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The Women In Our Lives
In their fourth issue of the Illuminati limited series from 2007, writers Brian Bendis and Brian Reed have our members of this clandestine group letting down their guard a bit to ponder the women in...
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Fall Before The Saw-Toothed Grain Beetle!
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??If Buck Mitty had to choose a name for himself as a new criminal, and decides on a name that's synonymous with a sham or a hoax--a name that's hardly going to get him...
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Objects Are Closer Than They Appear
Sandwiched inbetween the story that saw Dr. Doom return to Latveria and confront the usurper of his throne, Zorba, and the tale where Gladiator comes to Earth and faces both the Fantastic Four and the...
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...And One Must Die!
After so much time having passed (over 40 years!), and so much water having gone under the bridge with the X-Men, it was an interesting experience to unbag and take another look at one of the earliest...
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Trust Your Mystic Tailor
Of the tasks that might be beyond the abilities of Dr. Strange, Master of the Mystic Arts, to perform, you wouldn't think that mystical sewing would be among them. And, indeed, in a story featured in a...
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The Road To Redemption!
Here at the PPoC we've given a generous (and well-deserved) amount of exposure to both the 2005 and 2007 Earth's Mightiest Heroes limited series by writer Joe Casey and artist Scott Kolins which...
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A Touch Of Scarlet--A Dash Of Silver
You've come to Part 2 of Avengers:Transition week, the PPoC's five-day spotlight on the issues of the 2005 Earth's Mightiest Heroes series which dealt with the exit of the original Avengers and the...
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The Old Order Pulleth Out
Welcome to Part 3 of Avengers:Transition, our week-long review of the issues of the Earth's Mightiest Heroes limited series from 2005 which dealt with the departure of the original Avengers and the...
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The Torch Is Passed
You've come to Part 4 of Avengers:Transition, the PPoC's week-long spotlight on writer Joe Casey's reinterpretation of the very first Avengers lineup change that was featured in the 2005 Earth's...
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The End... The Beginning!
Welcome to the final day of Avengers:Transition, winding down our five-day series of posts featuring the issues of the 2005 Earth's Mightiest Heroes limited series which dealt with the team's first...
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Their Minds To My Mind
Can YOUName This Marvel Villain??The being known as Kamo Tharnn always seems to be in great demand--or, rather, it's his mystic runestaff that everyone is usually after, with Tharnn vowing to destroy...
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War With The Frightful Four!
This looks like a climactic issue that's got a lot of backstory to it, doesn't it?But because this story takes place in the middle of a tense situation involving the marital difficulties of Reed and...
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My Betrothed--My Killer!
It took just a little over three years after her death for Uncanny X-Men to start the ball rolling with bringing the character of Phoenix back in one form or another--that is, if you don't count...
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When Wakes The Sub-Mariner!
Aside from the tales we've seen in the What If titles, there are a number of alternate versions of stories involving the Fantastic Four and their adventures as we've come to know them, with many...
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The Final Stake!
In 1979, the penultimate issue of Tomb Of Dracula contained an announcement by writer Marv Wolfman that the long-time artist for the book, Gene Colan, had several months earlier requested to leave the...
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Life eXpectancy
Thanks to an alien invader named Khan (no, not that Khan), Gambit of the X-Men has been captured and restrained and is being used as a power conduit for a beam that opens a portal between dimensions...
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The Deadly Thirst of... Baron Blood!
It's reasonable to wonder why the notorious Baron Blood never made an appearance in the Tomb Of Dracula book, as an antagonist or otherwise. Though it can be fun to imagine how such a confrontation...
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If This Planet You Would Save...!
We humans have often been raked over the coals by super-beings who either see little of worth in our species, or have no doubt that we're slowly but surely extinguishing ourselves. Often it's hard to...
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The Sword And The Sorceress!
Taking place between an encounter with the so-called Lady Liberators and an adventure in the world of the Squadron Supreme is a single-issue Avengers story which, given its action quotient and the...
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The World's Ultimate Comic Magazine
After experiencing two adventures of the "ultimate" Fantastic Four*--one where they met and battled the Sub-Mariner, and the other where they were instrumental in opening the comics door to the Marvel...
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