So in Part 1 of my "An Exercise in Hero-ity" saga, I laid out our ground rules. Each DCR contributor would ponder their favoritestest heroes, then list them out in tiers. Each tier needed to have a small max number…say 3 or 5…to force us to make some hard decisions and really focus our ponder-age. [...]
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The brilliant(ly drunken) minds here at DCR had a conversation online a short while back about their favoritest heroes. I came up with the idea for this exercise (mostly as a time waster): list out the heroes (not villains, not groups, just heroes) that are your "favorites" Favorites can mean whatever it means to you…heroes can go [...]
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So I’m a sucker for stories that involve walking, talking, and sword fighting animals. Think Secret of Nimh and Redwall, and you’ll get what I’m talking about. So it was with great anticipation that I cracked open the Amazon delivery box to pull out my copy of the hardback collection of David Petersen’s Mouse Guard: [...]
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As Ghost mentioned here, we were on a bit of a hunt for the Annihilation collections at the con. I only vaguely knew about them, but they had me at Nova, Super-Skrull, and the cover art. Plus, hey, we all know by now that I'm a collection whore. I can't help myself.
And…we struck out. The [...]
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Ok, guilty as charged. I bought a crapload of collections while at the con. Spin whatever comic addiction or denial metaphor/analogy ya want…I'm totally sold on trades and hardback collections. I'm a huge book reader/collector, and I still love to read comics…but I'm scared to death of falling into the same trap that Ghost did…so [...]
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