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Written by Eddie Argos Monday, 02 May 2011 00:00

Eddie fights through the fog of the morning after with Liar's Kiss, the tale of a hard-boiled detective on the lam after his dame's husband turns up dead.

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Written by Eddie Argos Monday, 14 February 2011 13:32

The life of a touring musician makes it hard to hit the comic shop every week, but Eddie Argos found an easy way to keep up with the adventures of Booster Gold and co.: his iPod.

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Written by Eddie Argos Friday, 09 July 2010 00:00

The fine folks at New England Comics in Boston hook Eddie Argos up with some comics and he shares his favorites: the superhero send-up The Tick and the much more enlightening Inbound 4: A Comic-Book History of Boston.

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Friday, 08 January 2010 00:00

Eddie Argos' brain has finally recovered from the latest Art Brut tour, so he's back and ready to start digging through his stack of comics. Up first, a look at Under Pressure, the first collection of the nerd humor/superhero parody webcomic Let's Be Friends Again.

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Written by Eddie Argos Friday, 18 September 2009 01:14

Eddie Argos discusses his love of Chicago and John Constantine, and takes a look at the Hellblazer star's contribution to the new Vertigo Crime line, Dark Entries, from crime novelist Ian Rankin.

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Written by Eddie Argos Tuesday, 14 July 2009 17:00

Back after a lengthy hiatus, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos discusses being ‘outed' as a comics fan and his take on the fan favorite Scott Pilgrim series.

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Written by Eddie Argos Thursday, 19 February 2009 17:00

Eddie Argos attempts to survive a transatlantic flight armed with nothing but a couple issues of Radical Comics' futuristic racing epic Freedom Formula: Ghost of the Wasteland. The results aren't pretty.

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Written by Eddie Argos Thursday, 08 January 2009 17:00

The recording of Art Brut's new album kept Eddie Argos a bit too busy to read comics over the last few months, but he's back with a new favorite: Emmanuel Guibert's unique soldier's memoir, Alan's War.

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Written by Eddie Argos Saturday, 01 November 2008 03:23

Art Brut singer Eddie Argos turns the tables on a fellow rocker with a look at My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way's Umbrella Academy: Apocalypse Suite, plus a look at the DC Comics Encyclopedia.

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Written by Eddie Argos Thursday, 16 October 2008 17:00

Life as a rock star doesn't leave much time for readin', so this time out, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos has time for just one comic book: Booster Gold #13. (Yeah, him again.)

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Written by Eddie Argos Sunday, 28 September 2008 11:11

Better late than never, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos returns with another dispatch, this time tackling DC's new Mexican hero Blue Beetle and the "indescribably good" Y: The Last Man.

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Written by Eddie Argos Friday, 12 September 2008 04:23

Facing the lengthy international flight to the States, this week Eddie Argos digs into Frank Miller and Jim Lee's controversial All Star Batman and Robin, the Boy Wonder and the classic Giffen/DeMatteis/Maguire run on Justice League International.

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Written by Eddie Argos Friday, 29 August 2008 03:08

This week, Eddie Argos takes a look at a batch of titles from indie publisher Top Shelf: Alex Robinson's Too Cool to be Forgotten and Jeff Lemire's Essex County series. Who knew comics about farming, hockey, and high school could have such appeal to an unabashed superhero fan?

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Written by Eddie Argos Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:55

Fresh from seeing The Dark Knight, Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos turns his eye to Batman with a look at three very different takes on Gotham's caped crusader.

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Written by Eddie Argos Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:00

Art Brut frontman Eddie Argos returns to chat comics once again, this week covering a comic he's embarrassed to buy (the TV spin-off Angel: After the Fall) and a pleasant surprise (Ed Brubaker's Captain America).

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Written by Eddie Argos Thursday, 17 July 2008 17:00

Not a hoax! Not an imaginary story! Eddie Argos, frontman for the British band Art Brut, joins the PLAYBACK:stl staff to talk comics in this new regular column. His first time out, Argos takes aim at Wanted and discusses one of his current favourites, DC's Booster Gold.