MAGIC 2010
PRE-RELEASE
SATURDAY JULY 11, 2009
2 PM
ADMISSION $25.00
Heroes and Villains is proud to host the pre-release tournament for Magic 2010 on Saturday July 11, 2009. Sign ups begin at 12 PM and the tournament begins at 2 pm. Be sure to come out and get a look at the big changes ahead for Magic the Gathering in this sanctioned Magic the Gathering tournament.
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FLASH REBIRTH:
WATCHING IT UNFOLD
by Michael
McDaniel
It has
been more than 20 years since the Silver Age Flash
(aka Barry Allen) ran towards his destiny in the pages
of the now classic maxi-series “Crisis on Infinite
Earths”. I remember this event- and I don’t
use the term EVENT lightly- like it was yesterday
mostly because it was only a month removed from the
death of Supergirl. In just two months, two big named
heroes had died. These deaths were the first of many
for my comic reading career. By the twelve and final
issue, more characters met their makers that I could
keep track. Suffice it to say, it was like the stage
during the final act of a Shakespeare play- littered
with bodies.
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FINAL CRISIS NOTES:
THE ANTI-LIFE EQUATION
BY "LEAPING" LINT HTCHER
Ideas have consequences. Like the steps on a staircase, they take you somewhere.
On the flip side, the lack of an idea, the absence of a step or two in the staircase, can stop you in your tracks.
A case in point: the scientific revolution took hold in the West rather than the East. In the West, Christianity firmly established the idea that the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob was a God of reason and order. This was a step in the staircase. The next step was scientific method: repeat an experiment, get the same results, and you've got yourself a universal law. Step number one, the God of reason and order, lends the West a basic assumption: in this universe, you can expect the same action to yeild the same results again and again — a basis for building technology. In the East, that first step was missing. There the basic assumption stated that all was illusion. There was no reason to expect an experiment to produce the same result time after time. No reason to experiment. No confidence that reality was dependable.
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SECRET INVASION WRAP UP
BY AJ JAZZY D
Here’s what I predicted at the beginning of SI:
Possible Skrulls
- Spider-Woman. Called it.
- Anybody who’s 1970s version didn’t pop out of the crashed Skrull transport (Spider-Woman, Iron Fist, Black Widow, Echo, Ares, and Sentry). In the Director’s cut, Bendis emphasis this panel but suggests it could be all Skrulls. all humans, or even half and half. First, all human would be stupid, and half and half is just cheating. Called it. But then they brought back a bunch of them--that was weird. Maybe it’s a trick, but really it just seemed like a total cop out. The Skrull’s are a big threat, not big enough to kill anymore than maybe three major characters, but they’re a really big threat. Seriously. Really. Big. Whatever.
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