Cogent Analysis of and Rude Suggestions for the Comic Book Industry 2001-2005: These are all of writer/publisher Larry Young’s columns for Comic Book Resources at the turn of the 21st century, featuring interviews with talent like Matt Fraction and Joe Casey, how-tos and attaboys with Elseworlds Batman pitches with Charlie Adlard art, a Kamandi re-envision, and the complete Image/Motown series bible. If you want to see how it’s done and what some guy in the middle of it thought about it as it was happening, this is the historical document you’ve been hoping for. As seen on MSNBC, just like that AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. book, but this makes a little more sense, because it has a piece in it by national security expert Bradley P. Moss.

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Larry Young’s AGENTS OF SHIELD: Collecting the seven years of pop culture criticism from Spunkybean, this two hundred and eight page monstrosity doesn’t just feature trenchant insights of each episode as they were originally aired, but the collection also features Larry’s homespun style, unvarnished opinions, and apparently an X-ray of a cat. Featuring writer and bon vivant Eric Palicki’s introduction and Spunkybean editor and raconteur EJ Feddes’ heartwarming afterword, this collection is obviously meant for the superfans.

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Contained in these amazing thirty-two pages are two short stories collected into one book of awesomeness by writer Walker Young, the artists the Fillbach Brothers, and illustrator Daniel Caval. The first story is a World War II tale come to life about two soldiers: one who gets blinded and the other who helps lead him to safety. Poignant and moving and what NBC/Universal’s Linda Jackson calls, “a fantastic debut work by an obviously can’t-miss new talent.” The second tale is Jack Fry: The Missing, featuring the first appearance of the modern noir-style detective tasked with finding a missing husband. But like all really, really good mysteries, the end of the case is something Fry just couldn’t see coming.

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