Pop! Goes the Icon

When I was a comic-collecting kid, my heart belonged to Marvel Comics. Even through the early 1980s, DC’s mainstream comics were still bland, fluffy and dumbed down (until, let’s say, the Crisis era). So though I liked the characters of Superman, Batman, etc., even as a 9- or 10-year-old, I knew instinctively that Marvel’s titles […]

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(Photo courtesy SpyOnVegas.com)
Yes, that is Frank Miller in the photo above, looking pleasantly amused by the birthday cake presented to him at CatHouse last night. I’m still waiting on more details of the evening, but you can click here to see a gallery of photos from the party, including Rosario Dawson and Jamie King. (UPDATE: […]

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“So Diet Cable shoots Professor X with a sniffle bullet because he didn’t get enough hugs in the clone future.”
– Nathan Crosby on Hey! Kids! Comics! (via Newsarama)

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Hot damn, Pop! Goes the Icon faithful! Your favorite new-ish comic and pop culture blog won its first Friday Night Fights prize during Round 5! On our first entry into the battle!
Click here to witness the epic struggle on Bahalctus’ blog!!
The prize is a copy of Superman: Camelot Falls, so I’ll probably toss a review […]

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And I have to say, I hate Joe Q a little less just for holding his own, but he’s still a tool:

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When you have an hour between leaving work and going to class in which to both eat dinner and get from point A to point B, it leaves little time to stop at your friendly neighborhood comic book shop.
Which means that yesterday, I did not get any new books. And I probably won’t have time […]

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So my annual cold is working its way from my head to my chest … which means I can function with a clearer head, but I can’t stop coughing. Ah well, what can I do?
Finally picked up X-Factor No. 27, otherwise known as Chapter 11 of “Messiah CompleX.” It’s starting to come together, I see. […]

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Sorry it’s been so quiet around here. Though I would much rather spend all day blogging about my on-again-off-again love affair with comic books, I do have to work sometimes. OK, so my “work” involves blogging about OTHER topics, namely at DailyFiasco.com and VEGASinsight.net. But today is Wednesday, and that means the next chapter of […]

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So after difficultly digesting Amazing Spider-Man’s “One More Day” finale Friday night, I eventually moved on the read chapters six and nine of “Messiah CompleX,” and I have to say … I’m intrigued. Hooked almost. I’ll definitely finish out the rest of this crossover, and who knows, maybe I’ll begin to regularly pick up one […]

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My friendly neighborhood comic book shop (conveniently, two blocks from my apartment) closes at 7 p.m. I left the office at 6:35 p.m. I made it to Alternate Reality (possibly Las Vegas’ best comic shop) at 6:53 p.m.
Chapter Nine of “Messiah CompleX” was on the featured racks right up front; I picked that up immediately, […]

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