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From superheroes to newspaper strips, this group is for anyone who loves comics.

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Comment by Steph S. on May 7, 2013 at 9:47pm: Anyone see Iron Man 3? Any thoughts on the movie?

Comment by Amanda Hendrix on January 21, 2013 at 7:38pm: Has anyone else been reading the new Hawkeye series? Thoughts? I'm loving it.

Comment by Fred W. Hill on August 18, 2011 at 8:03pm: Hi, Steph, I've seen them all this summer, even the latest Transformers and the Green Hornet as well as Green Lantern, all of which were ok but didn't really impress me. Far more to my liking were the Marvel flicks: Thor; X-Men: First Class; and, last but certainly not least, Captain America, which I thought was the best of the lot. Hope the Avengers movie next year lives up to good expectations.

Comment by Steph S. on August 18, 2011 at 6:01pm: Anyone see any of the super hero movies that were out this summer?

Comment by mistercliff on June 29, 2011 at 8:13pm: Have you seen that Frank Miller is doing a superhero vs. Al Qaeda comic? Check it out here

Comment by Eddie on February 4, 2011 at 10:56pm: Kind of stoked about the Green Lantern movie.... Reynolds better not mess this up!!!!!

Comment by Fred W. Hill on November 7, 2010 at 7:06pm: During the first decade of Marvel Comics, the version of the Norse & Greek/Roman gods could be regarded more as beings from some sort of parallel universe, akin to Dormammu and the other dimensional characters Dr. Strange routinely encountered, who had close connections with Earth and were regarded as gods due to their vast powers. Perhaps even Mephisto, introduced in 1968, could be regarded as such a creature rather than the Judeo-Christian devil. Then, in the early '70s, came the Ghost Rider and the Son of Satan, both explicitly connected to the devil. Meanwhile, DC from early on in the '40s had the Spectre, created by God (as channeled through Siegel & Schuster), and then Alan Moore & Neil Gaiman introducing more demons and angels in their stories.
Ultimately, though, whether presented as super-heroes or villains, gods, demons or whatever, it's all make-believe conjured up for entertainment. Few if anyone believes in the old gods anymore, but many of them live on in the comics, just as the purportedly mortal heroes and villains will nevertheless routinely cheat death and live forever as long as they have an audience to cheer or hate them.
Maybe the closest you'll get to a comics universes without gods or their equivalents may be such fare as the Archies or Love & Rockets.

Comment by G. Silva on August 19, 2010 at 3:27pm: My new comic book, Zephyr & Reginald: Minions For Hire #3: GIANT SPIDER!! just got back from the printer. We're debuting it at 5Pi-Con in Enfield, CT this weekend. If anyone can come, drop by our table in the dealer room and say hi.