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About Phil

With 40 years of experience in comic reading, collecting and reviewing, English Professor Phil Mateer has an encyclopedic mind for comics. Feel free to ask Phil about storylines, characters, artists or for that matter, any comic book trivia. He will post your questions and answers on the AABC blog. His knowledge is unparalleled! He is also our warehouse manager, so if you are looking for that hard to find comic book, ask Phil!

Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #474

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Phil

Iron Man #600 — Writer: Brian Michael Bendis;  Art/Colors: Various Black Panther #1 (#173) — Writer: Ta-Nehisi Coates;  Art/Colors: Daniel Acuna Infinity Countdown: Darkhawk #1 (of 4) — Writers: Chris Sims and Chad Bowers;  Art/Colors: Gang Hyuk Lim You Are Deadpool #3 and #4 — Writer: Al Ewing;  Art: Salva Espin;  Colors: Guru-eFX Doctor Strange #390 — Writer: Donny Cates;  Art/Colors: Frazer Irving Incredible Hulk #717 — Writer: Greg Pak;  Pencils: Carlo Barberi;  Inks: Walden Wong;  Colors: Frank D’Armata Iron Man #600 is Brian Michael Bendis’s farewell to the Marvel universe after 18 years (Ultimate Spider-Man #1 came out in … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #473

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Phil

A Walk Through Hell #1 — Writer: Garth Ennis;  Art: Goran Sudzuka;  Colors: Ive Svorcina World of Tanks: Citadel #1 (of 5) — Writer: Garth Ennis;  Art: P.J. Holder;  Colors: Michael Atiyeh Flavor #1 — Writer: Joseph Keating;  Art: Wook Jin Clark;  Colors: Tamra Bonvillain Ether #1 — Writer: Matt Kindt;  Art: David Rubin;  Colors: Kike J. Diaz Let’s start with the indy titles this week, since both the quantity (15 books on this list!) and the quality (Ennis, Kindt, Lemire, Vaughan, Millar, Gillen, Mignola, Sakai and Alan Moore, just to name the writers) are high, First up are two … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #472

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Phil

Deadpool #300 — Writer: Gerry Duggan;  Pencils: Scott Koblish, Matteo Loli and Mike Hawthorne;  Inks: Koblish, Loli, Hawthorne, Terry Pallot and Craig Yeung;  Colors: Nick Filardi, Ruth Redmond and Jordie Bellaire You Are Deadpool #2 (of 5) — Writer: Al Ewing;  Art: Paco Diaz;  Colors: Guru-eFX The Adamantium Agenda #1 (of 4) — Writer: Tom Taylor;  Pencils: R. B. Silva;  Inks: Adriano di Benedetto with R. B. Silva;  Colors: Jesus Aburtov Venom #1 (Legacy #166) — Writer: Donny Cates;  Pencils: Ryan Stegman;  Inks: JP Mayer;  Colors: Frank Martin Deadpool has, of course, a movie coming out very soon, so there … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #471

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Phil

Avengers #1 — Writer: Jason Aaron;  Pencils: Ed McGuinness;  Inks: Mark Morales;  Colors: David Curiel Weapon Lost #1 (of 4) — Writer: Charles Soule;  Art: Matteo Buffagni;  Colors: Jim Charalampidis You Are Deadpool #1 (of 4) — Writer: Al Ewing;  Art: Salva Espin;  Colors: Guru-eFX Avengers #1 (Marvel also includes an “LGY 691” under the “1” on the cover, meaning this is actually “legacy,” or original numbering, 691; that’s, believe it or not, important to some of us…) starts with a seven-page prologue set in one million BC, with the same ancient Avengers team that Aaron wrote about in that … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #470

Posted on April 27, 2018 by Phil

Hunt for Wolverine #1 (of 1) — Writer: Charles Soule;  Art: David Marquez and Paulo Siquiera;  Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg, Walden Wong and Ruth Redmond Thanos Annual #1 — Creators: Various True Believers: Carol Danvers #1 (of 1) — Writer: Roy Thomas;  Art: Gene Colan Hunt for Wolverine is one of those surprised-that-it’s-good books; it’s the intro to four different mini-series that continue the story through August, followed by a wrap-up, so it could have been just a naked cash-grab, but instead it’s a decent old-school X-Men tale with Storm, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Kitty fighting the Reavers over Logan’s adamantium-covered corpse, … Continue reading →

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