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The one with Emilo in a dress?

Advantages: More Clerks goodness
Disadvantages: Only two new stories

Published in 2001 came the Clerks comic book. Based off the cult movie of the same name it collects the three issues released in trade paperback form. ---What's Clerks about then? --- If you haven't heard of the movie, I don't blame you; it's one of those that have grown through word of mouth and a rabid fanatic fan base. The story is pretty simple, it's the story of two young men who are stuck in dead end jobs, which pay poorly and have long and ...
...The Lost Scene Before the Clerks X DVD came out with this scene animated all we had was the comic book to bring to life the 'lost scene' that Kevin Smith had written to feature in the originally Clerks movie, but he ran out of money to film it. Here we see the bit where Dante and Randal going to the funeral (in the film it shows them driving there, then a '10 minutes later' tag appears on screen with some people chasing them out the funeral parlour). ...

thebluehippo 14.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Clerks - Kevin Smith

Finally... I can have PVP on my bookshelf

Advantages: Funny, cute stories
Disadvantages: None

---Intro--- For those of you who are unfamiliar with PVP (Player vs. Player). It all started when PVP creator Scott Kurtz began playing online games. Communities where growing round these games with websites and message boards, soon he was meeting these people in real life. It wasn't too long before people asked him to draw cartoons of the stuff they got up to online, the cartoons where passed around the Internet. He made his first website in 1997 ...
...to have his cartoons appear on their website. PVP came on the web in 1998 and grew from that day from a couple hundred readers, to hundreds of thousands where it is still coming out daily to this day. Image offered him a deal to publish his comic and here we are - now released in 2004 we have a compilation of the first six comics released by Image. ---Setting--- The setting of PVP is in an office of a gaming magazine; we see the characters in ...

thebluehippo 09.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of PVP: PVP at Large V. 1 - Scott Kurtz

Slides Right Into Home!

Advantages: well chosen text, clean drawings, enagaging storyline with meaning
Disadvantages: impatient child awaiting the sequels

...girls. This title is called Ninja Baseball Kyuma. I have to admit that though I myself am a huge manga fan, the title gave me a bit of a pause. Ninjas..okay...but baseball? Baseball is slowly becoming popular amongst youths here, but let's face it, it is not that common in Britain, so I was a bit unsure on whether my nonsporty son would even be interested. He however insisted that Charlie Brown and the gang play baseball so he knows about baseball ...
...in order to master the ninja arts. The day comes for him to seek his master, whereupon he encounters a boy who looking for new players for a baseball team. Not comprehending modern life nor knowing anything about what baseball is, Kyuma mistakenly believes that the boy is asking him to come train in some new ninja art and defend his clan. The storyline then follows Kyuma and the other players as Kyuma struggles to adapt to modern life, make friends, ...

Shroud 11.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ninja Baseball Kyuma Vol.1 - Shunshin Maeda

The history of Wolverine

Advantages: Some great moments
Disadvantages: Nothing special, confusing artwork

...Having seen the recent film Wolverine: Origins, I was wondering whether it would be the same, but it's completely different. It harkens back to when Wolverine was a child named James, a sheltered son of a wealthy family, and it develops his life as an outcast following deaths, as he flees with Rose, who is also blamed for the deaths. The story develops somewhat, as Wolvie grows a bit older, and it is the tale that is quite enticing here, how he ...
...Canada, frced to fend for himself, and how the development of his name Logan, and nickname Wolverine came about. The story also develops his relationship with wolves and how he came to use his claws, which protrude from his knuckles whenever he finds himself needing an extra defence. I found the story to be a bit hard to get hold of to start with. Written by Bill Jemas, it is well developed, but confusing to start with. The artwork doesn't help, ...

pmcds 31.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Wolverine: The Origin - Bill Jemas, Andy Kubert, Paul Jenkins

The mutant school staff have to deal with a bit of evolution in t

Advantages: Brave storytelling that works
Disadvantages: Artwork hard to get used to

...relationships among the group to new levels. It is perhaps the unfamiliar here that took me a while to get used to. The plot is quite a good one, that sees familiar territory with a couple of X-Men out on a mission (Wolverine and Cyclops) to rescue a mutant, who come across a force almost too powerful to contain. The Sentinels (machines created to destroy mutants) rear their heads, but it is the control of Xavier lookalike Cassandra Nova who poses ...
...the freindly neighbourhood webslinger, the new millenium saw a bit of a drop in quality, until someone (Morrison) decided to grab the mutants by the balls (pardon my French) and give them a bit of an uplift. The line 'The X-Men, like us, know loss' written in the margin of Morrison's notes at the end of the issue, say it all. We must take whatever has happened in previous issues and go with it. Evolve, and that is what this isue is all about. The ...

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Review of New X-Men: E Is for Extinction - Grant Morrison