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Saturday, November 13, 2010

Leni Riefenstahl's Revenge!

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Wait. Wait, wait, wait. So, H of the Comic Treadmill-- you're telling me there are... Nazis who can breathe underwater ?! It's a p...
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Friday, November 12, 2010

If This Week were a Comic Book

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If this week had been a comic book it would have been something like this. Aquaman came to the rescue of a stranded cruise ship today . Whi...
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Tuesday, November 09, 2010

Grodd's Arboreal Imperative

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And then there was that time Gorilla Grodd went on a severe diet. And shaved his head. And the rest of his body. And became a human being wh...
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Sunday, November 07, 2010

Silent Support

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Lois is so supportive; she just can't help herself! It's not like she sits around waiting for Superman to ask her out. She dates oth...
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Thursday, November 04, 2010

Heroclix Mod Mod

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I'd say we're due for a Heroclix post! Wizkids is pumping out the DC 'clix this year: The Brave & the Bold set at year...
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Monday, November 01, 2010

Benday dots = Planck units

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The holographic principle, derived from weirdness theorized to occur at the boundaries of black holes, says reality could be a 3-D projectio...
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Saturday, October 30, 2010

In Defense of the Riddler

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Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ve probably already heard that the Riddler will not be the villain in Christopher Nolan’s next Batman...
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Monday, October 25, 2010

Pep 36: The Rise of the Redhead

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Hitler's ascension as Germany's Furher in 1934. The Joker's re-emergence in Batman 251. Stalin's Great Purge. Palpatine...
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Friday, October 22, 2010

What Kids Don't Know; Niles Caulder

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You know, Niles Caulder wasn't always a manipulative megalomaniacal jerk. Once upon a time (1963 in fact), there was a very smart chara...
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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

King for a Haikuesday

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I just love it when DC refuses to let any old character go permanently unused. Often, it'll be a simple cameo. Just when you're not...
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Friday, October 15, 2010

Jean Loring: Still Crazy After All These Years

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"Um, yes, Jean, "Ray answered. "It was ... 'that man' who locked you, er, I mean, us in. I'll have the police t...
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Monday, October 11, 2010

Pep 35: Dear Libby's advice on Victory Gardens

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Dear Libby, I want to plant a Victory Garden in my backyard to help the war effort. But it's a too large for me to till regularly all ...
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Wednesday, October 06, 2010

The Plunge

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again: Grant Morrison can never exceed the weirdness of the Silver Age, no matter how hard he t...
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Sunday, October 03, 2010

The Bat-Cycles

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In a previous posts, we introduced the idea of the 'persona-cycle' as a means for varying the characterization of long-running comic...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Green on Green Violence in poetry

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You know, it's funny how comic books continually expand your suspension of disbelief. Once you accept a man can leap an eighth of a mile...
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Friday, September 24, 2010

Where does Batman vacation...?

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In Florida, of course, like everyone. But Batman always goes to... APEX CITY. While in Apex City, Batman was asked to be a judge in the ann...
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Thursday, September 23, 2010

Superman's Persona Cycles

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Character development is one of the important tools of fiction. Plot development makes sure the things happen in a story. While that is all...
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Monday, September 20, 2010

Pep 34: Upstaged!

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Under ordinary circumstances, The Shield would probably be just staring up at the sky and thinking, "How the heck did Rorschach manage ...
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Saturday, September 18, 2010

Wonder Woman's hobby

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And what does Wonder Woman do in her spare time, kids? That's right, you remember....! MARCH MARCH MARCH MARCH. Lynda Carter will be Gr...
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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Barry Allen defeats Genre Blindness

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This panel... is the beginning of the end. The end of what? The end of innocence -- or at least, or genre blindness -- in comic books. Genr...
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