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Doomed
Unthinkable One of the most interesting Doctor Doom stories may also be the most controversial moment in Doom’s history. The centerpiece story arc of Mark Waid’s Fantastic Four run, “Unthinkable,” has either enraged or elated fans of the Fantastic Four since it’s release in 2003. In the first issue of this story, Doom quests to…
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Saga of the Swamp Thing: Part One
Swamp Thing #20-34, ANNUAL #2 Self-Discovery Existentialism values freedom above almost everything else, and sees self-deception as a barrier to freedom. When we lie to ourselves we lose the ability to recognize reality. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre illustrates this with an example: a young woman is on a date with a man. The young woman hears…
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The Anatomy Lesson
Swamp Thing #21 Where better to start than at the beginning? “The Anatomy Lesson” begins with our villain, small time DC villain Jason Woodrue (a.k.a. “The Floronic Man”), gleefully anticipating the death of General Avery Sunderland, a businessman who hopes to research Swamp Thing’s unique physiology and use what he discovers for personal profit. Sunderland…
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Best of Spider-Man
To celebrate Spider-Man’s 60th birthday, this list compiles the best of the best, including the best places to start reading Spider-Man and the top 50 Spider-Man comics. Where to Start Brand New Day/The Gauntlet After the infamous One More Day storyline split up Peter and Mary Jane’s marriage, editor Steve Wacker gathered a team of…
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Life on Another Planet
Will Eisner is among the greatest cartoonists in the history of comics. Will Eisner’s work on comics represents the earliest attempts to prove comics could function as literature. With the Spirit, Eisner pushed comic book panelling techniques beyond the medium range, monotonous rigidity of the Golden Age. With A Contract with God, Eisner created what…
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Unstable Molecules
What if the Fantastic Four were based on real people? Unstable Molecules tells the story of Reed Richards, Ben Grimm, Susan Sturm, and Johnny Sturm, the real life people who inspired the fantastic four. (Though fiction, this story pretends to be “based on a true story”) Unstable Molecules isn’t the typical Fantastic Four comic. The…
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Squadron Supreme (1985)
An orphaned alien, a princess from a secluded all-female utopia island, and a wealthy man dressed as a winged creature of the night, team up with several of their super powered peers to fight crime. It’s a familiar setup. The Squadron Supreme has its roots in an earlier, villainous team called the Squadron Sinister. The…
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The Superior Foes of Spider-Man
The Sinister Six: Boomerang, Speed Demon, Overdrive, Beetle (no, not that one), and Shocker. Yes they know there’s only five of them. These guys are definitely villains who exist. This comic is the anti-team comic book. Each character is an irredeemable, backstabbing, @$$#@!#. They’re all just charming enough to win you over until, inevitably, they…
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Doomed
Unthinkable One of the most interesting Doctor Doom stories may also be the most controversial moment in Doom’s history. The centerpiece story arc of Mark Waid’s Fantastic Four run, “Unthinkable,” has either enraged or elated fans of the Fantastic Four since it’s release in 2003. In the first issue of this story, Doom quests to…
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Saga of the Swamp Thing: Part One
Swamp Thing #20-34, ANNUAL #2 Self-Discovery Existentialism values freedom above almost everything else, and sees self-deception as a barrier to freedom. When we lie to ourselves we lose the ability to recognize reality. Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre illustrates this with an example: a young woman is on a date with a man. The young woman hears…
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The Anatomy Lesson
Swamp Thing #21 Where better to start than at the beginning? “The Anatomy Lesson” begins with our villain, small time DC villain Jason Woodrue (a.k.a. “The Floronic Man”), gleefully anticipating the death of General Avery Sunderland, a businessman who hopes to research Swamp Thing’s unique physiology and use what he discovers for personal profit. Sunderland…
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