The Nerdy Dozen – Comics Most Memorable Deaths

Since the dead continues to rise with the assistance of jewelry over at DC, I thought it might be a good time for a list about death in comics. But I struggled with the title of this list because who wants to make a “best of death” list? It’s kind of a morbid thing even for fictional characters. You also have to factor in the fact that deaths rarely have a lasting effect in superhero comics (which is the source for most of this list) so it can be hard to label a comic book death as meaningful. But despite all of that here’s my list of the top twelve most well crafted or “memorable” deaths in comics.

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2009 Harvey Award Winners

Saturday night at this year’s Baltimore Comic-Con the prestigious Harvey Awards were handed out. The Harvey Awards are one of the comic book industry’s oldest and most respected awards perhaps because they are the only industry awards both nominated by and selected by the full body of comic book professionals. Below is a list of this year’s award winners for more information check out the official site for the awards.

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Things I Have Learned While Working at a Comic Book Store

I have a small bit of advice for all of you: Buy comics because you enjoy reading them. Simple, right? Don’t buy comics you don’t enjoy reading and don’t buy comics because you think they will be worth money in the future. Both of these things lead to you becoming disenchanted and disgruntled with comics. Too many people read comics out of some weird sense of obligation and this limits their ability to expand their horizons and get into other comics that they might actually enjoy. Also, too many people speculate on comics often to the detriment of the industry. Buy a certain cover because you like it, not because you think you can flip it or because you think it will be worth even more later on. Chances are that comic will go down in price over time.

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The Nerdy Dozen - Batman's Greatest Foes

art by Jim AparoI enjoy lists. Making them, reading them and even disagreeing with them. From Dave’s famous top ten’s to the college football poll I have always liked ranking things. I’ve been thinking of starting a gimmick feature in the Dollar Bin’s articles in the hopes of generating some regular written content either by myself or others for awhile now and guess what I came up with? The Nerdy Dozen! With this article and any like it that follow the hope is to spark discussion, so even though my opinions are the correct ones feel free to share yours as well.

Credit for this 1st topic goes to our buddy Andrew for posting and then discussing a link to another site’s list of Batman’s Best Villains which of course I didn’t completely agree with. He asked what my issues with it were and Facebook didn’t seem like the place for a 2000 word essay so here we are with my top 12 (or Nerdy Dozen) greatest foes for Batman.

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Adam & Brian interviewed about comic book movies!

Chillin’ at Richard’sIf you’ve listen to a few our shows you are probably aware that Adam and I both like to share our opinions with anyone that will listen. If you’ve ever met us, you probably know that “sharing” also isn’t limited to Dollar Bin related broadcasts. So when writer and DB listener Lisa Schmeiser asked us to answer a few questions for comic related article she was writing, we didn’t delay in saying yes. Since the article wasn’t about us, the feature was on comic book movies, not all of the Q & A was used. With that and our narcissism in mind, here is most of what we had to say for your reading pleasure.

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