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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 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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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD ROUND 1, BATTLE 15 Follow the bracket here! THORS VS SQUADRON SINISTER Holy fuck! Another battle in the Battleworld Battleworld bracket and this shit is getting even crazier. This particular battle sees Thors (an hilarious new sitcom coming to NBC this Fall) and Squadron Sinister (a slightly less hilarious sitcom) go head to head…

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ROUND 1, BATTLE 14 Follow the bracket here! MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS VS MARVEL ZOMBIES Ah, I love the smell of parallel issues in the morning. And I love the scent of sandalwood at night. And a nice barbeque mesquite in the afternoon. I could go on and on about the corresponding scents…

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BATTLEWORLDBATTLEWORLD   ROUND 1, BATTLE 12 Follow the bracket here! CAPTAIN MARVEL AND THE CAROL CORPS VS GHOST RACERS   Secret Wars seems like it has spent the last month or so teetering on saying something. It doesn’t have to say anything; it’s a mainstream comic book released in the summer. This isn’t to say…

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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 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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BATTLEWORLD BATTLEWORLD

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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BATTLEWORLD BATTLEWORLD – WEEK 1 PREVIEW

BATTLEWORLD BATTLEWORLD WEEK ONE   ROUND ONE, BATTLE ONE A-FORCE #1 * Marvel’s Mightiest Women finally get their own explosive series! * In a secluded corner of the Battleworld, an island nation is fiercely protected by a team of Avengers the likes of which has only ever been glimpsed before * Fighting to protect the…

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BATTLEWORLD BATTLEWORLD PopFilter’s giant summer event begins here!!! The biggest pop culture event of the summer has already happened, as earlier this month the Avengers pulled together and somehow beat Ultron, something that I’m sure shocked us all. It was big and dumb and awesome. It promised to change the status quo, but then forgot…

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