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Top 5 on the Strip: Comic book squads edition

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The green crew with attitude shows up on a variety of our favorite lists. We grew up in an era where the Turtles ruled everything for a good solid three years, culminating with the second live-action … Continue reading

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Marvel character highlight #27: MODOK

Name: M.O.D.O.K. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing) Alias: George Tarleton (real name), Big Head, Chairman, Damocles Rivas, Gerlach, M.O.D.O.C. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Computing), M.O.D.O.F. (Mental Organism Designed Only for Fun), Mister Potato Head, Moddy, the Saint, Scientist … Continue reading

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Anime Lounge #19: Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Propose Hen OVA

Series: Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi Propose Hen Episodes: 1 Premise: This is the OVA follow up to the goings on in boys’ love series Sekai-ichi Hatsukoi. In this short episode, one of the crew working at Marukawa Publishing is getting married and … Continue reading

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Property Review: Iron Man

The first coming of Tony Stark is one of the best MCU origin stories Iron Man Marvel Studios, 2008 The one that started them all. The metaphorical start of Robert Downey Jr.’s comic book-like redemption arc. The birthplace of the … Continue reading

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Top 5 on the Strip: Comic book games edition

1. Marvel vs. Capcom series If there were ever a polarizing yet fun fighting game, it’s probably Marvel vs. Capcom. The first few Versus games are fun yet broken, but you don’t know broken until you get to Marvel vs. … Continue reading

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Anime Lounge #18: Death Note Ep. 6 – 12

Series: Death Note Episodes: 6 to 12 Premise: A young man named Light Yagami is bored and incredibly gifted mentally. He’s looking for things to do outside of hacking the national police database and is preparing to go to law … Continue reading

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Anime Lounge #17: Junjou Romantica 2

Series: Junjou Romantica 2 Episodes: 1 to 12 Premise: Junjou Romantica is broken up into three storylines: Romantica, Egoist and Terrorist. Romantica is the story of main couple Misaki Takahashi and Akihiko Usami, who are brought together by Misaki’s older … Continue reading

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Top 5 on the Strip: Avengers Edition part 1

Steve Rogers/Captain America: If you ever needed a leader and wanted to make sure your every directive was followed, you employ Steve Rogers to get the job done. Rogers was the first Avenger and the last Avenger and the team’s … Continue reading

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Marvel character highlight #24: Iron Man

Name: Anthony Edward “Tony” Stark Alias: Iron Man, Golden Gladiator, Bullet-Head, Golden Avenger, Armored Avenger, Spare Parts Man, Crimson Dynamo, Tetsujin, Hogan Potts, Anthony of York, Randall Pierce, Cobalt Man, Man of Iron, Tin Man, “Irene,” Electro, T, Master of … Continue reading

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Property review: Black Panther

Black, powerful,beautiful Seeing your people represented on the silver screen when you are a person of color means quite a bit. Seeing them do important things and be decent human beings means quite a bit more. Seeing them as royalty … Continue reading

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