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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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Reviews

If Scott Snyder had stubbed his fingers and not been able to find anyone to add any text to this…

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This was my first, and probably last issue of Perhapanauts. From page one, the desperation to be noticed as an…

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It takes a lot of work to make such a potentially interesting story so dull, but Bendis is down to…

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akamuu's Recent Comments
June 6, 2012 1:25 pm Agreed on all counts. Great review.
June 6, 2012 11:37 am Sorry, The Comedian is by Azarello and is not out for another couple of weeks. Cooke and Amanda Conner are doing The Silk Spectre, which is out next week.
June 6, 2012 11:19 am Thanks, OliverTwist. This isn't The Comedian issue. That's out next week. This is The Minutemen series which seems to be serving as an overview of the whole event. I'm remaining optimistic about The Comedian series.
May 31, 2012 9:29 pm Agreed. I do enjoy Bradshaw's art, in general, but this issue seemed inconsistent.
May 30, 2012 11:30 am @shadybady21 & thehangman: I got the impression, solely from this issue, that Bradshaw was trying to draw the characters in a similar vein as Romita Jr. It wasn't bad, it just didn't grab me. It was...functional and adequate, which was a let down for me. @BCDX97: I thought the early tie-in issues were actually better than some of the main title issues. This one didn't measure up, though.
May 29, 2012 9:26 pm Did you end up picking it up? If so, what did you think?
May 23, 2012 5:04 pm Pardon my reading skills. It clearly states in the first sentence of this article that The View announcement was today.
May 23, 2012 5:03 pm When was the announcement on The View? Previous to today, no one had mentioned the wedding at all (save Marjorie Liu). Today, I had five people, one of whom works in the building but has never expressed interest in comics, stop in and ask "Do you have the new X-Men comic?" (referring to THE X-Men comic is a pretty good indicator that they're not a regular reader of the infinite amount of X-titles) They've all eventually mentioned "The marriage issue." and looked sad when I told them it's not out until next month.
May 23, 2012 2:02 pm Good review. I enjoyed this issue quite a bit. Especially the cover.
May 23, 2012 1:10 pm The calling you out wasn't meant as a personal attack. You've commented on it before in my reviews, and in the article on the marriage. I was hoping it would keep you from bringing it up yet again. Sorry that I misjudged that. But in my conversations with customers, and in reading other comic book fan's articles, it seems that a majority of people agree that this seems rushed into and over promoted.