Flashpoint Friday–World of Flashpoint: Featuring The Flash
Flashpoint Friday looks at the Reverse Flash and Kid Flash stories that play up the tragedy of the Allens.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — July 17th, 2013
The She-Devil with a Sword, Hulk, and Mulder and Scully are part of this week’s look at comics.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — July 10th, 2013
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
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Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint – Featuring Superman
Welcome to week five of Flashpoint! This week, I’m looking at Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint – Featuring Superman, written by Lowell A. Francis and Scott Snyder. This graphic novel takes us a little deeper into what Superman gets up to while war breaks out across Earth. We also check in with a few other famous DC faces, including: Booster Gold, Traci Thirteen, Jason Todd, and Guy Gardner. On a frustrating note, Lois Lane once again gets cheated out of any meaningful face time, but by this point, I think I’m getting used to it.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner–July 3rd, 2013
Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
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Flashpoint Friday—World of Flashpoint – Featuring Wonder Woman
This Flashpoint installment looks at the Wonder Woman and Aquaman titles. Any hopes for fresh alternate takes on the characters were quickly dashed by going to same old, same old.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — June 26th, 2013
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week. This week we are exploring Superman Unchained #1, stepping into a magical world with Family Pets #2, and hanging with the Smurfs in The Smur
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The Cliffs of Insanity: Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman’s appeal is as a feminist role model. Quit trying to alter that, DC Comics, and, start celebrating it instead.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — June 19th, 2013
This week, we look at a new (old) collection sword & sorcery collection from Chris Claremont and artist John Bolton, adventures with dinosaurs, and the return of the fabulous Killjoys.
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Flashpoint Friday — Flashpoint
Written by Geoff Johns with art by Andy Kubert, Flashpoint can be considered the on-ramp for DC Comics’ New 52 revamp.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — June 12th, 2013
Happy Comic Release Day! This week, I look at Green Lantern #20 and Kelly gives us a look at the new, all female cast X-men series.
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The Cliffs of Insanity: Science Fiction and Women
It turns out, the climb up the cliffs of insanity was a bit too steep even for me last week, but I’m back.
And a busy couple of weeks it was, given I spotted a new widget that makes fun of DC Comics propensity for shooting itself in the foot, became immersed reading a controversy about science fiction and women that started when an article in a respected publication started rating female editors by looks, and finally, relaxed by reading a tribute book to the Dragonlady herself, Anne McCaffrey.
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Flashpoint Friday–The Flash Rebirth & Flash Vol. 2: The Road to Flashpoint
Welcome to the first installment of Flashpoint Friday! Every week up until July 30th, I will be bringing you a review of one of the titles related to the DC Comics Flashpoint event by Geoff Johns. This week, I’m looking at The Flash Rebirth and The Flash Vol. 2: The Road to Flashpoint. Both books play an important role in understanding what goes on in Flashpoint.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner–June 5th, 2013
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week.
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Flashpoint–What’s it All About
On July 30th, DC Entertainment will release its latest animated film, Justice League: Flashpoint Paradox. Based off the DC Comics event, Flashpoint, this is sure to be a must see animated movie.
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Forget the Hall of Justice: Find the Justice League at Target
Much to the delight of geek moms everywhere, this summer Target has teamed up with Warner Brothers and DC Comics to bring a wide assortment of Justice League merchandise to stores nationwide.
Continue ReadingGeekMom: Comic Book Corner — May 29th, 2013
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week. This week, we take a look at how Logan became Wolverine, a horror story by the current writer of Fearless Defenders, and a superhero story inspired by long-ago female aviators.
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Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox–Trailer Revealed
While my husband is a Man of Steel kind of guy, I’m more of an animated movie kind of gal. That’s why I couldn’t be more excited about DC Entertainment’s latest animated film, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — May 22nd, 2013
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week. This week, we look at a new twist on Little Red Riding Hood and give a send off to Geoff Johns.
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GeekMom: Comic Book Corner — May 15th, 2013
Happy Comic Release Day! Welcome to another installment of GeekMom Comic Book Corner, where we recap our adventures in comics for the week. This week, Superman has cast his power over a couple of our writers, while another discovers a web comic, and a third is head over heels for the Hawkeye collection by Fraction and Aja.
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