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WAG’s Top 10 Comics of 2016

2016 was a great year for comics! With the great conclusion of Marvel's Secret Wars to DC's fantastic Rebirth to the general quality of many of the comics released this year. Nobody may have had as great a year as Tom King, however, as his stellar solo output ultimately led to him being assigned Batman Rebirth. His three…

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Quick Comic Reviews (December 16, 2015)

Here's another dose of our semi-regular comic reviews! This week's been pretty interesting, but let's get the intro out of the way and head straight for the titles we have this week! Batgirl #46 Writer: Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher Artist: Babs Tarr The series continues to be quite strong and with a distinct and fun voice, and does…

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Top Ten Comics of 2015

It's December, and that means it's that time of the year for lists of the year's best! First up for What's A Geek: The year's top ten comics! There's been a whole slew of titles that caught our eye this year, but there can only be ten (except who are we kidding, right?)! Without further…

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Devil at the Door: The Devil in Paradise Lost & Mike Carey’s Lucifer [3/3]

This segment within the series contains some spoilers for the Lucifer comic book series. You’ve been warned!  The first two parts of the article can be found here and here.   A Question of Medium All creative work is up to interpretation, and it’s literary work that tends to dwell in this ambiguity even more…

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Devil at the Door: The Devil in Paradise Lost & Mike Carey’s Lucifer [2/3]

Hi, everyone. Let's pretend, just for one second, that I never got eaten by life and this installment isn't horrendously late. For those of you who just came around, you can read the first article in this series here. So now that we’ve covered the Devil as a personification of evil, let’s look at his identity as…

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Devil at the Door: The Devil in Paradise Lost & Mike Carey’s Lucifer [1/3]

The up and coming train wreck of an adaptation of Mike Carey’s Lucifer for the small screen and the reboot they'll be putting into print in December awakened two things in me: massive feelings of table-flipping rage (“BUT WHY THE FUCK IS IT A COP DRAMA?!?!?!”) and strong need to revisit my undergraduate thesis for English Literature.…

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