Comics

Coming Soon: The Man of Steel

I don’t know about you all, but I’ve had a hard time getting excited for the return of Superman to the big screen in the upcoming film The Man of Steel.  To be fair, I’m predominantly a Marvel fan but I dabble across multiple companies.  My interest in Superman has primarily been limited to the…

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Quips From A Clerk: Revisiting Your Childhood

A lot of people that come into a comic shop are newer readers, or ones that have fallen out of the loop. Which granted, if you haven’t visited a shop in a few months, its pretty easy to do. Comic news is as fleeting as it comes, along with books and tie-ins, its easy to…

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Nothing Lasts Forever – Who Is MIGHTY?

From the battlefields of Infinity comes a new team to protect Earth!  With the Avengers light-years away in space, contending with the Builders, and Thanos’ marauders ransacking the Earth, doing as they please – who will stand in defense of mankind? Want more? Using your camera enabled device combined with the Marvel AR app, get…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: Roy’s Boys

This week I make a departure from my usual fare of long complex ongoing storylines to tell you about Roy’s Boys, a series of biweekly comedy one-shots from two writers and and best friends. The strips are semi-autographical, irreverent, and feature adult humor. I’ve found myself laughing uncontrollably to the point of falling out of…

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Quips From A Clerk: X-Men and The Wake

This week in Comics we got two big Number One’s beginning: Marvel’s X-Men (with an all woman team!) and Vertigo’s The Wake. While I’ve had a long time break up with Marvel until late, I was pretty excited to hear about the new X-Men book (I actually didn’t hear it was an all women team until…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic – Gunnerkrigg Court

Gunnerkigg Court is the long-running story of a young woman and her close friends discovering their boarding school is much, much more than it seems. Quiet, polite Antimony Carver begins her first-year studies at the eponymous court and begins to notice the strange goings on and begins to investigate despite the obstacle of the tight-lipped…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: The Fox Sister

The Fox Sister is a supernatural folktale-thriller in progress that is based in Korean myth and history.  In 1961, Cho Yun Hee was a young girl when she found her family being devoured by the nine-tailed fox spirit, a shape shifting demoness. Narrowly escaping being devoured herself, she discovered to her horror that the spirit…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: Lackadaisy

Today’s comic is a historical dark comedy telling the story of a Prohibition speakeasy that has fallen on hard times and the tenacious and shady crew of oddballs that runs it.  It is at times hilarious and silly and other times tragic and bloody, and the cast of this story are adorable and expressive cats. Fluffy cats,…

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Wednesday’s Webcomic: Narbonic

Because I had written about Girl Genius and Dresden Codak in the previous weeks, I now have MAD SCIENCE on the brain. Specifically, mad scientists of the female variety, which brings me to the now classic daily webcomic Narbonic. Narbonic is the story of Dave Davenport, a chain-smoking recent graduate in Computer Sciences who lands a…

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X-MEN #1 First Look!

Gonna Geek is pleased to present your first look at the hotly anticipated X-Men #1! Storm, Rogue, Jubilee, Kitty Pryde, Rachel Grey, Rogue & Psylocke redefine what it means to be a Child of the Atom in X-Men #1, kicking off the all-new ongoing series by the blockbuster creative team of writer Brian Wood (Ultimate…

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