Fifth Degree: Previews #258

Ame-Comi Jade

by Josh Crawley

This is how much I care; I have a column ready to go for you to read on our blog even when I’m on vacation!

Before I get into the goods this month, I noticed something interesting this month. Page 260 of Previews has an ad for GG Studio. While I like the look of the art, their website – www.ggstudiodesign.com – doesn’t appear as easy to navigate as I’d like, which seems like an ill omen (as a very short-lived publisher) to me. I welcome being proven wrong, though.

Ame-Comi Heroine Series: Jade PVC Figure
I wish the goofy flared-open legs were the end of a skirt, and not leggings; oh well.

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Interview: Jeff Parker on Marvel’s Atlas

Atlas #1

Jeff Parker is the popular writer of such books as Thunderbolts, Fall of the Hulks: Alpha, and Underground. This month, he begins a Agents of Atlas series for Marvel, Atlas. Westfield’s Roger Ash recently contacted Parker to learn more about this book.

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Delayed Items for Week of March 5, 2010

The latest delayed items.

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Beauology 101: Cast Away!

Mark Valley

by Beau Smith

It’s been going on for as long as there have been movies and television. Sometimes it goes on when you and your friends are hanging out. Other times, when you’re online on a message board, emailing, texting or in some sort of chat room. It even happens when you’re alone. The topic I’m hinting at is casting. Truth be told, we’ve all got a little casting director in us. We all think we’re right and sometimes we are.

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Interview: Mark Crilley on Dark Horse’s Brody’s Ghost

Brody's Ghost

Mark Crilley is the creator of the Akiko series as well as the young adult series Billy Clikk and Miki Falls. This month he returns to comics with his new series, Brody’s Ghost, from Dark Horse. Crilley recently spoke with Westfield’s Roger Ash about this new series.

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For Your Consideration: Showcase Presents: Suicide Squad

Showcase Presents: Suicide Squad

by Robert Greenberger

When the Suicide Squad debuted in early 1987, the era of grim and gritty comics had been embraced by DC and Marvel. Readers seemed ready for stories that explored the dark underbelly of superheroes and this series took them places previous unvisited around the DC Universe. The series remains a much beloved project from that time and it is being celebrated with Showcase Presents: Suicide Squad, collecting the first 19 issues along with the Doom Patrol/Suicide Squad Special and the crossover issue of Justice League International.

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Fifth Degree: Marvel Previews #79

by Josh Crawley
Dark Tower: The Gunslinger #1
Sean Phillips incorporating aspects of Jae Lee’s style, colored by Richard Isanove? You’ve got to be kidding me if you don’t think that’s amazing! Conveniently, Dark Tower: The Gunslinger Born is coming out in soft cover soon.

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Too Much Cool Stuff – Not Enough $$$ – March ‘10

Heroic Age

by KC Carlson

This month, the Big Two launch their newest big initiatives to attempt to collect all our money, Marvel’s The Heroic Age and DC’s Brightest Day. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – it’s just that both companies also have several other things brewing this month, and you might miss them in all the hubbub, bub. But, like it or not, that’s what you have me for – I’m the guy who always says “Hey! What’s going on over there - behind that curtain!” More on that in a minute. Lemme get Brightest Heroic Age Day out of the way first.

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“okpank” Recommended from Previews Issue 257

Absolute All Star Superman

by Miles “okpank” Perzewski

Absolute All-Star Superman HC
Finally the Absolute Edition, the reason why I waited to get this series.

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Delayed Items for the Week of February 26, 2010

The latest delayed items.

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