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Swamp Thing # 51 & 52 - Moore, Veitch & Alcalá
We have all known the horrors of civilization, the revolting nature of human culture: prejudice, injustice, discrimination. All these elements are as much part of our DNA as our capacity for language....
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Young Avengers # 14 - Gillen, McKelvie, Vieceli, Ward & Wu
When the effervescence of youth erupts there is only one suitable solution: Party like there is no tomorrow! And that’s exactly what the Young Avengers do after saving the universe. They throw the...
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Swamp Thing # 53 - Alan Moore & John Totleben
The delicate veil of civilization cannot resist the temptation of nature. As soon as the gardens explode, as the trees break their way into the structural fissures of the urban landscape, as Eden falls...
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Swamp Thing # 54, 55 & 56 - Moore, Veitch & Alcalá
I have written some stories and even a few have been published, and I often wonder if they’ll still be read in the future… or even remembered. As writers we face a challenge that defies the norms of...
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January Films / películas de enero
The year is just starting but I’ve already found plenty of good movies. Let’s start with the widely popular The Hobbit: the Desolation of Smaug (2013), it was so great to see Ian McKellen and Orlando...
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Continuum - Elizabeth López Avilés (Centro Cultural El Olivar)
Far from Heaven (2002) Directed byTodd Haynes Perhaps this is the most powerful Todd Haynes film I've seen. But in order to fully understand it one must first be privy to Douglas Sirk movies. Rather...
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Angel: Revelations - Aguirre-Sacasa & Pollina
“He's smart, tall, handsome, and rich; a star both on the field and in the classroom. All the girls want to date him, all the guys want to be him”, his name is Warren Worthington III, heir of one of...
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Young Avengers # 15 - Gillen, McKelvie & more
Quite often we assume a cynical posture towards contemporary comic books. We criticize decompression, reiterative exploitation of a certain brand or group of characters, predictability, publicity...
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Agatha Ruiz de la Prada - MAC (Barranco)
Get Real (1998) Directed by Simon Shore "Be realistic, demand the impossible". Why not? Sometimes being realistic means, indeed, to have no creative freedom and above all no real desire to escape...
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January comic books / cómics de enero
This is a strange month for me. I’m sad because I read the final issue of Young Avengers, the most fantastic series I’ve been able to find in recent years. And at the same time I’m happy, thrilled...
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Detective Comics # 27 (2014)
In 1939, perhaps inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci’s drawings of batwings or by the detectivesque tradition of pulp heroes, writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane created a unique adventurer: Batman, a...
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Legion Lost # 1, 2, 3 & 4 - Abnett, Lanning & Coipel
Olivier CoipelDeep in our hurts, rests a primitive fear, an instinctive aversion of losing our way. We can get lost in the wilderness or we can lose our mind, any sense of loss is equally frightening...
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Legion Lost # 5, 6, 7 & 8 - Abnett, Lanning & Coipel
Olivier CoipelIf superheroes are an example of physical prowess, of muscular superiority, clearly it’s the role of the supervillains to represent intelligence, science and knowledge. It’s no...
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Legion Lost # 9, 10, 11 & 12 - Abnett, Lanning & Coipel
A superhuman, by definition, is different from us. And interaction in a superhuman community presents fascinating differences and challenges. For years, Saturn Girl and her people had been feared and...
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February Films / películas de febrero
In February I went to the movies a lot, and I’m glad I did because I saw plenty of good stuff! Let’s start with Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Leonardo DiCaprio is Jordan Belfort, an...
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Legion Worlds # 1-6 - Abnett, Lanning, Cassaday et al
John CassadayEarth is not the center of the universe. And Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning never forget this. There are, indeed, many other planets out there. After the catastrophic events that led to...
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February Comic Books / Cómics de febrero
What a fantastic month for comic books! I loved the Bojeffries Saga GN, I had been wanting to read it for years and now that I did, I must say it lived up to my expectations and in fact surpassed them....
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Gabinete de dibujos - Galería Pepe Cobo
Click to enlargeYears ago, Marvel Comics announced that they had bought the publication rights of Marvelman, perhaps the most iconic superhero of the United Kingdom. The value of the character,...
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The Bojeffries Saga - Alan Moore & Steve Parkhouse
Not too long ago, I used to stay up late watching reruns of old, black and white TV shows. My favorites, of course, were “The Munsters” and “The Addams Family”. There was something especially endearing...
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Green Lantern / Superman: Legend of the Green Flame - Neil Gaiman
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the 80s were, in fact, DC Comics golden age. Before the “English invasion”, DC had been suffering the afflictions of stagnation and lack of creativity. And then, all...
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