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July 2026

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Alter Ego #200 July 2026 (magazine review).

Any magazine reaching a hundred issues is doing well. To double that is exceptional. It’s hardly surprising that this issue of Alter Ego…

UncleGeoff

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Back Issue #7 December 2004 (magazine review).

I managed to get the seventh issue of Back Issue recently, which specialised in super-teams. One thing I’ve been careful about is keeping…

UncleGeoff

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Alter Ego #71 August 2007 (magazine review).

Despite having Captain Canuck, Vindicator and Wolverine on the cover of this 2007 edition of Alter Ego, the cover design is a reinvention…

UncleGeoff

June 2026

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Back Issue #167 June 2026 (magazine review).

This issue of Back Issue is sub-titled Girls, Women And Ladies, using examples of female characters with those words in their names. Obviously,…

UncleGeoff

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Alter Ego #199 May 2026 (magazine review).

This edition of Alter Ego, as you can tell from the cover, focuses on Shazam! or, rather, the original Captain Marvel and his…

UncleGeoff

May 2026

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Alter Ego #35 April 2004 (magazine review).

Editor Roy Thomas admits in his editorial that two major articles in this issue of Alter Ego squeezed out much of the magazine’s…

UncleGeoff

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Back Issue #5 August 2004 (magazine review).

There are a few back issues, if you’ll pardon the expression, of TwoMorrows Publishing’s Back Issue magazine that have long sat on my…

UncleGeoff

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Back Issue #166 April 2026 (magazine review).

The subtitle of this 166th edition of Back Issue is ‘Partner Up!’, focusing on various comic book partnerships, although not necessarily sidekicks. The…

UncleGeoff

April 2026

ReviewCulture

Retro Fan #43 March 2026 (magazine review).

I think we British were spared The Partridge Family and The Brady Bunch when they first aired. Reading writer Mark Voger’s interviews with…

UncleGeoff