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‘Logan’ and the Cult of the Eternal Present
I remember the first time I experienced the death of a hero in a comic book. It was Cypher. I was all of 8 years old or so. And my comic was The New Mutants. It was a few months after I picked up my first issue, just in time for “The Fall of the…
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Superman and Violence
Big title, short post. All this Superman talk reminds me of the Doomsday storyline from way back in which Superman is killed. As a strange attempt at selling books (which it certainly did), it revealed the problem of violence in comics, particularly for Superman. In Doomsday, Superman met an evil he could not prevent and…
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Welcome to Advent!
When I was young I used to collect comics. This was long before I could go to a comic shop and order specific titles and have them set aside for me. I would go to Waldenbooks, 7-11, and the Country Cupboard and see what issues they had. I didn’t keep track of when the last…