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JRScherer

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This is one utterly baffling book.  Is it even possible to decipher what the various ratings actually mean?   “Vulnerability”?  Huh?  To…

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Roger Stern back on Spider-Man is like manna from heaven.  When I first saw that he was going to be…

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What an unpleasant turn of events this issue turned out to be.  I positively LOVED the last three issues, but…

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Top 5: Best Movie Portrayals of Comic Book Characters
July 6, 2011 10:02 pm Max Von Sydow as Ming the Merciless.
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2011 Harvey Award Nominees
July 5, 2011 12:55 pm John  Workman has lettered Thor in the last year?  Pretty sure I would have noticed that...
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Howard Chaykin Brings The Awesome Post-WWII Nazi Hunting Action in AVENGERS 1959
June 23, 2011 2:50 pm Maybe every few decades Sabretooth switches out costumes.  He could've worn this outfit in the '50s & '60s and then again later in the '90s.
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Heads Up: Dark Horse Previews – September 2011
June 17, 2011 4:31 pm Those Mignola-verse covers are all amazing.
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The Best of the Week in Covers – 06.15.2011
June 17, 2011 2:55 pm Monster Island is always inside my skull.  It's my Happy Place.
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Weekly Sketch Up – 06.17.2011
June 17, 2011 2:53 pm

I want to play that 'ThorKart' game so badly now...

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The Onion Really Gets Green Lantern
June 16, 2011 2:06 pm It seems likely to me that a Green Lantern movie could simultaneously please Green Lantern fans while completely alienating everyone else.  I'm looking forward to it. 

* Fingers crossed that I'm right. *
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June 15, 2011 – Invincible #80
June 16, 2011 1:32 pm Good pick this week.  I was absolutely stunned by the ending.

And I love you, Ron, but really, spellcheck is your friend - don't forget to use it.
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Light Week? Try Superman/Batman #85, Alpha Flight #1, and Godzilla: Gangsters & Goliath’s #1
June 14, 2011 2:02 pm I am very excited for Godzilla: Gangsters & Goliaths.  I think that the main series will read better once it's collected than it does in single issues.  I did love the introduction of Battra's own Village of the Damned style Shobijin in the main series, though.
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Daredevil Finally Joins The Avengers in NEW AVENGERS #16
June 10, 2011 6:28 am Slott's She-Hulk #4 (Spidey sues J. Jonah Jameson) is a modern classic.
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