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Manga Marvels: Bakuman

Today, I begin with yet another of my personal new years resolutions. When last we left on Authentically Awesome Anime, Chris had given us a passionate recollection of his history with Death Note, the breakthrough hit series that jump-started the careers of writer and artist duo Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata. As of this point, [...]

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Comic Book Club: Planet Hulk

It seems like forever that we left off our Comic Book Club excursion into the current continuity of Marvel comics. When we last saw Cap and the gang, well Cap was dead, Iron Man was the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., Spider-Man had outted his secret identity to the public, and the X-Men were all around devastated. [...]

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Comic Book Club: A Review of Avatar the Promise Part 1

What a better way to jumpstart a new year than with a fresh new story to one of my favorite things in the entire world. With a brand new series rumored to begin by the year’s end, Dark Horse Comics provides us all a means to pad out that time with some good-natured Post War [...]

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The 2012 Too Much Awesome Resolutions

Today, we at Toy-TMA bid farewell to the fond memories of 2011 and look forward to a whole new year on the horizon. 2012, Year of Democratic elections, Disaster predictions, and the Dragon (gotta love the dragon). Will the year be dramatically dangerous, or disappointingly dismal? I don’t know. But in the mean time, it [...]

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Comic book Club: Usagi Yojimbo #141 (issue 200)

I’ve been meaning to talking about this comic book for quite some time, but I continually got sidetracked with one article or another, or just didn’t feel it was the right time yet. That was apparently before I started making media contacts, and one of my absolute favorite is Dark Horse Comics (just down the [...]

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Comic Book Club: Marvel Civil War Aftermath

At this point it seems that The Avengers movie can do no wrong. Fans are ravenous to get a taste of what’s in store for Marvel movies, even wishing beyond reason that somehow Spider-Man and the X-Men show up in some way. Last time I left off with my current Marvel continuity retrospective, the massive [...]

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Top 5 Most Wanted Plot Devices For Avatar The Last Airbender: The Promise Part 1

A few months ago, I gave my two cents on the release of Dark Horse Books collection of Avatar short comics, Avatar the Last Airbender: The Lost Adventures. The lowdown: while a fun collection of shorts with a unique variety of art styles, there was little to be had as far as real story content and [...]

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Comic Book Club: Marvel Civil War

So, where did we last leave off on our Marvel Retrospective, detailing the current continuity of Marvel’s Universe? Ah yes, all mutants were depowered, save for a select 198 that happened to include the X-Men. Things were getting crazy, but at the very least it seemed that the Marvel Universe was ready to let things [...]

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Comic Book Club: House of M

We all rested and ready for more of this Marvel Retrospective? We covered Avengers Disassembled a while ago, but when we last left off things were getting back to normal. The New Avengers were flying high and things seemed great, but there are a lot of dark times on the horizon. Everything changes today for [...]

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Comic Book Club: The New Avengers

When we last left off, the Avengers had just disbanded in Avengers Disassembled. It was a sad time with much tearful departures, but I’m not even near done running us through Marvel’s current continuity as far as I can take it. This is meant to help those who want a foothold into the massive continuity, [...]

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