Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Batman #9 – This wasn’t the best issue of Batman we’ve gotten from Snyder and Capullo, but still serves as evidence of their quality as creators. Even in an off week, they’re still taking home the cheese. It seems that not even a stupid crossover event can thwart [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Saga #2 – Brian K. Vaughn and Fiona Staples are making a lot of other comics look B-A-D right now. Seriously….you read the first couple issues of Saga and some of the other creator-owned comics I love suddenly don’t seem quite as hot and the Marvel/DC stuff starts [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Wolverine and the X-Men #88 – I do love Chris Bachalo and even though he had a few story-telling stumbles in this issue where I thought, “Huh? What’s going on?” the combination of Bachalo’s energetic art and Jason Aaron’s fast-paced and fun script are just dynamite. I really [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: The Unwritten #35.5 – What a great issue this was! It gave us a chance to see the events of The Unwritten since the beginning of the series through the eyes of a “henchman”. This dude is just a guy who has a job working for the [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Prophet #23 – This series is probably legit now: Three really HOT issues in a row. The world-building is great and the art is great, but what sets the series apart is this sorta stoicism that I’m not getting from any other comic right now. Everything in this [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: The Unwritten #35 – What a great week for comics! My method for picking a “winner” is to take the stack of comics and separate them into “possible contenders” and “nope”. This week, the “possible contender” stack was much larger than “nope”. My runner-up is Saga #1, but I [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Orc Stain #7 – It’s been a long time coming, but Orc Stain is such a special comic due to the art and design capabilities of James Stokoe. It’s hard to even describe the detail that the guy puts into his art. Just go Google Image search “stokoe [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Batman #6 – This was easy. For my money, I think this was a better comic than Batman #5 which everyone (including me) gushed over. The art team of Capullo/Glapion/FCO is giving us a wonderful and fresh visual look on Batman. It’s art that we’ll see [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Amazing Spider-Man #679 – The entirety of the Dan Slott run on ASM has been pretty darn good, but when he is partnered with Humberto Ramos the quality goes to a new level and we get a comic that can win “issue of the week” much of the [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: The Unwritten #33.5 – It’s nice to give a call out to this series that has been consistently “very good”, but hasn’t had a singularly excellent issue in awhile. This was it. Yay! For the last couple of months, the series has double-shipped with the “regular” issues following [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Batman #5 – It seemed that all anyone wanted to talk about with this comic was the twisting orientation of the pages, and it was an interesting gimmick, but behind this trick was a really great comic book. It takes a really gifted creative team to effectively [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Wolverine and the X-Men #4 – I love the barely controlled chaos that is the Jean Grey School! Seeing the faculty trying to control this truly bizarre mash-up of students is just a delight. I hate to advocate for new X-series, but wouldn’t a “New Mutants: 2012″ series [...]
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FORWARD Welcome to WCBR’s year end comic book industry report card. Sorry it’s a little, but we figure it’s better late than never. But just like 2010′s list, WCBR’s report card is a list of titles that we enjoyed and disliked for the entire year 2011. To encourage debate amongst the writers (and eventually you [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Rachel Rising #4 – This was kinda a “blah” week for comics with Marvel shoveling up a big, fat pile of “okay” and that gives an opportunitiy for some interesting choices like Rachel Rising #4. Nothing that remarkable happened inside the pages of RR; we didn’t begin a [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Witch Doctor: Resurrection One-Shot – It’s such a shame that the 4-issue Witch Doctor miniseries debuted right as DC was relaunching their whole universe because DC kinda sucked all the air out of the room and it’s allowed the OUTSTANDING new comic series to fly under the [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Daredevil #7 – What a nice change of pace this issue was! It featured an injured Matt Murdock stranded in a snowstorm with a bunch of blind kids. You have to take some leaps of faith on the story (i.e. Why how has DD thrived in NYC [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Severed #5 – This comic scores of a couple of fronts. First, it’s well written and illustrated. In my opinion, reviewers get sloppy when praising “writing” and use it to mean “having good ideas”. Severed is well written. The pages and dialog just have an elegant flow [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Avenging Spider-Man #2 – This was a quality comic, but it did kinda surprise me that it was the “best”. But, all the other comics had some obvious flaws and it wasn’t a very heavy week for me anyway. So….backhanded compliment is concluded. You could summarize this [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Thunderbolts #163 – Did you know that this is the 20th straight really good (“B” or better) issue that Jeff Parker has done on Thunderbolts since I started reading it after Siege? So, he has 36 more to catch DiMaggio, but that is about a good a [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Wolverine #14 – Well, that was a sharp stick in the eye, huh? This comic gets the award for giving me something I did not remotely see coming. I actually thought this arc has just been “okay” as Wolverine has been fighting his way past a series [...]
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Dean’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Loose Ends #2 – This series just keeps on bringing it. I always shake my head at people who anoint a series as “great” after one issue because so many fail to follow through, but Loose Ends seems to be doing it. For one thing, the art [...]
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Alex’s Top Picks Best From The Past Week: Detective Comics #881 – The finale to one of the best Batman stories ever from the industry’s hottest new writer is, in my mind, quite possibly the best single issue of the year. All too often, great series or runs end in lackluster fashion. This is not [...]
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