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Review: Prophet #22 “You Throw like No Necks and Outsanders.”
Written by: Brandon Graham & Simon Roy Artist: Simon Roy Colorist: Richard Ballermann Letterer: Ed Bisson Cover: Simon Roy Publisher: Image Excuse me while I ramble for a bit, but where the hell did this comic come from? Yes I know it’s a revived Liefeld comic from the 90′s but has it always been about
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Review : Animal Man #3 & Swamp Thing #3
Its Week one of the new month and that means its time again for me to review two of DC’s best titles of the relaunch , Animal Man and Swamp Thing. If you read my last article on these two books you already know that they are both establishing a link between one another that
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Giant Size Week of Books! 5-18-11
DC BATMAN #710 BATMAN AND ROBIN #23 BATMAN AND ROBIN #23 VAR ED $10.00 BATMAN GATES OF GOTHAM #1 OF(5) BOOSTER GOLD #44 (FLASHPOINT) Written by Dan Jurgens, Norm Rapmund. Dan Jurgens returns to BOOSTER GOLD just in time for this FLASHPOINT prelude. Booster Gold returns to Rip Hunter’s lab after the events of TIME
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New Comics for 5-11-11 Plus, Chris Burnham will be signing Batman Inc. #6 at our Downtown store.
DC BATGIRL #21 BATMAN ARKHAM CITY #1 (OF 5) BATMAN ARKHAM CITY #1 (OF 5) VAR ED $10.00 BATMAN INCORPORATED #6 Written by Chris Burnham, Grant Morrison. Man-of-Bats is a self-styled hero and community leader who protects his Sioux reservation from crime and disease. His son, Raven Red, can’t seem to keep his father’s often-embarrassing
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New Comics for 5-4-11: X-Men: Schism starts now!
DC ADVENTURE COMICS #526 BATMAN BEYOND #5 DC COMICS PRESENTS SON OF SUPERMAN #1 DC UNIVERSE ONLINE LEGENDS #7 DOOM PATROL #22 FREEDOM FIGHTERS #9 GREEN LANTERN SUPER SPECTACULAR #1 As excitement for the blockbuster Green Lantern movie continues to build, DC Comics collects these GL classics in a new, magazine format Super Spectacular! Don’t
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Free Comic Book Day
Free Comic Book Day update: Two weeks from now will be the greatest day in Comic Vault history and you will be there to witness it. The first 50 customers will get the DC exclusive Green Lantern Heroclix! Plus, everything is 20% off and all back issues are 25 cents! Jim Terry of Lie Down
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It is the end of the month and that means everything is coming out this week! 4-28-11
DC ACTION COMICS #900 (NOTE PRICE) $5.99 Written by Paul Cornell. Superman returns to ACTION COMICS just in time for the title’s historic 900th issue, which clocks in at 100 pages! Everything Paul Cornell and Pete Woods have been building to over the last year culminates here in the ultimate Superman vs. Lex Luthor battle!
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New Comics for 4-20-11: Super Dinosaur vs Green Lantern!
Super Dinosaur #1 Written by Jason Howard, Robert Kirkman. ALL-NEW FROM ROBERT KIRKMAN & JASON HOWARD! This is where it begins! The Evil Max Maximus wants to get to Inner-Earth! He wants the dinosaurs that live there! He wants the powerful DynOre mineral that originates there! SUPER DINOSAUR and DEREK DYNAMO are the only ones
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New Comics for the Week of 3-30-11
Do you remember me……….? My name is Kick-Ass 2 and issue 2 is finally coming out! Kick Ass 2 #2 Written by Mark Millar, John Romita Jr.. Mature Readers The sequel to the New York Times best-selling comic–which spawned the hit movie–continues! When Dave Lizewski put on his mask and became Kick-Ass, he never imagined
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New Comic for the Week of 3-24-11 (DC vs. Marvel)
FF #1 Written by Steve Epting, Jonathan Hickman. It’s the FANTASTIC first issue of FF! A bold new direction for Marvel’s First Family featuring new members, old friends, older enemies and uneasy alliances that will send shockwaves through the Marvel Universe. With stunning art work by Steve Epting and Paul Mounts, please join writer, Jonathan
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New Comics for the Week of 3-9-11
Venom #1 Written by Tony Moore, Rick Remender. America…meet your newest Hero! The lethal alien symbiote known as Venom is in the custody of the U.S. military…and with a familiar face from Spider-Man’s world inside the suit, the government’s own personal Spidey is going into action as one of the nation’s top covert agents in
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Jonathan Hickman signing and Q&A on Free Comic Book Day
Jonathan Hickman signing and Q&A on Free Comic Book Day Jonathan Hickman is coming to town for Free Comic Book Day, Saturday, May 7th! He promised not to kill any characters while he is here. Jonathan is best known for his work on Shield, Secret Warriors and of course Fantastic Four. His Ultimate Thor mini
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New Comics for the Week of 2-16-11
Brightest Day #20 Written by Peter J. Tomasi, Geoff Johns, Ivan Reis. The BRIGHTEST DAYS are numbered as this best-selling series heads toward its shocking conclusion, and fans won’t want to miss a single page of the action! ‘Aquawar’ breaks out with Aquaman, Mera, Aqualad and a surprise guest star facing off against the terrorist
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New Comics for the Week of 02-09-11
Green Lantern: Emerald Warriors #7 – WAR OF GREEN LANTERNS Written by Peter J. Tomasi, Fernando Pasarin. In this prelude to the ‘War of the Green Lanterns,’ the battle with Zardor and his Green Lantern Corps reaches its epic conclusion! Hold on to your willpower, because events in this issue spin directly into the coming
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New Comics for the Week of 02-02-11
Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #653 Written by Stefano Caselli, Dan Slott. REVENGE OF THE SPIDER-SLAYER Part 2 of 3 ‘All You Love Will Die’ The SPIDER-SLAYER’S assault escalates as his INSECT ARMY descends on Manhattan! No one in Spidey’s life is safe-from the offices of the Daily Bugle to the Mayor’s staff at City Hall! It’s
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New Comics for the Week of 1-19-11
Young Justice #0 Written by Mike Norton, Greg Weisman. Based on the upcoming hit animated show from Warner Bros. debuting on Cartoon Network! Robin, Superboy, Kid Flash and Aqualadstar in this explosive issue kickstarting an all-new ongoing series! They’re four young superheroes learning how to be a team…and maybe doing a bit of growing up
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New Comics for the Week of 1-09-11
Daredevil: Reborn #1 Written by Andy Diggle, Davide Gianfelice. The apocalyptic events of SHADOWLAND have left the once-proud legacy of Daredevil in tatters. Now, far from the mean streets of Hell’s Kitchen, a new evil is rising, and the only man crazy enough to face it is a man with nothing left to lose. The
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New Comic for the Week of 12-29-10
New Comics for the Post-Christmas Holiday Nemesis #4 Written by Steve McNiven, Mark Millar. Mature Readers THE HIGHEST SELLING CREATOR-OWNED COMIC IN THE INDUSTRY COMES TO A CLOSE! It CAN’T be over already, can it? Don’t miss the shocking finale and be the only one you know who didn’t read this. It’s the end of
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LB Comic Book Weekend recap
Lance Briggs Comic Book Weekend was a huge success! We collected over 11,000 comic books and raised over $10,000. The comic books will now be sorted and sent to the CHA and the USO. All proceeds will go to fund Lance’s football camps for under privileged kids in Chicago. This was the first time that
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