Richard L.

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Oh, Deadpool...

Richard L. posted an article on - Nov 5, 2009, 7:40 am
...you crazy self-referential fool, you. Despite my attempt to Purge before the title began (although I guess since the title is counting backwards, it really started with last month's Deadpool #...
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Lois Lane knows karate....

Richard L. posted an article on - Nov 4, 2009, 9:35 am
...KRYPTONIAN karate! via (Yes, I'm too busy to blog today)
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A Brutal Week #4 : Guardians of the Galaxy

Richard L. posted an article on - Nov 3, 2009, 9:02 am
The reason that I started this series of posts on the past week's comics was because of Guardians of the Galaxy #19. While any deaths in a comic that has been featuring time travel as heavily as t...
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A Brutal Week #3: Dark Reign The List Punisher

Richard L. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 12:12 pm
I'm never entirely comfortable when the Punisher operates in the Marvel U proper; I think he's usually diminished somewhat. After all, he can't really kill too many well known characters a...
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Fall of the Whonow?

Richard L. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 7:53 am
Newsarama posted a preview of the upcoming Fall of the Hulks: Alpha earlier - - and although I'm sure this will be the equivalent of a Michael Bay movie, what with Loeb on board, I can't hel...
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Rich's Pull List - 4th November 2009

Richard L. posted an article on - Nov 2, 2009, 7:48 am
The Purge continues this week, although honestly it's a pretty small week anyway - even so, there's one big cut on here for me. SUPERMAN: WORLD OF NEW KRYPTON #9 - This is still a good read a...
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Agent of What?

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 8:38 am
Men, women and babies - join the Agents of A.W.E.S.O.M.E. today!
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A Brutal Week #2: New Mutants

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 30, 2009, 8:01 am
If you swing by the blog semi-regularly, you may recall me saying on Monday that I was dropping New Mutants in single issues as part of the purge in spite of the fact that I love these characters and ...
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I just did a girly 'squeee!' in my head

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 1:52 pm
via newsarama.com Posted via web from Comic By Comic's Wonderous Posterous! The reason for the girly noise was, of course, the echo of this: Like father, like daughter!
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A Brutal Week #1: Blackest Night Titans

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 29, 2009, 9:25 am
It's been a damn brutal week in comics - and I mean really brutal. Take Blackest Night: Titans #3. Say what you will about Ed Benes art (such as 'cheesecake' and 'posed') but the...
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The most demented thing you will see today

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 28, 2009, 8:07 am
via cinematical.com Posted via web via cinematical.com Posted via web from Comic By Comic's Wonderous Posterous!
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A little Captain Mal for you...

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 11:16 am
...kind of.
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Who's the Monster?

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 27, 2009, 8:18 am
I had a brief Twitter conversation recently about how absolutely perfect the characterization of Banner is in the current run of Incredible Hulk, but on retrospect I don't so much think it's a...
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In the 'Pool

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 26, 2009, 11:13 am
I've mentioned that I've been sucked into the craziness that is Deadpool at the moment. I loved the character back when he first showed up in New Mutants, and his subsequent appearances right ...
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Rich's Pull List - 28th October 2009: The Purge Begins

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 25, 2009, 8:01 pm
This is the week. The week that The Purge starts. There's just too many books to buy - and between the (a few years late) realization last week at BACC that you can pick up a lot of recent books f...
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Jean Grey Wouldn't Put Up With This...

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 8:55 pm
Yesterday, Twitter Pal MadMarvelGirl noted: Jean Grey would not put up with this Osborn bullshitand then I have a 'Jean Grey would not put up with this bullshit' theory of the current Marvel U...
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Why are you hitting yourself? Huh? Huh?

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 2:54 pm
So let me get this straight: Eternity contains everything, including Hank Pym. And because Hank Pym thinks everyone hates him... Yeah, okay. I can live with that. But really, Eternity loves Hank Py...
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Smallville's Justice Society Cast

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 11:24 am
Geoff Johns' next episode of Smallville will introduce the JSA and casting has been announced for three key members. Stargate's Michael Shanks will play Hawkman who "will have wings. And a bi...
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In Which I Spoil the End of Dark Reign. Maybe.

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 20, 2009, 7:55 am
Back when Osborn first assembled his Cabal, before Namor and Emma Frost flipped him the bird, Doom and Loki started plotting behind his back, and the Hood lost his powers (or at least his first set), ...
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Man, Begbie's looked better

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 1:29 pm
via comicbookresources.com Posted via web from Comic By Comic's Wonderous Posterous!
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Thor's Warriors Two?

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 11:20 am
According to AICN, Robert De Niro and Jude Law may have been cast in Thor. With Loki's role already filled, the obvious role for Law would be Fandral... ...and as such, I automatically picture De...
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Rich's Pull List - 21st October 2009

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 19, 2009, 7:37 am
It could be a big week... Batman: Streets of Gotham #5 - Huntress takes the spotlight. That's good in my book as she's one character that's been a little lost in the recent Batshuffle. B...
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To the rescue!

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 2:20 pm

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Comic Marts and The Feeling of Encroaching Doom

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 11:47 am
There's something vaguely depressing about comic marts. Not comic cons, you understand, which are more and more dominated by big displays from movie studios and other companies looking to hawk th...
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So, uh, Image United...

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 16, 2009, 7:43 am
...is basically Extreme Sacrifice but will all of the Image characters instead of just the Extreme ones, right? I mean, Image United has original Spawn (and who even knew there was more than one?) Al...
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Thing that made my comic-buying week

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 11:45 am
I was going to pass on Deadpool #900, I swear I was - and then I saw the reprint. Freaking. Awesome. I have a horrible feeling that I sold my old run of Deadpool a few years ago, which basically inc...
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"Lost" The Final Season Poster: I see dead people

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 15, 2009, 7:53 am
via scottking.info Or at least Boone, Shannon, Charlie, Faraday and maybe even Nikki and Paolo. Consider me psyched! There's a full list of characters here. Posted via web from Co...
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Nick Fury Is Watching You

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 2:09 pm

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The Cutting Room

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 8, 2009, 8:39 am
via dvdsnapshot.com My new column is up on DVDSnapshot - go take a look! Posted via web from Comic By Comic's Wonderous Posterous!
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Burned out

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 7, 2009, 7:38 am
From time to time I get a bit burned out on the blogging thing. You can probably see it happening when my posts get less about opinions and more about snark, and less about liking things and more abou...
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Endless love

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 6, 2009, 7:32 am
In the last ish of Green Lantern, the power source for the Zamorans' Violet Lantern was revealed to be the corpses of Khufu and Chay-Ara of Earth...better known as the original Hawkman and Hawkwom...
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Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light...

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 3:01 pm
via toplessrobot.com ...but not Spider-Man. Posted via web from Comic By Comic's Wonderous Posterous!
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Rich's Pull List - 7th October 2009

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 12:05 pm
I'm even stupider than I thought. I accidentally added this to be posted in the PM instead of the AM, which means that my last post makes little sense. Maybe now it will. After what has been a he...
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Pull List Update: I'm an idiot

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 5, 2009, 11:38 am
Holy crap. I can probably be forgiven for forgetting this was coming out as #26 was published almost three years ago, but still: I should have remembered because this is, bar none, not only the most ...
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Miss Martian. Panty shot. Cue outrage...

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 2, 2009, 7:37 am
Over at Newsarama there's a preview of the awesomely terrible (not the same thing as terribly awesome) Justice League: Cry for Justice #4, where Miss Martian is confronted by Green Arrow villain B...
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Captain Britain Giveaway Results!

Richard L. posted an article on - Oct 1, 2009, 11:13 am

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Dan Didio Asked, So I Answer: Second Features

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 30, 2009, 10:06 am
This week on Newsarama, Dan Didio asked: The second features have to be characters that can't support a mini-series or an ongoing, and talent that doesn't have an opportunity to work on the ma...
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Sometimes, being right is a curse

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 29, 2009, 8:08 am
Oh, you bastard, Fraction. Just when I'm harping on about how terrible you are on X-Men you gives us this page: If there's one page last week that got me choked up (well, not really; it's...
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Pull list addendum

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 8:44 am
Duh.
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Rich's Pull List - September 30th 2009

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 28, 2009, 8:28 am
Not quite as bad as the last few weeks - thankfully: Blackest Night: Titans #2 (of 3) - I cannot explain why I like the Titan titles. Like I've said before, I find a lot of the cast incredibly du...
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Dark X-Men The Confession in 5 panels

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 25, 2009, 4:40 pm
Let me save you some money here...
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To Do List

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 25, 2009, 8:58 am
In no particular order... Get past the first three chapters of Alastair Reynold's House of Suns so I can start Glen David Gold's Sunnyside. Tell everyone that my favorite book is Carter Beat...
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...Justice! (League of America)

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 24, 2009, 8:32 am
Last week's DC books ran an ad revealing the JLA line up for the upcoming James Robinson/ Mark Bagley run on the book which, apparently, spins out of Robinson's unintentionally amusing Justice...
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Thor's Lady Sif is...

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 11:45 am
...Jaime Alexander, per THR. I haven't seen anything else she's been in so I'm not sure if this is good casting or not, but she's certainly got the hair down. Just hope she can use a ...
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Smallville's Cat Grant

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 23, 2009, 9:33 am
Sanctuary's Emilie Ullerup has apparently been cast as Cat Grant in the upcoming season of Smallville. She's pretty. The role appears to be for one episode only at the moment, so hopefully t...
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Return of the Queen?

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 2:42 pm
Over at IGN, there's a preview of this week's Dark Reign The List X-Men; apparently something big likes delicious blue sushi, and is eating Atlanteans. The X-Men, these days being led by Mast...
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Ed Hannigan Covered

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 22, 2009, 8:12 am
The December Marvel solicits (which are up on Super Pouvoir) includes a benefit book for Marvel cover artist Ed Hannigan (one can only assume his bwork won't be included). Hannigan designed the g...
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Some things never change

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 11:45 am
I was walking to work this morning and, being without my iPod for some reason, overheard the following conversation between a boy of about eight years and the lady walking him to school - who I assume...
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Who will Wield the Shield?

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 11:18 am
via i.newsarama.com Why do I get the impression there may be an additional play on words in that title? Like, say, S.H.I.E.L.D.? Posted via web from Comic By Comic's Wonderous Postero...
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Rich's Pull List

Richard L. posted an article on - Sep 21, 2009, 8:34 am
Jeez, another big week after last week's hammering. Blackest Night: Superman #2 - Yes, its a tie-in but sometimes a good old-fashioned slugfest is what you need. Personally I'm rooting for a...
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