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“Sorry to keep you waiting!” shouts Pit as he takes to the skies in the opening level of Nintendo's Kid Icarus: Uprising for the 3DS.

The apology is certainly appreciated. Though Pit appeared as a fighter in 2008's Super Smash Bros. Brawl for the Wii (directed, incidentally, by Uprising director and Kirby creator Masahiro Sakurai), it's been a staggering 21 years since we were last treated to an instalment in the Kid Icarus franchise. While fans may not have been clamouring for a new Kid Icarus all that time, Uprising itself has been hotly anticipated since its announcement alongside the

Earlier this month, as I was playing through Square Enix's Final Fantasy XIII-2, the appropriately named sequel to Final Fantasy XIII, I began to think about what makes a good sequel. When is a sequel justified? What does it need to bring to the table, in terms of innovation and new ideas? How much of the original needs to be preserved in order to stay true, and how much is just derivative? As these questions swirled through my head, I decided that my next post for UysFaber would be dedicated to the do's and don't's of making a sequel (from an artistic point of view, that is.

So, another year has come and gone. As with any year, there have been some highs and some major lows in the entertainment industry. There was the controversy of DC's New 52, as well as Marvel's decision to introduce a black Spider-man (the person, not the suit). But as eventful as 2011 has been, it's time to move forward and look to 2012. And frankly, there's a lot to be excited for. Despite what John Cusack might have you believe, 2012 looks to be a great year.

Film

A lot of great stuff came out in 2011, but very few of them were movies.

To read the first three parts of my four-part review of DC's New 52, click here, here, and here.

Phew. Okay. Finally: the last batch of DC's New 52 titles, read and reviewed for your convenience. To recap, out of the previous 39 titles, I've decided to stick with about 17 of them. Now, once we take a look at these final titles, we can see what the overall tally will be, and whether we can consider DC's initiative to be a success or failure.

Week 4

All-Star Western – Like titles such as Men of War or I, Vampire, All-Star Western offers a refreshing change of pace from your typical DC

Review: Comic Book Junkie #1

George Chase (w) and Lance Sawyer (a)

One would think a miniseries about comic book dealers would have to be light on the action and adventure. Not so with the first issue of Comic Book Junkie. Right from the opening blurb, you know you're getting into something different.

Set in the '90s, Comic Book Junkie focuses on the then-incredibly-lucrative business of the comic dealer. So lucrative, in fact, that the life of the three main characters feels like something out of a gangster film.