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Graphic Recommendations – Wanted

Writer: Mark Millar Artist: JG Jones Publisher: Top Cow Productions Hello, and welcome to the first installment of Graphic Recommendations! In this column, graphic novels and trade paperbacks take the...

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The Starting Gun – Everybody’s Dead #1

Writer: Bryan Lynch Artist: Dave Crosland Publisher: IDW Every week when I hit the comic store to pick up my stack, I always make a point of trolling along the racks to see if there are any interesting...

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Indie Book of The Week – Serenity: Better Days

Writer: Joss Whedon Artist: Brett Matthews Publisher: Dark Horse Comics While I am not sure if a Dark Horse book still qualifies as an “indie” book (it holds some of the biggest licenses in comics,...

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Graphic Recommendations – New Avengers: Breakout

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: David Finch Collects: New Avengers #1-6 Publisher: Marvel Comics With this week’s Secret Invasion #1 hitting stands and promising to answer questions dating back to...

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The Starting Gun – Secret Invasion #1

Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Artist: Lenil Francis Yu Publisher: Marvel Comics Initially, I was going to write about Wolverine: First Class in this week’s Starting Gun. The more I thought about it...

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Indie Book of The Week – Drafted

Writer: Mark Powers Artist: Chris Lie Publisher: Devil’s Due Press So, you’re hanging out, minding your own business, doing your thing, and then BAM! You disappear off the face of the earth, drafted by...

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Future-Casting: Serenity: Better Days #2

Writer: Joss Whedon Artist: Brett Matthews Publisher: Dark Horse Comics This week is kind of a dead week in comics, which happens occasionally, and both my brain and my wallet look forward too....

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Graphic Recommendations – Spider-Man: Reign

Writer: Kaare Andrews Artist: Karre Andrews Publisher: Marvel Comics It’s a book about the future, but don’t let that scare you. Reign tells the story of an aged Peter Parker, still down on his luck,...

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The Starting Gun – Young X-Men #1

Writer: Marc Guggenheim Artist: Yanick Paquette Publisher: Marvel Comics I’ll be honest, it was solely my Podcasting Co-Host’s exuberance that motivated me to pick up this book. As with most things...

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Indie Book of The Week – The Boys

Writer: Garth Ennis Artist: Darick Robertson Publisher: Dynamite Two of my favourite comics of all time are the Garth Ennis-written Preacher, and the Darick Robertson-drawn Transmetropolitan. So,...

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Graphic Recommendations – The Bear Stories: Volume One

Writers/Artists: George Todorovski and Chris Hatzopolous Publisher: DMF Comics In my time, I have reviewed movies, books, lots of CDs and now comics. One of the hardest things for a reviewer is when...

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The Starting Gun – Anna Mercury #1

Writer: Warren Ellis Artist: Facundo Percio Publisher: Avatar Press Warren Ellis may be one of the hardest working writers in Comics. Off the top of my head, I would say only Bendis has more titles on...

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Indie Book of The Week – Insane Jane

Writer: Zachary unchar Artist: Mendoza Publisher: Bluewater Comics Insane Jane probably has more in common with Ben 10 than the Painkiller lady who shares her name. This book is not edgy, it’s not...

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Graphic Recommendations – Empowered: Vol. 1

Writer/Artist: Adam Warren Publisher: Dark Horse In all honesty, I don’t know where to begin with Empowered. So let’s start at the start. The story centers around our femme-fatal heroine named, of...

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The Checklist – Week of May 12, 2008

Hello Boys and Girls! (OK. Let’s be honest, it’s just boys). Instead of just one review of one book, I thought it might be more useful to give a quick few lines about just about everything I picked up...

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Movie Review – Speed Racer

Go [To See] Speed Racer, Go! [Now!] By now all of you have seen or read the reviews that are slamming Speed Racer calling it a disaster or waste of time or what have you and if you never intended to...

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The Catch-Up: A Checklist Addendum.

Hey all! Here are a few more books I picked up in the last few weeks that didn’t make it into The Checklist. Some decent stuff, not to be missed!! THE MAN WITH NO NAME #1 There is a ton of great stuff...

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The Checklist – Week of May 19, 2008

Hello all, I hope those of you who have it are enjoying this Monday off! For some of us though, it’s buisness as usual, and for me that means another installment of The Checklist! This week includes...

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Indie Indent: Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life.

Good Lord, I am Scott Pilgrim. OK, there are some difference like I don’t have hair, and I’m not in a band but there are lots of other similarities. Let me start off by saying that I cannot believe...

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The Catch-Up: A Checklist Addendum

So, on my not-so-long weekend, I was out for a walk and stumbled upon a small bookstore near my house in Toronto. I went inside to see what kind of (if any) Graphic Novels they had. Well, half an hour...

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