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	<title>SmartRemarks &#187; Dan DiDio</title>
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		<title>Superman: Secret Origin&#8230; remixed and remastered, but familiar</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/09/superman-secret-origin-remixed-and-remastered-but-familiar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In one sense, everyone knows Superman&#8217;s origin. At least the sound bite version: &#8220;strange visitor from another planet, who came to Earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men,&#8221; &#8220;rocketed to Earth as an infant from the dying planet Krypton,&#8221; and so forth.
The thing is, it&#8217;s really hard to build actual stories [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackest Night #1: sometimes hype is merited</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/07/blackest-night-1-sometimes-hype-is-merited/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:49:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday saw the release of the first issue of this summer&#8217;s big &#8220;event&#8221; from DC Comics, Blackest Night, after approximately 93 years of heavy advance promotion. For ages now writer Geoff Johns has carefully dropped clues and bits of foreshadowing in his other titles, most prominently Green Lantern, while DC grand poobah Dan Didio dropped [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody Loves Dick!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/06/everybody-loves-dick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 22:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Grayson, that is. (What, you thought something else&#8230;? Dirty mind. Shame on you.)
Dick Grayson, formerly Nightwing, formerly Robin, has had a strong fan following for years, especially since he grew up and stepped out of the red-and-green costume (and his mentor&#8217;s shadow) a quarter-century ago. Now the character has done what in one sense always [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flash: Rebirth—nothing to run around over</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/04/flash-rebirth%e2%80%94nothing-to-run-around-over/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:49:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, Barry Allen, the original Silver Age Flash, returned from the dead in the pages of Final Crisis. The &#8220;how&#8221; and &#8220;why&#8221; of it weren&#8217;t really explained. But DC Comics&#8217; editorial poobah Dan DiDio has written that it was his plan since he came to the company to bring Barry back, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bits &#8216;n&#8217; pieces!</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2009/02/bits-n-pieces/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 01:57:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been far longer than I intended since my last post. Sometimes time just runs away from you. So let me just toss off a few ideas that have crossed my mind in recent days, and get caught up&#8230;
&#8212;
First off:  the wrangling in Washington over the new &#8220;economic stimulus package&#8221; has been interesting to watch. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Batman: R.eally I.nfuriatingly P.ointless</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/12/batman-really-infuriatingly-pointless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 05:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final issue of Grant Morrison&#8217;s much-hyped &#8220;Batman: R.I.P.&#8221; storyline hit the shelves last week (after delays. what a surprise)&#8230; and the best thing I can say about the story, now that it&#8217;s complete, is that it had some lovely painted covers by Alex Ross.
Fair warning: spoilers ahead. A decent summary of the entire story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, what exactly is going on with the DC Universe?</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/11/so-what-exactly-is-going-on-with-the-dc-universe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 18:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking in from the outside, it seems like there&#8217;s lots of second-guessing and retrenching going on at the number two comics company. With Final Crisis in its home stretch and major goings-on in the Superman and Batman titles, several long-term storylines are up in the air right now, and readers are left wondering whether the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the future on hold</title>
		<link>http://blog.smartmemes.com/2008/10/putting-the-future-on-hold/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 23:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris J. Miller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The news broke this week that DC Comics is cancelling Legion of Super-Heroes. (Whoops: putting it on &#8220;indefinite hiatus.&#8221;)
Says DC&#8217;s Executive Editor Dan DiDio, &#8220;50 seemed like a really nice number to bring this series to a conclusion.&#8221; This oh-so-carefully considered reasoning evidently superseded the fact that writer Jim Shooter was in the middle of [...]]]></description>
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