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Darth Vader & Son Maquette With Book & Darth Vader’s Little Princess Maquette With Book.
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Not Mint In Box: 3A’s “Dark” Blind Cowboy in the service of him
Not Mint In Box: 3A’s “Dark” Blind Cowboy in the service of him
Lil Vampi Review
By Robert “Rob Base” Greenwood
For the better part of 20 years, my wife and I have enjoyed the adventures of Vampirella. Our collection is just shy a few early issues from Warren magazine.
Our collection continues till this very day. With all this in mind, I came into reading Lil Vampi with a huge open mind. All I can say is YES!
Lil Vampi is to Vampirella as Itty Bitty Hellboy is to Hellboy, sheer genius. The artwork is playful and, at the same time, solid. Never once does the art feel cheap or too “kiddish.” It doesn’t throw the aspect of it being a kid version in your face.
I know that sounds dumb, but it’s the best way to describe how well the artist, Agnes Garbowska, handles the book.
The writing fits with the art perfectly. The story reads like a noir/crime drama mixed with a young girl’s diary. Eric Trautmann and Brandon Jerwa take nothing away from Vampi and adds all her history into this one comic.
The subtle addition of Pantha makes for some amusement. Unlike how Vampi usually shared half a book with The Pantha, in this, Pantha is almost like her own inserted Bazooka Joe strip strung together at the bottom of each page.
Each funnier than the next.
If I can give any negative feedback on this book is it’s a one shot. This book needs to be monthly or a seasonal title. Fans will buy this book as well as non fans. The style and content of this comic will somewhat douse the flames of sexism that has always been attributed to Vampirella.
Overall, the comic is fun for everyone and you don’t need to be a Vampi fan to read it (it helps, though). If you love books based on My Little Pony, Adventure Time, and cartoon greats like the Powerpuff Girls, then you must add Lil Vampi to your collection.
I give this comic 5/5. Buy it now and share the Vampirella goodness with your family.
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NY Rediscovered: January 6th 2014
An oncoming storm
5:40 am, 6th avenue looking south toward 51st street.
NY Rediscovered: January 2 2014
Minutes before the first snowstorm of 2014.
Pop Culture Bigotry
By Robert “Rob Base” Greenwood
Look into the mirror, what do you see?
Are you a fanboy, geek, nerd, otaku, weeaboo, a social outcast? Or are you just simply a fan?
Labels define who and what you are. I’m a New Yorker, a Brooklynite, a collector and a pop culture lover. Yet, if you ask me who I am I’ll just say I’m Rob.
Labels help the huddled masses understand things they never could. You’re a slacker, a loser, fat, ugly, or, simple enough, you will never be accepted as one of the chosen. The elite group, handsome, beautiful, sexy, or in their eyes, important.
So, when conventions come around and I see sub-factions of the pop culture fight amongst each other, it saddens me. It shouldn’t be a popularity contest. In the end, you are a fan of Star Wars and the other is a fan of Naruto. She cosplays as She Hulk and that guy there reads Yaoi. We love comics and you are a video game junkie.
It’s all in or all out. I don’t expect anyone to suddenly love things you normally wouldn’t, but just be cool about what other people like. We band together as a sub-culture and here we are judging others who are (if you strip down the facade) the same.
It becomes clear that no matter how “different” we think we are, the minute you mock another fan base, you are no different than the people who mock you.
In this new year of 2014, we need to try and start a movement. To truly accept each other and all of our differences. Let’s make it a stellar year for pop culture.
I hope that at least a few who read this can truly look into themselves and make that change. Let’s be the bigger person.
Ok, I am going to get off the soap box and watch my wife play GTA 5 while I read Mouse Guard to my 2 year old daughter.
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Happy New Years from Alternative Mindz and WhatchaReading
We do love our Pop Culture and we will continue to give you everything you love!
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2013: A Comic Book Comeback
By Robert “Rob Base” Greenwood
Most sites do a year-in review (or the best of), but this time, I want to talk about the feeling of nostalgia and the return of comic book royalty.
With the massive success of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon show,
it was only fitting that someone would make a comic based on it and IDW knocked this series out of the park; not only making a tie-in comic, but continued the stories of TMNT past history.
While, for the purist trading all the past works from Mirage and Archie comics, this is truly a come back in all its forms, making Turtle power and kicking bad guys back sides fun and entertaining once again.
Next brings me to something I didn’t expect to ever see done. Once again, IDW comics grabs a property by the neck and brings in a winner with the remastered issues of The Maxx. That’s right, IDW and Sam Kieth have brought The Maxx to a new generation of fans and all Sam did was punch up the color palette.
The remastered editions are not the “Star Wars” of the comic book world. All they have done is given the comic a prettier paint job and said this is what it is and we like that way!
I am so pleased with this series and I hope it finds and inspires a new audience.
IDW isn’t the only comic book company making good on history. Some do it by reinventing the way we look at comics.
Dynamite, for the better part of a few years, has taken pulp fiction icons and gave them a home to be heroes in.
But most recently, its crossover books are just amazing. With The Kings Watch leading the charge
and DC crossing paths with IDW on a Spirit/The Rocketeer,
the past worlds collide and tell some fun and action packed stories.
If 2014 can continue this trend, then we are in a wonderful time for modern comic books.
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