The Transformers were far more to me than a toy line, a cartoon, and a comic book. It was that one special thing of my childhood. We all have one; that show, movie, stuffed animal, or something else that shines apart and encompasses what it was like to be kid. My first memory is sitting…
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Issue #2 deals with Superman being experimented on by Lex Luthor and the military after his capture last month.
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If you read my first write up of the New 52 books, you may remember that I really didn’t care for Green Lantern too much. I’m happy to say that I liked issue #2 a great deal more
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I enjoy the fact that this felt like a classic comic adventure from the 80s or 90s, before the shift to the 6-issue story arc that fits into a trade paperback so easily.
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The comics of my youth were violent and had sexy women wearing not a lot of clothing. And yet, somehow I came out okay.
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So, for the past couple of years, I’ve been buying a lot of games. Like, too many games. I’m trying to figure out what happened. When I was younger and I worked at my game store, I never owned more than two or three games at a time, because I would trade in games I had…
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The Flash hearkens back to an era when it was ok to have fun with the concept of someone with superpowers.
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Recently, I wrote about how I’m going to have to pare down my new game purchases for the rest of the year to just a couple. At the top of that list is Batman: Arkham City
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I, like so many people, used to collect comics rabidly right up to my early 20s. I fell out of it in recent years, only keeping up with a couple books in trade paperback form (Invincible and Powers). Then I heard about DC Comics’ The New 52, which is turning out to be an odd,…
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