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Year End Recap! Every Marvel Hero, Villain, and Issue of the Year from 1961 to 1999!

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Comic Book Herald’s My Marvelous Year reading club took on a challenge this year that would make the Impossible Man proud: We read through the top 10 storylines from Marvel Comics for every single publication year from 1961 through 1999!  [Read more…] about Year End Recap! Every Marvel Hero, Villain, and Issue of the Year from 1961 to 1999!

Buffy the Vampire Slayer Comic Book Reading Order

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I’ll be the first to admit, I made a lot of false assumptions about Buffy the Vampire Slayer without ever having watched an episode. When my wife suggested we watch the series together, I scoffed. “The cheesy, campy… GIRLY CW show?!” I said, reverting into an uncouth caveman, and not noting for a moment the irony that this was coming from a guy who talks about the X-Men animated series like it’s Citizen Kane.

I was, and forever remain, a bonehead. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is brilliant, one of my all-time favorite TV show Universes, and the show that introduced me to a life long love of the creative mind of Joss Whedon.
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Astro City Reading Order: Where to Start With Kurt Busiek’s Astro City Comics

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Astro City is one of the best non-Big 2 superhero universes in comics. Writer Kurt Busiek has written some excellent stories for some of comics most well known figures, such as the Avengers and Justice League. Nonetheless, it’s been Busiek’s ability to find the realism and humanity at the heart of superhero comics, particularly in his work with Alex Ross in Marvels, that sets the stage for Astro City.
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