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So If I Were To Make a DCCU…

Posted on November 2, 2014 by Andrew Hickey

Anyone interested in superhero stuff has seen by now that DC have planned a series of films to last until the sun collapses into itself and becomes a brown dwarf, or until Marvel put out a film with a female … Continue reading →

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Grant Morrison Stand-Alone Stories

Posted on October 12, 2014 by Andrew Hickey

A few days ago Mike Taylor emailed me, asking what, if any, Grant Morrison stories could be read without knowing more about a fictional universe — he’d been reading Seven Soldiers, and found it difficult going, as he doesn’t have … Continue reading →

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On Being A Marvel, Not A DC

Posted on July 17, 2014 by Andrew Hickey

Today I did something I’ve never done before. I went to a comic shop and bought more Marvel comics than DC ones. I picked up sixteen comics, and only six were DC. Seven were Marvel, and three were Image. This … Continue reading →

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Hugo Blogging: Best Graphic Story

Posted on June 16, 2014 by Andrew Hickey

Remember when this used to be a comics blog? Those of you who thought my other Hugo blog posts were a little grumpy might want to look away, because not only am I in a bad mood for unrelated reasons, … Continue reading →

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Slut Shame

Posted on June 19, 2013 by Andrew Hickey

OK, I knew that Before Watchmen was terrible — I wrote about it myself, and then there’s the Hooded Utilitarian’s two-part evisceration, but until I read this by Calamity Jon Morris, I didn’t realise just how utterly appalling it was. … Continue reading →

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