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[16 Nov 2011 | No Comment | ]

 
If we were to limit ourselves to the New 52 range of DC comics we can get a glimpse of this breadth of character. At first glance they may all seem of the same ilk, but it does not take much further examination to see that this initial opinion is false.
Justice League
Justice League International
Aquaman
Wonder Woman
The Flash
Captain Atom
Firestorm
Green Arrow
The Savage Hawkman
Mister Terrific
DC Universe Presents
Batman
Detective Comics
Batwing
Batman: The Dark Knight
Batman and Robin
Batgirl
Batwoman
Nightwing
Catwoman
Birds of Prey
Red Hood and the Outlaws
Action Comics
Superman
Superboy
Supergirl
Green Lantern
Green Lantern Corps
Green Lantern: New Guardians
Red Lanterns
Teen Titans
Static Shock
Hawk and Dove
Blue Beetle
Legion of Super-Heroes
Legion …

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[12 Nov 2011 | No Comment | ]

Anyone who has even a passing association with the world of comic books will know of DC’s New 52 range, a reboot of many of the distributors most popular titles as well as a collection of new titles thrown into the mix.
Among these are household names like Superman and Action Comics, Batman and Detective Comics; all four of which are cornerstones to the DC universe and, in the case of Action and Detective the reboot offers a rare chance to pick up an issue 1 at a price we can …

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[13 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]

26 February 1977 was apparently a Saturday and on this particular Saturday I was 6 years, 2 months, 14 days and an indeterminate amount of hours old.
I was also a little boy whose reading skills were poor enough to worry those around me, bad enough in fact for my mother to have been called into a meeting with one of my teachers about the subject. I’m not sure who this particular teacher was and why they decided on the course of action my mother would ultimately take, but their advice …

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[7 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]

People who have been paying attention will see things happening over on the Scala-Theatre site.
Paul had waded thought a phenomenal amount of information and I thought I understood this… Until I traveled up to the Historic Centre  with him and his partner in crime Lin Fletcher.
The Historic Centre was not what I had expected. I suppose a heavy diet of Indiana Jones movies had created an image of dusty books and darkened corners; but the Centre was nothing like this. It was a tiny room with half a dozen blocks …

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[26 Aug 2011 | No Comment | ]

Noel Gallagher blames “brutal TV and videogames” for UK riots.
Thanks for that Noel. I can sleep soundly now in the knowledge that the massively complex issues of crime, punishment, rehabilitation, teenage angst, mob mentality, community, self-respect and education have finally been put into clarity by the man who wrote She’s Electric. Up until now I relied heavily on the peer-reviewed studies of leading experts in their fields who have spent months doing nothing but crunching data in the hope of providing a small clue to the reasons behind these riots …