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Comic Books and the Cool Kids who can't Read

 If you've been keeping up with any of my hubs or even if you just scrowl across a list of them you will see that I am probably one of the art fom's most open admirers during this Hub Challenge.  They have...

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The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a Catalyst for Change

 The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz has provided me with the much needed kick in the rear to recognize that my dorky comic book reviews, while enjoyable to write, may be less than I am...

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The Price of Comic Books Continues to Climb

 It is no secret to anyone who has been reading comic books for longer than a few years that the prices of this fine American Art form have been climbing gradually for seventy years relatively in tune with...

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Do Comic Books Make You Fat? Anorexia and Superheroes.

One of the better known representatives of the modern explosion of comic book popularity is the affable "comic book guy" in Fox television's "Simpsons." Snobbish to the extreme, a know it all similar to...

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Comic Book Shops - Fortresses of Plentiude

One of my favorite filmmakers and comic book writers of all time, Kevin Smith, once compared comic book shops to the Batcave, secretive affairs where the corners are lost in shadow, and those allowed inside...

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Who Watches the Watchemen? Well, Everyone!

If you were wondering when I was going to get around to writing about some of the best modern comic books of all time I would have to say that I have been putting it off on purpose because the best new comics...

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Path through the Windowpanes

 Long, long, ago, in a mall newsstand kiosk far, far away, I bought my first X-Men comic book: X-Men Annual #9, and knew, even at the tender age of eleven, that I had found something beyond special, more...

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Bright Christianity, a Biblical Survey with Science

Bright Christianity is the subject of this and many future hubpages to come, and I wanted to note that while I have been away from hubpages for a couple of months now, I believe with a topic as big as...

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Ravening Wolves in Matthew 7!

There is a great rock band called Flyleaf that write lyrics about Jesus, with one chorus repeating that he teaches “truth after truth after truth after truth.”  Matthew 7 is an excellent example of...

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The Legion of Three Worlds and the Latest Final Crisis

 It's been a while since I've sat down and knocked out a hub about comic books for a variety of reasons, none of them pertinent in what should ostensibly be an essay in hub form, but I'll tell you this,...

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