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After Joe Quesada announced on The Colbert Report earlier this week that Sam Wilson, aka the Falcon would be replacing Captain America in October, I put together a list of five essential Falcon stories on ComicBook.com. Be sure to check out the list and see if your favorite Falcon

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It’s been so long since we got a transition issue of Superior Foes of Spider-Man (those two standlone stories from a few months ago don’t count), that I almost didn’t know what to make of the recently released issue #13. After the hijinks of last month’s Superior Foes #12,

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In the wake of the announcement that Marvel is introduce a new female Thor in October, for ComicBook.com I take a look at 10 other heroes and villains who have either temporarily, or semi-long-term held the might hammer of Mjolnir. The funny thing is, this list could have easily gone

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I jump on the Batman 75th anniversary bandwagon by taking a look at the most influential Batman stories of all time on ComicBook.com. This was obviously a very difficult list to put together, as the goal was to look at Batman stories with the greatest long-term influence on the character

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In what is clearly a play on Marvel’s year-long acknowledgement of its 75th anniversary in 2014, the company is publishing a number of hypothetical look-aheads under the guise of “100th Anniversary” issues. Beyond the play on anniversary lingo, these issues also seemed to be designed towards getting some new

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The past few decades have been rife with controversy for the comic book industry, as changing dynamics have forced a lot of storylines and editorial mandates that have not sat right with readers and critics (we Spider-Man fans are completely unfamiliar with this concept, right?). In my latest list

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After reaching the middle chapter of the Dan Slott/Ramon Perez “Learning to Crawl” miniseries, its become abundantly clear to me that the storytelling is at its sharpest and most engaging when the focus is its original elements – i.e. Clayton Cole/Clash – while things seem to grind to a

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Today for my Gimmick or Good column at Comics Should Be Good, I take a look at an unexpectedly unique comic book. Valiant’s Bloodshot #1 is believed to be the very first chromium enhanced cover of the 90s. In celebration of this feat, Valiant recently released a bunch of

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The existence of a new Spider-Man 2099 series is one of those fun little paradoxes of the comic book industry in that I never truly realized a 20-plus year-old book still had enough of a following to warrant a new beginning, while simultaneously I’m sorta shocked it took so

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With Marvel announcing this week that there will be a “new” Captain America this Fall, I thought I’d take to ComicBook.com to rank the 10 greatest “replacement” superheroes; those characters who temporarily filled in for a certain character. Spider-Man fans should note that there are actually a couple of

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