn’t Ask For Me To Read It – - But I Did Anyway": Graeme on X-Men Forever

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Posted by: Graeme McMillan on August 6, 2009

Categories: Reviews

This is the kind of thing that you’re supposed to admit in a darkened room, sitting in a circle on uncomfortable seats with people who are in the same position as you, and who won’t judge you for what you’re about to say, but somehow I’m telling everyone in the internet and hoping for the best. My name is Graeme and I love X-MEN FOREVER. I know, I know; you think less of me now. I’m sorry. What can I say to explain…? Does it help that, when the project – which, for the faint of heart and fortunate of reading, sees Chris Claremont pick up from where he left the X-Men franchise originally, back with 1991′s X-Men #1-3, pretending…  Read More…

Musing on Miracles

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 5, 2009

Categories: Reviews

I’ve been thinking a lot about the news that Mirac…er, I mean MARVELman has been bought by Marvel comics. As I think I mentioned here in passing, Marvel has a couple of really big problems they’re going to have to overcome in bringing this work to market — and I don’t just mean the lingering legal/creator issues. My read of the internet’s reaction to this was a significant amount of “Huh?…Who?”. Which kind of makes sense — it has been something like 15 years since an issue of MIRACLEMAN has been released. For all of the talk of the “aging” readership, and whatever, I bet if you took a poll, less than half of today’s readership has ever read a…  Read More…

Wait, What Podcast, ep. 3.1: Graeme and Jeff Talk the Long Con….

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Posted by: Jeff Lester on

Categories: Podcasts

Con reports age faster than wizards in Conan stories after you remove their special amulets, so this did not have a terribly long editing period: it runs just under an hour because we didn’t know where to split it and Skype’s new settings mixed me a bit lower and Graeme a bit louder. But! We talk about the differences between this year’s SDCC and last year’s, each recommend a book we picked up from SDCC, and you get a bit of the “Prince & The Pauper” thing going on since Graeme was covering the show for io9, and I was chasing work. We’ve got plans to do a more solid reviewy podcast in the near future, and I want to…  Read More…

Johns and Johns

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on August 3, 2009

Categories: Reviews

FINAL CRISIS: LEGION OF THREE WORLDS #5: Well, I liked it a little better than Douglas did, maybe possibly because I have a greater affinity for the “real” Legion (ie Levitz/Giffen, and all that came before that), so I’m real glad to have them back after all of these years, but I have to admit that I’m befuddled by some of the gyrations of the multiple-worlds stuff in this. Maybe it is because I just don’t understand how one can have “52″ parallel worlds AND also have “infinite” ones on top of that. As a general concept, I prefer the idea of endless ones that some artificial limitation — but it isn’t at all clear to me that DC or…  Read More…

Arriving 8/5/2009

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Posted by: Brian Hibbs on

Categories: Shipping Lists

Smallish week here on the west coast — I’m told a number of Marvel books didn’t it make it out to the coast this week… ALL WINNERS COMICS #1 70TH ANNIV SPECIALAMAZING SPIDER-MAN #601ANGEL #24ASTRO CITY THE DARK AGE BOOK THREE #4 (OF 4)AUTHORITY #13BATMAN CONFIDENTIAL #32BETTY #181BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #173BLACK PANTHER 2 #7BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER #27 CHEN CVRCAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #2 (OF 5)CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND MI 13 #15CHEW #3 DEAD RUN #3DEADPOOL MERC WITH A MOUTH #2DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP #2 (OF 24)DOCTOR WHO CLASSICS SERIES 2 #9DOOM PATROL #1DYNAMO 5 #23EXILES #5FALLEN ANGEL REBORN #2FINDING NEMO REEF RESCUE #2 (OF 4) GREEK STREET #2 HOUSE OF M MASTERS OF EVIL #1 (OF 4)HOUSE…  Read More…