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Central Canada Comic Con 2010: Costume Contest Pt. 1
I was about a million miles away from the stage so my camera was on super duper zoom, so excuse the graininess. Though I kind of like the blurry pic of the Hobgoblin, almost looks like some hastily...
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Central Canada Comic Con 2010: Costume Contest Pt. 2
Again please excuse the graininess. That top THX 1138 guy had a great and original costume that probably did not offer much visibility. The guy that was Optimus Prime did an amazing job and actually...
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Continued on 2nd Page Following: Superboy #167
Okay, yes, a super-strong flying baby, sure, fine. I was believing everything until they said that said baby could crash through a window so fast it wouldn't make any noise. What is this, *snicker*,...
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Teen Titans on Miami Vice
It's always great when two of my favourite things overlap, especially if those two things are rather incongruous and seemingly irreconcilable. In this case, I'm referring to the Teen Titans and Miami...
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I Impulsively Bought Essential Hulk Vol. 6 Yesterday...
I was at the book store and looking at perhaps buying something, maybe Superman: Earth One, which, despite some trepidation about potentially ephemeral revisionist versions of characters ("fresh and...
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When Comic Book Thugs Look Like Charles Bronson Part 4
"Thug" doesn't exactly fit, but I'm going with it. Superboy and the Legion of Superheroes #212, 1975, as Cosmic Boy, "on a break" from his relationship with Night Girl, though clearly still thinking of...
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My Recent War Comics Reading: Haunted Tank
While I think comics have a very respectable tradition in war stories, it is generally not my thing. However, I am also always curious about areas of comics I don't know much about and recently...
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Jheri Curl Causes Omnipotence! Plus: Twinkies, Twinkies, Twinkies!
So I'm watching Dark City the other night and trying to figure out who Rufus Sewell reminds me of with his dark jheri curl hairdo and his ability to manipulate all matter. Then it hit me.Of course, the...
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Stray Thoughts on Tonight's Episode of Smallville
- Doozy of an episode.- Lots of cute women, especially Teri Hatcher and Helen Slater.- I like that Teri's hair was like it was in the early days of Lois & Clark, which was on the air 15 years ago...
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Continued on 2nd Page Following: Yellow Hot-Pants!
Supergirl's got to use what she's got, to get just what she wants. From The Daring New Adventures of Supergirl #9, my contribution to the "things wrongly coloured yellow" field of studies as pioneered...
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Bootleg, Not a Bootleg?
I got this baby at a con in 1994 from one of the tables selling figures.In the small print on the cape, it says, "(copyright symbol) D. C. COMICS 1992 COMICS SPAIN" but I have doubts about how legit it...
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The Best Part of Waking Up is Super-Heroes and Super-Gorillas
Wanting something to read during breakfast this morning - I can read comics while eating with little risk of damage to the comic, it's one of my gifts, I grabbed this out of the DC Specials section,...
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Gold Key Fever!
Is it wrong to shop in the 50 cent bin? Should these bins be eschewed by the "serious" collector? Am I a "serious" collector? Nah, I consider myself more a wacky, slapstick collector.I dunno, sometimes...
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Stray Thoughts on Tonight's Aquatastic Episode of Smallville!
- There's nothing like making out with your sweetie after blowing something up.- We definitely got a bit of angry nineties Aquaman.- Mera's not too hard on the peepers.- I liked her way of talking,...
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Super Spectacular Regular Sized 100th Post!!!
Here I am at number 100 and it feels pretty darn good. Thanks to my Rogues Gallery of regular followers and to all the very valued drop-ins and drive-bys for giving me a place to yap about that...
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But Don't They Realize Lead is the Only Way To Block Kryptonite?
If you haven't heard yet, a Utah-based company, Vandor, has been ordered to recall DC hero collector glasses after tests commissioned by the Associated Press showed it contained more levels of lead...
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Continued on 2nd Page Following - Before The Force, There Was The Source
I always thought Kirby's depiction of Orion had kind of a Peter Noone thing going on.Of course, that was only the way his features appeared due to Mother Box altering his appearance from Apokaliptian...
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Comics in Electra Glide in Blue
Electra Glide in Blue, 1973's vehicle for future Baretta star and future murder suspect Robert Blake, is an occasionally brilliant but often hamhanded look at some of the social ills of the early...
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X-Men: First Class
*** SPOILER ALERT ***Here we are with the exciting new "one post every six months" format. It's been way too long, but it started with losing the internet temporarily and also was related to me...
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Green Lantern's Light!
****SPOILERS****Green Lantern is a superhero movie that dares to be fun and exciting and return the comic book hero to a time when it was about good versus evil. The movie reminded me of what I love...
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Gene Colan Takes On DC Icons
The prolific and unique Gene Colan passed away at age 84 on June 23. He was a master of storytelling and action pacing. In terms of visuals, for some reason the word that comes to mind for his style...
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The January Jones Effect
...is a term I have coined for when a performer appearing in a comic book film has a name that sounds even more like a comic book character's name than the name of the character they are playing.New...
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Marvel Paperbacks I Have Loved
These days it may be hard to believe there was ever a time when comic stores didn't exist, and there wasn't a place to walk into to find hot and cold running reprint editions, repackagings of every...
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Shuffling Through the New 52
Well, it's a bold move and I'm all for boldness. My biggest concern about the new DC Universe about to be born is that it seems tailored to appeal to the audiences which already exist, rather than...
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Batgirl #1
*SPOILERS*The almost original Batgirl, Barbara Gordon, is back, and as you can see with her new textured gloves she can open a mean pickle jar and dispense gardening justice. We all know that what was...
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