{"id":28589,"date":"2012-07-15T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=28589"},"modified":"2012-07-15T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T21:00:14","slug":"dave-does-the-comics-issue-40-15-july-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/15\/dave-does-the-comics-issue-40-15-july-2012.html","title":{"rendered":"***Dave Does the Comics – Issue 40 (15 July 2012)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back after three weeks off (personal and business travel), with a huge backlog stack of comics already read (and many not yet read). Lots of good stuff (and not so good) to talk about, including some news from the San Diego Comic-Con.<\/p>\n

The podcast playback button is at the bottom of the post. The covers below are for the issues I gave an individual review of; hover over the covers below to see the ratings out of 5 stars (with an occasional added comment).<\/p>\n

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Friends with Boys Graphic Novel (Faith Erin Hicks) - Best All-Ages Book This Week<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Avenging Spider-Man #9 - Best Cover This Week<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Astonishing X-Men #51 - Least Favorite Comic This Week (though kind of a nice front\/back cover)<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Punisher #12 - Best Comic This Week<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n


Yeah, that was a lot of comics. And I didn’t even bother to review a lot of others I read, for purposes of time. Yeesh!<\/p>\n

See you next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back after three weeks off (personal and business travel), with a huge backlog stack of comics already read (and many not yet read). Lots of good stuff (and not so good) to talk about, including some news from the San Diego Comic-Con. The podcast playback button is at the bottom of the post. 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