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Top 5 list: Best Shredder quotes edition

Oroku Saki. Villain. Genius. Comedic mastermind? The 1987 animated version of the Shredder was crucial to the mood, tone and popularity of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Whether it was James Avery’s classic quick delivery or the timing of a … Continue reading

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Strip Talk #04: ’80s and ’90s themes are the soundtrack of my life

I don’t throw the title “child of the ’80s” around often. The definition is someone, like myself, that was born between the years 1975 to 1986 that remembers the pop culture of the era because they lived through it. Myself? … Continue reading

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Top 5 list: Best mutant powers edition

Superman Invisible force field aura As the Man of Steel can attest, his force field is just that: a coating of steel. It takes a lot to harm the blue-and-red savior of Metropolis and mostly what can hurt him is … Continue reading

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Marvel character highlight #03: Sentinel

NAME: Sentinel AFFILIATION: Sentinel program SPECIAL ABILITIES: Mutant tracking BACKGROUND:  Scientist Boliviar Trask, as a way to stop the perceived mutant threat to humanity, created the original Sentinels. Trask received government-funds to research his work into eliminating mutants and this … Continue reading

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Marvel character highlight #01: Cyclops

NAME: Scott Summers AFFILIATION: X-Men BACKGROUND: As a child, Scott Summers and his brother Alex were involved in a plane crash after their plane was attacked by the Shi’ar Empire. Their mother, Katherine, pushed the boys out of the plane … Continue reading

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Comic property review: ‘X-Men’

X-Men Twentieth Century Fox, 2000 Mutant peaceseekers find success in first of trilogy If you get around some of the changes to the silver screen adaptation of Jack Kirby and Stan Lee’s merry band of mutants, you’re bound to find … Continue reading

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