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Superman        With the excitement good and bad of the new Superman: Man of Steel movie released on the June, 14th, 2013 I feel compelled to write a bit about Superman: comics and movies. As a kid I watched the Christopher Reeves Superman movies and I my first comic had Superman in it (see My first comic), I even had a giant sized Superman comic that had a fold out poster of Krypton that was tacked to my wall for most of my youth. As a young kid he was cool, but in a way I think kids have a tendency to notice. Superman is colorful: Kids notice bright colors, He was mostly blue: usually a young boys favorite color, He is super strong and super fast, He can fly! plus he has bonus powers like heat/lazer/fire vision and freeze things with a single breath. He always defeats the bad guy and has basically one weakness. This is an ideal super hero, un-defeat-able. However he wasn't my favorite, but he was the one I was familiar with first and I liked ...

Collecting Comics, Popular, Independent and Other      I visited D & B Comics many times over the Summer and purchased a lot of comics. I would often rummage through the boxes looking for random and interesting titles. I ran into a comic that really intrigued me for sometime, but it became more difficult to find. The name of the comic was Critters . This particular issue included a LP with a song written by Alan Moore named Sinister Ducks and on the reverse side had a song by Teddy Payne and the Bluebears Growing up with 80's cartoons I was used to anamorphic characters and themes. Critters was packed with them and this was the particular appeal. The created the comic in a effort to appeal to the growing fans of Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Two stories stand out as being the most fun for me to read. The first was Birthright.  Birthright was created by Steve Gallachi and featured a dystopian world which at first g...

A Bit More About Silver Surfer          I continued to read Silver Surfer well after Infinity Gauntlet. Two issues stand out as my favorite. One occurred during Infinity Gauntlet, Silver Surfer and Thanos fight against each other in a seperate realm where the are outfitted like knights with swords and horses. Not only is it drawn well but the battle between the two is quite epic!             The next Silver Surfer comic that I liked a lot was of Silver Surfer fighting himself! Some where along the line Silver Surfer finds himself in the underworld along with Captain Marvel. There he and Captain Marvel fight dead warriors that claim to be people he killed once leading Galactus to their planets. As they fight they see a tent of the commander of the dead legion and Silver Surfer and Captain Marvel fight their way to it. Upon entering Silver Surfer discovers the shadow version of him...