<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss version="2.0" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:sy="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/syndication/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" ><channel><title>THE HEROESONLINE BLOG &#187; Opinion</title> <atom:link href="http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/category/discuss/opinion/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog</link> <description>The Blog of Heroes Aren&#039;t Hard To Find and Heroes Convention</description> <lastBuildDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:18:14 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2</generator> <item><title>A LOOK BACK AT COLLECTED STRIPS IN 2011</title><link>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2012/01/10/a-look-back-at-collected-strips-in-2011/</link> <comments>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2012/01/10/a-look-back-at-collected-strips-in-2011/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:08:40 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Andy Mansell</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[DISCUSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/?p=10531</guid> <description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s me! Your erstwhile Comic Strip and Golden Age fanatic reporting to you live from the Poorhouse.   I find myself in these somewhat Dickensian straits thanks to the quality and quantity of must-have reprints that were published over the past 12 months.  I tell ya, I was like a kid in a Comics shop&#8211;oh wait... 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I’m a casual fan of the crime genre, and have a bad habit of trade-waiting with long running, highly acclaimed series. Given its status from even its earliest issues, 100 Bullets would always be available, so the urge to be current was never insistent. But the team [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/11/07/heroes-review-spaceman-1/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>REVIEW :: B.P.R.D. Hell on Earth-New World #1 – 5</title><link>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/17/review-b-p-r-d-hell-on-earth-new-world-1-%e2%80%93-5/</link> <comments>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/17/review-b-p-r-d-hell-on-earth-new-world-1-%e2%80%93-5/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:38:45 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Heroes Online</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[DISCUSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Reviews]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/?p=6716</guid> <description><![CDATA[What does Hell on Earth mean?  In terms of publishing, it’s Mike Mignola giving an official name to the series&#8217; next uber-arc.  All the B.P.R.D. material to this point has been retroactively dubbed Plague of Frogs and will be re-collected under that title, in snazzy, reasonably priced hardcovers forthcoming.  Hell on Earth is the landscape [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/17/review-b-p-r-d-hell-on-earth-new-world-1-%e2%80%93-5/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SHAWN&#8217;S FAVORITES OF 2010 :: ONGOING SERIES</title><link>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/07/shawns-favorites-of-2010-ongoing-series/</link> <comments>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/07/shawns-favorites-of-2010-ongoing-series/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Heroes Online</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[DISCUSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/?p=6403</guid> <description><![CDATA[This, the fourth and final category, was definitely the hardest for me to compile. There are so many awesome ongoing series being published right now that it was nigh impossible for me to choose just ten. For the most part the series that I picked are brand, spanking new. I guess those stood out to [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/07/shawns-favorites-of-2010-ongoing-series/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SHAWN&#8217;S FAVORITES OF 2010 :: MINI-SERIES</title><link>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/07/shawns-favorites-of-2010-mini-series/</link> <comments>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/07/shawns-favorites-of-2010-mini-series/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 14:00:42 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Heroes Online</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[DISCUSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/?p=6405</guid> <description><![CDATA[Hello again and welcome to the third installment of Shawn&#8217;s Favorites of 2010! This category is for my favorite mini-series that either began or ended in 2010. There were a ton of minis that just barely made the cut, I&#8217;m looking at you Baltimore Plague Ships. There were just too many awesome mini-series that came [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/07/shawns-favorites-of-2010-mini-series/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SHAWN&#8217;S FAVORITES OF 2010 :: ORIGINAL CONTENT TP/HC</title><link>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/06/shawns-favorites-of-2010-original-content-tphc/</link> <comments>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/06/shawns-favorites-of-2010-original-content-tphc/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 19:00:46 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Heroes Online</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[DISCUSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/?p=6407</guid> <description><![CDATA[Welcome back to my list of favorites from 2010! This is the category for best comic collection of new material. It could be a trade paperback, a hardcover or a digest-sized book. The only thing is, it has to be all-new material. This was a tough category for me. There were so many awesome books [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/06/shawns-favorites-of-2010-original-content-tphc/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>4</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>SHAWN&#8217;S FAVORITES OF 2010 :: REPRINT TP/HC</title><link>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/06/shawns-favorites-of-2010-reprint-tphc/</link> <comments>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/06/shawns-favorites-of-2010-reprint-tphc/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 15:17:21 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Heroes Online</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[DISCUSS]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Lists]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category><guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/?p=6409</guid> <description><![CDATA[As we say hello to 2011 I am looking back on 2010. This is the first of four posts listing my top 10 favorite comics of 2010. Allow me to clarify things a bit. My top 10 lists are highly subjective and so instead of calling them the best I decided to call them my [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.heroesonline.com/blog/2011/01/06/shawns-favorites-of-2010-reprint-tphc/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>8</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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