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Past Columns Past Columns by   Spencer Ellsworth • Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Promise Part One, Adventure Time Vol. 1 • Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, Transformers: Autocracy • The Hobbit: Illustrated By David Wenzel, Adapted By Chuck Dixon (Del Rey 1990), The Martian Chronicles • Saga (Image 2012), Before Watchmen (DC 2012) • Scalped (Vertigo, 2007), Anya's Ghost (First Second, 2011) • Dark Knight Rises • Summer Superhero Movies 2012 Edition! • A Game of Thrones: The Graphic Novel, Volume One (Bantam Books, 2012), Nextwave: Ultimate Edition (Marvel 2006) • The Amazing Spider-Girl: Whatever Happened To The Daughter of Spider-Man? (Marvel 2007) 100 Bullets: First Shot, Last Call (DC, 2000) • Keeping You Regular • Holy Terror (Legendary 2011), Onward Toward Our Noble Deaths (Drawn & Quarterly 2011, Originally printed in Japan 1973) • Habibi (Pantheon Books, 2011) • How The Shlub Retconned Christmas • Dark Rain: A New Orleans Story, American Born Chinese • A Life In Badly Colored Pictures of Gravity-Defying Boobs • Ex Machina (Wildstorm), Y: The Last Man (Vertigo) • Marvel Movies 2011 • The Docs: A Graphic Novel By The Naval Health Research Center; War Stories: Vols. 1-2 (Vertigo 2004) • REBOOTS! • Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy (Dark Horse) • Walter Simonson: Thor Legends 1-3 (Marvel) JLA/Avengers (DC & Marvel 2008), Gods of Asgard (Studio E3 2007) • Blackest Night, Blackest Night: Green Lantern (DC 2010), Peter David: Hulk Visionaries vol. 1-3 (Marvel 2010) • Spectacular Spider-Man Season One (2009) • Transformers: For All Mankind (IDW 2010), Spider-Man Noir (Marvel 2009), PC in My DC • The Ka-Pow Before Christmas • Superman/Batman v.2: Supergirl (DC 2004), Mouse Guard: Fall 1152 (Archaia 2007) • Thor Disassembled (Marvel 2006), The Sad State of Spider-Man • JLA Volume 1 (DC 2008), Avengers Assemble vol. 1 (Marvel 2010) • Conan: The Frost-Giant's Daughter and Other Stories (Dark Horse 2005), Joker (DC 2008) • Calamity Jack (Bloomsbury 2010), Star Wars: Legacy vols. 1-3: Broken, Shards, Claws of the Dragon (Dark Horse 2007-2008) • Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers (IDW 2010), RASL vols. 1&2: The Drift, The Fire of St. George (Cartoon Books 2009 & 2010) • Fantastic Four: World's Greatest, Master of Doom (Marvel) Arrowsmith: So Smart In Their Fine Uniforms (Wildstorm) • Transformers: All Hail Megatron vols. 1 & 2 • Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Commencement (Dark Horse 2006), P. Craig Russell - Isolation and Illusion: Collected Short Stories 1977-1997 (Dark Horse 2003) • The Incredibles: Family Matters, Graphic Novel Adaptations That Must Happen • Stephen King's The Dark Tower: Gunslinger Born and The Dark Tower: The Long Road Home (Marvel) • Deadpool Classic Vol. 2, X-Men: Messiah Complex, Fray, Wolverine & The X-Men: Heroes Return Trilogy, New X-Men Omnibus, Astonishing X-Men Omnibus • X-Men: Days of Future Past, Exiles: Down the Rabbit Hole, Wolverine: Origin, X-Factor: Life and Death Matters, Uncanny X-Men: Rise and Fall of the Shi'ar Empire, Ultimate X-Men: The Tomorrow People (Marvel) • The Escapists (Dark Horse, 2007), Fables: Legends in Exile (Vertigo, 2002) • Disney Buys Marvel, Oddly Normal Vol. 1 (Viper Comics), Stupid, Stupid Rat-Tails: The Adventures of Big Johnson Bone (Cartoon Books) • Civil War, The Amazing Spider-Man: Civil War, Peter Parker, Spider-Man: Civil War, Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man: Civil War (Marvel 2007) • Daredevil: Underboss, Out (Marvel 2003) • Wild Cards Volume One. Bantam Spectra (Out of Print) / Shazam: The Monster Society of Evil, DC 2007 • Secret Invasion/Final Crisis Finale, Best Superhero Movie • Watchmen: The Graphic Novel versus the Movie • Avengers: The Initiative: Basic Training, X-Factor: The Longest Night, Marvel, 2007 • Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung by P. Craig Russell (Dark Horse, 1992) • Spider-Man: Brand New Day Volume One (Marvel 2008) • Rapunzel's Revenge, Chicken With Plums • Secret Invasion, All Hail Megatron, Amelia Rules: What Makes You Happy • Batman and The Dark Knight • Wanted, Hellboy: Seed of Destruction • Secret Invasion/Final Crisis, IncogNegro, Spider-Man 2099 • Tellos: Colossal Edition, Bone: Complete Edition Part One • The Ultimates Hardcover • Transformers: Infiltration, Stormbringer, Spotlight • Ultimate Spider-Man: Ultimate Collection, Madman: Volume One • Fantastic Four: Imaginauts, The Goon: Rough Stuff • Spider-Man: One More Day, Breaking Up: A Fashion High Graphic Novel • Age of Bronze: A Thousand Ships, World War Hulk: Conclusion, Scary Go Round • Sin City: Hell And Back, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen vol. 1 & 2 • Planet Hulk, World War Hulk • Invincible Hardcover, Fell Volume 1: Feral City • Superman: Birthright, The Walking Dead Hardcover