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llyzabeth

aka Elizabeth Wallace. Full-time graphic designer, part-time book reviewer and violinist. Slightly weird, usually nice, occasionally grumpy, always preoccupied.
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Comic Issues #238 – Batgirling and Zombies

It’s Science Week on Comic Issues! (Not really, we’re hardly scientists, we just thought it sounded cool.) Tune in for DC’s economic woes, superhero syphoning, brain sporks, go-bags, and touchless toilet technology. We’re breaking down the news (such as it is) of DC’s two million dollar shortfall, Marvel’s cosplay covers, Superman’s timeline, Battleworld’s zombies, She-Hulk’s

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Review – More Than Meets the Eye #44

Navicomp safety mode activated. Please select a reason for deviating from your flight path. Is it (a) accident, (b) necessity, or (c) a gnawing, crippling sense of guilt? Click the jump for a review of IDW’s More Than Meets The Eye #44!

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Secret Wars extended to 9th issue!

It’s the story that has the whole world on the edge of its seat. The biggest Marvel event of all time. The story that destroyed the Marvel Universe. And if you thought it couldn’t get bigger – you thought wrong. Today Marvel announced the expansion of the blockbuster Secret Wars event with SECRET WARS #9 –

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Nerd Con 2015 – Photo and Video Gallery

I think it’s safe to say the attendance at this weekend’s first ever Nerd Con surprised everyone. The line to pick up tickets stretched all the way around the California Center for the Arts Escondido, the sales floor was massively packed, and the cosplayers were out in force. Despite the heat, the mood was upbeat and

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Review – Transformers Windblade #6

Beast War! On Eukaris, the colonists are more than just robots in disguise—they’re a new breeds of Transformers. But while Windblade and Starscream struggle to gain allies on a new world, an ancient power seeks to force them off the planet. Beast Wars fans rejoice, as the lost Titan Colony of Eukaris finally meets the

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Review – The Only Words That Are Worth Remembering

It’s human nature to want to know what’s the point of something. What does it mean, where’s it going, why does it exist? This happens a lot when reading books; you try to figure out where the plot’s taking you, what’s the message in the end. Sometimes that’ll just frustrate you. Certainly it did for

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Comic Issues #235 – Four Outta Battleworld

The biggest news this week is the underwhelming opening of Fantastic 4, but as the crew hasn’t seen it yet they just giggle for a bit about the Thing’s lack of pants, and kryptonite condoms, and then get to the stuff they actually liked; Siege #2, Age of Apocalypse #2, Giant Size Little Marvel AvX #3, and Groot #3. You can

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Review – Blood Sisters

A lot of people think the “Vampire Bubble” may have burst (Vampire Diaries seems to be gearing up for its final season, True Blood is already gone, Jonathan Rhys Meyers’ Dracula never got off the ground) and that zombies have taken their place in that part of geek culture that wants to be scared by

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