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Incorruptible #6 – Review

Posted on May 31, 2010 by dfstell

By: Mark Waid (writer), Horacio Domingues (art), Juan Castro (inks), Andrew Dalhouse (colors) & Ed Dukeshire (letters) The Story: Will Max Damage compromise his new (very new) superhero ideals to save Jailbait? What’s Good: For those who have followed Incorruptible since issue #1, it hasn’t been 100% clear what kind of hero Max Damage would [...]

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7 Psychopaths #1 – Review

Posted on May 31, 2010 by dfstell

By: Fabien Vehlmann (writer), Sean Phillips (art), Hubert (colors) & Troy Peteri (letters) The Story: As World War II turns against the Allies, a crazy plan is hatched to send 7 Psychopaths on a mission to kill Hilter and end the war. What’s Good: I’ll give Boom! a lot of credit as a studio for [...]

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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #2 – Review

Posted on May 31, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Frazer Irving (artist), Mike Marts and Janelle Siegel (editorial team) The Story: Bruce Wayne, damaged memory and lost in time, has disappeared from the Stone Age and reappeared in the new world of the puritan colonial Gotham. He’s been given an identity by a local woman who’s been accused of being [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man Annual #37 – Review

Posted on May 31, 2010 by dfstell

By: Story A: Karl Kesel (writer), Paulo Siqueira (art), Fabio D’Auria (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters); Story B: Kurt Busiek (writer), Pat Olliffe (art), Steve Buccellato (colors) & Comicraft (letters) The Story: In one story, we see “the first meeting” between Spider-Man and Captain America.  In the second, we get a light-hearted fictional tale of how [...]

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X-Men: Second Coming – Revelations: Blind Science #1 – Review

Posted on May 31, 2010 by dfstell

By: Simon Spurrier (writer), Paul Davidson & Francis Portela (art), Chris Sotomayor (colors) & Rob Steen (letters) The Story: The X-Club gets a taste of a nasty future where Hope wasn’t quite the savior of mutants. What’s Good: I really enjoy Dr. Nemesis, so it was good to see the X-editors give the X-Men’s science [...]

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Unknown Soldier #20 – Review

Posted on May 31, 2010 by paladinking

by Joshua Dysart (writer), Alberto Ponticelli (art), Oscar Celestini (colors), and Clem Robins (letters) The Story: Moses and a beleaguered family make a last stand against the Karamojong cattle raiders. What’s Good: With Unknown Soldier’s cancellation at issue #25, some big developments happen at the end of this issue that starts to set-up the series’ [...]

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Scalped #38 – Review

Posted on May 31, 2010 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), R.M. Guera, Giulia Brusco (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: From the Vietnam War to the reserve, a character crucial to Scalped’s history is illuminated for the very first time. What’s Good: It’s hard to write a comic centred on a character in existential crisis.  The problem is that it’s [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #48 – Review

Posted on May 30, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Ardian Syaf (artist), Vicente Cifuentes (inker) The Story: After ominously meeting in secret with Atrocitus and Guy Gardner, Ganthet tells his fellow guardians that he resigns from being any color of guardian and that he will permanently assume the duties of the green lantern of sector zero. In the meantime, something….odd [...]

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Thor #610 – Review

Posted on May 30, 2010 by paladinking

by Kieron Gillen (writer), Doug Braithwaite (art), Andy Troy, Doug Braithwaite, & Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: The heroes of Asgard come to grips with Siege’s aftermath, while Thor concludes his unfinished business with his clone. What’s Good: This issue of Thor does what needs to be done in positioning the [...]

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Gotham City Sirens #12 – Review

Posted on May 30, 2010 by dfstell

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Peter Nguyen (pencils), Jack Purcell (inks) Tony Avina (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Is Selina Kyle possessed by an evil spirit?  Her cuckoo sister sure thinks so! What’s Good: This is a nice little story that revolves around Catwoman and her nutty sister, Maggie.  Maggie is convinced that Catwoman [...]

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Fantastic Four #579 – Review

Posted on May 30, 2010 by paladinking

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Neil Edwards (pencils), Andrew Currie (inks), Paul Mounts (colors), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: Tired of self-limitation among the scientific community, Reed looks to prepare the next generation of thinkers. What’s Good: This is one of those issues of Fantastic Four that demonstrates why the title is perfect for Hickman, [...]

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Madame Xanadu #23 – Review

Posted on May 29, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Wagner (writer), Amy Reeder (pencils), Richard Friend (inks), Guy Major (colors), and Jared K. Fletcher (letters) The Story: Madame Xanadu faces off against Morganna in a final bid to save Betty What’s Good: It’s sort of neat to see Madame Xanadu behave, in many respects, like an honest to goodness superhero.  Her final [...]

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Deadpool: Merc With a Mouth #11 – Review

Posted on May 29, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Victor Gischler (writer), Bong Dazo (pencils), Leonardo Ito (inks), Matt Milla (colors) and Jeff Eckleberry (letters) The Story: Deadpool and company continue to run around the zombieverse, searching for a way out. Spoiler alert: they haven’t found one yet. What’s Good: The more I read this book, the more I’m growing to enjoy the [...]

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Thunderbolts #144 – Review

Posted on May 28, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (artist), Frank Martin (colorist) The Story: It is the dawn of the Heroic Age, and Luke Cage has taken command of the Thunderbolts in an effort to rehabilitate the team’s image as well as its disparate members. And oh yeah, Man-Thing finally finds a reason to suck less ass [...]

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Wolverine: Weapon X #13 – Review

Posted on May 28, 2010 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), Ron Garney (pencils), Jason Keith (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The New Avengers get involved as Cap and Logan confront the inventor of the Deathloks. What’s Good: Going into this issue, I was not overly thrilled with the idea of Aaron bringing in the New Avengers.  I liked his [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #632 – Review

Posted on May 28, 2010 by dfstell

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Chris Bachalo & Emma Rios (pencils), Tim Townsend, Jamie Mendoza, Victor Olazaba & Bachalo (inks), Antonio Fabela (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: The Lizard continues his rampage through NYC. What’s Good: Wow!  This was the kind of issue that restores one’s faith in superhero comics.  I read a LOT [...]

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Secret Avengers #1 – Review

Posted on May 27, 2010 by tonyrak

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Mike Deodato (artist), Rain Beredo (colorist) “Our world is out of control… But the things I worry about most are the threats we don’t know about.” As the Marvel Universe breaks free from the dark reign of Norman Osborn to bask in the light of a new age, Steve Rogers has [...]

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Wonder Woman #44 – Review

Posted on May 27, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott and Travis Moore (pencils), Doug Hazelwood, Wayne Faucher, John Dell and Hi-Fi (inks), Hi-Fi (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman must fight for Earth’s freedom in a one-on-one duel against the Citizenry’s finest warrior, as well as by outsmarting their leader— Diana’s own cousin. What’s Good: [...]

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Green Lantern #54 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor and Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) The Story: The New Guardians, Chapter Two: Brightest Day creeps out of its shell. Atrocitus is on Earth, searching. Behind the scenes, an old force is assembling the entities for each color of [...]

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X-Force #27 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2010 by joelopez101

by Craig Kyle & Chris Yost (writers), Mike Choi (artist), Sonia Oback (colorist) The Story: Bastion begins instituting his final plan as he unleashes the first wave of his Nimrod army upon the X-Men, causing several members to suffer devastating losses.  When the mutants discover that the villain has actually opened a portal to a [...]

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Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Ray Hilario

DS’ Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Legion of Super-Heroes – Levitz really came through on Legion of Superheroes #1. The book felt right and started with a bang that left me satisfied with the intro, but waiting for more. Best book for an starved Legion-fan. And in keeping with DC’s marketing, I want [...]

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Kill Shakespeare #2 – Review

Posted on May 25, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors) and Neil Uyetake (letters) The Story: Richard fights to keep control of Macbeth’s forces while Hamlet uses his newfound powers as the Shadow King of prophesy to lead Richard’s army closer to Shakespeare. Although they encounter some unexpected opposition, Hamlet manages [...]

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Deadpool #23 – Review

Posted on May 24, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Daniel Way (writer), Carlo Barberi (pencils), Juan Vlasco (inks), Marte Gracia (colors) and VC’s Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: Deadpool heads to Las Vegas in order to avenge a badmouthing at the hands of a casino owner. After arriving though, he finds out (the hard way) that all of the Vegas casino owners have [...]

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Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965 – Graphic Novel Review

Posted on May 24, 2010 by dfstell

By: Joe Kubert (written and illustrated) Review: When not reading comics, I am a pretty avid reader of military history, so when I saw Dong Xoai, Vietnam 1965 on the shelf in my LCS, I had to give it a try. The basic story of this original graphic novel is that of a U.S. Army [...]

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Rescue #1 – Review

Posted on May 23, 2010 by dfstell

By: Kelly Sue DeConnick (writer), Andrea Mutti (art), Jose Villarrubia (art) & Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: Pepper Potts gets to play around in her Rescue armor and has a nice, long chat with her dead husband. What’s Good: This is a nice little story that hits on a lot of the high-notes of what [...]

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