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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at 2 books, a day earlier than most due to Canada being awesome. We've got Captain Britain and MI13 #3, and Young X-Men #4.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at 3 books. In addition to New Warriors #13, there's a double dose of Runaways, with Runaways #30, and Secret Invasion: Runaways/Young Avengers #1 (of 3).

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. Just a single book this week, that's X-Factor #32, my last issue for a little while, the appropriately titled "X-It Strategy".

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. Two books this week, and both issue 2. We have Captain Britain and MI13 #2, and newuniversal: shockfront #2 (of 6)

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. Just one book this week, and that's Young X-Men #3, continuing the trend of Classic X-Men themed story titles with "LifeDeath".

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. Most stores in the US get their comics on Thursday this week, but I'm in Canada and got them on time. This week we look at two books. Joss Whedon's run concludes with Giant Size Astonishing X-Men #1, and there's also New Warriors #12.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books, and they're all X-books. There's Ultimate X-Men #94, X-Factor #31, and X-Men: Divided We Stand #2 (of 2).

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, two debuts and one end. This week we look at three books. There's Captain Britain and MI-13 #1, newuniversal: shockfront #1, and Serenity; Better Days #3.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book, Young X-Men #2.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at four books. Avengers: The Initiative #12, DC Universe Zero, New Warriors #11, and Ultimate X-Men #93. One shall fall from the reviewer's purchase list.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Avengers: The Initiative #11, X-Factor #30, and X-Men: Divided We Stand #1 (of 2)

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at a single book. That's Serenity: Better Days #2 (of 3)

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at a single book. That's Young X-Men #1, the newest iteration of the "Up and coming teen mutants" book. Will "Final Genesis" live up to all the other geneses? We'll see.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's New Warriors #10, which continues "Thrashed", and Ultimate X-Men #92, which continues "Apocalypse".

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Avengers: The Initiative #10, X-Factor #29, and Serenity: Better Days #1 (of 3)

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we just look at a single book. That's New Warriors #9, Part One of "Thrashed"

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we have three books. There's Runaways #29, Ultimate X-Men #91, and, a holdover from last week, X-Factor #28.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we have two books, each with arcs involving killer superhumans. There's Avengers: The Initiative #9, which continues the "KIA" storyline, and Ultimate X-Men #90, Part 1 of "Apocalypse".

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, and once again there's only one book on the list. Astonishing X-Men #24 gives us Unstoppable Part 6.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, the first of 2008, since we were off for two weeks. Still, coming back there's only one book on the list, and that's New Warriors #8.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, a bit late due to the holiday season. This week we look at two books, one on each side of Registration, and both starting new Storyarcs. That's Avengers: The Initiative #8, and New Warriors #7.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book. That's Ultimate X-Men #89, a single issue story called "The Shadow King". Three guesses which character is ultimatized, and the first two don't count.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book. That's New Warriors #6, part six of "Defiant"

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book. That's Ultimate X-Men #88, The Epilogue to "Sentinels"

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's Loners #6 (of 6), and New X-Men #44, Chapter Three of Messiah Complex.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's Avengers: The Initiative #7, and X-Factor #25, Chapter Three of Messiah Complex.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's Astonishing X-Men #23, the penultimate chapter of Unstoppable, and Mystic Arcana: Sister Grimm.

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we just look at a single book. That's New X-Men #43, "Children of X-Men", Part 2 of 2

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we just look at a single book. That's Ultimate X-Men #87, Part 3 (of 4) of "Sentinels"

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, delayed one day due to Canadian Thanksgiving. This week we look at three books. There's New Warriors #5, Runaways #28, and X-Factor #24.

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Book Review

A bit of a rarity, we present a review of a book, Joe Hill's short story collection "20th Century Ghosts".

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Weekly Comic Review

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just a single book. That's Avengers: The Initiative #6.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just a single book. That's New X-Men #42.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's The Loners #5 (of 6), Ultimate X-Men #86, and X-Factor #23.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, a day late due to Labour Day. This week we look at just one book. That's New Warriors #4, part four of "Defiant"

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book. That's Avengers: The Initiative #5, which introduces The Shadow Initiative.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book. That's Astonishing X-Men #22, the long delayed continuation to "Unstoppable".

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book. That's New X-Men #41, the conclusion to "The Quest for Magik". Was the quest a success, in terms of pleasing old school fans?

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's Ultimate X-Men #85, Part 2 of "Sentinels", and X-Factor #22, Part 2 of "The Isolationist".

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. Last week was a skip week, and this week's a small one, as we just look at a single book. That's New Warriors #3, part 3 of "Defiant".

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Avengers: The Initiative #4 (a World War Hulk tie-in), Birds of Prey #108 (Gail Simone's last issue), and New X-Men #40 (continuing the Quest for Magik).

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, a little late due to an unavoidable delay. This week we look at just two books. There's Ultimate X-Men #84, and X-Factor #21.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted, a day late due to Canada Day. This week we look at three books. There's Loners #4 (of 6), New Warriors #2, and Runaways #27.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. Last week was a skip week, but this week we look at three books. There's Ultimate X-Men #83, World War Hulk X-Men #1 (of 3), and X-Factor #20.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just two books, both involving the same character. There's Mystic Arcana: Magik #1, and New X-Men #39 (which is part of the Quest for Magik arc)

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at five books. There's Avengers: The Initiative #3, Birds of Prey #107, Loners #3, New Warriors #1, and last week's Teen Titans #47.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted (a day late due to a Canadian holiday). This week we look at three books. There's Birds of Prey #106, newuniversal #6, and Wisdom #6 (of 6).

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at four books. There's Cable & Deadpool #40, Ultimates 2 #13, Ultimate X-Men #82, and X-Factor #19

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just a single book. That's New X-Men #38, "The Quest for Magik, Part One of Four"

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at five books. There's Astonishing X-Men #21, Avengers: The Initiative #2, Loners #2 (of 6), Runaways #26, and Teen Titans #46.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just a single book. That's Wisdom #5 (of 6), "The Rudiments of Wisdom, Part 5: Bows and Arrows Against the Lightning".

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at four books. There's Birds of Prey #105, Cable & Deadpool #39, Ultimate X-Men #81, and X-Factor #18.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at four books. There's Loners #1, New X-Men #37, newuniversal #5, and Teen Titans #45.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two highly anticipated debuts. There's Avengers: The Initiative #1, and Joss Whedon's debut on Runaways #25.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just a single book. That's Ultimate X-Men #80, part 2 of "Aftermath".

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at five books. There's Birds of Prey #104, Cable & Deadpool #38, Runaways Saga #1, Wisdom #4 (of 6), and X-Factor #17.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at a single book. That's Teen Titans #44, Part two of Titans East.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at a single book. That's Ellis' continued reimagining of the New Universe in newuniversal #4.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Runaways #24, Wisdom #3 (of 6), and X-Factor #16.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Birds of Prey #103, Cable & Deadpool #37, and Civil War #7 (of 7).

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's Astonishing X-Men #20, and Ultimate X-Men #79.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's newuniversal #3, and X-Men: Phoenix Warsong #5 (of 5).

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just a single book. That's Teen Titans #43.

Read the full reviews here (warning, some spoilers).

Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just a single book. That's X-Factor #15.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Birds of Prey #102, Cable & Deadpool #36, Ultimate X-Men #78, and Wisdom #2.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book, Brian K. Vaughan and Adrian Alphona's penultimate issue on the title, Runaways #23.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at two books. There's Civil War #6 (of 7), and newuniversal #2.

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The 2006 Year-In-Review!

It's almost a new year, so once again, I look back and choose some of my favorites and biggest disappointments of the past year, in comics and SF TV, DVDs, and Movies.

Read it here.

Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at just one book, and that's Astonishing X-Men #19, the first part of Whedon's final arc, Unstoppable.

Read the full reviews here (warning, some spoilers).

Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Birds of Prey #101, Cable & Deadpool #35, and Teen Titans #42.

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Weekly Comic Reviews

This week's Comic Reviews have been posted. This week we look at three books. There's Ultimate X-Men #77, X-Factor #14, and X-Men: Phoenix Warsong #4 (of 5).

Read the full reviews here (warning, some spoilers).

Toronto Comic-Con Review

This weekend was the Toronto Comic-Con, and we have full panel coverage of Marvel's Civil War: Confidential Panel, with Brian Michael Bendis, C.B. Cebulski, Olivier Coipel, Humberto Ramos, and Yanick Paquette. A new post Civil War title is revealed, with a lot of Canadian Content!

Read the full panel report here (warning, some potential spoilers).

The 2005 Year-In-Review!

It's a new year, so once again, I look back and choose some of my favorites and biggest disappointments of the past year, in comics and SF TV, DVDs, and Movies.

Read it here.

Serenity Movie Review

Back in June, I got a chance to see a special advance preview screening of Joss Whedon's film Serenity, based on the TV show Firefly. Because the official release date is upon us, I thought I'd bring the link back to the top of the list. In short: Go see this movie.

Read the full, spoiler-free review here.

2005 Hugo Awards Announced!

Yesterday at Worldcon, the 2005 Hugo Awards for Science Fiction, and the Sidewise Awards for Alternate History were awarded. We've got the full list of winners for you right here.

2005 Summer and Fall TV Schedules

Well, Summer's just about here, and that means two things... the summer TV season is starting, and most of the US Networks have finalized their fall schedules. Now, that's all well and good for the TV junkies, but The Unreachable Star is devoted to Speculative Fiction (that is, Science Fiction, Fantasy, and related categories), so I've gone through the lists to give you a rundown of your SF TV options in the coming few months. (Dates, shows, and channels are for the US only as it's easiest to research, but most shows should make it elsewhere in the world too).

Read them here (warning, some spoilers within for shows ending in the US prior to June 2005).

Unreachable Star Interviews: Gail Simone

Gail Simone answers a few questions about Birds of Prey and talks about her upcoming episode of Justice League Unlimited. Read the whole interview here.

Armchair Editor #4 - District NYX - Combining Titles For Fun & Profit

The Armchair Editor is back after a long hiatus. In this fourth edition, he looks at how combining characters and concepts from struggling titles might lead to some fun stories and a bigger audience.

The Nicieza Offering

(An interview with Fabian Nicieza)

Fabian Nicieza answers questions about Cable & Deadpool, New Thunderbolts, continuity, and more! Read the whole interview here.

The 2004 Year-In-Review!

As the end of the year approaches, I look back and choose some of my favorites and biggest disappointments of the past year, in comics and SF TV, DVDs, and Movies.

Read it here.

Interview with Tod Wills

In time for Halloween, we have the exclusive first ever interview with Tod Wills, creator of the webcomic Dracula, a graphic novel adaptation of the Bram Stoker novel.

Enter freely and of your own will, and read the interview here

Armchair Editor #3 - Unmasking Xorn (For Real, This Time!)

In the third edition of the Armchair Editor, we look at Xorn, his true identity, and the immediate retcons that followed Morrison's run, and propose a new, better explanation for the whole shebang.

(Warning, significant spoilers for Planet X and the end of Morrison's run on New X-Men, as well as more recent developments in Excalibur and X-Men)

Cup Of Joe In T.O.

This week was the Canadian National Expo in Toronto! We've got full coverage of the 'Cup of Joe' panel, featuring Joe Quesada and C.B. Cebulski.

Read about all the questions asked and answers given here (warning, spoilers, especially for major events in Astonishing X-Men).

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