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C2E2 – The Photo Gallery

Photos by Bill Jones, Matt Peters and Archie Easter

The annual Chicago Comic & Entertainment Expo took place once again April 13-15 at McCormick Place in Chicago, bringing with it comic book writers, artists and celebrities who walked the floor and hosted panels, as well as a plethora of costumed attendees and plenty of merch. Bill, Matt and Archie all walked the floor over the course of the weekend. The following gallery shows some of the best images they captured, respectively. (more…)

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Artist: DevilDriver

Album Title: Beast

Record Label: Roadrunner Records

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Review by: Eric Stuckart

DevilDriver has always been a bit of a guilty pleasure for me, as while it is not the deepest or most technical band, it has progressively gotten better with just about every release and has done a commendable job of making me forget that vocalist Dez Fafara used to sing for Coal Chamber.

DevilDriver’s fifth album, Beast, shows that the band still has plenty of gas in the tank, allowing them to pretty much plow through the majority of the album at a breakneck speed. After 2009’s Pray for Villains, I was a little worried that DevilDriver was starting to slow things down a little too much for its own good. Sure, variety is good, but the band operates best when they keep up the pace, and thankfully Beast kicks mule and then some. (more…)

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Chicago Comic-Con Part 3 – Marvel: X-Men Panel

By: John Gustafson

Jason Aaron, Chris Yost and Craig Kyle concluded Marvel’s convention attendance with a panel devoted to the X-Men.

The panel began with the new series S.W.O.R.D. The organization originally created in Joss Whedon’s Astonishing X-Men as Earth’s galaxy equivalent to S.H.I.E.L.D. will see a renewed focus on the home world. Agent Brand, Beast and Lockheed will be running the primary duties concerned with alien monitoring and intelligence gathering. The tone of the book was clearly set when it was announced that Henry Peter Gyrich would be in charge of S.W.O.R.D. The audience was told that the grand mission directive will surprise readers and it was then explained that the first goal is to remove all alien presence from the planet, it became clear how serious S.W.O.R.D. is playing. (more…)

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