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Mindfield #1 – Review

Posted on June 29, 2010 by paladinking

by JT Krul (writer), Alex Konat (pencils), Saleem Crawford & Jon Bolerjack (inks), John Starr (colors), and Josh Reed (letters) The Story: An elite CIA squad of psychics does some counter-terrorist wetwork as we’re introduced to a whole new side of American security. What’s Good: As far as first issues go, this is a solid [...]

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Interview With The Walking Dead Special Effects Make-Up Designer Greg Nicotero

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Ray Hilario

The Special Effects Make-Up Artist for Romero’s Day of the Dead and Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds describes getting the extras pumped in The Walking Dead and sizing up potential zombies over dinner. Q: You’ve been creating zombies for George Romero for years. What made you want to tackle The Walking Dead? A: I’ve been best friends [...]

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Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Ray Hilario

DS’ Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Batman: The Return Of Bruce Wayne #3 – While the Return of Bruce Wayne was briefly in contention, there’s no doubt that X-Men Legacy #237 was on another level. The sheer number of brilliant, stick-in-your-mind moments was off the scale. I mean, the master mold of the [...]

Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Astonishing X-Men #34, Batman Beyond #1, Captain America #607, Elephantmen #26, Green Lantern #55, Invincible Iron Man Annual #1, Madame Xanadu #24, Secret Avengers #2, The Flash #3, Thor #611, Turf #2, Unknown Soldier #21, Whatever Happened to Baron von Shock #2, Wonder Woman #600 | 3 Comments »

First Impressions 6/23/10

Posted on June 29, 2010 by joelopez101

FIRST IMPRESSIONS 6/23/10 Sea Bear and Grizzly Shark #1 By Ryan Ottley & Jason Howard (w/ an intro by Robert Kirkman) Price: $4.99 Brief Thoughts: Let’s say you’re bored and you have nothing else to read and you’re feeling in a wacky mood. Let’s say you’re in a wacky mood and you’re high on hydroponic [...]

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Sea Bear & Grizzly Shark #1 – Review

Posted on June 29, 2010 by dfstell

Written and drawn by Jason Howard & Ryan Ottley. Gray tones by Cliff Rathburn The Story: A grizzly bear living in the ocean, a killer great white shark living in the forest… Mayhem and chomping ensue! What’s Good: Everything! This is the awesome sauce that I wish we got to see more of in the [...]

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X-Men Legacy #237 – Review

Posted on June 28, 2010 by joelopez101

by Mike Carey (writer), Greg Land (artist) The Story: Magneto joins the fight against the army of Nimrods as X-Force finally gets their shot to shut down the mutant-killer robots once and for all. What’s Good: Script-wise, Carey continues delivering the chocolatey goodness that we’ve come to expect from this crossover as we prepare to [...]

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28 Days Later #12 – Review

Posted on June 28, 2010 by dfstell

By: Michael Alan Nelson (writer), Declan Shalvey (artist), William Farmer (colors) & Ed Dukeshire (letters) The Story: After getting captured by the U.S. military, our heroes must find a way to escape back into the “sanctuary” of a British countryside that is crawling with infected. Since this is the first review I’ve done of this [...]

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Kato Origins #2 – Review

Posted on June 28, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Jai Nitz (writer), Colton Worley (pencils and inks), Romulo Fajardo Jr. (colorist) The Story: Way of the Ninja, Part Two: A Korean grocer has been murdered. Kato, our favorite Japanese ninja sidekick, recognizes signs of ninja involvement that can only imply that he is a target too. The problem in tracking down people people [...]

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Powers #5 – Review

Posted on June 27, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Michael Avon Oeming (art), Nick Filardi (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: Christian hits rock bottom as his relationship with Heather suddenly falls apart but unbeknownst to him, Heather has two very big secrets. What’s Good: Oeming’s artwork is absolutely superb this month, but it’s really unique in that [...]

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Hulk #23 – Review

Posted on June 27, 2010 by joelopez101

by Jeph Loeb (writer), Ed McGuinness, Dale Keown, Sal Buscema, Mike Deodato, Herb Trimpe, Ian Churchill, John Romita Jr., Tim Sale, & Leinil Yu (artists) SPOILER WARNING! If you’re a trade-waiter and haven’t read the issue before this, then you might not want to read this review. Just sayin’. ————– The Story: The curtain is [...]

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Fantastic Four #580 – Review

Posted on June 27, 2010 by paladinking

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Neil Edwards (pencils), Andrew Currie (inks), Paul Mounts (colors), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: Franklin, Leech, and Johnny head to Arcade Toys for “the most impossibly awesome toy event ever.” What’s Good: With wacky characters like Arcade and Impossible Man and most of the action taking place in a madcap [...]

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American Vampire #4 – Review

Posted on June 26, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder & Stephen King (writers), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Pearl, the new American Vampire, finds a potential ally in her fight against the Euro-vamps. And, in the past, we continue to follow Skinner Sweet and learn a little more about the weaknesses of American Vampires. [...]

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Zatanna #2 – Review

Posted on June 26, 2010 by paladinking

by Paul Dini (writer), Stephane Roux (pencils & inks), Karl Story (inks), John Kalisz (colors), and Pat Brosseau (letters) The Story: Zatanna battles Fuseli in the realms of nightmare and Brother Night makes Detective Colton an offer he can’t refuse. What’s Good: Stephane Roux’s artwork in this issue is awesome. He takes his game up [...]

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The Joker’s Asylum: Killer Croc – Review

Posted on June 26, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Mike Raicht (writer), David Yardin and Cliff Richards (art), Rodney Ramos (inks, pg. 21), Joe Villarrubia (colors), Patrick Brosseau (letters) The Story: Another tale spun by the Clown Prince of Crime, this one dealing with Killer Croc’s escape from Arkham and his adoption by a severely dysfunctional criminal family. What’s Good: Although I’m a [...]

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Green Arrow #1 – Review

Posted on June 25, 2010 by jtmazz

By J.T. Krul (Writer), Diogenes Neves (Penciler), Vicente Cifuentes (Inker) The Story: Star City is in bad form. Political corruption has brought the middle class to a state of poverty, and the lower class to a state of whatever can be worse than poverty. Additionally, a mysterious forest has grown throughout out a part of [...]

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Wolverine: Weapon X #14 – Review

Posted on June 25, 2010 by paladinking

by Jason Aaron (writer), Ron Garney (pencils), Jason Keith & Matt Milla (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: We peek into the mind of the most successful Deathlok and his creation before Miranda and her commandos attempt to complete their desperate sabotage mission. What’s Good: Opening with an intense monologue and moving on to [...]

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Iron Man Legacy #3 – Review

Posted on June 25, 2010 by dfstell

By: Fred van Lente (writer), Steve Kurth (pencils), Allen Martinez (inks), John Rauch (colors) & Dave Lamphear (letters) The Story: Tony Stark’s adventures in Eastern Europe continue as he tries to escape from the bad guys who are applying intense selective pressure to the locals to try to create a new Tony Stark. Plus, Doom [...]

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Batman: Streets of Gotham #13 – Review

Posted on June 25, 2010 by dfstell

By: Paul Dini (story), Dustin Nguyen & Derek Fridolfs (story), Nguyen (pencils), Fridolfs (inks), John Kalisz (colors) & Sal Cipriano (letters). Manhunter Back-up by: Marc Andreyko (writer), Szymon Kudranski (art), Nick Filardi (colors) & Cipriano (letters) The Story: The minor character the Carpenter tries to design a way out of a murderous movie production that [...]

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Superman #700 – Review

Posted on June 24, 2010 by jtmazz

By James Robinson (Writer), Bernard Chang (Penciler), Dan Jurgens (Writer), J. Michael Straczynski (Writer), Eddy Barrows (Penciler), J.P. Mayer (Inker) DC celebrates its biggest title with a look at Superman’s past, present and future. All three, of which, look at the importance of Superman to Earth, and the need society has for him on his [...]

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Avengers #2 – Review

Posted on June 24, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The Avengers attempt to build a time machine with disastrous result and Wonder Man decides that it’s time for action. What’s Good: This issue is a definite improvement. Unlike last month’s unfortunate misstep, this [...]

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The Legion of Super-Heroes #2 – Review

Posted on June 24, 2010 by paladinking

by Paul Levitz (writer), Yildiray Cinar & Francis Portela (pencils), Wayne Faucher & Francis Portela (inks), Hi-Fi (colors), and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: Earth-Man joins his first mission with the Legion as the Legionnaires deal with the fall of Titan. Meanwhile, Saturn Queen returns to wreak havoc. What’s Good: In his return to writing [...]

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Thunderbolts #145 – Review

Posted on June 24, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (artist), Frank Martin (colorist) The Story: Luke Cage and the all new Thunderbolts have been tasked with cleaning up the fallout from ‘Siege’, but they’ll have to survive their encounter with Baron Zemo before they get a chance to prove themselves. The Good: Holy crap, it’s a rare thing [...]

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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #3 – Review

Posted on June 23, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (artist), Michael Lacombe (inker) The Story: Part Three, The Bones of Bristol Bay: Bruce Wayne is washed up on the shores outside of Gotham with pirates (Black Beard) and is mistaken for one himself. The other pirates hold him hostage so that he will lead him to the pirate’s [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #49 – Review

Posted on June 23, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Ardian Syaf (penciller), Vicente Cifuentes (inker) The Story: Revolt of the Alpha Lanterns, Part 2: On the robot planet Grenda, things go pretty bad for Jon Stewart investigating the weird behavior of the Alpha Lanterns. In the meantime, Green Lanterns Ganthet, Soro and Kyle Rayner head out to Grenda to see [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #635 – Review

Posted on June 23, 2010 by dfstell

The Grim Hunt, Part II by: Joe Kelly (writer), Michael Lark, Stefano Gaudiano & Matt Southworth (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) Hunting the Hunter back-up story by: J.M. DeMatteis (writer), Max Fiumara (art), Fabio D’Auria (colors) & Caramanga (letters) and additional untitled back-up by Stan Lee and Marcos Martin The Story: The [...]

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