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The Best All Ages Comics For Kids
Bad Boys 2. I’m ten years old, and she hands me a DVD of Bad Boys 2.
My aunt isn’t necessarily the most age appropriate gift-giver. One time for my brother’s 12th Birthday, she gave him a package containing 2nd-grade learning trivia cards. I think my brother’s a bone-head, but that’s a BIG four grade miss, even for his limited intellectual capacity.
So it should come as no surprise that for Christmas as a 10 year old, my aunt handed me a DVD of the R-rated, Martin Lawrence starring, Bad Boys 2. At 10, my mom wouldn’t let me watch Batman & Robin (in retrospect, this was a godsend. I may have grown up hating Batman, Robin, and movies in general). Yet here I am with a disc full of cusswords, sex, guns, and who knows what else. Just think of the pot weed! And my innocent little (yet surprisingly accomplished) mind!
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The Best Comics To Start Collecting in Ongoing Series RIGHT NOW (2013 Mid-Year Edition)
2013 has been a year of firsts. I started a new job, I spilled scotch on a suit, and I started actively collecting ongoing comic issues for the first time. [Read more…] about The Best Comics To Start Collecting in Ongoing Series RIGHT NOW (2013 Mid-Year Edition)
Best Iron Man Comics to Read Before Iron Man 3
Getting excited about Iron Man 3? The final part of the Iron Man trilogy will be released in the US on May 3, 2013, and from what I’m hearing and seeing, it sounds like Iron Man 3 is more firmly rooted in specific stories from Iron Man’s comic book history than either of the first two films.
This post will outline some of the trade collections and comics most likely to provide background for the film, along with history of the movie’s villain, The Mandarin!
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