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Blackest Night #7 – Review

Posted on February 27, 2010 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), and Nick J. Napolitano (letters) The Story: The nature of the white light of creation stands revealed. What’s Good: How high can a single cliffhanger ending raise the overall experience of an entire issue?  That’s often a question I [...]

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Green Lantern #51 – Review

Posted on February 19, 2010 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (art), Randy Mayor (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Parallax returns to battle the Black Lantern Spectre. What’s Good: This is a really, really fun issue.  A lot of this is thanks to the twists and turns that Johns provides with the emotional spectrum.  One such twist, involving [...]

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Dark Avengers #14 – Review

Posted on February 19, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Victoria Hand deals with dissension in the ranks and the Void makes his presence known. What’s Good: This issue is a solid issue largely because it’s based entirely on perhaps the two best things to come out of Dark [...]

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Punishermax #4 – Review

Posted on February 15, 2010 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), Steve Dillon (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The Punisher goes head to head with the Mennonite and the Kingpin finally makes his move. What’s Good: This book really has that R-rated action movie feel that’s pretty integral to a comic like Punishermax.  While the issue never [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #620 – Review

Posted on February 12, 2010 by paladinking

by Dan Slott (writer), Marcos Martin & Javier Pulido (art), Javier Rodriguez (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Mysterio’s plot comes to its explosive conclusion. What’s Good: Thus far, I’ve been somewhat underwhelmed by Dan Slott’s “Mysterioso” arc, but this final issue is probably the best of the lot. One of the chief reasons [...]

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Batman and Robin #8 – Review

Posted on February 10, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Cameron Stewart (artist), Tony Aviña (colorist) The Story: Batman vs. Batman, Part Two: Bruce Wayne rises from the Lazarus Pit, but all doesn’t go according to plan. He’s confused and psycho and we get some tantalizing flashbacks that show us why. Problem is, he’s nearly unstoppable and not only drops the [...]

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Uncanny X-Men: First Class #8

Posted on February 10, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Scott Gray (writer), Fernando Blanco (artist), Jordan D. White (editor) The Story: An apparent suicide has occurred at Cassidy Keep and Banshee brings Nightcrawler, Colossus and Wolverine along to solve the mystery. What’s Good: There is almost no story you can tell in the early Uncanny X-Men era (let’s say before the death of [...]

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Batgirl #7 – Review

Posted on February 10, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Bryan Q. Miller (writer), Lee Garbett (penciller), Trevor Scott (inker), Guy Major (colorist) The Story: Core Requirements, Part Three of Three: Batgirl and Robin aren’t getting along well enough to rescue Batman, so they split up. Robin has got his own set of wheels, so Oracle loans Batgirl something suitable. Then, it’s Batgirl, Robin [...]

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WCBR’s Picks Of The Week

Posted on February 8, 2010 by Ray Hilario

Alex’s Top Picks Pick of the Week: Scalped #34 – Just a giant, momentous issue for this series and probably the most important issue the series has seen in quite a while.  Every character finds him or herself in a significantly new position, but cliffhanger’s also abound.   Red Crow has never been more of a [...]

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #3 – Review

Posted on February 4, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka (writer), Nicola Scott (pencils), Jonathan Glapion (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors) The Story: Diana, just saved from being a black lantern, is guided by Carol Ferris as they go to fight the other black lanterns. Although the black lanterns are a big deal in their zombie apocalypse sort of way, a bigger piece [...]

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Red Robin #9 – Review

Posted on February 4, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Chris Yost (writer), Marcus To (artist, despite what it says on the cover…), Ray McCarthy (inker), Guy Major (colorist) The Story: Red Robin comes home, and tries to keep a low profile, but crime awaits and an old friend visits. But then, Batman’s arch-nemesis, the one Red Robin shafted last issue, reveals his plan [...]

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Superman: World of New Krypton #12 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka and James Robinson (writers), Pete Woods and Ron Randall (artists), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: Adam Strange and Kal-El are in a pickle. Adam gets them out, but not for long. Then Zod, out of nowhere, gets them out of the next pickle. Then Adam Strange is dismissed from the series as [...]

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Seige #2 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Olivier Coipel (penciller), Mark Morales (inker), Laura Martin (colorist) The Story: Osborn has managed to start his war with Asgard pretty well. He’s got Thor down, the Asgardians are on the ropes and things look good, until Ares clues in that Osborn wasn’t entirely truthful. Divine blood is thicker than [...]

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DS’s Top Picks

Posted on February 3, 2010 by DS Arsenault

DS’s Top Picks Best of the Past Week: Green Lantern #50 – Green Lantern came out on top this week with another solid installment of DC’s epic Blackest Night. Most Anticipated: Superman: Superman: World of New Krypton #12 – Robinson has delivered us an episodic, occasionally uneven year of Kal-El on New Krypton. Now, with [...]

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