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7 Psychopaths

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Originally published at Comic Book Daily under my Bound Together column. Boom! Studios has just released 7 Psychopaths trade paperback; this series completely slipped under the radar and I only spotted it because of Sean Phillips doing the art.  Originally published by Delcourt in French three years ago in that large beautiful European format as a sixty-three page hardcover, Boom! decided to shrink it down for the North American market to standard comic book size and split it up into three issues and then make this softcover collection.  Here’s the…read more

Oct.22
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Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson Volume 1

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I read the entire Walter Simonson run on Thor as they were published during the 80s: it was my favorite book and I was completely captivated by the story.  I even hung on when Simonson stopped doing the art and strictly wrote.  That run and Miller’s Daredevil are highlights of my early comic reading. Was recently culling my collection and trading in some trade paperbacks to my local comic store when I came across Thor Visionaries: Walter Simonson Volume 1.  Nostalgia got the better of me and over the course…read more

Apr.27
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Top Ten Book 1

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Was perusing a discount book store and came across Top Ten Book 1 trade paperback from America’s Best Comics, a DC imprint.  It collects the first seven issues of the series and includes character designs as bonus material, 208 pages in total.  The first issue is available as a PDF preview. I remember the individual issues coming out and not being that interested.  There was buzz around the title because Alan Moore wrote it but I wasn’t taken with the art.  Since it was at a deep discount I decided…read more

Mar.04
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