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JUPITER’S LEGACY #1 by G-Man

Jupiter's Legacy #1

The much talked about, much-hyped team-up of Mark Millar & Frank Quitely hits with #1 of this latest title from Image.  Millar, Quitely AND Image – sounds like a winner before we open that issue but does the title deliver what we’d expect??

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COMICS ANONYMOUS AT D.I.C.E. 2012 by G-Man

We’re hurtling towards the end of 2012 but that doesn’t mean the Comics Anonymous gang can’t still make the last of their Comic Con’s for the year and so I made the trip to Dublin’s fair city to take in the Dublin International Comic Expo (D.I.C.E.) being run by the team behind The Big Bang comic shop.

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SUPERPATRIOT #1-4 (1993) by G-Man

20-years ago a group of 8 comic book creators brought their collective heads together and formed Image Comics.  Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Rob Liefield, Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino, Whilce Portacio & Chris Claremont brought a new approach to the corporate take on who owned the rights to the characters being created.  One of the earliest creations from those early days was Superpatriot – an Erik Larsen creation from the pages of Savage Dragon which spun-off into his own mini-series.

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LOBSTER JOHNSON : THE BURNING HAND #1 by G-Man

What could be better than Mike Mignola writing a 1930’s pulp tale?……got me…..I can’t think of anything better.  I’m a Mignola fan and I love old school characters like The Shadow, The Rocketeer and The Phantom – surely I was onto a winner?

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