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Name: Adam Stone

Bio: Pull-monkey for the second oldest comic book store in The United States. Every Tuesday, I spend my day sorting through comics and paperbacks, helping bring a little bit of order and joy to our subscribers' folders.........................I used to do this job for a much larger chain, but prefer the slightly smaller scale. (Also, I like walking to work, as opposed to driving a giant comic book store van with a cartoon on the side. Driving past elementary schools made me queasy.).........................Yes, I often write reviews late Tuesday night/early Wednesday morning. This doesn't make me evil or psychic, it makes me someone who gets to read comics early. Removing the final pages out of Mark Millar comics is what makes me evil.Drinking the mutated blood of Charles Francis Xavier is what made me psychic. Also, possibly, evil..........................Top five favorite comics/TPBs/GNs:.........................The Nightly News by Jonathan Hickman. Love the layout, and the story. Really, any intelligent story about a cult killing off reporters seems tailor-made for me..........................Scott Pilgrim by Brian Lee O'Malley. I was totally Wallace to at least two Scott Pilgrims in my life. I also may have been someone's evil ex-boyfriend..........................Habibi by Craig Thompson. A love story that plays with the significance of numbers in theologies and religions. A paragraph feels too small to describe the wonder of this book. As soon as I finished reading it, I started lending it out to friends. So far, none of them have not gone out to buy their own copies..........................Powers 7: The Sellouts by Brian Michael Bendis and Michael Avon Oeming. Overall, the Powers series isn't for me. I've often found it good, but never great. This particularly story arc, though, in addition to being gorgeous art by Oeming, is one of the best Superheroes Gone Bad story arcs in comics..........................Local by Brian Wood and Ryan Kelly. Twelve self-contained stories about a girl struggling with her identity. It sounded exactly like the kind of story I wouldn't enjoy, but Kelly's pencils and Wood's grasp of characters hooked me in. It is, by far, my favorite comic with the whole "indie movie" feel..........................Current favorite titles that I'm reading in issues: Atomic Robo, Chew, Irredeemable, Locke and Key, The Muppet Show, Wolverine And The X-Men, Swamp Thing, Daredevil, Uncanny X-Force, and Unwritten.

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