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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #428

Posted on July 7, 2017 by Phil

True Believers: Amazing Fantasy Starring Spider-Man #1 — Writer: Stan Lee;  Pencils: Steve Ditko True Believers: Spider-Man #1 — Writer/Artist: Todd McFarlane;  Colors: Bob Sharon True Believers: Spider-Man — Brand New Day #1 — Writer: Dan Slott;  Pencils: Steve McNiven;  Inks: Dexter Vines;  Colors: Morry Hollowell At only $1, these “True Believers” reprints are both great all-ages gifts and smart marketing tools, introducing new readers to Spider-Man’s long history. Amazing Fantasy offers the eleven-page origin, a stark Lee-Ditko morality tale, and then adds a retro Spider-Man/Iron Man/Vulture reprint from the high-school-set Spidey #6, by Robbie Thompson, Andre Lima Aravjo and … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #390

Posted on October 14, 2016 by Phil

The Clone Conspiracy #1 (of 5) — Writer: Dan Slott;  Pencils: Jim Cheung;  Inks: John Dell;  Colors: Justin Ponsor Mosaic #1 — Writer: Geoffrey Thorne;  Art: Khary Randolph;  Colors: Emilio Lopez Solo #1 — Writers: Gerry Duggan and Geoffrey Thorne;  Art: Paco Diaz;  Colors: Israel Silva The Great Lakes Avengers #1 — Writer: Zac Gorman;  Art: Will Robson;  Colors: Tamra Bonvillain Of the Marvel debuts this week, Clone Conspiracy is probably the most-anticipated; the Amazing Spider-Man comic has been building up to it for months now. Basically, Spidey’s old enemy, the Jackal, has perfected a way of bringing people back … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #384

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Phil

Silver Surfer #200 — Writer: Dan Slott;  Art: Michael Allred;  Colors: Laura Allred All-New Wolverine Annual #1 — Writer: Tom Taylor;  Art: Marcio Takara;  Color: Mat Lopes Amazing Spider-Man #17 — Writer: Dan Slott;  Pencils: R. B. Silva;  Inks: Adriano di Benedetto;  Colors: Marte Gracia Three non-Civil War II tie-ins: Silver Surfer #200 celebrates that title’s anniversary with a 25-page episode of the regular story (with the usual Allred/Slott combination of quirky charm and bittersweet relationship drama), plus a one-page recap, a two-page letters section, a page about the Eisner award for best single issue that the comic won last … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #379

Posted on July 30, 2016 by Phil

Civil War II #4 (of 7) — Writer: Brian Michael Bendis;  Art: David Marquez;  Colors: Justin Ponsor Captain Marvel #7 — Writers: Ruth Fletcher Gage and Christos Gage;  Art: Marco Failla;  Colors: Matt Wilson Ms. Marvel #9 — Writer: G. Willow Wilson;  Art: Takeshi Miyazawa and Adrian Alphona;  Colors: Ian Herring Totally Awesome Hulk #9 — Writer: Greg Pak;  Art: Mike del Mundo;  Colors: del Mundo and Marco D’Alfonso All four of these books are Civil War II-related, most significantly Civil War II #4 itself,  the biggest draw, and as it rounds the halfway point of the big event it reveals … Continue reading →

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #300

Posted on January 16, 2015 by Phil

We should probably note a couple of anniversaries this week: as you can see, this is my 300th “Stuff I Bought” review post; the first came out the week of January 5, 2007, which was when the AABC blog began — so that’s an eight-year anniversary for it, too. That very first review is no longer on the site (it had some kind of coding problem that was screwing things up, if I remember correctly, and had to be erased), but there’s a link to the second week’s reviews here.  If you’re wondering why it’s the 300th review but I’m … Continue reading →

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