Jay’s Picks Batman #680 DC Universe Decisions #2 Tor #6 Eternals #5 City of Dust #1 Voltron #3 M. Staples’ Picks Sub-Mariner: The Depths #2 Civil War: House of M #2 Eternals #5 It’s a weak week! Daniel’s Picks City of Dust #1 Creature Feature #1 Four Eyes #1 House of Mystery #6 Odd Squad [...]
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By Mark Millar (Story) and Tommy Lee Edwards (Art) I don’t know if there’s anyone out there who reads Marvel comics who isn’t buying this book (except maybe someone who thinks $3.99 for a 24-page comic is a TOTAL RIP-OFF). Maybe, like me, they thought last issue was a bit weak, but with this issue, 1985 [...]
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By Steve Niles (writer), Kelley Jones (art and cover), Michelle Madsen (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters) Things take a sinister turn in Gotham and the inevitable clash between Batman and Midnight looms ever closer. Man-Bat and a Midnight imposter crash Bruce’s party and the body count rises. After an issue or two where the quality suffered [...]
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By Mike Mignola (writer) Richard Corben (art) Dave Stewart (colors) Clem Robins (letters) I can’t say enough about Mike Mignola’s work. Not only are his characters among the best in comics today, but the world they live in is so rich, and deep. Something that always impresses me about Mignola’s writing is his word-choice. The [...]
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By Scott Allie (writer), Mario Guevara (art), Dave Stewart (colors) Wow, this was a big surprise for me. Going into this series I had no background of Solomon Kane or his past exploits. I thought this might be some gun-slinging Western book or maybe something similar to Steven King’s Dark Tower, but instead I got [...]
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By Dan Slott and Christos N. Gage (writers), Harvey Tolibao (artist), and Jay David Ramos (color artist) Let’s start off with what is probably the biggest item from this issue for long-time readers of this series: Mutant Zero. Ever since her first appearance, her true identity– powers, background, everything, has been shrouded in mystery. However [...]
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By Mark Millar (writer), Bryan Hitch (art), Andrew Currie and Matt Banning (inks), Paul Mounts (colors) As you can expect, we’re treated to another issue of gorgeous visuals care of Bryan Hitch and his supporting art team. Mark Millar slows things down a bit in what’s probably his most story-centric issue of Fantastic Four yet. [...]
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By James Robinson (writer), Renato Guedes (pencils), Wilson Magalhaes (inks), Hi-Fi (colors) I am gushing over this book. And while its ending comes abruptly, it’s easily one of my favorite stories of the year. It’s Krypto versus Atlas and boy, does this dog know how to hold his turf! It’s a brutal fight. Anyone who’s [...]
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By Frank Miller (writer), Jim Lee (pencils), Scott Williams (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) I’ve got one word to describe this issue: Yawn. I literally fell asleep reading this book. I couldn’t even finish it. When I woke up and continued where I left off I really had to push myself to power through Jim Gordon’s [...]
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By Brian Bendis (story), Jim Cheung (pencils), John Dell and Jay Leisten (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors) I initially wasn’t too thrilled with this issue as it just felt like a (very) simple recap of House of M mainly involving Spider-Woman (with a dash of Henry Pym). I felt that if you want to do this [...]
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By Gregg Hurwitz (writer), Laurence Campbell (artist), Lee Loughridge (colors), Cory Petit (letters), Dave Johnson (cover) After having the Punisher head south of the boarder to investigate a series of brutal murders, the last issue left us off with a very promising tale. However, this story is starting to look like your familiar Punisher story, [...]
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The digital comics revolution continues as Image Comics’ Shadowline expands their web comics division with a number of titles from fan favorites and the newest generation of creators! “While my first love comes in the traditional comics format, there’s no denying the massive amount of new ideas and talent coming from the online world,” said [...]
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By Ed Brubaker (Writer), Steve Epting with Luke Ross (Pencilers), Rick Magyar, Steve Epting, and Fablo Laguna (Inkers), and Frank D’Armata (Colors) Originally, I started reading Captain America for the same reason that almost everyone else did: his landmark death in issue 25. My intent was to read this series only for the three acts [...]
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By Rob Willaims (writer), Steve Scott (pencils), Nathan Massengill (inks), Michael Atiyeh (colors), Michael Heisler (letters), Tony Harris (cover) Like many Indy fans, Crystal Skull was a bust for me. That’s not to say it didn’t have good parts, it just had a little too much prequel George Lucas flavor. I spent a lot of [...]
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Jay’s Picks Conan TP Vol6: Hand of Nergal Solomon Kane #1 Absolute Ronin Superman #680 Avengers Initiative #17 Black Panther #41 Captain America #42 Daredevil #111 Hulk #6 Marvel 1985 #5 Ms. Marvel #31 New Avengers #45 Ultimate Spider-Man #126 Ultimates 3 #5 Daniel’s Picks Aspen Showcase: Benoist #1 Back to Brooklyn #1 Chuck #4 [...]
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By Ed Brubaker (Writer), Clay Mann (Penciler), Stefano Gaudiano (Inker), and Matt Hollingsworth (Colorist) Sigh… I was that close. I figured this was the perfect issue to stop buying Daredevil. A mediocre storyline had just wrapped up, there were no big subplots boiling, and Matt Murdock’s wife was catatonic… and only slightly less dynamic because [...]
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By Bill Willingham and Judd Winick (writers), Rick Leonardi (pencils), Carl Story and Dan Green (inks), Alex Bleyaert (colors) Within the first 10 pages, I thought this book would be a complete disaster. Superheroes and politics is something rarely mixed in the comic book field, but with the abnormally hot political climate brewing this election [...]
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Fans vote for TWILIGHT GUARDIAN and GENIUS to get their own series! Top Cow Productions, Inc. announced today that the winners of the 2008 Pilot Season campaign are Twilight Guardian by writer Troy Hickman and artist Reza and Genius by writers Marc Bernardin and Adam Freeman and artist Afua Richardson. For over a month, fans [...]
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By Ron Marz (Writer), Stjepan Sejic (Art), and Phil Hester (Art) First, a quick note. Now that I’ve read the first two chapters of Top Cow’s Broken Trinity crossover, I find myself absolutely baffled as to why the story is being limited to three main books and two tie-ins (one of which is a prequel [...]
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By Ben Templesmith (Writer and Artist) I had somewhat mixed feelings about the debut of this new Ben Templesmith series, but I just couldn’t resist another look at the deranged inmates residing in the twisted Hoxford Reform Facility. And after reading this issue, but am I glad that I did. While the bulk of the [...]
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By Geoff Johns (story), Gary Frank (pencils), Jon Sibal (inks), Brad Anderson (colors) After two months of good build up, this Brainiac storyline took a bit of a nose dive last month. Things start moving in a better direction with Action Comics #869, but the daunting threat that was very apparent with this story’s introduction [...]
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By Christos N. Gage (Writer), Sean Chen (Penciler), Sandu Florea (Inker), and Jay David Ramos (Colors) I confess I haven’t read any comics with War Machine in them since… well, since before James Rhodes was War Machine. I mean, the guy is pretty much by definition a second-rate Iron Man, right? So why waste time and money? Well, this issue [...]
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By Matt Fraction (Writer), Doug Braithwaite (Artist), and Brian Reber (Color Art) I have to admit, this issue is a bit disappointing since it fails to hold up to the potential promised in the first chapter. Yes, we get battle sequences between the Super-Skrulls and the Asgardians, and yes we’re treated to well written narration [...]
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