Or - “Comics Move Pretty Fast. If Ya Don’t Slow Down Once In A While, You Could Miss ‘Em.“

So, how YOU doin?  When I joined the intrepid staff here at Stately Spoilers Manor, I was a carefree young lad, temping at a dog food company and literally finding myself with hours at work to stare into space.  Ahh, those were the heady days of cafeteria food and three-a-day reviews.  Now that I have a *real* job, my first in several years, I’m horrified to find that I have to spend 8 or 9 hours per day ACTUALLY WORKING.  Uncool, to say the least.  But, the faithful Spoilerites continue to call their siren call, and the review pile continues to expand like the waistline of an Atlantic City call girl (those all-you-can-eat buffets can really add up.)  Thus, I bring you another episode of…  RAPID FIRE REVIEWS!

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Or - “The Sentry Wasn’t Marvel’s FIRST Answer To Superman…”

It’s been a week or two since the first issue of the “reimagining” of Omega The Unknown came out, and I’ve been perusing what some of the other internet wags and comic store customers (Gatekeeper Hobbies! Huntoon and Gage, Topeka! Ask about our Clearance Table, approved by the Thunder God himself!) and it seems like most of the discussion is about how the book compares to it’s predecessor. Indeed, at least one of the online reviews seems as much a review of Steve Gerber’s 1975 Omega #1 as it was Jonathan Lethem’s 2007 Omega #1, which set my mental wheels in motion, and thus was born the first-ever “MYLAR SMACKDOWN.” In this corner, weighing in 4.9 ounces, wearing the yellow cover with the chipped corner… Omega The Unknoooooown! And, in this corner, weighing 4.2 ounces, wearing a strange mauve cover with a hand-drawn logo… Omeeeegaaaaa The Unknooooown! For the dozens in attendance, and for the couple dozen reading this at home…

Let’s Get Ready To REEEEECAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAP!

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