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The Influence of Watchmen: When Iron Man Tried to be Rorschach
"I think that what a lot of people saw when they read Watchmen was a high degree of violence, a bleaker and more pessimistic political perspective, perhaps a bit more sex, more swearing. And to some...
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Comics from 1981 vs. Comics from 2012
On the 20th of May 1981 a child was born in the Welsh town of Newport. A child who would go on to become yet another overweight obsessive who uses the technological miracle that is the internet to vent...
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Why Superman should be gay (or at least bi-sexual)
(A slightly revised version of this article can be found here, on World of Superheroes.....)At this weekend's Kapow comic convention, DC Comics' co-publisher, Dan Didio announced that DC would be...
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Green Lantern is gay - That's a good thing
Okay, so the gay character that DC Comics have promised isn't Superman, as I argued it should be in my last post, it's the Green Lantern of Earth 2, Alan Scott. Here are a few of my initial thoughts on...
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This is why Superman is the best!
In this week's Action Comics #10 writer Grant Morrison has shown us exactly why Superman is the greatest superhero of all time. Other superheroes will catch criminals. Superman will catch criminals and...
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The Problem with Superman
As a child I followed Superman's adventures on a regular basis through British reprints of his U.S. comics. There were of course good stories and bad stories but the creative teams stayed much the same...
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Is Superman Boring? A response to Will Leitch's "The Most Mundane Man in...
Superman: Not boringThe Wall Street Journal has recently published a review of Larry Tye's Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero entitled 'The Most Mundane Man in...
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Sweet Superman: The Legacy of Christopher Reeve
Recently on Twitter comics writer Gail Simone retweeted a fan who expressed a preference for a "sweet, naively optimistic" Superman. This tweeter is not alone in her desire to see a "sweet" Man of...
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Meanwhile...Before Watchmen
I was recently reading issue 2 of Superman: The Secret Years (1985) when I stumbled across something that struck me as rather interesting and worth sharing. Meanwhile... was a column that ran in the...
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If you don't like The Dark Knight Rises you are WRONG!
WARNING: THIS ARTICLE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR THE DARK KNIGHT RISES!The Dark Knight Rises has been out for a week now and I've already seen it twice. I absolutely love it. It's getting generally good...
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Three reasons to check out Grant Morrison's Action Comics
WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR ACTION COMICS #12Regular readers of this blog might have observed that I'm something of an apologist for DC Comics' New 52. DC's line-wide reboot (now in it's twelfth...
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Superman vs. Morrissey - Buy the T-Shirt!
You can now buy a t-shirt featuring the above image of the Man of Steel and the Pope of Mope.You can buy it here from bluecatstore.com!How can you resist?
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Why The Curse of Shazam is the right move for Captain Marvel
The Curse of Shazam! as featured on the cover of Justice League #0 & drawn by Ivan ReisSince April 2012 DC Comics have been publishing a back up strip in Justice League that chronicles the...
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Revisiting the case for a gay Superman
A few months ago I argued on this blog that Superman should be written as a bi-sexual character. DC Comics have recently rebooted the character's history, erasing his marriage to Lois Lane from...
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The New 52 Continuity: It ain't so bad!
A common criticism of DC Comics' recent relaunch, The New 52 is that continuity is a mess. Click on almost anymessage board discussion or blog entry that's critical of The New 52 and you'll find...
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Top Ten Best Batman Stories Ever! (That aren't Year One or Dark Knight Returns)
Click here for my Top Ten Best Superman Stories Ever!Everyone knows that Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One and Dark Knight Returns are the best Batman stories ever. You don’t need me to tell you that...
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Comic Book Fans! Dismount your High Horses!
Grant Morrison: Is he really such a villain?The New Statesman published an interview with Grant Morrison this week in which he discusses his reasons for stepping away from superhero comics. It seems...
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Comic Book Fans! Dismount your High Horses! An Addendum
I've received some criticism for my last post, particularly a response on Tumblr by missingkeys. I've been reflecting on it all day. I do still think that a lot of the criticism that creators and...
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LEGIT-O-MITE!
As of today I'll be contributing articles to World of Superheroes! Finally I'm a legit-o-mite writer! I'll still be writing stuff for here too though so don't go away. What better way to start my...
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Review: Superman #13
Since DC Comics’ relaunch of its superhero titles, The New 52, began over a year ago, Superman has been a book that has lacked a clear direction and any kind of consistency. George Perez managed a...
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