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Brightest Day: The Return of Swamp Thing

April 12, 2011August 20, 2016 Walt0 comment

It’s been almost a year since Brightest Day began, and the hunt for the new protector of earth has taken many twists and turns along the way. Brightest Day #23 dropped a pair of bombshells this week. It revealed that Swamp Thing is back in the DCU in the form of a deadly Black Lantern. It also revealed that Alec… Read More

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2010 in Review Best Selling Comics

January 11, 2011August 23, 2016 Walt3 Comments

Diamond Comic Distributors announced this January 6th the leaders in sales for 2010, calculated based on total unit sales to comic book specialty shops most of us go to every Wednesday to grab weekly books. The best-selling comic book of the year was Marvel’s Avengers #1, written by Brian Bendis with art from John Romita Jr. The publisher snagged the… Read More

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Comics In Review 2010

December 26, 2010August 23, 2016 Walt3 Comments

It is time for our year in review of the comic industry and the Good the Bad and the Ugly in comics. Again the big companies Marvel and DC dominated the scene with the Big Event comics. The ending of Blackest Night and the beginning of Brightest Day in DC Comics and The Siege of Asgard ending with the Beginning… Read More

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Big Event Comics: Chaos War vs Brightest Day

December 14, 2010October 21, 2016 Walt0 comment

When I first started reading comics there were very few crossover events and most comics finished the story within the pages in your hands. Big event comic themes were not the norm and most stories did not last very long. Comic editors had more say how stories were formed and story lines concluded. Then in the sixties Marvel Comics with… Read More

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Blackest Night 8 Final

April 5, 2010September 20, 2016 Walt2 Comments

Eight months has passed and Geoff Johns has brought the conclusion to the Blackest Night series. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, Blackest Night involves a personified force of death resurrecting deceased superheroes and seeking to eliminate all life and emotion from the universe. Geoff Johns has identified the series’ central theme as emotion.Both Geoff Johns and… Read More

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White Lantern from Blackest Night

February 28, 2010September 20, 2016 Walt2 Comments

At the end of Blackest Night 7 we had quite a supprize Sinestro beat Hal Jordan to the White Enity and became a White lantern what ever that means. Geoff Johns is really keeping everyone guessing what direction he is going. So will there be more White lanterns and will they be able to fight the creator of the Black lanterns Nekron?… Read More

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Brightest Day – DC Comics

January 22, 2010October 7, 2016 Walt0 comment

Brightest Day is an upcoming year-long comic book limited series premiering in April 2010. This will be following the ending of the series Blackest Night. The series will run bi-weekly for 26 issues alternating with Justice League: Generation Lost written by Keith Giffen and Judd Winick. It will also be crossing over into the Green Lantern series, the Green Lantern… Read More

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Comics Review 2009

December 28, 2009September 23, 2016 Walt0 comment

2009 was a interesting year in comics Captain America (Steve Rogers) appears in New Avengers Annual in the last panel alive, the Red Hulk’s identity has still not been revealed, Bruce Banner is still not able to turn into the Hulk and is teaching his son to kick ass. Peter Parker and Mary Jane are still un-married, still have 4 Avengers… Read More

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Solomon Grundy (Born on a Monday)

September 12, 2009October 21, 2016 Walt0 comment

Solomon Grundy 7 part series has to be one of this years sleeper story line in the comic world. In the one-shot Faces of Evil: Solomon Grundy (March 2009) by Geoff Johns and Scott Kolins, Cyrus Gold returns to life in Slaughter Swamp, as he was prior to becoming Grundy. He returns to Gotham City, but is shot by… Read More

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August 15, 2009February 26, 2017 Walt0 comment

Blackest Night is a company-wide, multiple title story arc published by DC Comics. Written by Geoff Johns and penciled by Ivan Reis, Blackest Night is the story about how a counterpart to the Green Lantern’s Central Power Battery is found and accidentally activated. Dead superheroes, killed in recent years are brought back to life via the use of black power… Read More