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What, who, where am I?!?
Craig Lotter is a web developer based in Gordon's Bay, South Africa, who seems completely incapable of shaking off that pesky inner child within, the one that forces him to love all things animated or hand drawn.
The Rugged Rock of Craig contains snippets of his life, popular culture and all the important things like anime, manga, games and comic books. The CodeUnit of Craig on the other hand contains the more serious stuff like code snippets and tutorials, while the House of C chronicles his foray into the world of web comics.
For which it never seems he has enough time anyway.
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Category Archives: Comic Books
What is a .cbr or .cbz File?
You might have come across .cbr or .cbz files during one of your many adventures of trawling through the Internet. What are these mysterious files that Windows doesn’t seem to be able to identify? Simply put, they are what are … Continue reading
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Tagged archive, comic book, comic book archive, comic book viewer, images, manga viewer, rar, zip
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Covered: Power Girl #13 (Sami Basri)
New writer Judd Winick got handed the reins to Power Girl come volume 2 issue 13, where he immediately does his best to throw poor Karen Starr straight into the thick of things, in both her daily life as CEO of Starrware Industries and of course as Power Girl. Continue reading
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Tagged comic book, cover, dc comics, judd winick, karen starr, power girl, sami basri
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Covered: Cinderella: Fables are Forever #1 (Chrissie Zullo)
Following on from Cinderella: From Fabletown with Love, the same team of Chris Roberson and Shawn McManus are back in 2011, sending Cinderella off to a freezing Russia and pitting their bikini-clad spy against the sinister villain Silverslipper this time around in Cinderella: Fables are Forever. Continue reading
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Tagged chris roberson, chrissie zullo, cinderella, comic book, cover, fables are forever, shawn mcmanus, snow, spy, vertigo
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Covered: Beautiful Killer #1 (Adam Hughes)
In 2002 writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Phil Noto unleashed the three part Beautiful Killer story upon the unsuspecting public, via Wizard’s short-lived comics foray, Black Bull Comics. It tells the story of one Brigit Cole, the albino daughter of two renowned, world class top secret agents, who both withdrew from public life to rear Brigit in complete isolation on a secluded island.
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Tagged adam hughes, beautiful killer, black bull comics, brigit cole, comic book, cover, jimmy palmiotti, phil noto
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Covered: The Books of Magic #25 (Chris Bachalo)
Chris Bachalo remains one of my favourite artists, thanks to his hauntingly beautiful and shadowed work, all of which is wonderfully brooding and stylized, but not so much that it becomes too distorted and unrecognisable. Continue reading
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Tagged chris bachalo, comic book, cover, death, the books of magic, timothy hunter, vertigo
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Covered: Birds of Prey #8 (Stanley Lau)
2010 saw DC revive its Birds of Prey line under the “Brightest Day” banner, still revolving around Oracle (Barbara Gordon) and her team of superheroines, and penned once again by the returning Gail Simone.
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Tagged artgerm, birds of prey, black canary, dc, gail simone, hawk & dove, huntress, lady blackhawk, oracle, stanley lau
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My Opinion Download… All-Star Superman
More of a thinking man’s movie than a kid’s knuckle buster superhero yarn, it tells the tale of a Superman whose cells have been over saturated with the sun’s energy, increasing his powers and intellect tenfold but at the same time poisoning him and radically shortening his lifespan. Continue reading
Posted in Comic Books, Movies, My Quick Reviews
Tagged all-star superman, clark kent, dc comics, lex luthor, lois lane, review, sam liu, solar poisoning, sun, superhero, superman
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Covered: Tales of the Witchblade #8 (Christian Zanier)
Issue 8 of the 1996 Tales of the Witchblade series, which sought to free the storytellers to tell the tales of the Witchblade gauntlet throughout the ages in different settings and with different wielders, tells the second part of the “Raquel” story arc, written by Bill O’Neil and Michael Turner. Continue reading
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Tagged bill o'neill, christian zanier, comic book, michael turner, raquel, tales of the witchblade, witchblade
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