Category Archives: Comics

I don’t want Bendis to ever go away!

By terje | Published: May 25, 2008
So, I’ve been reading Ultimate Spider-Man lately (bye-bye, decent exam-period meals), and at first I thought it would be boring to read a superhero comic with only one superhero. I imagined it would be far less interesting than the more group-oriented superhero comics I’ve read before, like Astonishing and Ultimate X-Men and The Ultimates, as [...]
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Iron Man

By terje | Published: May 11, 2008
So. The second most anticipated movie of the year or something, Iron Man. I was a skeptic, I have to admit as much. Sure, I’d heard from both Loki and Kalle that it was a phenomenal movie, but they’re both something resembling Marvel fanboys. And me? I’d encountered Iron Man in some minor spots in [...]
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Comforting

By terje | Published: April 24, 2008
“The Rock is attached to play the villain, a likable enough actor who was seems genetically designed specifically to be in comic book movies. It’s not a bad role, either. If you take away almost everything ridiculous that doesn’t work about Captain Marvel, you have his antithesis and mortal enemy, Black Adam. Not to worry, [...]
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Angel: After the Fall, issues 3-5

By terje | Published: April 10, 2008
I’ve been doing a lot of nothing lately. In fact, I’ve been doing so much nothing that I’ven’t even read the last three (or four, now, I guess) issues of After the Fall. Luckily, I was able to rectify this last night, and man, am I glad I did. As frustrating as it is to read [...]
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Without Hitch’s art, this isn’t a tenth of as great as it could be

By terje | Published: January 23, 2008
“That said, I think I know who might have released those files.” “Who?” “My evil half-brother, Loki. A messenger from Asgard came to warn me that he escaped from his bonds again and journeyed to Midgard to do everything he could to –” “Thor, please.” “What?” “Just shut up.” [Whispering, as Cap turns his back and leaves:] “You go to church [...]
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Midnight Nation

By terje | Published: December 16, 2007
“Feel the misery of the world, David Grey. For one second, I’m going to open your mind to the song of pain, the song I have been forced to hear every day and every night to the last syllable of recorded time. For just one, fleeting second, David, feel the totality of the suffering and pain [...]
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Wastin’ money

By terje | Published: December 15, 2007
Be that as it may, seeing as I don’t think I’ll fail any of my exams, I decided to take a quick trip downtown, to visit my favourite purveyors of fine leisure activities. The first of these was Avalon, also known as Gotham. I was primarily looking for John Scalzi’s Ghost Brigades, but it as turned [...]
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Rip it apart and start again

By terje | Published: December 11, 2007
One of the many reasons to look forward to Ripper. As for Brian K. Vaughn’s (first, but hopefully not last) run of Buffy the Vampire Slayer “Season 8″ comics, the best compliment I can give is that I hardly noticed — if indeed I did notice at all, which is doubtful — that this wasn’t written [...]
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

By terje | Published: December 8, 2007
I’ve heard rumours about The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen being disliked by a great many people, especially those who have read the comics. However, while I agree that this is hardly a masterpiece, I still think it’s great fun. Sure, the dialogue’s not always top notch, and the plot is predictable. But most of the characters [...]
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Concerning postage…

By terje | Published: December 5, 2007
I never got the first issue of Buffy s8 from my Outland subscription, so I had to register at Things From Another World’s web store, and get it from there. The comic itself cost me $2.39. I paid $0.25 to have it bagged and boarded. And finally there was the tiny shipping cost of $8.21. Almost made [...]
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