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2009 is quickly becoming my favorite year in recent memory for music. Most of you know my main love of music is definitely Metal through and through — and 2009 was so far a fucking amazing. Now I won’t go into the absolutely amazing re-master’s of all the Beatles albums — we all know they are worth it. But here’s a few I picked up and some thoughts!

Megadeth: Endgame
I wrote Mustaine and crew off years ago. I didn’t like anything after “The World Needs a Hero”, and even that was mediocre at best. They announced “Endgame” and I wrote it off… Randomly I heard a song on Pandora from Endgame — didn’t realize it was off of endgame. I honestly thought it was an unreleased song from between Rust in Piece and Countdown to Extinction. That song was, of course, Headcrusher. I was blown away that Megadeth still had it in them… and once I got the full Album realized it was one of the weaker songs on the album.
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Popularity: 63% [?]

This week finally sees the arrival of the much delayed Spider-Woman comic from Brian Bendis and Alex Maleev. I’ll be honest and say that I have been so irritated by the delay on this book that I wanted to hate it even though one of my favorite creative teams in recent history are on this comic. I can’t say I was all that surprised that the book is good, what surprised me was how much I loved it. Bendis has a way of taking these vulnerable and broken characters and making something really special. He did it with Jessica Jones in Alias and it looks like another Jessica is going to become another “top of the stack” must read character. The art is top notch and moody and makes this feel as much like a good noir book as a super hero action comic.

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Popularity: 48% [?]