Movie Review: The Avengers (AKA STUFF IT ROBERTS)

With literally years of build up The Avengers finally landed in movie theaters this weekend. And wouldn’t ya know it? I got a free advanced screening of the movie! Suck on that Scott! Someone beat you to the punch! But enough gloating (Screw you Roberts!!), I walked into this movie with very high hopes. Joss [...]

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Tokyo Caught On Paper

It is next to impossible to go to your local comic shop and not see at least a small shelf dedicated to manga. Perusing this area is usually an assault on the eyes. A mix of big block lettering, big haircuts, but a small selection when it comes to genre choices. That’s because most manga [...]

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Manga Worth Reading

Do you ever get tired of reading shit like Bleach and One Piece?  Tired of reading manga that just goes on and on with no end until it gets so stale and predictable that you curse yourself every time you pick up a new volume?  Well good, you are evolving out of your retarded otaku [...]

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Uncanny X-Force and A Couple Other Great Comics Out There

For the the better part of 4 years I have gotten back into comic books. And as stated earlier in this blog there have been some great books as well as some bloated event-style comics (even though I really enjoyed Civil War based solely on how awesome Captain America is). And with all the different [...]

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The Great Launch of Black Spider-Man

I’m not exactly a huge comic book nerd, but in the last 4-ish years, I’ve read my fair share.  There are a lot of bloated, pointless events used for marketing  (Civil War, Flashpoint, Fear Itself) and lackluster main books (Detective Comics and Superman), but the one book that I could always count on for a [...]

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Most blogs are stupid and not journalism

I don’t really have much to say here other than basically what the title says.  I was stumbling today (my job since I am unemployed) and I came across some early Bill Watterson comics.  Sweet!, I think.  I want to see more of these!  So I look at the bottom of this blog and it [...]

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Two comics you should be reading

If you are anything like me, you are sick and tired of mainstream comic serials  A guy can only take so many soap opera-esque plots before he wants to shoot himself in the head.  No, what I want is SUBSTANCE from my comics.  I don’t need heroes that can fly, fight crime and so forth.  [...]

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