October 2011
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Wednesday Haul: 10/26/11
New books I bought this week:
Amazing Spiderman #672
Aquaman #2 - Pretty good follow-up to a very impressive first issue. Johns may be pushing the winks and nods to the reader about how silly Aquaman is a bit too hard. I’d like to think that he got that stuff out of his system in the first issue, and I’m now ready for him to move on to just making Aquaman straight-up cool. This...
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 183 - I'm With... →
Episode 183 Topics Include: - Breaking Bad seasons 1-3 (00:03:28 - 00:07:30) - Breaking Bad season 4 (00:07:30 - 00:26:14) - The Walking Dead 2x02 (00:26:14 - 00:37:32) - Dexter 6x04 (00:37:32 - 00:42:26) - What Rian’s been playing - What we’ve been reading - This week in trailers: Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, Chronicle - Featured Review: Dead And Buried
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“I don’t like to think when I watch movies. I just like to sit and laugh or...”
– my mother on why she didn’t “get” Thor
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Wednesday Haul: 10/19/11
New books I bought this week:
The Boys: Butcher, Baker, Candlestickmaker #4
Catwoman #2 - Sex aside (see my blurb on Catwoman #1 below), this book has been a fun read. I’ve never given Judd Winick much credit before, but I like the voice he’s giving Selina Kyle in this series. Also, it looks amazing thanks to Guillem March’s exceptional artwork.
The Fantastic Four By...
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Wednesday Haul: 10/12/11
New books I bought this week:
Amazing Spiderman #671
American Vampire: Survival Of The Fittest #5
Batwoman #2 - I’m still into the story and the art is still stellar, so I’ve got nothing much to say about Batwoman other than, “Keep it coming!”
The Cape #2 - The story in this book has amped up a lot faster than I would have expected, which has made for a lot of mayhem...
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The 40 Worst Rob Liefeld Drawings →
It’s been quite a while since I laughed as hard as I laughed at this list. It is my gift to you.
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 182 - EXtremely... →
Episode 182 Topics Include: - MC Chris ownz - NYCC News: X-Men Regenesis and the EXtreme Comics Relaunch - The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 1 (00:28:23 - 00:44:47) - Dexter Season 6, Episode 3 (00:46:21 - 00:52:38) - What Rian’s been watching - Featured Review: The Thing (2011)
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Tales From The Comic Store #5 - Frequency
Customer: You guys should have a frequent shopper's discount.
Me: Well, we've got a subscriber discount. If you subscribe to enough monthly titles you get a 10% discount on all of your comics, trades, and supplies.
Customer: I don't think I come in enough for that.
Me: "..."
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 181 - Splitting... →
Episode 181 Topics Include: - What Rian’s been watching: Hammer Horror Edition - The Avengers, The Expendables, and Wolverine (oh my!) - What else Rian’s been watching - Featured Review: Moneyball
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 180 - That Kirkman... →
Episode 180 Topics Include: - 24 Hour Comic Day - There’s always room for Magic - What we’ve been reading - Featured Review: Tangled
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villainsofthedccomicsuniverse-d asked: Who are you favorite "Big Two" villains? Indy villains?
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Wednesday Haul: 10/5/11
New books I bought this week:
Animal Man #2 - Animal Man #1 was one of the few DC New 52 titles that I found not only tolerable, but enjoyable. Issue 2 is still kind of interesting, but I’m not as hooked to the story as I feel like I should be to warrant picking up the book. I’ll give this series a few more issues to full win me over, but right now I’m not 100% sold on it.
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“…it is counterintuitive for me to think that there exists a hidden level...”
– Stuart Cohen, producer of John Carpenter’s The Thing, on the final scene of the film
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Wednesday Haul: 9/28/11
New books I bought this week:
Amazing Spiderman #670
Astonishing X-Men #42 - This storyline was a mixed bag for me. I like Juan Bobillo’s art, but the story felt very rushed. This could have been a pretty cool 6-issue series, but 3 issues just didn’t do it justice.
Captain America & Bucky #622
JLA Volume 1 TPB - I’ve never been all that into the JLA and I’ve...
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31 Day Horror Challenge (In 1 Day)
This is supposed to be one of those things where you post your choice for one of the following categories every day for the month of October, but I don’t have the patience for that, so I’m going to do them all in one go. As with any list like this, there are some bad questions and a few that almost feel like they’re repeating themselves, but I’ll answer them all anyway.
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The Sidetracked Podcast Episode 179 - Dang Sick... →
Episode 179 Topics Include: - And then there were two… - Thinning out the herd - The DC New 52 Week 4 - What we’ve been watching - Featured Review: Horror Of Dracula
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