March 2011
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Friday Bargains from The Comics Reporter
Tom Spurgeon has some amazingly low-priced comics auctions up now on eBay. He’s recycling any profits from the sale of the books back into his invaluable site The Comics Reporter, so it’s a win-win no matter which way you slice it. Go forth and bid.
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TCJ.com - Hello To All That
I wasn’t too worried about the new Dan Nadel/Tim Hodler revamp of TCJ.com, but it’s off to an even better start than expected. Now, I’m not offering anything close to a comprehensive review; one nice thing here is that there’s quite a bit to dig into and most of the articles, columns, interviews and reviews are relatively lengthy. Just a few thoughts on the ones I read...
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Cover Run: The DC Comics Art of Adam Hughes
DC Comics. $39.99 USD
Man, you can really take some folks for granted.
I’ve been aware of Adam Hughes’ artwork from pretty early on—not his Maze Agency stuff but Justice League and onward. At the time I thought, this guy is a pretty good replacement for Kevin Maguire! Since then, I guess I developed an attitude where guys like Hughes and Brian Bolland—guys who started...
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First Wave, Nobody's Fave
If you watch any reality television like Top Chef or Project Runway, you will notice that there’s always that one guy who expresses a kind of superficial shock and empathy when the person who’s just been cut by the judges comes back into the waiting room. “Really?! You’re kidding me!” A lot of comics readers are like that, or at least a lot of the ones who post in...
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The Steve Ditko Archives Vol. 2 - Unexplored...
Writers - Joe Gill, Various
Artist - Steve Ditko
Editor - Blake Bell
Publisher - Fantagraphics. $39.99 USD
This second volume of Fantagraphics’ chronological (in terms of creation rather than publication) reprinting of comics by moralizing maestro Steve Ditko finds the young cartoonist rebounding from a battle of several months with tuberculosis in 1956 to emerge into the beginning of a...