• Categories

  • Archives

  • Top 10 Most Read

Green Lantern #58 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor (colors) The Story: Hope Burns Bright: Atrocitus and Sinestro show up at a prison that has been set on fire by the Butcher. They take care of a bit of business. In the meantime, Hal is still having his [...]

Filed under: DC Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #5 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Ryan Sook (penciller), Mick Gray (inks), Pere Perez (art), Jose Villarrubia (colors) The Story: The Return of Bruce Wayne, Part 5: Masquerade: Bruce Wayne wakes up in a hospital in the 1950s or so and a woman who needs a detective offers him a job (incidentally, investigating the murder of his [...]

Filed under: DC Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 11 Comments »

X-Men #4 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by dfstell

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Juan Vlasco (inks), Marte Gracia (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: Vampire Wolverine!  Whether that is a good thing or not is up to you. What’s Good: There are some good moments in this issue mostly revolving around Blade and Angel going on a vampire hunt at [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 6 Comments »

Superman #703 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By J. Michael Straczynski (writer), Eddy Barrows (pencils), J.P. Mayer (inks), Rod Reis (colors) and John J. Hill (letters) The Story: Superman continues his flat-footed journey of reconnection with the common man, but is interrupted first by Batman, and then by a common man who has quite suddenly gained some very uncommon powers… What’s Good: [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Amazing Spider-Man #645 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by dfstell

By: Mark Waid (writer), Paul Azaceta & Matthew Southworth (art), Javier Rodridguez (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: It’s Spidey on a rampage after he thinks that Menace’s baby (who he’d tried to protect) has died. What’s Good: This issue is a good example of trusting quality creators.  Mark Waid has written a lot [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Invincible Iron Man #31 – Review

Posted on October 13, 2010 by dfstell

By: Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: The penultimate chapter of the Stark Resilient / Detroit Steel story arc is here.  Can Stark demonstrate his new electric car for adoring fans while the Hammers are trying to kill him? What’s Good: This issue really shows off [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

The Making of The Walking Dead Documentary

Posted on October 13, 2010 by Ray Hilario

If you haven’t seen it yet, you can catch the 17-minute making of The Walking Dead, here.

Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Ray Hilario

DS’ Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Brightest Day #11 – It was a thin week with few bright lights. I’ll pass the crown to Brightest Day #11, because parts of it were working well. Most Anticipated: Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #5 – With all those comics out there that get published [...]

Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

S.H.I.E.L.D. #4 – Review

Posted on October 12, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Christina Strain (colors) Dear Jonathan Hickman, I think I’m in love with you. Being a recently divorced, heterosexual, thirty-something I don’t admit this easily to the Internet, but shit man, your stories excite me like a twenty-dollar hooker on a Friday night!!! You’ve had my attention ever since [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Comics You Should Be Reading

Posted on October 12, 2010 by paladinking

Welcome to a new feature here at WCBR, which will hopefully resurface periodically. Here we highlight series that we reviewers feel are not getting the readers, or the attention, that they deserve.  These are books that we’ve been particularly enjoying.  These are DC/Marvel books that should be in the top ten, or at least the [...]

Filed under: Features | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

CBLDF Liberty Annual 2010 – Review

Posted on October 11, 2010 by dfstell

By: Various including Darick Robertson, Fabio Moon, Gabriel Ba, Garth Ennis, Paul Pope, Evan Dorkin, Rob Liefeld, Gail Simone, Scott Morse, Geoff Johns, Scott Kolins, Brian Azzarello, Frank Miller, Terry Moore, Jeff Smith, Skottie Young, Jimmy Palmiotti, Amanda Conner, Ben McCool, Billy Tucci, Larry Marder and more The Story: Comic creators collaborate on an anthology [...]

Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Lady Mechanika #0 – Review

Posted on October 11, 2010 by dfstell

By: Joe Benitez (creator, writer & art), Peter Steigerwald (colors) & Josh Reed (letters) The Story: In a steampunky world, a mysterious & lovely mercenary comes to the aid of a half-mechanical monster. What’s Good: The big attraction on this title is Joe Benitez’s art.  If you see the image on the cover and like [...]

Filed under: Other | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Nancy in Hell #3 – Review

Posted on October 11, 2010 by dfstell

By: El Torres (writer), Antonio Vasquez (art), Francis Gamboa (colors) & Malaka Studios (letters) The Story: Nancy and Lucifer continue their attempt to escape hell. What’s Good: It is hard to find a lot to gush about in this comic.  There are still a few fun scenes in this issue, such as when Nancy uses [...]

Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Orc Stain #5 – Review

Posted on October 11, 2010 by dfstell

By: James Stokoe (writer, artist, colorist & one would assume letters, although it doesn’t say that) The Story: One-Eye the orc finds himself captured by agents of the Orctzar, but why does the Orctzar want to capture our hero? What’s Good: This is a really fun comic and whenever it releases, it is always among [...]

Filed under: Image Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Wolverine #2 – Review

Posted on October 10, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jason Aaron (writer), Renato Guedes (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist) The Story: His soul now trapped in Hell while his possessed body walks the Earth killing those closest to him, Logan is forced to answer for a lifetime of murder by battling his victims before they can break him completely. The Good: After what I [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics, Reviews | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Neonomicon #2 – Review

Posted on October 9, 2010 by dfstell

By: Alan Moore (writer), Jacen Burrows (art) & Juanmar (colors) The Story: The FBI’s investigation into a seeming cult takes a weird twist for the worse. What’s Good: Alan Moore is just a master of the medium.  The man has nine Eisner Awards for Best Writer.  NINE!  The next closest writers are two folks tied [...]

Filed under: Other | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments »

Redball 6 – Review

Posted on October 9, 2010 by tonyrak

By Ian and Jason Miller (writers), Jok (art), Estudio Haus (colors) You ever have one of those days? Detective Wayne Hambler sure has, especially since he died and woke up in Near Dis, a town without pity on the very cusp of Hell and populated by liars, thieves, and sinners all looking for a shot [...]

Filed under: Reviews, The Graphic Novel Reader | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

I, Zombie #6 – Review

Posted on October 9, 2010 by dfstell

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Michael Allred (art), Laura Allred (colors) & Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Now that we know where zombies, vampires & ghosts come from, what about were-terriers? What’s Good: Roberson has a pretty complex story to tell and has to deal with the challenge of establishing all of the expansive groundwork for [...]

Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment »

Chaos War #1 – Review

Posted on October 9, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente (writers), Khoi Pham (penciller), Tom Palmer (inker), Simon Bowland (letterer) The Story: Hercules returns from a death that never really happened, gets made fun of by the heroes of the Marvel U, fights with them needlessly and then uses his apparent semi-omnipotence to bring them along to fight [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 7 Comments »

Secret Six #26 – Review

Posted on October 8, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), J. Calafiore (art), Jason Wright (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Bane’s Six confront the natives of the jungle-underworld dwelling Skartatians. They must also deal with the interference of Scandal’s team, who have an assignment even more sinister than their own. What’s Good: I usually begin my Secret Six reviews [...]

Filed under: DC Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments »

Avengers Academy #5 – Reviw

Posted on October 8, 2010 by joelopez101

by Christos Gage (writer), Jorge Molina (penciller) The Story: Stryker recounts the events of the last few days, and his origin, to a silent Jocasta. The team gets a little hand-to-hand combat training from Steve Rogers himself.  A battle with Whirlwind on the streets of New York City inadvertently reveals the existence of the Academy [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Uncanny X-Force #1 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2010 by joelopez101

by Rick Remender (writer), Jerome Opena (artist) The Story: Wolverine and Archangel have assembled a new X-Force behind the X-Men’s backs, consisting of fellow X-Man Psylocke, merc with a mouth Deadpool and international thief Fantomex.  While on a mission, Deadpool discovers that one of the mutants’ deadliest adversaries, Apocalypse, has returned.  As the team battles [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

Brightest Day #11 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark, Patrick Gleason and Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty, Oclair Albert, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen (inkers) The Story: Father’s Day: Aquaman and Black Manta slap down, with all their fatherhood issues in tow. Ronnie and Jason (as Firestorm) do the same with Black Lantern [...]

Filed under: DC Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments »

American Vampire #7 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Las Vegas continues to have a vampire problem as the Hoover Dam is being built and something weird is going on with the two federal agents sent to help the local lawman. What’s Good: This is a really, really [...]

Filed under: Vertigo | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments »

Taskmaster #2 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2010 by dfstell

By: Fred Van Lente (writer), Jefte Palo (art), Jean-Francois Beaulieu (colors) & Dave Lanphear (letters) The Story: Taskmaster runs into trouble against Mexican mercenaries wearing death masks! What’s Good: One of the best experiences in comics is to read something where you can tell that the creators had a GREAT time writing/drawing the comic book.  [...]

Filed under: Marvel Comics | Tagged: , , , , , , , , , | Leave a Comment »

« Previous Page — Next Page »
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.

Join 75 other followers