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Comics!\" height=\"100\" alt=\"kidscomics\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/kidscomics.jpg\" width=\"150\" \/> <\/div>\n<p>I usually put the comics I am most looking forward to reading at the bottom of my stack, &#8220;saving the best for last.&#8221; But what to do when there&#8217;s a ton of comics, all of them I&#8217;m eagerly waiting to read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Both <em>Mighty <\/em>and <em>New Avengers<\/em>, by Bendis.<\/li>\n<li> <em>X-Factor <\/em>by Peter David.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Gravel <\/em>by Ellis.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Powers <\/em>by Bendis.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Echo <\/em>by Terry Moore.<\/li>\n<li> <em>The Sword <\/em>by the Luna Brothers.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Final Crisis: Legion of Three Worlds <\/em>by Johns and Perez.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Castle Waiting <\/em>by Medley.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Fables <\/em>by Willingham.<\/li>\n<li> <em>PvP <\/em>by Kurtz.<\/li>\n<li> <em>PS238 <\/em>by Williams.<\/li>\n<li> <em>Usagi Yojimbo <\/em>by Sakai.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Granted, it&#8217;s two weeks worth, but it is an embarrassment of riches.)<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not even counting the other &#8220;also-rans&#8221; in the pull stack that I want to read, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I usually put the comics I am most looking forward to reading at the bottom of my stack, &#8220;saving the best for last.&#8221; But what to do when there&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":135319,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/08\/brian-bendis-moves-marvel-dc.html","url_meta":{"origin":12801,"position":0},"title":"Brian Bendis moves from Marvel to DC","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Nov-17 9:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"Which means absolutely nothing to people who don't read comics, but is akin to Jack Kirby's famous move from Marvel to DC back in the early 70s (where he promptly created the New Gods and a host of of other zaniness). 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