Comic Book Noise

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Buck Wild!

Why Buck Wild? Why not? From Icon’s Wikipedia Entry: Rufus T. Wild/”Buck Wild, Mercenary Man” – First appeared in Icon #13 “It’s Always Christmas” (May 1994); Buck Wild possessed “belief defyin’ strength” and “tungsten hard skin”, but spoke as if he came from a blaxploitation film. He was a hero to the local folks, but [...]

I Hope The Ball Doesn’t Get Dropped…

…with the Milestone characters now that they are back from Publishing Limbo. Static has always been pretty popular, but the rest of the big four Milestone characters might just be shunted off to the side. Icon has been labelled as The Black Superman and this seeming redundancy causes him to get disregarded. (Even though Superboy, [...]

Quick Review of Milestone Forever 1

Simply put, this book was a joy to read. I had almost forgotten how much I liked these characters. This might not be a good jumping on point (Someone who is jumping on will have to make that determination), but for those who read the original stories, this is either the beginning of a good [...]

Geek Brunch 98 – Kung Fu Elephants

Podcast: Play in new window | Download Mike, Micah and Bill discuss tossing Pizza, fancy sodas, Strange Tales, Stumptown, Punisher The List, Icon, Milestone, Young Liars, Ninja Cowboy Viking, Haunt, Sweet Tooth, Titanium Rain, RASL, Growing Up with Comics, Streets of Gotham, Gotham City Sirens, Vengeance of the Moon Knight and much much more. TV [...]

Comic Book Noise 129: Where I Have Been, Where I Am And Where I Am Going

Podcast: Play in new window | Download I talk about where I have been, where I am now and where I am going. Oh and the name I couldn’t remember was Trenchcoat Mafia. Download Here

TOP BOP and ROW – November 9, 2007

TOP – Criminal #10 BOP – Vinyl Underground #2 ROW – Immortal Iron Fist #10 Top Of Pile (the comic that I am looking most forward to reading): Criminal #10 is the conclusion of the second story called Lawless. This was another great chapter and it is easy to see why it won Eisner Awards [...]

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