Day 12 is here! Get Multiple Warheads: Alphabet To Infinity #1 FREE!

Posted on December 18th, 2012 - 13:14 PM by Kevin Pearl

Day 12 is here! Enjoy the 50 page first issue of Multiple Warheads: Alphabet To Infinity #1 for FREE right now!

Sexica and her Werewolf boyfriend Nikoli travel across a sci-fi, fantasy Russia smoking singing cigarettes. Meanwhile the organ hunter, Nura is sent out with a severed head and instructions to find its body.

Click here to add Multiple Warheads: Alphabet To Infinity #1 to your digital comics library for FREE right now!

With 12 Days and 12 FREE comics behind us be sure to keep the sprit going with these new series, remember comics make great gifts, and you’ve don’t have to worry about shipping when you send them from comiXology!

 

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The Adventures of Spawn Debuts Digitally on ComiXology!

Posted on December 12th, 2012 - 14:50 PM by Kevin Pearl

For Immediate Release:

THE ADVENTURES OF SPAWN
DEBUTS DIGITALLY ON COMIXOLOGY! 

Kid-friendly SPAWN title available now on the revolutionary digital comics platform comiXology

December 12, 2012 – Berkley CA – New York, NY – Image Comics and Todd McFarlane Productions are excited to announce the digital debut of THE ADVENTURES OF SPAWN a kid-friendly comic series now available on the revolutionary digital comics platform comiXology. Two 48-page issues of THE ADVENTURES OF SPAWN, as well as a collected edition of both issues with bonus material never before seen in print, are on sale now across the entire comiXology platform including the iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and the Web!

Kid-friendly and in the colorful, action-packed style of Saturday morning cartoons, THE ADVENTURES OF SPAWN originally premiered as a webcomic on Spawn.com and was collected into print trade paperbacks in 2007 and 2008. Filled with pulse-pounding battles, betrayal, revenge, and the clash between the Forces of Light and the Forces of Darkness, THE ADVENTURES OF SPAWN is the title for parents to share their love of SPAWN with their children — and for them to sneak a moment of fun-filled adventure, too.

“It’s fun is to see if your characters can fit into different settings, genres, mediums and/or formats – as a means to get your idea in front of more new eyes,” said McFarlane. “Unlike the regular title, this one is truly built around the word, ‘adventure.’ It’s a world of Spawn unlike any of the others I’ve populated.”

Todd McFarlane Productions’ THE ADVENTURES OF SPAWN features exciting stories by Jon Goff and eye-popping art by Khary Randolph. Bonus character bios drawn by various artists, including Greg Capullo, are available only in the collected edition.

About Image Comics
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

About comiXology:
Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. With the development of the comiXology digital comics platform – with buy-once, read-anywhere availability across across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, and the Web — comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics anywhere they happen to be! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, comiXology is one of the leading drivers of the iPad economy. Providing the most digital comics on the most devices, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has been turned into a comic book fan.

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Chip Mosher

VP PR, Marketing & Business Development

comiXology

www.comixology.com

press@comixology.com

(323) 642-8416

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David Hine Half-Off Sale!

Posted on November 20th, 2012 - 18:02 PM by Kevin Pearl

Few creators have achieved the cult-like status of David Hine, his recent hits Bulletproof Coffin, Bulletproof Coffin Disinterred and Strange Embraces have proved the indie sprit is alive and well. This week comiXology is embracing the bizarre with a half-price sale on the selected work of David Hine!

Spawn & X-Men: Civil War Writer David Hine Brings His Magnum Opus To Image Comics! Digitally Re-Mastered, Strange Embrace Will Be Available As Eight Monthly Issues Colored By Flanimals Co-Creator Rob Steen And Lettered By Those Awfully Nice Chaps At Comicraft! Strange Embrace Is A Modern Gothic Psycho-Sexual Tortured Romance And Is Not For The Nervous!

Relive the Golden Age of comics! The Legendary Kane and Hine return to their greatest creations! See Coffin Fly Vs. Zombie Nam Vets! The Shield of Justice walks the Dead Beat! The Unforgiving Eye sees all, forgives nothing! Red Wraith: He’s red! He’s dead! Ramona: Buxom, Beautiful and Bound!

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This Weekend The Li’l Depressed Boy from Image Comics is Half-Off!

Posted on October 20th, 2012 - 13:06 PM by Kevin Pearl

Cheer up! The Li’l Depressed Boy is half-price this weekend on comiXology!

S. Steven Struble And Sina Grace Present A Romance With Style Points, Told With The Same Lovelorn Charm Of (500) Days Of Summer. In This Issue: (Li’l Depressed) Boy Meets Girl. What Will The Li’l Depressed Boy Go Through To Learn The Name Of His Dream Girl? Comic Shops, Video Games, Hoards Of Zombies, And A Game Of High Stakes Style-Points Bowling. That’s What.

LDB Has Stumbled Hard On His Path To Happiness. It’s Easy For Him To Retreat Back Into His Routines, And Avoid The Outside World. Thankfully, His Friend Drew Blood Notices His Need For Escape And Takes Him On A Road Trip To See A Concert. Adventure Awaits – Along With Peril And Maybe Closure?

Don’t be so glum, pick up these half-price issues before time runs out!

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Celebrate The Walking Dead Season 3 Premiere With Comixology’s “The Walking Dead Half-Off Sale” All Weekend Long, Oct 12th Thru Oct 15th

Posted on October 13th, 2012 - 00:18 AM by Chip Mosher

For Immediate Release:

CELEBRATE THE WALKING DEAD SEASON 3 PREMIERE
WITH COMIXOLOGY’S “THE WALKING DEAD HALF-OFF SALE” ALL WEEKEND LONG, OCT 12^th THRU OCT 15^th

First 99 issues for only .99 cents each and Volumes 1-14 on sale half off!

October 12th, 2012 – New York, New York — Don’t want to wait for The Walking Dead Season Three premiere this Sunday night to get your zombie fix? Then make sure you take advantage of THE WALKING DEAD HALF-OFF SALE. This pre-premiere event brings together Robert Kirkman, creator and writer of The Walking Dead and writer/Executive Producer of the hit AMC TV show based upon his groundbreaking comic series and bestselling graphic novels; Skybound, his imprint at Image Comics; and comiXology to offer a well-timed sale this weekend from Friday, October 12^th to Monday October 15^th on the original, comic series that inspired the show, the novels, the games and the entire universe of The Walking Dead. Now is your chance to read the original The Walking Dead ongoing comic book series.

“All The Walking Dead TV show fans should discover the original source material for the show,” said David Steinberger, co-founder and CEO of comiXology. “If you have enjoyed The Walking Dead TV show, but have yet to dive in to the comic, this sale is one of the best opportunities to experience the real deal. ”

All the issues of The Walking Dead will be .99 cents, and Volume 1 through Volume 16, collecting the first 96 issues of the series will be half-off! Where else can you get this level of entertainment for under a buck?

Based on one of the most successful and popular comic books of all time, written and created by Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead captures the ongoing human drama following a zombie apocalypse. The series follows a group of survivors, led by sheriff Rick Grimes, in search of a safe and secure home. However, instead of the zombies, it is the living who remain that truly become the walking dead.

About comiXology

Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world.  With the development of the comiXology digital comics platform – with buy-once, read-anywhere availability across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire, Windows 8 and the Web – comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics anywhere they happen to be! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, comiXology is one of the leading drivers of the iPad economy. Providing the most digital comics on the most devices, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the planet has been turned into a comic book fan.

About Robert Kirkman

Robert Kirkman’s success and passionate advocacy for creator-owned comics led him to become the first person invited to become a partner at Image Comics since the company’s inception twenty years ago and he formed his own imprint there, Skybound, in 2010.  Kirkman is the creator/writer of the Eisner Award-winning The Walking Dead, long-running Invincible, all-ages Super Dinosaur, The Astounding Wolf-Man, and new title Thief of Thieves, among many others. Kirkman has earned the respect of the comic, writing and television communities and topped the New York Times bestseller list for graphic novels in 2011 and in April 2012, he took the top five spots on both the hardcover and paperback lists. He’s the creator/executive producer and writer of the hit television show, AMC’s The Walking Dead, the highest-rated basic cable drama of all time in the U.S, also an international success in 122 countries and 37 languages. AMC is developing Thief of Thieves as a potential series with Kirkman serving as creator/executive producer and writer. www.Skybound.com is your destination for all news and merchandise for Robert Kirkman, The Walking Dead and all Skybound titles.

About Image Comics

Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

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Chip Mosher

press@comixology.com

(323) 642-8416

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Advanced Review: Grant Morrison’s & Darick Robertson’s Happy #1

Posted on September 25th, 2012 - 14:51 PM by Kevin Pearl

Dirty cops, double-crosses, family ties and cold-blooded murder, all hallmarks from the classic crime comics of old. Imagine the scene, a scarcely lined convention hall on an early Sunday morning. Creators nurse their hangovers while wayward fans peruse black and white pamphlets printed on newspaper and laden with naked women, smoking guns and enough F-Bombs to topple the comics code authority headquarters a dozen times over.

From New York to San Francisco, from Seattle to London the locations may have varied but the indie spirit rang true: Funny books didn’t have to be funny any more. This was an era that revived the crime lord and proclaimed the death of the superhero, a renaissance of all things criminal. 2012 has seen that same spirit reborn once again as more and more of the industry’s top creators deliver the goods on comics outside the big two, and as two lone figures cross the grimy snow covered panels in the first page of Grant Morrison’s Happy #1 one thing becomes all to clear, we aren’t in Metropolis anymore.

Happy #1 is Grant Morrison’s first major creator-owned work since….well The Invisibles. It marks a departure from the world of those “Supergods” he’s held so close to his heart these past two decades and a return to the morbid world of brutal crime scenes, shady mobsters and of course … psychedelic hallucinations. Here we have Morrison doing what he does best. In Happy #1 the abstract is not only made tangible, it’s also wrapped up neatly in a nice little ribbon of Pop Culture and presented to readers by way of Darick Robertson’s stunningly grotesque art.

The artist from The Boys, Transmetropolitan and American Splendor delivers spectacularly on this first issue. Happy could very well proved readers with some of Roberston’s best work yet. We’re talking a canvas of filth and blood brought to life in vivid detail thanks to the power of digital (Just wait till you see this in CMX-HD!) and fans of over the top violence as only comics can provide should be more than happy with this debut issue. However don’t let the gore fool you, Happy #1 doesn’t simply deliver violence for the sake of violence, it’s dives deep into a genre of Tough guys, fast talkers and unsavory characters then quickly turns it on it’s head.

To read this first issue is to stand before the run-down doorway of crime comics forgotten past. The wallpaper may be fading and the carpet full of stains but there is not doubt whatever is waiting on the other side will thrill, chill and entertain while keeping the grand tradition of crime comics alive as 2012 continues to carry the gas can, oily rags and match sticks for a new generation.

Pick up Happy #1 along with the rest of this week’s new releases tomorrow on comiXology!

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This Weekend – Head Back to School With Image Comics

Posted on September 7th, 2012 - 10:13 AM by Kevin Pearl

Heading back to school? Stock up on all the goods this weekend during the Image Comics Back to School Sale! Pick up half-price issues of your favorite school-centered titles for three days!

Morning Glory Academy is one of the most prestigious prep schools in the country, but behind it’s hallowed doors something sinister and deadly lurks. When six brilliant but troubled new students arrive, they find themselves trapped and desperately seeking answers in a place where nothing is what it seems to be!

Luther Strode is just your average nerd until he sends away for a bodybuilding course from an old comic book, one that works a whole lot better than he ever imagined. His newfound strength and strange talents make school a lot easier, but they’ve also caused some very, very bad people to take a very, very keen interest in him. Things will never be the same for Luther Strode…if he survives.

Welcome to Gladstone’s School for World Conquerors, a top-secret academy for the children of the world’s greatest super villains to learn the trade. Join us as Kid Nefarious, Mummy Girl, Martian Jones, Ghost Girl, and the infamous Skull brothers unearth the School’s and their parents’ hidden past.

Be the coolest kid in class with these titles and more on sale this weekend on comiXology!

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Image Comics iOS App Upgrades from 2.0 to 3.1

Posted on May 29th, 2012 - 11:26 AM by Chip Mosher

For Immediate Release:

Image Comics iOS App Powered by ComiXology Upgrades from 2.0 to 3.1

Featuring CMX-HD Capabilities and Better Discoverability

May 29th, 2012 – New York, NY — Image Comics, one of the largest comics publishers in the United States, and comiXology, the world’s largest digital comics platform, announced today the newly upgraded Image Comics iOS App, bringing the critically acclaimed 3.1 version of their app to fans of Image Comics everywhere. This new release includes a major set of feature upgrades — sleek new design, bolstered discoverability, dramatically increased speeds, and an expansive library of over 200 CMX-HD ready digital comics to take advantage of the new iPad’s enhanced display.

“Bringing the 3.1 interface to the Image Comics app is a huge win for Image Comics fans,” says comiXology co-founder and CEO David Steinberger. “The Image Comics library is already a major cornerstone of the modern day comic industry and with 3.1 that library is now more accessible than ever.”

“We couldn’t be happier with the updated Image Comics iOS app and we can’t wait for fans to see books like The Walking Dead, Saga, Fatale and The Manhattan Projects displayed in CMX-HD,” says Image Comics Publisher Eric Stephenson. “Bringing the best digital reading experience to the best creator-owned comics just makes sense.”

The Image Comics 3.1 iOS app sports a sleek new design and interface that enhances overall stability and usability. The advanced UI enables a near instantaneous launch dramatically cutting down the app’s load times, allowing fans of Image’s comics and graphic novels to easily find new content and start reading faster than ever before.

In addition to the overall re-design, the app now has new discoverability options, enhanced feature spotlights, more categories for new content, series and storyline listings, and CMX-HD resolution books for users of the new iPad.

To help better organize downloaded comics and graphic novels, “Purchases” now has its own tab so users can always find their comics for quick and easy download without cluttering their “My Comics” area.

Fans will be happy to know that while vast improvements have been made, the Image Comics 3.1 iOS app continues to deliver the quality comic reading experience customers have come to expect from comiXology powered apps through the use of it’s patent-pending Guided View™ Technology; that includes a wide variety of reading options and settings, enabling users to set the speed of transitions in addition to page orientations and much more.

Features and benefits of The Image Comics 3.1 iOS app include:

• Completely redesigned application
• CMX-HD compatibility
• Discover comics at much faster speeds
• Near instant launching
• Background downloading
• Improved “Instant Search”
• Separate “Purchases” area that displays all owned comics
• New series groupings in store and “My Comics”
• Buy or continue reading the next issue at the end of a comic
• Easily read comics from anywhere in the store.

Image Comics fans can also read and buy their favorite Image Comics at comics.imagecomics.com which will sync to the Image Comics iOS app.

About Image Comics
Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists. Image has since gone on to become one of the largest comics publishers in the United States. Image currently has five partners: Robert Kirkman, Erik Larsen, Todd McFarlane, Marc Silvestri and Jim Valentino. It consists of five major houses: Todd McFarlane Productions, Top Cow Productions, Shadowline, Skybound and Image Central. Image publishes comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable. It offers science fiction, romance, horror, crime fiction, historical fiction, humor and more by the finest artists and writers working in the medium today. For more information, visit www.imagecomics.com.

About comiXology
Founded in 2007 with the mission of bringing comics to people everywhere, comiXology — in just five short years — has revolutionized the comic book and graphic novel world. From creating the industry leading platform for digital comics to tools and services for brick and mortar retailers, comiXology has lead the charge in exposing new audiences to the rich history and culture of comic books. With the development of the Comics by comiXology digital comics platform — available across iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle Fire and the Web — comiXology provides the easiest way worldwide for people to enjoy comics at just the click of a button! Regularly ranking as the top grossing iPad app in the entire iTunes App Store, Comics by comiXology was recently selected as a preloaded app on Amazon’s Kindle Fire. Providing digital comics across multiple platforms, comiXology will not stop until everyone on the face of the earth has been turned into a comic book fan.

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CONTACT:
Chip Mosher
press@comixology.com
(323) 642-8416

 

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This Weekend – Get The Image Works of Joe Casey for Half-Price

Posted on April 20th, 2012 - 16:20 PM by Kevin Pearl

Take advatange of all the savings during this weekend’s Joe Casey Image Comics Sale!

A new hero for our times – from the fertile imagination of music superstar, ZIGGY MARLEY! A noble champion has arrived on Earth, and he brings an important message even as he struggles to save his own planet. We guarantee: This is not the comic you think it is! “Honestly, the book really is awesome. It’s pretty much a straight-out, color-saturated, action-packed, mind-altering, insanely kinetic tour de force of pure awesomeness… You can stare at these pages forever, just basking in the unadulterated pop-art beauty of them.” -Comics Bulletin “Marijuanaman has woven a complex tapestry of musical references and deep plot lines that have been said should impress both comic geeks and Bob Marley aficionados.” -Zippycart.com ” Jim Mahfood’s slick and retro-feeling style is just beyond gorgeous. With beautiful women and evil business men that will invoke an air of Pink Floyd, the art in this book is far from the typical ’90s-inspired muscle-bound super-hero fare.” -Guerilla Geek

Adam Archer is Earth’s star-powered champion. But what does his existence mean for the rest of humanity? And how long until the rest of the universe takes notice? Mind-altering aliens! Surreal super-villains! All-out action! The greatest heroic epic of the new age begins here! One issue of GODLAND and you’ll be hooked!

Maybe you’ve seen the PR – now read the comic book! At one time, BUTCHER BAKER was the preeminent, All-American superhero. Now he’s… getting laid. A lot. But one last mission could signal his return to glory, and now he’s back on the blacktop! It’s a balls-out, surreal super-epic from creators JOE CASEY (GODLAND, Ben 10) and MIKE HUDDLESTON (The Coffin), and it starts right here!

The Badass With A Badge returns in a glorious oversized hardcover! Brought to you JOE CASEY (BUTCHER BAKER) and CHRIS BURNHAM (Batman, Inc.) – now with ADDED PAGES of over-the-top sex and violence – experience OFFICER DOWNE as it was meant to be experienced! You’ve never felt ‘command presence’ quite like this! This is the cop that’ll keep coming back for more, even from beyond the grave! Now with all-new bonus features!

Whatever you do don’t pass on the incredible savings this weekend on comiXology! Download the works of Joe Casey for half-price on comiXology right now

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Let’s Get Digital: The Digital Comics Report for April 18th, 2012

Posted on April 18th, 2012 - 14:35 PM by Kevin Pearl

Looks like we have a new record!  Over 70 new same day as print releases hit comiXology this week – The highest the number of new releases to date – in addition to a ton of notable back issues and collections from all your favorite publishers. Needless to say we’ve got a lot of comics to keep you busy this week and if you’re looking for a place to start, we’ve got that covered as well. This week’s digital comics report is all-new with the hottest titles on the app today! Take a look and tell what you’re picking up:

Same Day as Print

The Shadow #1: 1938: The Shadow returns in a tale of blazing action and deadly intrigue, as a night of carnage on the New York waterfront plunges the mysterious vigilante into a conspiracy involving the fate of the world itself. As storm clouds gather across the globe, American Military Intelligence meets with a certain Lamont Cranston, determined to beat a host of spies and assassins to the greatest prize of all… but what that might be, only the Shadow knows.

The Sixth Gun #21: Using the power of the Sixth Gun, Becky Montcrief invades the sanctum of the Knights of Solomon in order to rescue Drake Sinclair! Becky’s enemies have often seen her as the helpless damsel in distress – but no more! Once she’s finished with them, the Knights will know without a doubt that she is the deserving wielder of the deadliest weapon ever created!

Batman (2011-) #8: Broken and beaten, Bruce Wayne has retreated from Gotham City–the city of Owls–to Wayne Manor. But no place is safe, because the Court is about to strike at the heart of city, and nothing will ever be the same. Plus: a backup tale exploring the origins of the mysterious Court of Owls!

 

Collections & Graphic Novels

Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland: 129 pages! A lifelong Cleveland resident, Harvey Pekar (1939-2010) pioneered autobiographical comics, mining the mundane for magic since 1976 in his ongoing American Splendor series. Harvey Pekar’s Cleveland is sadly one of his last, but happily one of his most definitive graphic novels. It combines classic American Splendor-ous autobiographical anecdotes with key moments and characters in the city’s history as relayed to us by Our Man and meticulously researched and rendered by artist Joseph Remnant. With an introduction by Alan Moore to boot!

King City: Collects KING CITY #1-12! AT LAST! The long-awaited collection of the complete KING CITY series is here, full of full on comic book games, puzzles and wordplay! Joe is a catmaster, trained to use his cat as any tool or weapon. His best friend Pete falls in love with an alien he’s forced to sell into green slavery, while his ex Anna watches her Xombie War veteran boyfriend turn into the drug he’s addicted to. King City, an underbelly of a town run by spy gangs and dark dark magic with mystery down every alleyway.

New & Noteworthy

Seven Soldiers of Victory: Fresh from their hit miniseries, seven unique and unlikely soldiers must join forces to save humanity from its own future! The only catch? They can never meet! Klarion, Zatanna, The Manhattan Guardian, Bulleteer, Mister Miracle, Frankenstein and The Shining Knight return as the apocalyptic threat of the Sheeda intensifies to a terrifying, unexpected climax. A devastating global threat is on its way–one never imagined nor prepared for. It consumes entire civilizations and leaves behind only ruins. Its hunger is unstoppable; its origins, unspeakable. Now this devouring empire of cruelty has set its sights on the treasures of the 21st century.

Daredevil Vol. 3: Having turned his world upside over the past several years, Matt Murdock realizes that justice may not be blind to his past and villains may not be the only ones looking for answers. If Matt Murdock could see what he was up against he’d be terrified.

 

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