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Oct 21, 2010
The year was 2004. I was voting for John Kerry (*sigh*) at a polling place located in a rather stately library, and I was stuck at the end of a very long queue of other restless Americans. Just as I got in, the cover of a book caught my eye and I picked it up, intending to idly flip through it and set it back down. 208 pages later, and still in line, I did. Hello, this shit was enthralling.
The book...
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Ninjas. Hot ones. Need I say more?
Sep 3, 2010
People debate when Buffy the Vampire Slayer stopped being good — the end of Season 3, when she leaves high school? Season 5, when she dies for the second time? Season 7? Sometime during the comics? But for my money...
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The Buffyverse’s fitting final act: Fray
Sep 1, 2010
You may already know Ryan North. He seems to be at the center of the Toronto Comix Mafia, which is fascinating, because as far as I can tell, Ryan North can’t really draw. No, really. His website at qwantz.com is called Dinosaur Comics, and it’s a sort of clip-art haiku meditation on cheerful philosophical absurdity.
Using the same six panels in every comic, he expounds upon the mysteries of life...
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All Directions Point to North!
Aug 18, 2010
First off, let me get this out of the way: the second volume of Young Avengers is crap. They pulled this “OMG, his superpowers are from drugs!” thing that I hate probably more than any other cliché in comics, and at that point even the interesting Hulkling secret origin stuff that followed couldn’t save the series for me. They had already squandered the limitless potential set up in...
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Superhero action, live without a net
You have a limited amount of time, so why spend it reading about things that suck or are only kind of okay? Favorite thing EVER is not a review site. We're unrepentant fans, and this is the stuff we love. Hope you like gushing, because we're about to embarrass ourselves.
