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Morrison x 2: Wildcats and Authority
Grant Morrison is very good. He’s one of my favourite writers and, along with Alan Moore, is in the very exclusive “Try Anything He Writes” club. He’s not always great, but he’s almost always interesting. He tries a lot of different things, and while he always brings that certain Morrison something, no two books are…
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Seven Days ’til Seven Soldiers
After an excruciating delay, Grant Morrison will conclude his Seven Soldiers epic next week. I’m more than a little miffed at having to wait another six months after the first 29 issues came out bi-weekly almost like clockwork, but what the heck – this is one of those books that I’m confident I’ll be re-reading…
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Green Arrow: Year One Probably Won’t Suck!
I think everyone can agree that the Year One concept has been beaten into the ground. Frank Miller’s Batman origin is obviously a classic, but Year Two, Year Three, and Everyone Else’s Year One overdid it. DC even did a whole Summer Annual event based around it. Now, they’re going back to the well for…
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Nextwave No More
From Marvel’s January solicits: NEXTWAVE: AGENTS OF H.A.T.E. #12Written by WARREN ELLISPencils and Cover bySTUART IMMONENTo all those who HAVEN’T been buying NEXTWAVE– Thanks a lot, jerks! This is the last issue! To all those who HAVE been buying NEXTWAVE– YOU RULE!! Do not miss this pulse-pounding conclusion to the greatest work of western literature…
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The Other Side #1
I like war stories, but much like superhero stories, they tend to run into a problem: There have been so many over the past 50 years that it’s hard to tell one that’s original or unique. Of course, comic book war stories have declined in popularity over that time; what was once a staple of…
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Doctor Strange: The Oath #1
Doctor Strange is an odd character. Most of the time he comes off as the magical equivalent of Reed Richards: Brilliant, but kind of a dull character who’s only there to be the Magic Guy. I’ve read only a handful of Doctor Strange comics, and honestly can’t remember any of them. Most of the time,…
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People Who Suck
These people suck: People who post eBay autions with misleading titles. The title says “Justice League 1-50!”, but when you click the link they’ve only got 1, 3, 15, 35, 49-50. Yah for getting more people to look at your auction, but big SUCK! for pissing them off when they do. Potential employers who interview…
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Fame works in mysterious ways
So if you google “Greg Land”, my blog is the 14th result. I did not expect that when I started this blog.
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C.J. the Rat: 2004-2006
The downer to a fairly nice Thanksgiving weekend visiting my family was that when I got back home, I found that one of my rats had died. It’s kind of a sad and inevitable thing. C.J. was getting old – nearly two and a half, which is near old age for a rat – and…
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Two Sides of Superheroes: Blue Beetle #7 and The Boys #3
Blue Beetle is a great, fun book. It’s not the most original book in the world — young boy discovers item that gives him great power; somewhere between Power Rangers and Spider-Man — but it’s well executed and has a strong vision. I admit to some trepidation after the past two issues, which suffered from…