{"id":23153,"date":"2011-10-23T15:35:13","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T21:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=23153"},"modified":"2011-10-23T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T21:37:24","slug":"dave-does-the-comics-issue-15-23-oct-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/10\/23\/dave-does-the-comics-issue-15-23-oct-2011.html","title":{"rendered":"***Dave Does the Comics – Issue 15 (23 Oct 2011)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Big, big week in terms of number of comics, and short, short week in terms of my time being able to read them. \u00a0But I managed to plow through, in service of you, my several listeners. \u00a0Some great stuff, and not so great stuff, including a passel of Issue 2s from DC, the end of both “Fear Itself” and “Uncanny X-Men” from Marvel.<\/p>\n

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Uncanny X-Men #544 - Best Cover of the Week, nicely summing up the action and emotions inside.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Birds of Prey #2 - Best Book I Read This Week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


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Possessions, Book 2 - Best All-Ages Book I Read This Week<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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Avengers Prime - Best TPB I Read This Week<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n


By the way, I misspoke in the podcast — Avengers Prime<\/i> was a follow-up series to the “Seige” arc in the Marvel Universe, which followed up the “Dark Reign” arc that I cited. These cross-over events get a bit tiring to keep straight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Big, big week in terms of number of comics, and short, short week in terms of my time being able to read them. \u00a0But I managed to plow through, in service of you, my several listeners. \u00a0Some great stuff, and not so great stuff, including a passel of Issue 2s from DC, the end of … Continue reading “***Dave Does the Comics – Issue 15 (23 Oct 2011)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[104,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dave-does-the-comics","category-podcasts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/avengers-prime.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28318,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/17\/dave-does-the-comics-issue-39-17-june-2012.html","url_meta":{"origin":23153,"position":0},"title":"***Dave Does the Comics – Issue 39 (17 June 2012)","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 17-Jun-12 5:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Wow. 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