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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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Comic-Con, bitches. Sure, Mike and Ryan review the latest episode of Dark Matter, but in the meantime, they go over the metric ton of news that was released on SDCC. Arrow season 4? Check. Agents of SHIELD season 3? Check. Constantine Season 2? Oh, guys…horrible news. BUT….all of the news about television shows based on…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK NINE PREVIEW ROUND ONEBATTLE TWENTY SPIDER-ISLAND #1 CHRISTOS GAGE & TOM DEFALCO (w) PACO DIAZ & RON FRENZ (a) – The Spider-Queen has turned Manhattan into an island of Spider-Madness and Peter Parker has lost, thanks to Spider-Scribe CHRISTOS GAGE (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, SUPERIOR SPIDER-MAN) & rising star artist PACO DIAZ (WOLVERINE, SCARLET SPIDERS). –…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 19 Follow the bracket here! AGE OF APOCALYPSE #1 VS CIVIL WAR #1 While the other Secret Wars books based on major events used their origins as a jumping off point, twisting the situations readers are familiar with, today’s battle focuses on books that don’t so much twist as follow their…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK EIGHT PREVIEW ROUND ONEBATTLE EIGHTEEN RED SKULL #1 JOSHUA WILLIAMS (w) – LUCA PIZZARI (a) – One of the most vile villains of the Marvel Universe gets his very own twisted Secret Wars series! – Red Skull should be dead but his legend grows, so a team of villains that includes Winter Soldier,…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 2, BATTLE 5 Follow the bracket here! FUTURE IMPERFECT #1-2 VS GIANT SIZE LITTLE MARVEL: AVX #1-2 Round One of this tournament, which is a bunch of first issues fighting each other, is all about setting up the novelty, if not the storyline of each different title. This is fine, but then…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 2, BATTLE 1 Follow the bracket here! A FORCE #1&2 VS PLANET HULK #1&2 In a battle as fun as it is enormous, A Force takes us on a journey to explore exactly why a utopian society is being felled by mysterious attacks and how its leaders deal with balancing the threat and…
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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK SEVEN PREVIEW ROUND TWOBATTLE ONE A-FORCE #1-2 MARGUERITE BENNETT & G. WILLOW WILSON (w) JORGE MOLINA (a/C) – With monsters appearing on the utopian island of Arcadia and threatening its inhabitants, She-Hulk and her team of Avengers set out to discover the source. – But when they stumble upon a conspiracy that…
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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 2, BATTLE 4 Follow the bracket here! SECRET WARS JOURNAL #1-2 VS WHERE MONSTERS DWELL #1-2 And now we get into the pure silliness that comics have always been driven by. On one side we have 2 mini-stories in Secret Wars Journal, where Misty Knight and Paladin are dirty cops trying to score…
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