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Spoilers: Review: Longshot Saves The Marvel U

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Happy Mid-Week Mini Christmas, Geeks and Geekettes! We're back with Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe #4!  Wait, a minute. Didn't I, like, JUST review this comic? Why, yessiree, I did! Longshot Saves The Marvel Universe #1 However, this being issue #4, is the end of the mini-series. And what a series it was! Magic! Chaos! Alternate realities! Mind-controlled heroes! Cameos galore! Longshot's abilities go haywire when he runs into cosmic entity, The In-Betweener, and a corrupt cosmic cube. He gets thrown into another reality where the Chaos and Order sides of  The In-Betweener are split and everything is wonky. Order is running SHIELD's magic-policing division and Chaos is trapped by his twin. Brother. Otherself. Guy. In order to restore reality, bring the two halves of the In-Between together, Longshot has to save the cosmic cube (in the form of a demon trapped in a teddy bear named Mr. Dapples) from the Order half while dodging the rampant des...

SPOILERS: Guardians of the Galaxy #5 review - Lyesmith

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SPOILERS. IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK, I'M ABOUT TO RUIN IT FOR YOU. Here we are. Issue #5 of Guardians of the Galaxy. I LOVE THIS FREAKING COMIC! That being said, I'm reading so much hate on this book lately, it's unreal. So let's clear some things up. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: With Bendis books, Marvel readies the ramp-up to next year’s film http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/comic-riffs/post/guardians-of-the-galaxy-with-bendis-books-marvel-readies-the-ramp-up-to-next-years-film/2013/06/21/796c4f7e-d894-11e2-9df4-895344c13c30_blog.html An interview with Bendis, talking about being on the committee for the movie, and bringing the comic back BECAUSE of the movie... http://marvel.com/news/story/19545/marvel_now_qa_guardians_of_the_galaxy Bendis and Marvel are using this title to tie the core story into the movie. This is a bridge series. They're changing the characters to more of the way they were (specifically Peter) in their origins. These aren't the chara...

$200 Million for The Avengers in THREE DAYS

200 MILLION DOLLAR WEEKEND According to Box Office Mojo, The Avengers made $200 million in its opening weekend. Wow. Just...wow.