Author Archives: mdigino
AvX Contest: Week 8 Scoring Update
The only book under the AvX banner this week is Remender and Guedes’s Secret Avengers 27. Yes, it looks like Mar-Vell has indeed been resurrected… but that’s only halfway to … Continue reading
Best Coast – The Only Place
Summer is right around the corner. And this May, Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno help kick off long lazy days full of sandy toes and winding roads with the release … Continue reading
AvX Contest: Week 7 Scoring Update
We’ve reached the end of Act I in Jason Aaron and JR Jr.’s Avengers vs. X-Men event. This week’s release of issue four means we’re one-third of the way through the … Continue reading
AvX Contest: Week 6 Scoring Update
Another relatively quiet week in the AvX world. Bendis’s The New Avengers 26 adds more to the Iron Fist-Phoenix connection, and presents an interesting dark horse MVP candidate in the … Continue reading
AvX Contest: Week 5 Scoring Update
No formal bouts to adjudicate this week (at least, none that we set up on the ballot; had Magik vs. Doctor Strange been an option, the X-Men would have had … Continue reading
Free Comic Book Day 2012: Top 5 Freebies
Who says nothing’s free these days? Comic book aficionados regard Wednesday as the most important day of the week, but since 2002, Free Comic Book Day has turned the first … Continue reading
AvX Contest: Week 4 Scoring Update
Four weeks in on Idle Time’s Avengers vs. X-Men contest, and we already have our fourth one-on-one duel to officiate. This week, thanks to the first issue of the AvX … Continue reading
Record Store Day 2012: Top 5 Exclusives
Tomorrow marks the first of my two favorite spring Saturdays. Since 2007, the third Saturday in April has celebrated independent record stores around the world with exclusive vinyl pressings, re-issues, … Continue reading
AvX Contest: Week 3 Scoring Update
This week gives us three books under the AvX banner: Wolverine and the X-Men 9, Avengers 25, and the second “round” of the main series, Avengers vs. X-Men 2. Check out those tie-in books, … Continue reading
