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While we’ve been hearing a lot the past few days about the decision to cast Ben Affleck as Batman in the upcoming Batman vs. Superman movie, what about DC’s decision in the 1990s to replace Bruce Wayne with the psychotic Jean-Paul Valley? The latest installment in my Gimmick or

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With Marvel launching its brand new “Infinity” mini-series, I thought the timing was right to review 1993’s Infinity Crusade mini-series for my latest Gimmick or Good? feature on Comics Should Be Good’s web site. Crusade was the third “Infinity” event penned by Jim Starlin in as many years and

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Gimmick or Good? takes on “Fall from Grace,” the major 1993 status quo shift in the world of Daredevil that saw him get a new costume, fight his doppleganger and fake his own death. Daredevil #321, Part II of this arc, features a glow-in-the-dark cover. Is this comic better

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When it comes to the blogosphere, Paul O’Connor’s Longbox Graveyard has been the Daredevil to my Spider-Man – and that’s not just because Paul is blind and is a lawyer (this has not been verified). Chasing Amazing and LBG have long been allies in the quest to create unique

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For my most recent edition of Gimmick or Good? at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog I reach back to one of Marvel superstar Joe Quesada’s earliest works as an artist, Valiant Comics X-O Manowar #0, an immensely successful origin issue that sports a unique, hand-painted chromium cover. The

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The fourth installment of my ongoing series for the Sequential Research & Literacy Organization (aka Sequart) about the Walking Dead is posted for your reading pleasure. In this series, which runs every other Friday on Sequart, I look at “garden and wilderness” themes in Kirkman’s wildly popular comic book series

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In case you missed it on Friday, for my latest Gimmick or Good? feature on CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog, I spotlighted two parts of 1993’s “Fatal Attractions” arc that celebrated the 30th anniversary of X-Men (by adding holographic panels to the cover of all five of its

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Part three of my analysis of Robert Kirkman’s The Walking Dead series is up and ready for you to read on the Sequart Research & Literacy Organization’s web site. In this ongoing series, which runs every other Friday on Sequart, I look at “garden and wilderness” themes in Kirkman’s

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While it’s fun to get a chance to write about comic book series other than Spider-Man, I’ll be the first to admit that I have the most fun when I’m talking about my all-time favorite comic book hero, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man! Fortunately, in today’s Gimmick or Good? column

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Today’s Gimmick or Good? at CBR’s Comics Should Be Good blog is a quadruple feature. On the heels of CSBG’s most excellent top 50 Avengers stories list, I took a look at the four 30th anniversary Avengers comics from 1993 – #360, #363, #366 and #369. All four of

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