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Comic Recommendation: The Black Hood
I can’t recommend this comic enough. The Black Hood is about a Philadelphia cop who kills the resident vigilante and then through his personal demons takes over as The Black Hood. Originally I picked this up because I read that it took place in Philly. Writer Duane Swiercyznski is a resident of Philly and does…
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Trench’s early impressions of DC Comics’ Convergence
I don’t think I’m dropping any spoilers but just in case you’ve been warned. I Know it’s only the first week of DC Comics’ latest continuity crossover reboot crisis whatever but I’ve come away with two things from it so far. The first is that the concept reminds me a lot of 2013’s Deathmatch by…
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Marvel Comics to reboot their universe
Recently it was announced that Marvel Comics will be rebooting their fictional universe with the upcoming Secret Wars storyline much like DC Comics did in 2011 with Flashpoint and the New 52, At first, much like I did in 2011, I was worried that some great stories would become non-canon like the death of Gwen…
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Comic of the Week: Action Comics Future’s End
MINOR SPOILERS AHEAD, YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED In my entire life I’ve never cried at a movie or about a book or any work of fiction for that matter, until this past week. Believe it or not I was legitimately moved and almost got choked up over a comic book. But I’m getting a head…
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Comic of the Week: Daredevil #7
I haven’t done a comic of the week recommendation in a while because frankly, nothing has really blown my skirt that much lately in the world of comics, until today. Mark Waid’s run on Daredevil has been nothing short of excellent and issue #7 of the current run should be looked upon as a classic…
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Falcon to become Captain America
Not to be outdone with making Thor a woman, Marvel Comics has also made it known that the superhero known as The Falcon will be replacing Steve Rogers as Captain America. Apparently the reason this is newsworthy is that Falcon is black so we’ll have a black Captain America. I’m sure there will be some…
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Thor to be a woman
So Marvel announced today that the mantle of Thor will be taken up by a female character soon. I’m taking a wait and see approach to this because the last time there was this much nerd outrage at Marvel Comics it was when they replaced Peter Parker with Doc Ock as Spider-Man and that was…
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The first transgender character in DC Comics, or is it?
DC Introduces First Transgender Character in Mainstream Comics: Comic books keep making the mainstream news lately. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing but we’re going to take a look at the latest development. ***SPOILERS AHEAD*** In the final pages of Batgirl #19, Barbara Gordon confesses a lot of things…
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The death of Robin…again
So another comic has made it into mainstream news again and once again it is involving the death of an iconic character. This time it’s Batman’s ever-present sidekick, Robin. But before we get into that here’s a little comic history lesson for those of you who either don’t follow comics or haven’t followed in a…
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