Tag: Amazing Spider-man

Cover Story: Best Comic Book Covers of June 2014

New Avengers Annual #1 (Marvel) - Artist: Marco Rudy

Each month, hundreds of comics are released to stores for the hungry masses of fans around the world. To stand out on the shelves, you have to put the great art up front. You can judge a book by its cover. Welcome back to our continuing monthly column. At least it would be if we hadn’t missed it …

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Highlights from Marvel December 2013 solicitations

Marvel Knights: Hulk

It’s almost Christmas in the comic book ordering world, so Marvel has released their December 2013 solicitations for our collective paws to (non-opposable) thumb through.  It’s all about Inhumanity in the lead-up to Crimbo, along with origins, endings, annuals and returns. DC has already fired the opening salvo for December: what does the House of Ideas …

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Election Day: comic book heroes vote too

DC Universe Decisions - Green Arrow

The Australian Federal Election is being held this weekend across this big, brown land that we here at Behind the Panels call home. While most of the DC and Marvel characters will be ineligible to vote – a combination of their (mostly) US citizenship and fictional status as far as the electoral role is concerned …

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