Thee Comic Column #63 - Peter David's Fallen Angel

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Yep, Lee and her take-no-prisoners approach to redemption is the topic of discussion this week in Thee Comic Column over on Joup (here).

It's funny, I'm traveling this week, hanging out in Florida for the first time and I brought all of the volumes of the book I discuss with me on the trip, only to realize that DC never released a trade collecting the final volume of their original Fallen Angel run. This has left me unable to read the series as I'd planned - I'm stuck on a raft between DC vol. #2 and IDW vol. #1. Also as I talk about in the column I have all the DC in original issue format, however when I get home tomorrow I'm now going to have to really dig through my long boxes to find them.

Crap.

Still, the payoff will most definitely be worth the effort, as Fallen Angel is just one fantastic book!!!

Thee Comic Column #61 - Rick Remender and the Future of the Marvel U - SPOILERS

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I really mean it about those spoilers, as in this week's edition of Thee Comic Column (here) I candidly discuss not only the events of Uncanny Avengers #14 but what Rick Remender's run on the book thus far may mean for the Marvel Universe going forward.

Joe Hill's Taking Us to Christmasland!!!

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Back in the spring I reviewed Hill's newest novel NOS4A2 on Joup. Now in this week's edition of Thee Comic Column I review the first issue of the sinisterly awesome Wraith: Welcome to Christmasland - the book that will expand on the extremely expansion-worthy mythos Hill so expertly sets up in the novel.

GUNS A' BLAZIN'!

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Read all about the totally independent and completely awesome indie comic GUNS A' BLAZIN'! as I interview writer Mike Wellman in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup!!!

Geof Darrow's The Shaolin Cowboy

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Wow did I dig this first issue of Dark Horse Comic's new Shaolin Cowboy mini series. Read about it in this week's Comic Column on Joup.

Sandman Overture

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This is so much better than I thought it could be - and I had pretty damn high hopes to begin with! Read my take in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup!

RUIN - Indenpendent Comic Kickstarter

My love of comics is a very deep and intense thing. I've been reading them since Larry Hama's GIJOE #49 - roughly the summer before I was in fourth grade or ~1986. Not all comics fit my "like" profile of course - I'm somewhat discerning when it comes to the area of tights and capes for instance. However, the beauty of today's comic climate is that the books and writing have matured with the audience and we now find not only amazingly sophisticated story tellers like Grant Morrison, Jonathan Hickman and Brian Michael Bendis writing superhero books for an equally sophisticated audience, but a wide variety of independent books that not only constantly break new ground in the medium itself but seed and influence big-budget Hollywood movies. Once thing I really try to do with my comic column on Joup.co is focus as much as possible on independent books that the Kickstarter platform has made possible in a way that was just never economically feasible before. I've begun to get emails from a lot of indie folks out there and I confess that lately I'm not always able to feature or even - in several unfortunate cases - respond to the creators because all the writing I do - which is at times almost unmanageable - is on top of my day job, which along with commute through LA traffic* eats up a considerable amount of my day. I try to respond to everyone and I'm getting better at it, but honestly I'd not anticipated the amount of interest.

Now, excuses aside...

The indie books I have begun to spotlight have been books like Ugli Studios Presents and Tension that have consisted of undeniably-constructed Kickstarters. Now another has caught my eye and it will be the focus of an upcoming issue of Thee Comic Column. That said I wanted to jump the gun and start getting the word out there as best I can because there are only thirty-six days left, so without further adieu I give you the Kickstarter video for ...RUIN, a post-apocalyptic, sci fi adventure that looks fantastic!

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*Still not as bad as Chicago traffic regardless of what anyone says

Annotations for Grant Morrison's Batman

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No, I didn't write them, but I list them and give the massive props due to those brave souls who did in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup!

Joshua Hale Fialkov & Joe Infurnari's The Bunker

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OH! I'm loving this digital-only comic from two creators I was totally unfamiliar with until about two months ago. Read about it in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup, right here!

FDP: Federal Bureau of Physics

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Although Vertigo's new title was released as Collider for the first run of the first issue, legal reasons now dictate its title has been changed - for the better I believe - to FDP: Federal Bureau of Physics. Read about it here on Joup!

UGLI Studios Presents Vol. #2

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Totally awesome and completely independent comic imprint UGLI Studios recently released UGLI Studios Presents Vol. #2. I interview UGLI founder and artist extraordinaire Jason Lenox in this week's Thee Comic Column on Joup right here!

Lazarus

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Greg Rucka, Michael Lark and Santi Arcas have a new book published by Image Comics. Read my two cents on it in  Thee Comic Column #47 on Joup.

Boom! Studios' Day Men

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New comic from Boom! Studios - read about it in this week's edition of Thee Comic Column on Joup here!

1988 - The Year Marvel Comics Destroyed Pittsburgh

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Wicked comics from the 80's - read about it on Joup!

Sean Murphy & Scott Snyder's The Wake

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The new series from Vertigo comics is excellent! Read about it in Thee Comic Book Column #43 on Joup!

House on The Borderland

Forgot to post last week's edition of Thee Comic Column. You can read all about The House on the Borderland here.

Re-Reading Neil Gaiman's Sandman

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Read my article on Joup here. And the source of the unbelievable image I've linked above is here. Outstanding!!!

Interview: Ryan Black's Tension

Ryan Black has a kickstarter going for his AWESOME comic tension. I interviewed him recently via email - you can check out his kickstarter video and contribute here and you can read the interview on Joup here.