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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD   Round 1 fight 10 See the bracket here!   Giant Little Sized Marvel Vs X-tinction Agenda   I thought of only one thing when I heard of the first comic in this battle: Giant Little Sized Marvel is an exercise in the ridiculous. A comic book starring Marvel characters as children?   The…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD   ROUND 1, BATTLE 8 FOLLOW THE BRACKET HERE! Where Monsters Dwell vs The Amazing Spider-Man: Renew your Vows     ***WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS!! READ AT YOUR OWN RISK***   Where Monsters Dwell has features a hero who is half Indiana Jones and half Rick Blaine. We meet Flying Ace Karl Kaufmann somewhere in the Pacific…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK TWO PREVIEW   ROUND ONEBATTLE EIGHT WHERE MONSTERS DWELL #1 GARTH ENNIS (w) – RUSS BRAUN (a) Cover by FRANK CHO VARIANT COVER BY ALEX MALEEV – GARTH ENNIS returns to Marvel Comics proper and he’s bringing his The Boys collaborator Russ Braun along with him! Fighter planes and dinosaurs collide in this…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 7 Follow the bracket here! SECRET WARS 2099 #1 VS SECRET WARS JOURNAL #1 In this battle, we once again have 2 books playing in parallel sandboxes. With Secret Wars 2099, David and party are expanding the 2099 universe in scope and characters from what we saw in its initial run…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 6 Follow the bracket here! MODOK: ASSASSIN #1 VS OLD MAN LOGAN #1 In the early 2000s, when comic book companies realized that the only people reading their books were 40 year olds, the methods of storytelling began to change. They didn’t need to follow Stan Lee’s adage of remembering every…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD Round 1, Battle 5 follow the bracket here! INHUMANS: ATTLIAN RISING #1 VS THE INFINITY GAUNTLET #1 One of the major dangers of a GIANT, EPIC, WORLD-ALTERING, CROSSOVER EVENT in the comic world is to lose the humanity amongst all of the SWEET EPIC SHIT. The small, simple moments that make fans fall in love…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD Round 1, Battle 4 follow the bracket here! INFERNO #1 VS ULTIMATE END #1 Okay, so comic books are a major thing right now and everyone is good with that. It’s cool because I am also super good with that. I’m not going to freak out about it so stop thinking that I’m going to freak…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD WEEK TWO PREVIEW   ROUND ONEBATTLE FOUR ULTIMATE END #1 BRIAN MICHAEL BENDIS (w) – MARK BAGLEY (a/C) Variant Cover by DAVID MARQUEZ ACTION FIGURE VARIANT COVER BY JOHN TYLER CHRISTOPHER YOUNG VARIANT COVER BY SKOTTIE YOUNG – MILES MORALES and the rest of the heroes of the ULTIMATE U face final extinction – As…

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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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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 1 Follow the bracket here! A-FORCE #1 VS DEADPOOL’S SECRET SECRET WAR #1 For whatever reason, I’ve jumped into Battleworld Battleworld attempting to read these books as a first-time reader. Maybe it’s because some of the PopFilter writers working on this tournament are newbies, and I’m hoping they can enjoy these…

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