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The Walking Dead #70 (Image Comics)

Now that there has been some distance from Robert Kirkman’s then-controversial “everyone should go creator-owned” call to arms, I thank all that is Stan Lee that he did.  Walking Dead just seems to be the book Kirkman was born to write and arc after arc new twists keep the book fresh and heart felt.  If you don’t feel anything when Douglas and Rick have their introductory conversation in the middle of the book then you are dead inside.  In another desperate attempt to find normalcy, the group has again hunkered down in what seems like safety, and it will be very interesting to see how Kirkman draws the curtain back on this setup.

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Red Hulk #2

Man, it seems this Fall of the Hulks storyline was designed to simply retcon Jeff Loeb’s initial run on Hulk.  Retcons are not unusal, but after less than 2 years of books is just bizarre.  I give the various writers credit, trying to untangle this mess and give gravitas to a mystery that wasn’t all that interesting to begin with, this can be no easy task.  But the format of “remember this scene from a book you read 6 months ago, this is what REALLY happened” just feels like a double dip.  So far this thing has read like reference material.  Only the Ed McGuiness art saves the book from being completely useless.