My Latest Pull List – January 8th, 2014

Six new books on my list to start the All-New Year. ALL-NEW MARVEL NOW POINT ONE #1 – This anthology should be enough confirm if I’ve made the right choices about which All-New Marvel Now titles to pick up. ALL-NEW X-FACTOR #1 – Perhaps the All-New title I’m most looking forward to. Peter David’s X-Factor has been a favorite for a long time.

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Standard Deviations vol. 15:
Marvel’s Uncanny Avengers #1 variants

The Marvel Now! movement begins today with the release of Uncanny Avengers #1 in comic shops across the country. The publisher is pulling out all the stops with its line wide “refresh” including an appearance by Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada on ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. The inaugural series of the Marvel Universe’s

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My Latest Pull List – September 26th, 2012

Weekly comic books are a big part of my life and below is a list of what I’ll be picking up this Wednesday along with cover artwork and previews courtesy of Comixology’s Pull List app. This week seems overwhelming with ten eleven* new titles including another entry in DC Comics’ Zero Month and a new Image Comics’ mini-series

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Standard Deviations vol. 4:
Marvel’s Venom variant covers

Throughout January, Marvel Comics released a series of Venom variants on 19 issues of their ongoing titles. I’m not really sure about the motivation here. Normally these themed variant months are timed as promotional pieces for something in the publisher’s schedule. Last year, there were sets of variant covers released as cross promotion with Marvel’s X-Men:

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MMXI: Marvel’s Year of the X-Men begins this May

When Marvel’s May solicitations appeared earlier this month a group of books were very conspicuous by their absence. Four X-Men titles (Uncanny X-Men, X-Men: Legacy, New Mutants, and Uncanny X-Force) had no listings and it was clear that something was up. Last week Marvel released a set of teaser images for these titles and they’re

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Philadelphia Comic Con: A view from the floor

As we wrap up our coverage of last weekend’s Philadelphia Comic Con, we shift the focus to some final words on the fans, the vendors and the guests in attendance. Since I wasn’t feeling qualified to judge the show fairly, it seemed like a good idea to ask the people we met what they thought. Below

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