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WCBR’s Picks Of The Week

Posted on September 8, 2011 by dfstell

Best From The Past Week: Secret Avengers #16 – This series hadn’t sucked or anything like that, but it hadn’t been awesome very often (probably not since that stand alone issue ~#5 where we met Max Fury).  Mix in some Warren Ellis and don’t bind him too strongly to Fear Itself or whatever else is [...]

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Haunt #17 – Review

Posted on September 8, 2011 by dfstell

By: Robert Kirkman (writer), Greg Capullo & Mr. Sheldon (pencils), Jonathan Glapion, Todd McFarlane & LeBeau Underwood (inks), FCO Plascencia & Ivan Plascencia, Comicraft (letters) & Jen Cassidy (managing editor) The Story: A final duel with the Apparition comes to an ending with help from an unlikely source. The Review: As you can tell from [...]

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Secret Avengers #16 – Review

Posted on September 8, 2011 by dfstell

By: Warren Ellis (writer), Jamie McKelvie (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist), Dave Lanphear (letters), Lauren Sankovitch (associate editor) & Tom Brevoort (editor) The Story: The Secret Avengers find a Secret Empire base under Cincinnati.  Chaos ensues. Review: This issue was just what Secret Avengers needed.  Brubaker’s run on the title wasn’t bad, but it was uninspired and [...]

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Quick-Hit Reviews – Week of August 31, 2011

Posted on September 8, 2011 by dfstell

Quick-Hits has been on “vacation” for awhile, but is back this week as there are a number of comics for which there wasn’t time to do a full review.  Most were pretty good… Vescell #1 – I didn’t count the pages in this first issue from Image, but it felt like it was ~40 pages [...]

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Witchblade #147 – Review

Posted on September 5, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Ron Marz (writer), Stjepan Sejic (artist), Troy Peteri (letters) The Story: Don’t you hate it when problems seem to hit all at once? Sara does. First she gets investigated by Internal Affairs (who now seem to know way more than they should about the Witchblade), David Irons is being his usual obtuse and unhelpful [...]

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Butcher Baker, The Righteous Maker #6 – Review

Posted on September 4, 2011 by dfstell

By: Joe Casey (writer), Mike Huddleston (art & colors), Rus Wooton (letters), Sonia Harris (graphic design) The Story: Butcher Baker in the clutches of Jihad Jones.  Oh my! The Review: This continues to be the book that it was when it launched: A comic unafraid to show just about any kind of story with wonderful [...]

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Elephantmen #34 – Review

Posted on September 4, 2011 by dfstell

War Toys II by: Richard Starkings (writer & letterer), Boo Cook (art), Gregory Wright, Cook & Axel Medellin (colors) Panya back-up by: Monifa Aldridge (writer) & Axel Medellin (art & colors) The Story: In the main story, we revisit the Elephantmen war in virus-ravaged Europe while in the back-up we learn more about the origin [...]

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Spider-Island: Deadly Hands of Kung-Fu #1 – Review

Posted on September 4, 2011 by dfstell

By: Antony Johnston (writer), Sebastian Fiumara (pencils), John Lucas (inks), Dan Brown (colors), Joe Sabino (letters) & Alejandro Arbona (editor) The Story: Shang Chi, the Master of Kung Fu, runs into some of the Immortal Weapons for the Iron Fist stories during Spider-Island. What’s Good: Two reasons to buy this… One, if you’re a Shang [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #668 – Review

Posted on September 1, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island really get’s moving as the good guys start to actually try to solve the problem. What’s Good: I was a little hard on Amazing Spider-Man #667 a few [...]

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Incredible Hulks #635 – Review

Posted on September 1, 2011 by dfstell

Heart of the Monster by: Greg Pak (writer), Paul Pelletier (art), Danny Miki (inks), Morry Hollowell (colors) & Simon Bowland (letters) Conclusion by: Pak (writer), Tom Grummett (art), Cory Hamscher & Scott Hanna (inks), Jesus Aburtov (colors) & Bowland (letters) Jake Thomas (assistant editor) & Mark Paniccia (editor) The Story: Greg Pak wraps up the [...]

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Warlord of Mars: Fall of Barsoom #2 – Review

Posted on September 1, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Robert Place Napton (writer), Roberto Castro (artist), Alex Guimaraes (colors), Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator), Joseph Rybandt (editor) The Story: On the Barsoom of 100,000 years ago, the scientist Tak Nan Lee from Korad races against time to find a way to replenish Mars’ atmosphere before there is nothing left. And he learns something of [...]

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