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A Kid Who Doesn’t Want To Be Spider-Man Is My Favorite Panel This Week

Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23 – People who’ve worn the webbed mask have abandoned being Spider-Man before. The cover of this week’s Ultimate Comics Spider-Man #23 riffs on the classic John Romita image from Amazing Spider-Man #50, when Peter Parker quit. And I want to say that Ben Riley stopped web-swinging because of angst, too. But I could be wrong about that.


Having Secrets Is Awful—Or Great! Let Panel Discussion Tell You Why.

These might be the most important words in comics: “Hey, have you read that?” The medium’s lifeblood has always been the word-of-mouth that passes from one reader to another. The only query that might surpass the above is “So, what’d you think?”


Everything Wonderfully Insane About Harley Quinn In One Perfect Figure

I’d say the exclusive head on Sideshow Collectibles’ new Harley Quinn figure has a face only a deranged lunatic could love, but I’m worried about what that says about me.


This Game Might Include Every DC Comics Hero (And Villain) Ever

Imagine a video game that includes 33 Batmans (Batmen?), 130 Green Lanterns and even Aztek The Ultimate Man. Imagine a game that, its creators say, includes ever super-powered hero or villain in DC Comics’ nearly 80-year history. That game is real. It’s scheduled for a fall release.


Comics Writer Greg Rucka ‘Will Cut A Throat’ To Work On Mass Effect

Greg Rucka doesn’t seem like somebody who needs help making his dreams come true. This is, after all, a man who wrote Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman comics all at the same time. He’s also managed to craft incredibly tense dramas in creator-owned series like Queen & Country, Whiteout and Stumptown. But the best-selling novelist still has other things he wants to do, like write a work set in one of BioWare’s video game universes. And, as he recently told me, over e-mail, he wants it bad: “I’d cut a throat to get into the Mass Effect and Dragon Age universes, frankly.”


It’s Superman Vs He-Man In This New Comics Crossover

I have to admit that — of all the “who’d win” nerd arguments over the strength of pop-cultural metahumans — the Man of Steel vs The Hero of Eternia is one I never really thought about. Superman and He-Man? Science vs magic is always a good clash, but so much about the characters’ respective universes was just so different.


Occupy Movement-Style Superheroes Are In My Favourite Panel This Week

The Movement #1 I was sceptical about The Movement at first back when DC comics announced it as part of a pair of new series focused on the fractious class and political divides in modern-day America. These could be comics that felt horribly out of touch if the execution stumbled.


Mass Effect’s Turians Build A Damn Fine Ship, Don’t They?

Yes, yes, Mass Effect fans: we know that you’ve got your Normandy t-shirts, your small replicas and big models of Commander Shepard’s spacecraft. But what about a collectible ship from the aliens who helped build the Normandy? Got your attention, huh?


Aquaman Isn’t Happy In This Preview Of Next Week’s Injustice #4

DC’s been putting out a crankier, less friendly version of the Justice League in the comics tying into the newly released Injustice fighting game. Superman takes over the world for the greater good and some heroes align with him. Aquaman isn’t one them, though.


Can You Name The 18 Armours In The Official Iron Man 3 Game?

I can name every one of the 18 Iron Man armours buildable in Gameloft’s official movie tie-in, coming April 25 to iOS and Android, and it only took me 10 seconds. I named them all Tony. It seemed appropriate. You’ll probably want to call them something else.


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