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Our Underwear #17: Jeers and Loafing in McCormick Place Part I: The Pleasure and Pain of Richard Starkings

by John Velousis (Supposedly the first in a series about C2E2 2012) 1: Quirky – or jerky? Press credentials approved. “What the fuck,” I thought, “am I going to do to ‘cover’ a comic book convention?” See, [amazon_link id="B0000TB014" target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ]I’m not like other boys[/amazon_link]. My priorities and interests are just completely eccentric
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Our Underwear 16: Kieron Gillen, You Light Up My Life

In which I take Uncanny X-Men #14 and Journey Into Mystery #640 out for a spin. By John Velousis Part 1 – Gillen does nicely, thank you very much. I’ve taken time in the past to praise Kieron Gillen’s work on [amazon_link id="078514840X" target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ]Journey Into Mystery[/amazon_link] – like, the distant past, when I
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Our Underwear 15: Free (comic)dom Ain’t Free

by John Velousis Aloha! I’m currently working on my needlessly huge and senselessly autobiographical coverage of C2E2 – Chicago’s major comic book convention which occurred… er, three weeks ago as of this writing. One of the things that happened there was that Comic Vault Overlord Matt Sardo exasperatingly exhorted me to, “Just write a three
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Our Underwear 14: On Words – and Up Words! (or, Engelbert Humperdink: Year One.)

by John Velousis Parsing Carey and Gross’s [amazon_link id="1401225659" target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ]The Unwritten[/amazon_link], mostly [amazon_link id="B006UST3CC" target="_blank" container="" container_class="" ]issue 33[/amazon_link]. Part 1 – Slight return… Hi! Sorry I’ve not posted anything in a month and a half, but I have an entirely valid excuse. I was bitten by a radioactive lazy, and consequently
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Our Underwear 13: Beginnings, endings, circles. And dreams of murder.

by John Velousis Warning: Pretty much everything in this article is a spoiler. Part 1 – Captain Swing and many another thing “Each time society, through unemployment, frustrates the small man in his normal functioning and normal self-respect, it trains him for that last stage in which he will willingly undertake any function, even that
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Some words about time and timing.

by John Velousis Hello! Hopefully, you’ve seen and read our “Best-Of” column. If not, here’s a link. I’d like to point out that, in that article, all of our wonderful recommendations from this fantastic year in comics now have links so that you can buy the stuff we’re talking about – sometimes digitally, sometimes from
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THE BEST COMICS OF 2011, BUT REALLY FROM NOVEMBER 2010 TO EARLY NOVEMBER 2011!

(WARNING: There are all kinds of swears in here, up, down, and sideways. In today’s America, a typical 10-year-old has heard the “F” word about a thousand jillion times. BUT! If you object to such stuff, YOU WON’T LIKE IT HERE! Perhaps you would enjoy BleedingCool.Com better? SCRAM, WUSS!) The mighty Comics Vault bullpen of
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Our Underwear 12: Be free… or die!

by John Velousis Part 1 – Is today Halloween? I’m pretty sure it’s Halloween. In honor of today’s holiday, and because I take joy in complete lack of editorial oversight, I’m going to write about my favorite horror movies, as well as bunch of other shit that has little or nothing to do with comic
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Our Underwear 11: The Super-Secret Vengeance of Atomic Robo’s Hell in Russia!

In which I present the last week in review (aside from bad Marvel “event” stuff) but dispense with the device of numbering the discrete elements of this piece. Best comic of the week: Atomic Robo and the Ghost of Station X #2 (of 5) Words: Brian Clevinger Art: Scott Wegener Colors: Ronda Pattison Letters: Jeff
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Our Underwear #10 – The ONLY Fear Itself post you will ever need to read!

by John Velousis Part 1 – Everything that was right about Fear Itself #7 and the event in general (Kinda spoiler free, maybe?) 1. It totally made sense and was pretty cool when Captain America picked up [that one thing.] Right? 2. I dug how Hawkeye looked kinda pissed because he WANTED missing a shot
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Our Underwear #9 – Deadly U.S. melons!

by John Velousis Part 1 – Why ask why? Over on MySpace, I’m friends with a guy who has a minor role in the comic book industry – he’s an inker for a letterer, something like that. He read one of my screeds about boring comic book covers and hipped me to this truth: The
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Our Underwear #8 – TUESDAY? But that’s TONIGHT (Tonight… tonight… tnit…)

Part 1 – Been a long time since I rock and rolled Orchid #1 “Story”: Tom Morello Art: Scott Hepburn Colors: Dan Jackson Letters: Nate Piekos of Blambot (which is a Registered legal entity) Cover (THIS one): Shepard Fairey GRADES: Writing: Dismal Art: Mediocre Politics: Hypocritical at best So, I didn’t like this. I WANTED
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Our Underwear #7 – Parker in the front, lurker in the rear.

by John Velousis Part 1 – How NOT to get to the point There’s a saying that goes, “The best laid plans of mice and men can sometimes get all fucked up and out of control despite our best intentions, which pave the road to hell with idle hands.” Or something like that, I don’t
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Our Underwear #6 – Jerry Springer love triangle (Last week in review)

By John Velousis Part 1 – All names are changed to protect the fallen. I used to live above a very trendy bar in Chicago, which we’ll call Fabletown. The bar owner / landlord was a legendary party rocker named Basil Chalke, formerly of the Chicago punk legends the Unusual Seizures, then the party-punk band
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Our Underwear #5 – Money is a false god that I will stab a hundred times in the face.

Part 1 – Gimme some Action! Action Comics #2 W: Grant Morrison A: Rags Morales Grade: 8 / 10 When I read Action Comics #1, I thought, “Huh. [This obscure writer, whoever the hell he is,] is going back to Superman’s roots. Sweet move.” Then, I sat back and looked for bloggers and maybe even
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Our Underwear #4 – Didn’t you read #1 where I said why it wasn’t my fault?

by John Velousis Reviews! Lots of reviews! Almost no attacks of readers at all! Considerably less profanity! THIS is the column where I assure potential future employers that John Velousis understands where satire ends and indecency begins! John Velousis di’nt mean to hurt you, baby, come on and let John Velousis throw his love at
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Our Underwear #3 – Boring Cover of the Week begins!

By John Velousis On the Utility of Hatchets, or, Hall of Flame, or, I Bought It / I Break It, or, I Hurt Because I Love, or, My Wife Suggests I Use My Pseudonym Part 1 – The Gathering Form Before I start being mean about artists, I want to paraphrase a lovely musical question
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Our Underwear #2 – It’s never too early to mail it in.

by John Velousis It’s never too early to mail it in. Part 1 – Fun with dead language A few weeks back, just for shits and giggles, I decided to see if I could translate the Latin bits in Baltimore: The Curse Bells #2 (W: Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden, A: Ben Stenbeck.) I’ve never
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Our Underwear #1 – Dance isn’t even an art form

Our Underwear #1 Column by John Velousis Dance isn’t even an art form. 9/30/11 In this column, I’ll be reviewing Avengers Academy #19. First, though, I have to make some excuses. Part 1: Hi! Hello. To start with, I want you to know that I wish you well. By “you,” I mean YOU, the
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