Posts Tagged ‘DC’

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Another Spider-Man Cartoon

After eight animated incarnations, your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler stars in yet another cartoon which premiered on Disney XD on April 1st. I loved the Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon that aired on [...]

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How to be NERDY and score with hot babes

I’ve been a nerdy guy for these past 20 years in which I’ve called the planet Earth my home. I remember being a young nerd and most importantly I remember [...]

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Quinntessential Comix #7: Book Club – Spy Themed!

Check out our spy themed book club episode! We read the first volume of Human Target and Sleeper: Out in the Cold. We are pretty loose in this episode, just being back from the holiday break and all.

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The Best Batman Book ever…of 2011

The Best Batman Book ever…of 2011 Guest Post by Chris D’Alessandro   I think I just felt the minds of every geek in the world almost explode. While reading the title [...]

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Image’s ‘Last of the Greats’ will Shake Your Foundations

Amazed. The only word I can come up with after reading issues 1-3 of Josh Fialkov and Brent Peeples’ Last of the Greats. I don’t know if I’ve even been [...]

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Vertigo’s ‘Spaceman’: Shaky on Re-Entry

DC Comics’ Vertigo line, to my mind, revolutionized comics. Books like Sandman, Preacher, Hellblazer, and many more showed that comics could communicate complex ideas with adult themes (and content) and [...]

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Avenging Spider-Man: Best Title of the Year?

By Peter Kuebeck Go out and buy Avenging Spider-Man. Right NOW. I’ll wait. And I’m not kidding, either. I’ve read a lot of titles this year, from Image to the DC [...]

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Batman: Year One

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by guest contributor Tish Solomon I remember years ago walking into Silver Snail every week or so when I was 17. I was into comics at the time, but I [...]

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Female Characters in the DC New 52

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I’ve just finished working my way through most of the DC New 52 releases – how many people collected them all? And while there are all sorts of ways to analyze what they’ve done with the reboot, both good and bad, one particular aspect has been hitting the geek news a lot lately: how DC is treating their female characters. With a new beginning in place, are the editors and creators involved making the art form a friendlier place, or reinforcing the same tired stereotypes?