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Avengers Academy #21 – Review

Posted on November 5, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jeremy Cox & Veronica Gandini (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), John Denning & Jake Thomas (assistant editors) & Bill Rosemann (editor) The Story: After the destruction of the Infinite Mansion during Fear Itself, the Avengers Academy needs a new home, and possibly a new direction. Five [...]

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American Vampire #21 – Review

Posted on November 3, 2011 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Jordi Bernet (artist), Dave McCaig (colors), Jared K. Fletcher (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: We’ve enjoyed our stories of this new breed of American Vampires, but where did they come from? Five Things: 1. Origins of American Vampires.  Scott Snyder’s exploration of this new breed [...]

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Swamp Thing #3 – Review

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Yanick Paquette & Victor Ibáñez (artists), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: This time, Alec has a legit reason for barely remembering making out with you. The Review: As recent issues have shown us, the world has become a much more dangerous, disturbing place, even for superheroes.  So it goes without saying [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #673 – Review

Posted on November 3, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Frank Martin (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The good guys have defeated the threats posed by Spider-Island.  Now they have to deal with the fallout. Five Things:  1. Settles things back down and sets the new status quo.  Lots happened [...]

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Stormwatch #3 – Review

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (artist), Alex Sinclair & Pete Pantazis (colorists) The Story: Cloudy, with a chance of meteors that may devastate the planet.  Bundle up! The Review: Whenever you have a band of super-powered individuals banding together to fight evil, comparisons to the Justice League are inevitable.  Since the League is universally [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #1 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by dfstell

By: Kieron Gillen (writer), Carlos Pacheco (pencils), Cam Smith (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: We’ve seen Team Wolverine’s light-hearted high school.  Surely Team Cyclops will be up to more adult things. Five Things:  1. Really like the more adult tone of this title.  It’s too soon [...]

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Action Comics #3 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Gene Ha (guest artist), Brad Anderson & Art Lyon (colorists) The Story: Corrupt people rabidly spouting nonsense on TV—what will fiction think of next? The Review: Anybody who’s read much of Superman has wondered this question at some point: which is the real alter-ego, Superman [...]

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Thor: The Deviants Saga #1 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Rob Rodi (writer), Stephen Segovia (penciller), Jason Paz (inker), Andy Troy (colorist) The Story: Ereshkigal, an uncommonly ancient deviant (of the Eternal-Human-Deviant triangle created by Jack Kirby in his Eternals #1 of 1977) is scavenging about the ruins of Asgard for some device that might help her get back into power in the Deviant [...]

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Animal Man #3 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jeff Lemire (writer), Travel Foreman (artist), Lovern Kindzierski (colorist) The Story: It’ll take a hardy stomach not to go vegan after this. The Review: Horror is a tricky thing to create.  While we all know how unsettling the foreign and bizarre can be, it takes something more to elevate them to concepts that frighten [...]

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Detective Comics #3 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written and Drawn by Tony S. Daniel, inks by Sandu Florea, colors by Tomeu Morey The Story: Batman faces off against the Dollmaker and his twisted family. The Good: There was a lot of action in this issue. Brutal, Batman-getting-his-ass-kicked action. And we get to see how much balls Batman has–or still has, despite the [...]

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Dean’s Top Picks

Posted on November 2, 2011 by dfstell

Best Of The Past Week: Wolverine and the X-Men #1 – This was a really strong week for Marvel as either Amazing Spider-Man #672 or Secret Avengers #18 could have been the pick here.  But, in the end, it was impossible to resist the great job that Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo did on this [...]

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Secret Avengers #18 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by dfstell

By: Warren Ellis (writer), David Aja & Raul Allen (art), Dave Lanphear (letters), Lauren Sankovitch (associate editor) & Tom Brevoort (editor) The Story: Steve Rogers, Sharon Carter & Shang Chi on a mission to stop a threat from another universe. Five Things: 1. Done-in-one format is great.  These last three issues by Warren Ellis have [...]

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X-Men: First to Last HC – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Chris Yost; Now: Penciled by Paco Media, inked by Juan Vlasco, and colored by Mrate Gracia; Then: Art by Dalabor Talajic, colored by Juan Vlasco. The Story: One of the apes who got the crap beaten out of him with a femur bone in 2001: A Space Odyssey has his own bone to [...]

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The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 3 – Review

Posted on November 1, 2011 by dfstell

Original Air Date: October 30, 2011 Five Things:  Full SPOILERS below… 1. I don’t have to outrun the bear, I just have to outrun you.  Have you ever heard that punchline?  I guess we got a small taste of humans being the true danger last season (Merle, that street gang), but the ending of this [...]

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Voodoo #2 – Review

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Ron Marz (writer), Sami Basri & Hendry Prasetya (artists), Jessica Kholinne (colorist) The Story: One minute you’re making love, the other you’re at each other’s throats. The Review: Some people gave this title’s debut issue a hard time for its starting choice of setting, and perhaps this turned off readers from the series early [...]

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All-Star Western #2 – Review

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti (writers), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist), Jordi Bernet (feature artist), Rob Schwager (feature colorist) The Story: As long as there are donuts at the end of it, sign me up for the Religion of Crime! The Review: At first, it wasn’t clear why of all the new 52, this [...]

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