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Tales From the Water Cooler #105

Welcome to Tales From the Water Cooler! Join Infinite Speech, Decapitated Dan, and the Canadian Webslinger each week as they gather around the water cooler of stories to talk about comics. Listen in this week as the guys are joined once again by the Clergyman to play some Superhero Jeopardy and go over this weeks
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Tales From the Water Cooler #104

Welcome to Tales From the Water Cooler! Join Infinite Speech, Decapitated Dan, and the Canadian Webslinger each week as they gather around the water cooler of stories to talk about comics. Listen in this week as the guys are joined once again by the Clergyman to play some Superhero Jeopardy and go over this weeks
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Tales From the Water Cooler #103

Welcome to Tales From the Water Cooler! Join Infinite Speech, Decapitated Dan, and the Canadian Webslinger each week as they gather around the water cooler of stories to talk about comics. Listen in this week as Decapitated Dan and Infinite Speech play some Black History Month Jeopardy and go over this weeks books, Powers: Bureau
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Tales From the Water Cooler #97

Welcome to Tales From the Water Cooler! The guys are back from vacation and are ready to rock and roll with some Super Hero Jeopardy! Listen in as they go over this weeks picks Vampirella Strikes #1,Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #19 and Colder #3. And don’t forget to LIKE us on Facebook! Tales from the Water
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Review: Justice League #12 – Superman is a bad kisser!

Review: Justice League #12 Story: 7.5/10 • Artwork: 8/10 • Overall 7.75/10 Justice League (2011) #12 Written by Geoff Johns. Illustrated by Jim Lee. • ‘THE VILLAIN’S JOURNEY’ part four! • The team struggles to stay together as they try to combat their newest foe. • A shocking last page that will have the world
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Review: Green Lantern Annual – Made me so mad!

Review: Green Lantern Annual Story: 8/10 • Artwork: 9/10 • Overall 8.5/10 Green Lantern (2011) #Annual 1 Written by Geoff Johns. Illustrated by Ethan Van Sciver. • The conclusion of ‘THE REVENGE OF BLACK HAND’! • Everything changes here! EVERYTHING! Follow Matthew Sardo on twitter @comicvault If you would like to be part of the weekly
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Review: Wolverine #312 – Listen runt!

Review: Wolverine (2010) #312 Story: 8.5/10 • Artwork: 8/10 • Overall 8.25/10 This is a great Wolverine book to pick up if you want to go insane trying to figure out Wolverine’s origin. Jeph Loeb has fun with the character and Sabertooth only says two words in the book. Sorry about the Star Trek jokes.
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Review: Amazing Spider-Man #692 – Alpha is a D-Bag!

Review: Amazing Spider-Man #692 Story: 8/10 • Artwork: 9/10 • Overall 8.5/10 This could have been a great issue but it came off pretty bland. Expected better from Dan Slott but Humberto Ramos still rocks every issue of Amazing Spider-Man. All in all it gets us one issue closer to issue #700. Amazing Spider-Man (1999)
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Review: Image Comics – Planetoid #3

Review: Planetoid #3 Story: 8.5/10 • Artwork: 7.5/10 • Overall 8/10 Planetoid #3 Written and Illustrated by Ken Garing Having made a stand against the cyborg militia, Silas must now lead the tribes in building a settlement. Follow Matthew Sardo on twitter @comicavult If you would like to be part of the weekly chat as a
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Review: Flex Mentallo HC

Stuck in perpetual limbo for over a decade-point-five from legal disputes and plagued by shipping delays, Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s Flex Mentallo is finally available to the masses in a handsome new hardcover. Highly autobiographical, this really comes through for those who saw 2010′s Grant Morrison: Talking with Gods, the four issue miniseries is
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Moon Knight #12 – That’s A Wrap, Khonshu

Written by: Brian Michael Bendis Art by: Alex Maleev Colors by: Matt Hollingsworth Lettering by: VC’s Cory Petit Cover by: Alex Maleev Moon Knight comes to its logical conclusion this issue. While there might not be many surprises or big oh-shit moment’s in this final send-off, it end’s on a solid note. Snap Dragon is
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Tales From the Water Cooler #61 – C2E2 recap & Saga #2

Welcome to the 61st episode of Tales From the Water Cooler! Join Infinite Speech, Decapitated Dan, and the Southern Sensation each week as they gather around the water cooler of stories to talk about comics. Listen in this week as Decap and the Clergyman form a deadly duo! Jeff recaps his comic store vacation, Dan
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Review: Secret #1 – Teeth, With Which To Eat – Terrorist Dentistry

Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Ryan Bodenheim Published by Image Standing in the line we’re aberrations Defects in a defect’s mirror And we’ve been here all the time real fixations Hidden deep in the furor- What we do is secret-secret! We’re influential guys for the D.C.C. We can lie so perfect And we’ve got
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Advanced Review: The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – Helldiver Book One – Death Is Just The Beginning

Written by: Michael Mendheim, Mike Kennedy and Sean Jaffee Art by: Simon Bisley Colors by: Chad Fidler Additional Art by: Hoel Boucquemont, Vince Proce Cover by: Ivan Khivrenko Published by: Heavy Metal The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is a surprisingly smart story about religious factions battling over the seals to usher in the Apocalypse.
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Review: The Walking Dead # 95 In A Larger World Part Three – Jesus Vouches for Rick, Knife Fight Ensues.

Written by: Robert Kirkman Art by: Charlie Adlard Coloring by: Cliff Rathburn Cover By: Charlie Adlard and Cliff Rathburn Publisher: Image Alright! Here we go, time to roll up your blood stained sleeves and dig in! The pussyfooting stops right here! The Walking Dead #95 finally delivers on the promise of exciting new stories with outsiders.
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Advanced Review: Clay County Graphic Novel – Rednecks vs. Aliens with a dash of Strange Brew

Written by: Bruce Brown & Chip Christell Art by: Adam Mrozowski Letters by: E.T. Dollman Published by: Arcana Clay County is like Tucker and Dale Vs. Aliens (circa 1950). Haven’t seen Tucker & Dale vs Evil? Then think Squidbillies with a dash of King Of The Hill. Basically its tongue in cheek rednecks drinking their way into
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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: Conan The Barbarian #1 Crush Your Enemies, See them Driven Before You, and Hey Check out that Half-Naked Goth Chick!

Writer by: Brian Wood Art by: Becky Cloonan Colors by : Dave Stewart Letterer by : Richard Starkings & Comicraft Cover by : Massimo Carnevale Publisher: Dark Horse Conan is awesome. I have very fond memories of seeing the movies when I was a kid. I remember first seeing a trailer for Conan the Barbarian
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Review: Severed #7 Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

Writer by: Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft Art by: Attila Futaki Colors by : Greg Guilhaumond Letterer by : Fonografiks Cover by : Attila Futaki Publisher: Image He loved to hear the little kids scream His instruments of hell did gleam A box with a cleaver, a saw and a knife He used them to
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Review: Invincible #88 Who has the scourge?

Written by: Robert Kirkman Art by: Ryan Ottley Colors by: John Rauch Cover by: Ryan Ottley Publisher: Image Here’s a quick one: First 10 pages, too long, didn’t read. Then, bam! Scourge virus! FUUUUUU!!!! (Troll Face). Jokes, aside, Kirkman absolutely pummels you with exposition and babber-y in the first 10 pages or so. The arguments are
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