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PREVIEW: “Jim Henson’s Tale Of Sand”

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Preview: “Darkwing Duck” #18 — Like A Fenton From The Ashes!

Preview: “Daredevil” #6

Preview: Betrayal Of The Planet Of The Apes #1

Attack Of The ComicMix Columnists!

• MARTHA THOMASES: George Lucas, Black History, and African-American Comics
  In the hopes of beating the Black History Month rush, I went to see Red Tails last weekend. George Lucas had been making the interview rounds and he discussed how difficult ...

• Dennis O’Neil – Sick, Sick, Sick
  Our pal Denny O'Neil usually occupies this space at this date and time. Sadly, he's under the weather, which sucks because the weather was 60 degrees and mostly sunny in ...

• MIKE GOLD: Stupid Logo Tricks
  Sometime around 1987, DC Comics’ then-publisher Jenette Kahn told DC’s next publisher Paul Levitz that it was time to change the DC logo. Paul protested and pulled me in – ...

• MICHAEL DAVIS Is Bringing Sexy Back
  I am far from being a prude. In fact, I’m so far away from being a prude the next level in my open mindedness would be to become a prude. I’ve met ...

• MINDY NEWELL: “Superman? He Must Be Jewish!”
  “I am a stranger in a strange land.” As Superman zooms down into the torrent of Niagara Falls to save that dumb kid who is falling into the torrential waters of ...

• JOHN OSTRANDER: Ch-ch-choices
  “To be or not to be, that is the question.” So goes one of the most quoted lines in Shakespeare, probably in all of literature. It’s so well known that ...

• MARC ALAN FISHMAN: Trades vs. Monthlies – An Unpopular Stance
  It seems when I write pieces here on ComicMix that are good-natured and optimistic, no one cares. When I get hot and bothered (and make sweeping declarations that demand debate), ...

Reviews

• Primeval Volume Three, by Robert Greenberger
  Thank goodness the wicked Helen did not bring about the end of mankind and civilization as we knew it. This ...

• Busting, by Robert Greenberger
  Back in the early days of cable, movies were rerun endlessly so if you liked one, you could burn their ...

• To Kill a Mockingbird, by Robert Greenberger
  Few 20th century novels have been as warmly regarded as Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Currently a perennial work ...

• Transformers: Dark of the Moon, by Robert Greenberger
  There is absolutely nowhere near enough story to sustain the 2:30 running time of Transformers: Dark of the Moon. This ...

• Star Trek: The Next Generation – The Next Level, by Robert Greenberger
  Star Trek: The Next Generation had to do a lot to convince fans of Gene Roddenberry’s trendsetting original series that ...

• Pandemonium, by Robert Greenberger
  Pandemonium Written by Chris Wooding, Art by Cassandra Diaz Scholastic Graphix, 160 pages, 12.99 (softcover)/$22.99 (hardcover) Chris Wooding is a successful young adult ...

• Real Steel, by Robert Greenberger
  Real Steel is an interesting blend of the underdog sports movie and science fiction, and from the first frame, you ...

• REVIEW: “Dark Victory” (Lady Lazurus #2), by Alexandra Honigsberg
  What began as intimate, largely internal, spiritual conflict in Michele Lang’s historical urban romantic dark fantasy series with Lady Lazarus ...

• REVIEW: Kamala Sankaram’s “Miranda”, by Alexandra Honigsberg
  What do you get when you take a dystopian who-done-it, three suspects, a composer-soprano-instrumentalist-victim, set it to music that is ...

• MIKE GOLD: The Batman Family Feud, by Mike Gold
  I’m enjoying the back-and-forth between my fellow columnists Marc Alan Fishman and Michael Davis regarding DC’s New 52, but now it has ...