savagecritic.com - 6/29/2009
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DETECTIVE COMICS #854: As I was at the comics store this past Wednesday, a gentleman going through his very full pull-box announced that he wanted them to stop reserving Detective and Batman for him, because he "didn't think it was right that Renee Montoya was the Question now," and was going to ...
randomlongbox.blogspot.com - 6/27/2009
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randomlongbox.blogspot.com —
One man's trek through his 46 longboxes continues.
Completely at random, and with no game plan, I
have happened upon Cerebus. This will be the first issue of Cerebus I have ever read. I question the wisdom of starting on issue #241, but I do as the random number generator tells me.
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Comic Book Review: Cerebus #241
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