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THE OPPOSITE OF OPPOSITE
Time for some incredible comics! I thought last week had some good books, but it is like the amazing titles from last week were bombarded by Gamma Radiation and then given an atomic wedgie! These […]
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THE REVOLVING DOOR OF DEATH
The debut issue of Superior Spider-Man makes it clear that Peter Parker Spider-Man is still swinging around in the mind of his body’s usurper, Dr. Otto Octavious. While we have no idea what crazy comics […]
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U.D.’s Review-Dees, Episode 2
Unkiedev reviews the lovely Flex Mentallo: Man of Muscle Mystery graphic novel from DC. […]
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U.D.’s Review-Dees
Before Watchmen Minutemen #1, Darwyn Cooke (W/A), DC When a crime is committed, the courts attempt to find a jury comprised of impartial citizens with no knowledge of the people and the events involved to […]
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Old Weekly Planet Articles
The Weekly Planet is a newsletter I started writing for the FPNYC shop some years ago. It’s changed and mutated in a number of ways since its inception, but I no longer contribute to it […]
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Life is Like a Hurricane
With the New York Comic Con behind us, what do we have to fill the thermos of our fickle attention spans? How about some choice graphic novels from this weeks new comics! DUCK TALES: RIGHTFUL […]
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Dispatch from an Alternate Universe
By Unkiedev There is not a single problem that can befall man nor beast that cannot be resolved through the awesome powers of this week’s new comic books. S’true! Let’s pretend you are a wasp […]
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Times They Are A Changin’
The land of comic books is a fertile ground of rich entertainment just waiting to be mined! Recently it has been announced that the Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming title, Powers, will finally […]
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Unkiedev’s Amazing Stuff
HEY! Comic Book day falls on my birthday this year! Yup, your ole’ Unkiedev will be turning an undisclosed number somewhere between twenty something and some combination of 30 and a few more. How to […]
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Where’s the Love?
Recently it has been revealed that Marvel intends to kill off MORE important characters in order to increase sales…I mean tell good stories! With Valentine’s Day safely behind Us where it can no longer do […]
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New Comics Worth the Money
Somebody killed all the good, fun, bright and new ideas in comic books. Is there anyone to save us? Holy Crap! A New Hellboy book?! Richard Corben, 70’s Heavy Metal Magazine favorite and erstwhile Hellboy […]
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Four Years of The Weekly Planet
The Weekly Planet, FPNYC’s newsletter for in-store customers, celebrated its four year anniversary last week. Since that first sweltering summer night we hand-copied and stapled a coupla hundred 8×11 sheets of copy paper on which […]
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New Comics From Smaller Publishers
by Unkiedev THE SMALL 5 It used to be easy: the “Big Two” in comic books referred to the two biggest guns in the world of super hero publishing, Marvel and DC. Then the Nineties […]
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Hogwash: No New Comic Books
It was decided by a horde of crazed wood-elves that this final week of 2009 would see virtually NO NEW COMIC BOOKS. This can be a pain in the power-ring when you are a freelance comic book reporter in need of a good story. […]