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Young Avengers # 4 - Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
“We didn’t make love. He was a man”. Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr) is no ordinary lad. He has the intelligence, the technology, the training and the temper to conquer Earth if he wanted to. That was clear in...
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Héroes - Marcos Palacios (Juan Parra del Riego)
catálogo de la muestraHace tres años, en una de las animadas inauguraciones de la galería Yvonne Sanguineti, mi amiga Paola Tejada me presentó a Marcos Palacios. Yo entonces era una figura nueva en la...
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Jupiter’s Legacy # 1 - Mark Millar & Frank Quitely
1929. The Wall Street Crash. The richest men of the US lose their fortunes in a day. The working class loses absolutely everything. The country is in ruins. “America was the greatest idea in human...
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Fashion Beast # 9 - Moore, Johnston & Percio
Celestine, Le Patron, the unrivaled leader of the fashion industry is also a frail man... introverted, brooding, indecisive, intellectual but ineffectual in the practical aspects of life... It is...
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Witch Doctor Mal Practice # 6 - Brandon Seifert & Lukas Ketner
I knew we wouldn’t get the typical outcome in this, the final issue of Mal Practice. And I was right. Brandon Seifert keeps exploring the elements that make of Witch Doctor a unique character and an...
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June films / películas de junio
With fewer posts each month, and even fewer movies some of you might be slightly concerned. But I say thee: fear not, my dear followers, for I shall bring forth films a plenty next we meet. Meanwhile,...
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A.D.D. Adolescent Demo Division - Douglas Rushkoff & Goran Sudžuka
The Adolescent Demo Division is what every teenager dreams about: no responsibilities, no commitments, 24/7 online gaming and free stuff, courtesy of America’s biggest corporation. The A.D.D. is a...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 7 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Shinji, Asuka & ReiI’ve been there. I know how it feels to quit. Perhaps we all do, perhaps we’ve all been quitters at one time or another –in school, in our jobs, with our loved ones– so we can...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 8 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
Misato & KajiWhen I first saw Neon Genesis Evangelion, Shinji Ikari was 14 years old… and so was I. But unlike other fictitious characters Shinji would think, act and react like a real teenager, in...
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Skizz - Alan Moore & Jim Baikie
When I was around 11 or 12 I read a dozen of pages of Skizz. Back then my usual reading would consist on thrilling Judge Dredd, Strontium Dog and Robo-Hunter adventures, and it was clear to me, even at...
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June Comic Books / Cómics de junio
I’m glad to see that DC has included some of the best Alan Moore, Grant Morrison and Neil Gaiman works in the Essential Graphic Novels special, but there’s a lot of crap there too, although the good...
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Young Avengers # 5 - Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie
You must kill your father. At least symbolically. That’s what Freud tells us. And faithful to the quandaries of the Oedipus complex, Billy (Wiccan), Teddy (Hulkling), Noh-Varr (Marvel Boy), Kate Bishop...
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Después de que el mundo perdiera su forma - Alejandra Gálvez
I have read the Legion of Super-Heroes practically in its whole myriad of reincarnations. Carlos Pacheco, way back when he lived in Spain said that the Legion was somehow visceral: people either loved...
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Fashion Beast # 10 - Alan Moore & Facundo Percio
Does everything need to be answered? I guess that’s the writer’s prerogative. But when the final issue of a miniseries is released, the reader will be expecting some sort of conclusion, a neat little...
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Doom Patrol vol. 1 - Grant Morrison & Richard Case
Brian Bolland“The world needs the Doom Patrol, needs us more than ever. Don’t you see? There are areas in which only we are qualified to operate. When the rational world breaks down, we can cope,...
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Akira Chinen - Espacio y forma (Centro Cultural Ricardo Palma)
Not a mainstream DoryphorosAfter years of collecting I've become very careful with how I keep my comics. I have a special set of shelves with a capacity of roughly 2000 comic books. When I had the...
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Semana del pisco
my drawing: from pencils to inks / mi dibujo: del lápiz a la tintaSometimes people have a hard time understanding why I didn't read 90s comics. It is natural for them to be 90s fanboys, and although we...
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Omega the Unknown - Gerber, Skrenes & Mooney
# 1: Ed Hannigan, # 2: Rich Buckler, # 3: Gil Kane,# 4: Ed Hannigan, # 5: Gil Kane & # 6: John RomitaI have often wondered what did comic book authors think of superheroes back in the day, when...
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July films / películas de julio
And just like I promised last month, I’ve seen more movies in July than ever before (granted, I’m exaggerating a bit, but still…). Let’s start with The Wolverine (2013), I’m a fan of the mutant of the...
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Vol. 9 - Yoshiyuki Sadamoto
The Fifth Child / el quinto niño“Whenever it counts the most… all I can do is watch, unable to help”. Or do what I want, I might add. As teenagers we struggle with ourselves, we try to pursue our...
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