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December 30, 2020

THE QUARANTINE QUAGMIRE [Vol. 5]: The Essential Comics of 2020.

It’s no great secret that 2020 has been a dumpster fire of a year, but traditionally, times of great strife and turmoil yield magnificent works of art, and this year has certainly been no exception. 1. X OF SWORDS (Marvel Comics) - The first comic book that I want to talk about is no great …

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December 16, 2020December 16, 2020

THE GEEEEK AWARDS [Best Comics of 2020]: Joker War vs. X of Swords.

Even in the most challenging year ever, it was an especially awful big challenge winnowing down all of that power streaming forth every Tuesday and Wednesday -- yes, DC went to Tuesdays in the new COVID-era -- into just a list of three, but there’s only a couple of weeks left in the 52 and …

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December 8, 2020

M.O.D.O.K. / HELLIONS / X OF SWORDS / JUSTICE LEAGUE [Reviews]: Endless Winter.

I think it’s safe to say that M.O.D.O.K. wasn’t dominating the favorite marvel character charts over the years, but that is about to change! M.O.D.O.K. stands for M.ental O.rganism D.esigned O.nly for K.illing, and is a creation of Advanced Idea Mechanics, an organization that M.O.D.O.K. himself takes control of, thanks to his superior intellect. Sure, …

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November 2, 2020November 3, 2020

TMNT – THE LAST RONIN / THE DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH / X OF SWORDS STASIS [Reviews]: Calm Before The Storm..

Dark future stories where a once-hopeful, determined hero has become disillusioned, angry, and vengeful like the one in The Last Ronin are fairly commonplace in comics, the most famous example being The Dark Knight Returns, which is why it's actually somewhat shocking that it's taken this long to get one from the Teenage Mutant Ninja …

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September 29, 2020

WONDER WOMAN 1984 / JUGGERNAUT / BATMAN – THREE JOKERS / X OF SWORDS [Reviews]: Fistful of Truth.

With just a couple of months left before the release of the second Wonder Woman film, DC dropped this tie-in. The theme of the comic? Kids. We start with a fun tale written by Anna Obropta and Louise Simonson entitled “Museum Madness.” In it, three teenagers spend detention at the museum with Diana when some …

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July 24, 2020July 24, 2020

MARVEL’S NEXT BIG THING [Comic-Con@Home / Reviews]: Boardwalk ‘Empyre’.

COMIC REVIEW I don’t know about you, but I’ve been starving for new comics-- especially from Marvel! During the quarantine I caught up on all of my comic reading and even read some stuff I previously had no interest in prior to COVID-19. Now enter: Empyre, the next big multi-title, "Fate of the Universe, Epic …

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