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    We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This – This Week’s Links

    BY Clark Burscough Jul 16, 2021

    While there are a hundred canoes you can take to the isle of knowledge, wouldn’t it be preferable to take the canoe featuring all the comics news, reviews and points-of-view that has burst forth in the last seven days? Of course it would: and Clark is beckoning to you. Take his hand, friend! Continue reading →

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    The Light That You Shine Can Be Seen – Part 3

    BY Tegan O'Neil Jul 15, 2021

    In the conclusion of Tegan’s look back at Knightfall, she makes her way to the other lodestone creator of 90s Batman iconography: filmmaker Joel Schumaker, whose colorful versions of Gotham City’s most popular inhabitants couldn’t be further from where Bruce Wayne now resides. Or could they? Continue reading →

    How Ayn Rand Influenced Comic Books

    BY Conor Spielberg Jul 14, 2021

    Echoes of the infamous author in the superhero comic book behemoths of the 1980s – satirized in Watchmen, and domesticated in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. Continue reading →

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