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Behind The Panels Issue 131 – Superman: Earth One Volume 3

Behind The Panels Issue 131 – Superman Earth One Volume 3

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 131, the comic book show that makes crime pay full retail, even if we bought it on sale. In this issue, Superman tempts children with his hot chocolate, and that’s not the only Sex Criminals on television. ALSO a brand new team-up series for DC, the Aurealis Award nominations and some …

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Behind The Panels Issue 130 – Spider-Verse

Behind The Panels Issue 130 – Spider-Verse

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 130, the comic book show that needs three more people to unite the seven. In this issue, X-Men: Age of Apocalypse gets its Nightcrawler, Jim Starlin’s Dredstar comes to TV and Dynamite focuses on female creators and characters. THEN it’s Silk, The Multiversity, Ei8ht, The Flash, Gotham and more in what …

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Behind The Panels Issue 129 – Watson and Holmes: A Study in Black (Live at Good Games Hurstville)

ehind The Panels Issue 129 – Watson and Holmes: A Study in Black

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 129, the comic book show that’s coming to you live from Good Games Hurstville. In this issue, Spider-Man joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Sony and Marvel have finally combined forces to break the Internet. THEN it’s Darth Vader, Empty, Divinity and The Walking Dead in What We’ve Been Reading and Watching. …

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Behind The Panels Issue 128 – Aquaman: The Trench

Behind The Panels Issue 128 – Aquaman: The Trench

Welcome to BEHIND THE PANELS Issue 128, the comic book show that is moist with anticipation. In this issue, DC announces it’s post-Convergence line-up with dozens of new titles. At last: we can buy books for Bat-Mite, Prez and Mystic U. THEN we go Postal, welcome the return of Saga, and watch the Black Vortex epic …

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Behind The Panels Issue 127 – Kingsman: The Secret Service

ehind The Panels Issue 127 – Kingsman: The Secret Service

Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 127, the comic book show that uses talcum powder under its tights to avoid unfortunate chafing. In this issue, David Tennant joins the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That sound you hear is the Internet breaking under the strain. ALSO we all sit around and watch The Thing without pants in …

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Behind The Panels Issue 126 – Awkwood

Behind the Panels Issue 126 – Awkwood

Welcome to Behind The Panels Issue 126, the comic book show that comes from a land down under, where women glow and men ponder…why the women are glowing. In this issue, Marvel announces they are ending all their universes. It seems like a pretty extreme way to get rid of Spider Island, but who are …

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Behind the Panels Issue 124 – Civil War

Behind the Panels Issue 124 – Civil War

Welcome back to Behind The Panels Issue 124, the comic book show that refuses to register and reveal our secret identities. In this issue, Channing Tatum is getting his own solo movie as Gambit. We can’t wait to see Jonah Hill as Wolverine. ALSO Scarlett Johannson is officially a Ghost in the Shell. We know she’s not …

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Behind the Panels Issue 123 – Panels Awards 2014

Behind The Panels Issue 123 – Panels Awards 2014

Live(ish) from the Panels Cave, deep in the heart of the hollowed-out mountain, it’s the 2014 Panels Awards! With your hosts Richard Gray, David McVay and David Longo. This is Behind the Panels. Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 123, the comic book show that’s giving out awards. In this issue, we pick our favourite books …

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Behind The Panels Issue 121 – Transmetropolitan: Back on the Street/Lust for Life

Behind The Panels Issue 121 – Transmetropolitan

Welcome to Behind the Panels, the comic book show that’s like washing down a bucket of peyote with a vat full of absinthe. In this issue, SyFy is preparing a new TV series following the adventures of Superman’s granddad. At last: that Kryptonian GILF porn parody finally has a place. ALSO DC bases a new series …

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Brenna Twohy shows that anxiety is a super power

Brenda Twohy - "In Which I Do Not Fear Harvey Dent"

Portland-based performance poet Brenna Twohy grabbed the world’s attention earlier this year with her pieces “Fantastic Breasts and Where to Find Them” and “Another Rape Poem“. With her latest piece, she captures the inner strength of a sufferer of mental illness with a piece for the preliminaries of the 2014 Individual World Poetry Slam entitled “In …

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Behind The Panels Issue 120 – Terra

Behind The Panels Issue 120 – Terra

Welcome to Behind the Panels Issue 120, the comic book show that’s one nerd short of a barbershop quartet. In this is issue, Oprah Winfrey may be leading the Suicide Squad. Look inside your skulls, because you get a bomb, you get a bomb and YOU get a bomb. ALSO Benedict Cumberbatch has been cast as …

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