Ollie Queen visits Metropolis

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Superman encounters some unexpected hassles when Oliver Queen comes to town.

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There are criminal masterminds, and then there are these guys

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Four pages from Irredeemable #3, the latest issue of Waid's series about the Plutonian, the world's greatest superhero who became its greatest villain.

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Batman and Robin #2 preview up

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Batman and Robin #2 preview up at IGN where we see Batman and Gordon interact for the first time, and unlike last time they met with Dick in the cowl, Gordon has an IQ greater than a fruit fly.

And from the DCUBLOG site;

( This should not make me smile, and yet... )

Oh, and for those interested, here is a link to a page of original pencil Quitely art from issue #1, which seems to have an interesting little story attached to it. See if you can spot the difference before you read the description.

Wondy 33

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Four pages from today's Wondy.

( SPOILER SPOILER SPOILERY MASSIVE SPOILERS HERE. )

Loki & Doom: BFFs?

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1 page each from Thor #602 and X-Men/Dark Avengers: Utopia.

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Just in time for Father's Day!

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Four scans from Incredible Hercules #130.

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Oh, and this series has a TV Tropes entry now; go nuts.

Bronze Age Wonder Woman

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These are from Wonder Woman: The Greatest Stories Ever Told, which I heartily recommend it to all Wondy fans. It opens with a nice long Golden Age story featuring a villain named Eviless, bizarre gadgets, outrageous outfits, and a lot more bondage than most Golden Age Wonder Woman stories. (Yes, I said "a lot more bondage than most Golden Age Wonder Woman stories".) There's also a story from the George Perez era.

These are the only scans from this book I'm posting; I'm hoping to entice y'all to buy it. ;-) They're from Wonder Woman #286, published in 1981.

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Runaways vol. 3 #11

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Runaways #11, the first issue by new team Kathryn Immonen and Sara Pichelli, is here. Let's start things with a bang!



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To The Rescue

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Four scans from Thor #602, which deigned to show up on the shelves.

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"A Matter of Trust"

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Avengers The Initiative #25 Initiative Disassembled

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( A Wardrobe Malfunction, A Traumatic event and the worst thing that could ever happen to Gravity! )

Preview Image

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( Full Version under the cut. Or just go to the blog link. )

Dini's Angels

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Three scans from Gotham City Sirens #1.

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Agent Orange Conclusion

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4 pages from Green Lantern #42, the conclusion of the Agent Orange arc.

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Captain America : It's all in the angles...

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JMS Off Thor: For Reals This Time

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As reported HERE. One slightly spoilery image from the article under the cut for legality.

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The Green Lantern franchise is famous for its fridges

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In my last post I left John in a bit of a tough spot, imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit. I figured it wasn't really fair to leave him hanging and I ought to post how that entire mess was resolved...and I will. Eventually.

I thought it was important that I first establish how exactly he ended up in that situation. It's a tale of dickery, theft, torture and one of the most blatant and indefensible cases of WiR imaginable.

( Hal is the highly suggestible type )

Justice League of America #34

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Last page of Empowered Volume 5

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Empowered 5 came out today. Quite good if significantly more subdued than normal. Go out and buy it!

I am posting the last page of the volume. Not really a spoiler per-se.

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Fraction's X-Heroes

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Four scans from Uncanny X-Men #512, featuring Beast's adventuring X-Club, and four from Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia.

( Paradox-alicious! )

Flying cars

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There's a charm to 19th Century visions of what the future would be like. I'm not scoffing at how wrong they went, I'm taking an affectionate look at human imagination at work. Sometimes artists took current trends and just escalated them, sometimes they came up with images from way out in left field.



This illustration is worth taking a few minutes to study at the largest size. It's by Albert Robida, for an 1890 issue of LA VIE ELECTRIQUE. My first thought was, look at all those wires all over the place! How can these flying taxis get anywhere? I bet there's accidents every day. Then I laughed at the driver's steering wheel, his cap and his businesslike posture.. he's just doing his job.There used to be a widespread prediction in the 1950s that at some point, most people would be driving flying cars or small helicopters everywhere. This hasn't come to pass and hopefully it'll never start to happen. People have enough trouble handling regular cars, which (when they stall out or break down) can roll to the side of the road in most cases. Looking up and imagining a dozen SUVs zooming overhead with drivers texting or finishing another beer or arguing on a cell phone.. not to mention all the vehicles which failed inspection or are almost out of gas or have the CHECK ENGINE light on for the past week.. well, I'd be apprehensive.

And here's a slightly more up-to-date 1960s version of a flying car. Watch BLADE RUNNER for Syd Mead's well-thought-out concept (and it's a good idea to watch BLADE RUNNER again, anyway.)

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Barack the Barbarian!

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Greetings True Believers! I picked up Barack the Barbarian #1 today and it is amusing. It hit me right in the Conan-fanboy part of my brain. It's an entertaining tale with familiar faces in new and strangely true roles. So enjoy!




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Magneto Becomes an Emo Drunken Bum and Gets Schooled By Dani

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I don't know why but badasses turning into big piles of emo always crack me up.

( A couple pages from The New Mutants #39 )

Starro the... Ares?

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so, REBELS.

basically, Brainiac 2's automated space police force has been subverted by a mysterious entity, leading him to... do stuff like turn one of the current-day members of Dawnstar's people into a bootleg Wildfire.

but who did it?

(  Exposition, courtesy of flying brick Astrild Storm-Daughter, should tell us...  )

Teen Titans #72

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( Jaime fun )