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New Avengers #61 – Review

Posted on January 30, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Stuart Immonen (pencils), Daniel Acuna (art & colors), Wade von Grawbadger (inks), Dave McCaig (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: The Avengers find themselves embattled against the Hood’s newly Norm stone-powered goons. What’s Good: This issue is essentially divided into two separate, but parallel stories as the two Captain [...]

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Thor #606 – Review

Posted on January 30, 2010 by paladinking

by Kieron Guillen (writer), Billy Tan (pencils & inks), Batt (inks), John Raunch & Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: Thor battles the Doom-controlled Destroyer and Balder ventures into the Latverian dictator’s secret lab. What’s Good: Guillen has done such a fantastic job in writing a comic so seamlessly linked to Straczynski’s [...]

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Batman and Robin #7 – Review

Posted on January 28, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Cameron Stewart (artist), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Blackest Knight, Part One: Pearly and the Pit: Last issue left Damian with five bullets in his body and no feeling anywhere. It also left us with the Red Hood’s rant that Dick was failing Bruce in not finding some Lazarus Pit to [...]

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Justice League: Cry for Justice #6 – Review

Posted on January 28, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: James Robinson (writer), Scott Clark (artist), Siya Oum (colors) The Story: Supergirl has discovered out that Freddy is really Prometheus in disguise. An all-out battle follows. What’s Good: Mauro Cascioli’s artwork was what held me to this book when everything else crumbled. You can imagine my disappointment when I discovered that Scott Clark had [...]

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Green Lantern #50 – Review

Posted on January 27, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin, Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The newly reinforced armies of light are making good headway against the black lanterns, but black lantern Spectre is still there, and nothing they do will stop him. So it’s time to pull out the [...]

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Ms. Marvel #49 – Review

Posted on January 27, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Brian Reed (writer), Sana Takeda (artist) The Story: Ms. Marvel is on the trail of Mystique and she’s pounding the crap out of a flunky to catch her prey. In the meantime, Captain Marvel is going through some really messed up moments and does more than a little violence to his own church and [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #520 – Review

Posted on January 23, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Psylocke, Wolverine, and Colossus go Predator-hunting in NYC while Magneto tries to get Utopia’s population to trust him. What’s Good: Overall, I’ve been enjoying Matt Fraction’s Uncanny X-Men quite a bit more after Utopia, and this [...]

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Dark Avengers #13 – Review

Posted on January 22, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The rather unpleasant back-story of the Sentry is revealed and reviewed. What’s Good: Character-driven issues always bring a particular set of strengths.  They’re usually a bit of a denser read, and Dark Avengers #13 certainly reflects this trend. [...]

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Wolverine: Weapon X #9 – Review

Posted on January 22, 2010 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), Yanick Paquette (pencils), Michel Lacombe (inks), Nathan Fairbairn (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: All hell breaks loose in Dunwich as “Insane in the Brain” hits its appropriately messy conclusion. What’s Good: This issue breaks a lot of the rules that made this arc such a rousing success, as the [...]

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Doctor Voodoo: Avenger of the Supernatural #4

Posted on January 22, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Rick Remender (writer), Jefte Palo & Alessandro Vitti (artists), Jean-François Beaulieu (colorist) The Story: Nightmare has taken over the world. The other heroes of the Marvel Universe, including Doctor Strange, are his captives. Only Doctor Doom has escaped the clutches of Nightmare, and his fortress is falling. What’s Good: Remender’s take on Nightmare is [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #44 – Review

Posted on January 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (penciller), Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne & Patrick Gleason (inkers) The Story: Red Badge of Rage, Part 2: Black Lanterns have overrun the power battery on Oa. A giant green lantern planet hovers over Oa. And Guy Gardner is a psycho (oh, and he has a red [...]

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Hulk #19 – Review

Posted on January 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Jeph Loeb (writer), Ed McGuinness (penciller), Mark Farmer (inker), Dave Stewart (colorist) The Story: The Intelligencia, having split with their ally the Red Hulk, send the Fearsome Four to invade the Baxter Building under the leadership of one of their own, the Wizard. Red Hulk sneaks in too, acting on a larger plan. And [...]

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Blackest Night: Flash #2 – Review

Posted on January 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Scott Kolins (artist), Michael Atiyeh (colorist) The Story: The Flash’s rogue gallery is breaking into prison and face off against an array of those dead members of the gallery who preceded them. On another front, Barry Allen, now a Blue Lantern, is fighting the dearly departed of his past. What’s Good: [...]

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WCBR’s Picks Of The Week

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Ray Hilario

Alex’s Top Picks Pick of the Week: DMZ #49 -A fantastic issue of DMZ and the sort of book that makes you reflect on just how far the characters, and by extension us readers, have come since the start of the series.  It’s also the first issue in a while that feels truly full and [...]

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The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly #7 – Review

Posted on January 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Esteve Polls (pencils and inks), Marc Rueda (colorist) Before the Review: I started keeping an eye on the Dynamite line since they launched their Project Superpowers. I’m lukewarm to their take on superheroes for the internal art, despite the quality of the stories. However, I often follow Zorro or the Lone [...]

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Titans #21 – Review

Posted on January 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Angel Unzueta & Chris Batista (pencils), Wayne Faucher (inker) The Story: Fractured, Part One: The Titans are mopping up a second string crew of thieves. Donna is pretty upset about what Prometheus has done to Roy in Cry for Justice #5. Flash is going through a crisis of his own due [...]

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Adventure Comics #6 – Review

Posted on January 15, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Francis Manapul (artist), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: The Boy of Steel, Part Five: In this 30-page issue, Luthor has the drop on Superboy, who is then forced to gather rare and difficult ingredients for something very surprising that Luthor is doing. In the meantime, Conner’s journal gets filled up with [...]

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Punishermax #3 – Review

Posted on January 15, 2010 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), Steve Dillon (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Wilson Fisk goes out to silence the one person who’s onto him, before finally going one on one with Frank Castle. What’s Good: Three issues in, and this month is, more than anything, Aaron and Dillon testing the limits [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #22 – Review

Posted on January 14, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Ghost makes his move and the gang brings in some outside help. What’s Good: Stark Disassembled continues not to disappoint. For the second month in a row, the scenes in Tony’s mind have improved.  Tony’s new surroundings make him [...]

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Batman #695 – Review

Posted on January 14, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Tony S. Daniel (writer and artist), Sandu Florea with Norm Rapmund (inkers) The Story: Life After Death, Part 4: Smoke and Mirrors: Batman pursues a complex mystery, peeling back layer after layer: the Gene-Corp murders, the Penguin, the Falcone mafia, the Penguin, Catwoman and a stray Falcone sister. He has to rough up a [...]

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Batgirl #6 – Review

Posted on January 14, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Brian Q. Miller (writer), Lee Garbett (artist), Trevor Scott (inker) The Story: Core Requirements, Part Two of Three: Stephanie wakes up in an ambulance. She gets herself out of there in full Stephanie Brown style and goes on to pursue the kidnapping of the boy she was interested in last issue. This involves spying [...]

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WCBR’s Picks Of The Week

Posted on January 13, 2010 by Ray Hilario

Alex’s Top Picks Pick of the Week: Stumptown #2 – A great series with pitch-perfect art, this issue, and this series, are not to be missed.  A lot of fun with one of the most lovable, and human, protagonists in comics today.  This really is a must-read, unless you demand spandex in all of your [...]

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Cable #22 – Review

Posted on January 10, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Duane Swierczynski (writer), Gabriel Guzman (artist), Thomas Mason (colors), Axel Alonso (editor) The Story: Homecoming, Part 2: This issue is part of the build-up to the X-Men: Second Coming event. Seventeen-year-old Hope has decided it is time to join to X-Men in the present. Cable’s time gizmo isn’t very precise. It keeps landing on [...]

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Suicide Squad #67 – Review

Posted on January 9, 2010 by paladinking

by Gail Simone & John Ostrander (writers), J. Calafiore (art), Jason Wright (colors), and Swands (letters) The Story: It’s Suicide Squad vs. Secret Six as Amanda Waller decides she wants Deadshot back and won’t take no for an answer. What’s Good: As an issue of Secret Six, this really is a lot of fun.  There’s [...]

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JSA All-Stars #2 – Review

Posted on January 9, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Matthew Sturges (writer), Freddie Williams II (art), Richard & Tanya Horie (colorists) The Story: Constellations, Part One: After last issue’s ambush and the kidnapping of Stargirl by a love-smitten Johnny Sorrow, the JSA All-Stars are in full action mode. The problem is, the guy paid to take Stargirl is double-crossing Johnny Sorrow, who’s got [...]

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