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  • Xombi 2

    The most interesting bit of this issue is an upskirt glimpse of a female minor in a Catholic school outfit to which we are made privy. Typically, you’d label it a humdrum bit of fan service and maybe get an editorial or two out of it, replete with a counterbalance of a near triple-digit number of sexist commenters and their always-welcome liberal approach to grammar.

  • Xombi 1 vs. Xombi 1

    Xombi, in its original incarnation (1994-96, 22 issues), was a title in the Milestone line, that grand mid-nineties experiment presided over by the recently deceased Dwayne McDuffie in tweaking mainstream comic archetypes via a more pronounced multicultural presence sans qualifiers. The series’ spotlight was placed upon David Kim, a research scientist endowed with nigh-immortality, an optimum body (always at its peak performance and never subject to aging), and the quirk of minor matter transmutation, all courtesy of that break-glass-here element of superhero comics, nanotechnology.

  • Comic Book Comics #5

    Pedagogical comics! I approve! Comics can’t all be syringes and scalpels about to be plunged into eyes, you know? I mean, those are my favorite – when, at the moment the number of exclamation marks on the page is at its most vigorous competition with the dollops of red coloring to be seen, our tale of terror gives way to a robed and snaggle-toothed framing device delivering some glorious self-cancelling moral replete with a pun groan-inducing enough to ensure that the occasional giggle punctuates my screams during the ensuing nightmares.

  • Invincible Iron Man 500

    In which the series undergoes the inevitable switch-over from the innocuous number of 33 to 500, as is the Mighty Marvel Trend with all the marquee names or marquee names-in-waiting, incorporating all the previous Iron Man titles along with mini-series, one-shots, and, what the hell, probably Contest Of The Champions, for the sake of a number redolent of legacy and grandiosity. We should all wear our wrinkles so well.

  • Richard Stark’s Parker: The Outfit

    A great deal of the pleasure of Donald Westlake’s Parker books (written under the nom de plume of Richard Stark, as the unwieldly IDW titles are careful to remind us) comes from watching a man who knows what he’s doing do what he does.

  • Deadpool MAX 1-2

    Deadpool MAX, the inevitable “but now he can say ‘fuck'” iteration of Spider-Man-with-pouches. With David Lapham on scripting chores and Modern Master Kyle Baker on art – both idiosyncratic cartoonists with little aversion to journeyman dalliances, what rough beast will emerge?

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