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Saturday, October 04, 2008

New X-Men: Wrapping It Up

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In his New X-Men pitch, Grant Morrison wrote about wanting to make the X-books accessible to new readers, while still respecting the continu...
Wednesday, October 01, 2008

Canceling a Show

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I’m often baffled when a network will invest all the money to develop and advertise a new series, then cancel it after one episode. If you t...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008

The Stand

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I read, and loved, Stephen King’s The Dark Tower series a few years back. I’ve always been interested in works that combine fantasy elements...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008

New X-Men: "Here Comes Tomorrow" (#151-154)

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“Planet X” is on one level a story about how it’s impossible to truly change these corporate icon superhero characters. Morrison can spin th...
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Friday, September 26, 2008

New X-Men: "Planet X": Part II (#148-150)

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One of the interesting things about the arc is the way it positions Magneto’s revolution within the political climate of a post 9/11, Bush g...
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

New X-Men: "Planet X:" Part I (#146-148)

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In “Planet X,” the series we’ve been reading for the past thirty issues is hijacked by an insane Magneto, and taken down to hell for the big...
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Monday, September 22, 2008

New X-Men: 'Assault on Weapon Plus' (#142-145)

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“Assault on Weapon Plus” feels very different than the rest of Grant’s run on New X-Men, it's a European feeling over the top pop art e...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008

New X-Men: "Murder at the Mansion" (#140-141)

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After the amazing prelude issue, “Murder at the Mansion” proper begins in issue #140. This storyline is kind of a mixed bag for me, there’s ...
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True Blood: "The First Taste" (1x02)

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True Blood’s second episode does a successful job of expanding the universe a bit, and clarifying some of the elements that remained rather ...
Sunday, September 14, 2008

New X-Men: #139

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Let me start off by praising Phil Jiminez’s fantastic art on this issue. The weird coloring/inking issues from his previos New X-Men story h...
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