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Recent Marvel Trades I Waited For (Pt. 1): Avengers Vol. 1
Aren’t libraries just the best?John Romita Jr. used to be one of those artists that I would always say I’d buy anything he drew, based simply on how much I liked his art. And then he went and teamed up with Mark Millar for Kick-Ass and two or three... [read more]
My Free Comic Book Day, and reviews of what I got
This past Saturday was the very first Free Comic Book Day I spent in a city other than Columbus, Ohio, so it was the first Free Comic Book Day I didn't observe at my former local comic shop, The Laughing Ogre (which I'd highly recommend to any Columbus... [read more]
Heads-up: There’s a pretty nice John Romita Jr. piece in USA Weekend.
Are you familiar with USA Weekend, the Gannett Company-produced entertainment magazine insert that is distributed nationally as a pull-out section of Sunday Gannett papers? Well, this past weekend's edition had a cover story about Robert Downey Jr. and... [read more]
Quick, Kick-Ass-related question
Forgive me if this is a ridiculous question, but I only made it about two issues into Mark Millar and John Romita Jr.'s gay-panicky, casually racist, delay-plagued eight-issue miniseries Kick-Ass, so I never made it to the part where pre-teen death-dea... [read more]