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Siege #4 – Review

Posted on May 13, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Olivier Coipel (pencils), Mark Morales (inks), Laura Martin (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: The battle with the Void concludes, leading to the dawning of a new chapter for the Marvel Universe.  Oh, and two major characters die. What’s Good: The majority of this book is one gigantic fight [...]

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Dark Avengers #16 – Review

Posted on May 13, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The aftermath of Siege is explored and the fates of the Dark Avengers cast are glimpsed. What’s No So Good: Yes, I am reversing our usual review format, but why I’m doing so will soon be abundantly clear. The first half [...]

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Birds of Prey #1 – Review

Posted on May 13, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Ed Benes (artist), Neil Ruffino (colors), Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Oracle calls the Birds of Prey (and a few non-members) together when she receives files detailing all of the heroes’ personal information—secret identities, home addresses, families and friends. The team must work to discover who has this information, and prevent [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #631 – Review

Posted on May 13, 2010 by dfstell

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Emma Rios (art pp 1-8), Chris Bachalo (pencils pp 9-22), Tim Townsend, Jamie Mendoza & Bachalo (inks pp 9-22), Antonio Fabela (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: Lizard’s murderous rampage continues and we’re see more teases of the impending “hunt.” What’s Good: As I’d mentioned in my review of ASM [...]

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Superman: War of the Supermen #2 – Review

Posted on May 12, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Sterling Gates & James Robinson (writers), Eduardo Pansica (artist), Wayne Faucher (inker) The Story: General Lane has turned New Krypton into a pile of rubble, killing almost all the Kryptonians on it. Zod’s navy is on its way to Earth for retribution. Kal-El is the only person standing in their way. What’s Good: The [...]

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Batgirl #10 – Review

Posted on May 12, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Bryan Q. Miller (writer), Lee Garbett & Pere Perez (artists), Jonathan Glapion, Rodney Ramos & Pere Perez (inkers), Guy Major (colorist), Michael Siglain (editor) The Story: Batgirl Rising, The Flood, Part Two of Four: Calculator is one creepy dude. He knows more about computers than Oracle, and he’s got a serious hate for Stephanie [...]

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Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Ray Hilario

DS’ Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Uncanny X-Men #524 – I had expected Brightest Day to take the crown, but in fact, DC delivered a pretty middling offering this week. That left Uncanny X-Men #524, despite some flaws, to reach the summit of my pull list. Most Anticipated: Batman: The Return of Bruce [...]

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Iron Man 2 – Movie Review

Posted on May 10, 2010 by SoldierHawk

Iron Man 2 is a great movie. Let’s get that out of the way right now. If that’s all you were waiting to hear, there it is: it’s well worth the price of admission, as it provides you a very solid couple hours’ of entertainment. Robert Downey, Jr. is still a fantastic Tony Stark, the [...]

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Secret Six #21 – Second Review

Posted on May 10, 2010 by dfstell

By Gail Simone (writer), J. Calafiore (artist), Jason Wright (colorist) and Travis Lanham (letters) SoldierHawk did a great job on her review of Secret Six #21.  Given that I consume a lot of comics related media (blogs, podcasts, etc.) I think just about everyone agrees with her that this is one of the best Secret [...]

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Captain America and Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers #2- Review

Posted on May 10, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Reginald Hudlin (writer), Denys Cowan (pencils), Klaus Janson (pencils), Pete Pantazis (colors), VC’s Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: Captain America and Black Panther forage a (still tentative) alliance by fending off a Nazi invasion together, while the Howling Commandos remain “guests” of the Wakandans back at their village. Elsewhere, Red Skull is gathering intelligence [...]

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Orc Stain #3 – Review

Posted on May 10, 2010 by dfstell

By: James Stokoe (creator, writer, art & colors) The Story: One-eye the orc tries to escape retribution for knocking the gronch off his old partner-in-crime. What’s Good: If you aren’t familiar with Orc Stain, you should definitely try it out.  Track down the first few issues or get the trade when it comes out.  I [...]

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Irredeemable #13 – Review

Posted on May 9, 2010 by dfstell

By: Mark Waid (writer), Diego Barreto (art), Andrew Dalhouse (colors) & Ed Dukeshire (letters) The Story: Bette Noir reconnects with her father and gives us a flashback of the initial rampage of the Plutonian from the heroes’ point of view. What’s Good: I enjoyed seeing the depiction of the Plutonian’s destruction of Sky City from [...]

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Superman: War of the Supermen #1 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Sterling Gates & James Robinson (writers), Jamal Igle (penciller), Jon Sibal (inker) The Story: Superman is getting the tar beat out of him by Zod’s henchmen while an army of super-powered Kryptonians closes on Earth. Superman is going to try to talk Zod out of the attack. Problem is, the Kryptonians are right – [...]

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X-Men Second Coming – Revelations: Hellbound #1 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2010 by joelopez101

By Chris Yost (writer), Harvey Tolibao (artist) The Story: Victim of a trap sprung by Bastion’s forces, Magik has been abducted to the demonic dimension of Limbo.  Old friend and teammate Cannonball recruits a team of X-Men to rescue her.  All they have to do?  Journey into the depths of Hell and survive to tell [...]

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Brightest Day #1 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writrs), Ivan Reis, Pat Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, Mark Irwin, Oclair Albert, and David Beatty (inkers) The Story: The issue opens with Green Lantern and Star Sapphire with Sinestro, trying to figuree out the white lantern. At the same time, Boston [...]

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Batman and Robin #12 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Andy Clarke, Scott Hanna, Dustin Nguyen (artists), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: The Mexican Train, Part 3: Robin is still being controlled by his mother (read whatever Freudian angle you want into that) and therefore trying to kill Batman. They duke it out, but Batman pulls out some tech and some [...]

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Sweet Tooth #9 – Review

Posted on May 7, 2010 by paladinking

by Jeff Lemire (writer & artist), Jose Villarrubia (colors), and Pat Brosseau (letters) The Story: The curtain is pulled back a little more on Jepperd’s past, while Singh tries to gain Gus’ trust. What’s Good: Despite its focus on a small number of characters, it’s become clear that Sweet Tooth is quite often about betrayal.  [...]

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iZombie #1 – Review

Posted on May 7, 2010 by paladinking

by Chris Roberson (writer), Mike Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: We’re introduced to the varied, and mostly monstrous, cast of iZombie. What’s Good: It seems that for many people, the main attraction for this title is the art provided by the Allreds.  Well, rest assured that they most definitely [...]

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Hellboy in Mexico (Or, A Drunken Blur) – Review

Posted on May 7, 2010 by paladinking

by Mike Mignola (writer), Richard Corben (art), Dave Stewart (colors), and Clem Robins The Story: Hellboy teams up with a trio of luchadores to fight vampires in 1950s Mexico. What’s Good: Believe me when I say that Mignola definitely delivers on the insanity of that hook I typed out above.  With all the big powers [...]

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Deadpool Corps #2 – Review

Posted on May 6, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Victor Gischler (writer), Rob Liefeld (pencils), Adelso Corona (inks) Matt Yackey (colors) and VC’s Clayton Cowles (letters & production) The Story: Following the “if you can’t beat ‘em, join em’” school of thought, Deadpool decides to stop fighting Champion, and to enlist his help as a member of the Corps instead. Because what this [...]

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Secret Six #21 – Review

Posted on May 6, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), J. Calafiore (artist), Jason Wright (colorist) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story Catman continues his hunt for his son’s kidnapper, while the rest of the Six try to catch up. What’s Good: Every month I put down Secret Six absolutely convinced that this issue can’t be topped. And then the next [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #524 – Review

Posted on May 5, 2010 by joelopez101

by Matt Fraction (writer), Terry Dodson (artist) The Story: The X-Men regroup and mourn their fallen teammate as Bastion continues to push his machinations against mutantkind forward.  Meanwhile, now that Hope, the so-called mutant messiah, has finally returned, she finds that she wants no part of the expectations that come with the title. What’s Good: [...]

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Red Robin #12 – Review

Posted on May 5, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Chris Yost (writer), Marcus To (pencils), Ray McCarthy (inks), Guy Major (colors) and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story The epic “Collisions” storyline comes to a conclusion as the League of Shadows threatens everything and everyone Bruce Wayne holds dear. As time begins to run out, Red Robin finally comes face to face with Ra’s [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #630 – Review

Posted on May 5, 2010 by dfstell

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Tim Townsend & Jaime Mendoza (inks), Antonio Fabela (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: The Lizard is back, and Peter Parker has girl troubles. What’s Good: This is why I love the almost weekly schedule that ASM is on.  Last week’s issue wasn’t so hot, but it’s [...]

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Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Ray Hilario

DS’ Top Picks Best of the Past Week: X-Force #26 – this whole Second Coming arc is firing on all cylinders and I think Marvel’s got a classic on its hands if they can keep this level of control and discipline on the story. Most Anticipated: Brightest Day #1 – What!? Like it could be [...]

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