I Waited in a Line for Hours to Meet Brian Michael Bendis

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Last weekend the one and only Brian Michael Bendis made an appearance at Maximum Comics 3.0 in Las Vegas. News of his March 27th signing obviously came as a shock since BMB “retired” from signing over two years ago, and was now making Maximum one of his only two stops this year. The other being [...]


Doomed Love in Hawkeye

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Hawkeye #8 “My Bad Penny” Clint’s stripper “girlfriend” shoots her ex and steals his safe from the strip club, shenanigans and hilarity ensues. Clint reacting with his heart, or other more obvious flaccid parts of his body, decides to throw himself into the scuffle, a move that may prove deadly in issues to come. It’s [...]


Uncanny X-Men Revolution

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Uncanny X-Men #1 “The New Revolution” New look, new swagger, new mission. Cyclops is broken by the phoenix force that once made him a god, now with new mutants popping up all over the globe, he plans to build a new batch of X-Men out of the ever growing population. Those close to him are [...]


Hawkguy Helping Citizens. Citizens Helping Hawkeye.

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Hawkeye #7 Both of your favorite Hawkeyes take a break from the Avengers during Super Storm Sandy to help citizens of Manhattan and New Jersey, only to find out they need just as much help. Matt Fraction‘s Hawkeye book impresses me more and more each issue, now add in that issue #7′s bonus proceeds go [...]


Six Nights with Hawkeye

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Hawkeye #6 “Six Nights in the Life of…” There are a few Marvel books you should be reading, the All-New X-Men, and anything Matt Fraction is writing. This guy is on his game, most notably, in his Hawkeye book. Hawkeye is beat up, like physically beaten down, and his Avengers teammates suggest a much needed [...]


Masks Not M.A.S.K.

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Masks #1 Masks from Dynamite hit store shelves today, re-introducing a bevy of Golden Age heroes. Of course Dynamite already released a new fantastic Shadow book written by Garth Ennis, but one hero is never enough, and introducing my beloved Green Hornet and Kato perks my ears and gathers my undivided attention. This first issue [...]


Newest Hawkeye Pleases Me.

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Hawkeye #1 “Lucky” Hawkeye isn’t an alien being with super powers. He isn’t a super intelligent scientist capable of making state of the art suits of armor. And he’s not a test subject from a super secret lab given healing powers and cat like reflexes. He’s just a guy, who’s really good at using a [...]