FCBM6 Day 22

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Published May 22, 2010 at 9:52 a.m.
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It's day twenty-two of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from Andrew Coulon. The five comics that Andrew ... likes are: ... 1. Cheval Noir ... 2. Neil the Horse ... 3. Keif Llama: Xeno-Tech ... 4. Astro City ... 5. Concrete ... And his other ... thing of interest is 80s movies on VHS ... For Andrew I have two comics based on B-grade 80s horror movies: Fright Night #1 and subspecies #1. Hopefully Andrew will appreciate the kitchiness ... For

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FCBM6 Day 23

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Published May 23, 2010 at 10:42 a.m.
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It's day twenty-three of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from Kristin Munson. The five comics that Kristin ... likes are: ... 1. NextWave ... 2. Daughters of the Dragon ... 3. Harley Quinn ... 4. The Plain Janes ... 5. The Preposterous Voyages of Ironhide Tom ... And her other ... thing of interest is Greek Mythology ... For Kristin I have the first three issues of the Mean Girls-meets-Super Powers comic Bad Girls by Steve Vance, Jennifer

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FCBM6 Day 24

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Published May 24, 2010 at 10:25 p.m.
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It's day twenty-four of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from Edgardo Ortiz. The five comics ... that Edgardo ... likes are: ... 1. Barry Ween ... 2. Scott Pilgrim ... 3. Persepolis ... 4. Alan's War ... 5. Quest for the Missing Girl ... And his other ... thing of interest is The Matrix ... For Edgardo I have the first issue of John Layman & Dave Crosland's slightly sureal violent amusement park comedy Puffed ... For Edgardo's ... bonus ...

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FCBM6 Day 25

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Published May 25, 2010 at 6:14 p.m.
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It's day twenty-five of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from Francene Lewis, who enters on behalf of her son Eli. The five comics ... that Eli ... likes are: ... 1. Star Wars: Clone Wars Adventures ... 2. Owly ... 3. Stinky ... 4. Mouse Guard ... 5. Magic Trixie ... And his other ... thing of interest is Star Wars Legos ... For Eli I have all four issues of Lions, Tigers and Bears by Mike Bullock & Jack Lawrence ... For Eli's ... bonus ...

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FCBM6 Day 29

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Published May 29, 2010 at 8:01 a.m.
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It's day twenty-nine of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from ShoutScout. The five comics ... that ShoutScout ... likes are: ... 1. Warlord ... 2. Bone ... 3. Top Ten ... 4. Zippy the Pin-Head ... 5. Scalped ... And ... his other ... thing of interest is playing guitar ... For ShoutScout I have the first issue of Scott Morse's Volcanic Revolver ... For ShoutScout's ... bonus ... comic, I'm ... sending him ... the Popeye Halloween ... comic

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FCBM6 Day 30

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Published May 30, 2010 at 8:10 a.m.
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It's day thirty of the Sixth Annual YACB Free Comic Book Month! ... Our ... next selected entry is from Mat Dunham. The five comics ... that Mat ... likes are: ... 1. The Walking Dead ... 2. Preacher ... 3. Barry Ween ... 4. Wolverine ... 5. Crossed ... And ... his other ... thing of interest is Quentin Tarantino movies ... For Mat I have Giant-Size Wolverine #1 by David Lapham & David Aja, plut the first issue of Jeff Lemire's Sweet Tooth ... For Mat's ... bonus ... comic, I'm ... sending

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Spirou Leads Low Charge Digital Books In Europe

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Published June 12, 2010 at 5:50 a.m.

The recent move into rented digital download comics in Europe that has caused such a storm with creators, has taken a new leap this weekend.Spirou Et Fantasio, possibly one of the highest selling comic book ...

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Still More About the Atom.

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Published May 17, 2010 at 5:45 p.m.
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I received a very well-written response to my Ryan Choi post from a reader calling himself Diabolu Frank, and rather than let it languish in the comments, I'm going to run it here, and then give my reactions at the end: ... I'm big on racial politics and the need for non-white characters to play a major role in comic book universes. I'm also opposed to handing out token memberships to minorities via dubious legacies. The latter rarely works out as well as a Mr. Terrific, who has completely

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And now a brief word of commentary on a recent comic book, poorly rendered in MS Paint and containing a potential spoiler.

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Published May 13, 2010 at 5:15 p.m.
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There was a way to do this properly, DC, and this wasn't it ... Yeesh ... Honestly, though, is there anyone out there who thinks Ray Palmer is actually more interesting than Ryan Choi? Because unless you're talking about the version of Ray that John C. McGinley voiced on Justice League Unlimited, or the one that dressed like a barbarian, rode around on a frog, and bedded a diminutive yellow alien princess, you're wrong ...

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KC Carlson drops the science, son.

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Published June 3, 2010 at 8:00 p.m.
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KC Carlson, a former DC Comics editor and current columnist for the Westfield Comics website (as well as husband of Comics Worth Reading's Joanna Draper Carlson), put into words exactly what I've been feeling about DC lately in his most recent Previews recommendations column for the Westfield site: ... What, No DC Recommendations? Nope. I’m giving DC a big time-out this month for bad behavior – the publication of ... Justice League: Cry For Justice , ... Justice League: The Rise of

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