Posts by Daniel Tompkins
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 4, BATTLE 3 Follow the bracket here! SIEGE (#1-4) VS CIVIL WAR (#1-4) Ladies and gentlemen, we have officially separated the wheat from the chaff! We are well on our to selecting a Battlefield Battlefield champ and we have weeded out the one shots and the gimmicks and we are down to the good stuff.…
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HOWARD THE HUMAN VS SECRET WARS SECRET LOVE You might have noticed that both of this battle’s contestants have been reviewed before. There is no Howard the Human #2. There is no Secret Wars Secret Love #2. They are both one-shots–the one-night stands of the Battleworld universe. And yet here they are again, trying to…
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BattleworldBattleworld Round 2 Battle 10 Follow the bracket here Civil War (#1-2) VS CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND THE MIGHTY DEFENDERS (#1-2) Welcome back to Battleworld Battleworld! Just a reminder before we get started – we’ve been doing the math, and a lot of you have been failing to turn in your defeated issues for destruction. In particular, there’s…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 2, BATTLE 6 Follow the bracket here! CAPTAIN MARVEL AND THE CAROL CORPS #2 VS 1602: WITCH HUNTER ANGELA #2 I think at this point I’m enough of a grizzled old vet when it comes to Battleworld that I know when to keep my head down and push through. Whenever there’s a Thor…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 20 Follow the bracket here! SPIDER ISLAND #1 VS CAPTAIN BRITAIN AND THE MIGHTY DEFENDERS #1 I’m at the point with Battleworld where I have to make sure I don’t let fatigue affect my reviews. Popfilter selected its Battleworld Battleword writers from among the strongest and most highly trained endurance athletes in the…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 17 Follow the bracket here! KORVAC SAGA #1 VS X-MEN ’92 #1 I wanna say up top that I’m not too impressed with either of this weeks offerings. And that’s ok. In any massive, visceral fight to the death, there’s gonna be a few stragglers who just…don’t seem to be on board.…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 14 Follow the bracket here! WEIRDWORLD VS BATTLEWORLD: RUNAWAYS If there’s one thing that Battleworld: Runaways makes clear it’s that intro comics have a lot of groundwork to cover. Even without having to explain the twists and nuances of the Battleworld setting, you’ve got like 24 pages to introduce the characters, introduce…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 2, BATTLE 2 Follow the bracket here! SECRET WARS: BATTLEWORLD #2 VS ULTIMATE END #2 Secret Wars: Battleworld reads a lot like Marvel’s old “What If?” series. Each issue features two short arcs about a different wacky result of Battleworld’s existence. Simply put, Secret Wars: Battleworld is what it’s like when worlds collide. M.O.D.O.K. summons…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 2 Follow the bracket here! PLANET HULK #1 VS MASTER OF KUNG FU #1 Reading Marvel comics always feels like walking in on a group mid-conversation — you just nod and try to mimic their emotions. If you’re at least slightly familiar with Marvel Comics, it’s like walking in on a group of…
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Elysium In an effort to write a review of Elysium that isn’t a re-review of District 9, I’ll look outside Neill Blomkamp’s current, two-film body of work for comparisons. That way I can say more than “It’s kind of like District 9 but worse,†and I’ll already be ahead of about 90% of other…
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