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Uncanny X Force: Beyond Morality

Sometimes a title in the mainstream continuum of comic books arises that bucks trends and expectations. Sometimes a title arises that explodes...
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Captain America in the Media Part 5: Captain America the First Avenger

Whether you see it in 3-D at Regal Webster Place 11 or 2-D at Showplace ICON at Roosevelt, here's the word...GO SEE CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST...
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Captain America in the media, Part 4: Captain America: The movie nobody saw

In the Winter of 1989, if you went to see a movie at the Tivoli Theatre in Downers Grove or the Davis Theater in Lincoln Square, you probably saw a...
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Captain America in the Media Part 2: All Those Who Chose to Oppose His Shield...

In the 1960s, WGN was Chicago's premier kids' programming station. Besides being the home station for Bozo the Clown, WGN also provided...
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The Thor Saga 5: You'll be mighty sore if you miss THOR!

Today, Chicago moviegoers can see a movie almost 50 years in the making.Was it worth the wait?HELA, YES! Created 49 years ago, Marvel Comics'...
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The Thor Saga 3: Enter...the Mighty Thor

Ask your grandparents what "the most exciting thing to happen in Chicago in 1962" was and they'd probably mention the opening of the...
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The Thor Saga 2: Thor before Marvel Comics

Before 1962, Chicago comic book fans couldn't go into a comics shop and buy a comic featuring Mighty Thor.That was becauseThere were no comic...
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The Thor Saga 1: the mythological Thor

Though there's still a considerable Scandinavian population in Chicago, the ancient tales of the gods of Asgard are rarely told.While...
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'The Thor Saga' cometh!

Coming Monday, May 2nd:A week-long retrospective entitled The Thor Saga, about the various incarnations of Thor, leading up to the opening of the...
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R.I.P. Johnny Storm (1961-2011)

Acording to the Associated Press...Fifty years after cosmic rays transformed him into a man ablaze, Johnny Storm, the Human Torch will burn no more...
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