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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…