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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #289
Marvel 75th Anniversary Celebration #1 — Creators: Various These anniversary packages can be a drag sometimes, with too much self-importance and congratulation weighing things down, but this one gets it right: it starts with a James Robinson/Chris Samnee story about the day the FF went up in that rocket and kickstarted the Marvel Silver Age, focusing not on the event but on what a bunch of other characters were doing at the same time; it’s jammed with little bits of continuity and Easter eggs, and… well, come on, it’s Samnee art, and it’s a great opener. Then, Bruce Timm illustrates … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged Conan, Groo, Guardians of the Galaxy, Harley Quinn, Low, Rasputin, Saga, Southern Bastards, The Goon, The Phantom, The Shadow, Tuki, Vertigo Quarterly, X-men
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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #280
All-Star Western #34 — Writers: Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin Gray; Art: Darwyn Cooke This is the last issue of this book, ending an eight-year run (70 issues of the pre-New 52 Jonah Hex immediately preceded it): an impressive accomplishment for a western book in today’s market. Part of that is attributable to Palmiotti and Gray’s steady, solid writing — most of their earlier stories were one-issue tales, with a good grasp of their surly, barely-heroic protagonist and his gruff charms, while later ones were marketing-savvy enough to take him to the 1800s Gotham City and even, for a while, to the … Continue reading
Posted in New Comics, Reviews
Tagged All-new X-men, Avengers, Groo, Guardians of the Galaxy, Jonah Hex, Low, Mind Mgmt, Outcast, Pop, Saga, Silver Surfer, Sundowners, Superman, The Goon, Wayward
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It Came From the Back Room #28
Standard recap: I’m slowly going through AABC’s one-million-plus back-issue room, restocking the boxes on the sales floor and pulling stuff to sell as discount/overstock/special items. I’m going through the alphabet backwards (don’t ask), and at my speed, this amounts to a two-year project. This week, we’re in the middle of the letter “G,” and that means two Marvel titles — neither one a superhero title, both with rabid fan bases, but otherwise just about as different as they can be: Groo Groo is a humor comic, one with a significant cult following; it’s about a perpetually-addled barbarian, and is drawn … Continue reading
Posted in News & Promos, Reviews
Tagged G.I. Joe, Groo, Larry Hama, Mark Evanier, Sergio Aragones
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