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Invincible Iron Man #500 – Forever Resilient [Review]
Iron Man recently celebrated its 500th issue with an extra-length story that serves as a great single story, a remarkable character study of Tony Stark that returns to a common theme of Iron Man's adventures: Stark's fear of the technology he creates falling into the wrong hands and doing more harm than good...
Action Comics #897: Lex Luthor vs. The Joker [Review]
The dynamic between Batman and the Joker has been explored many times throughout the two characters' histories, but there's another character in the DC Universe who presents almost as intriguing a contrast to the Joker's madness: Lex Luthor...
‘Steampunk Palin’ Comic More Insane Than You Imagined
Picture in your mind the most insane possible story that could be contained in a book named Steampunk Palin. Go ahead, take ten seconds or so to imagine it perfectly in your mind's eye. Use this cover image for help.
Got it? Good.
You're wrong...
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #40: The End of Season 8 Is Here [Review]
It's now January 2011, almost nineteen years since the Buffy the Vampire Slayer movie that got the franchise off to a rough start and almost fourteen since the beginning of the television series that eventually got it all right. Now Season 8 of the life-after-TV-show Buffy comic book wraps up this week, a book that has had its ups and downs, its moments of brilliance and its confused stumbles, bu
The Infinite Vacation #1: Stunning Possibilities [Review]
The Infinite Vacation is the creator owned series by Nick Spencer and Christian Ward, a story about a technology that allows people to jump into any conceivable life in as an alternate reality version of themselves told through the eyes of a guy whose "just okay" life has led to him obsessively using the service to find a better one...
Brightest Day 17: Longest Day [Review]
It's been eight months since the first issue of Brightest Day. Now, if an actual day were to last that long, it would cause massive droughts, famine and heat waves on one side of the Earth while the other freezes and probably undergoes equal amounts of famine...
Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine #4: All Time Heroes [Review]
The announcement of a new comic series starring Wolverine and/or Spider-Man tends to be greeted with universal cries of "Oh great, another one," but if you're not reading Jason Aaron and Adam Kubert's Astonishing Spider-Man and Wolverine, you're missing out...
Larfleeze Christmas Special Review, Preview, and Orange Lantern Cookie Recipe
It's nearly Christmas, the time of year when Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus by giving children the toys that the Christ child would have wanted instead of the precious metals, perfumes and medicines he was actually given by his Magi, which I'm going to assume from context is some ancient term for "grandparent...
The Tick #7: A Christmas Miracle of Man-Eating Cow Proportions [Review]
It's getting to be that time of year when you can hardly turn around without running into someone in the middle of a monologue about "the true meaning of Christmas." Thing is, comics are a medium that support the viewpoint that escapism is an okay thing to have once in a while...
The Holiday Gift Guide for the Comic Book Characters in Your Life
December's almost a third over and we're guessing that some of you haven't quite gotten around to finishing up your holiday gift shopping yet. We here at ComicsAlliance are here to help. And we really would love to be able to advise each and every person on all of your shopping lists, but at the same time we're also busy and lazy and mostly just want to talk about comics...