Or - “Because I’ve Fallen Further Behind Than Ever Before…”

I have to tell you, two weeks of being unable to type without crying like a little girl really makes your work pile up.  The last couple of weeks of comics have been a tumultuous ride, with a whole lot of minor things happening that made me happy.  An old favorite disappoints, while a surprise contender impresses the heck out of me.  British vampires, time-lost Arcturans, underground civilizations, the chupacabra, and a fifty-foot stalk of marijuana await you, beyond the fold!

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Or - “Major Spoilers, Major Time Crunch!  I Blame Stephen!”

 

There’s a couple of reasons why I do what I do here at Major Spoilers…  The first is, I love comics, and I know you do, too.  (See what I did there?)  I want you to look at Wednesdays the same way I do, with a combination of joy, expectation, and “What in the world will they do next?”  Basically, I want to share the love.

Also, and possibly more importantly, I’m an attention whore.  Problem is, I actually have two jobs other than this one, both of which tend to suck a lot of time out of my day.  I’ve fallen waaaaaay behind in my daily reviews (or, honestly, my thrice-a-week reviews, lately) and in order to keep from reviewing things that came out three or four weeks ago, I’ve decided to give you some extra bang for your buck, with a smorgasbord of reviews that I’ve fallen behind on.  It’s something like Friday nights when I was a kid, where you’d have whatever was in the fridge for supper, because nobody’s going to waste their time cooking for ya.  Heck, if it works out, we may do this on a semi-regular basis to remind you of the comics that I probably couldn’t honestly see devoting a whole review to.  And now, ON WE GO!

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As previously reported, The Twelve #2 from Marvel sold out at the distributor level, and we’ve all come to expect, Marvel has indeed stated it will go back to press for a second printing. The variant features a cover by Chris Weston. So if you were sold by Matthew’s review of the issue, then head on down to your LCS on March 19, 2008 to pick your bad-self up a copy.

And that variant cover? You know where to click (hint: it’s after the jump).

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Or - “This Is The One Reviving Golden Age Heroes WITHOUT Alex Ross…”

The comic book publishing field is full of unexplainable little synchronicities.  The Doom Patrol (a group of outcast super-powered freaks led by a wheelchair bound genius) debuted just months before the X-Men (ditto.)  Swamp Thing and Man-Thing were brainstormed at the same time, The Invaders and the Freedom Fighters showed up nearly simultaneously, and The Avengers and the JLA both had red-skinned androids who were created by their sinister foes go straight and join their teams in 1968 (The Vision and The Red Tornado, for those who don’t keep track.) So, I wasn’t surprised to find this book and the relatively similar “Superpowers” from Dynamite being compared to one another the other day at the store (Gatekeeper Hobbies, Huntoon and Gage, Topeka! Ask Deon to stop buying volume 1 of X-Factor!) What DID surprise me was how harshly this book was being judged…

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