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Previews – May 2012

Maybe we’ll start this as a new feature?  I’ll flip through Previews, tell you what I think is worthwhile and you can tell me I’m a moron.  Sound like fun? DARK HORSE - Axe Cop: President of the World #1 - At some point, this odd comic that is written by 8 year old Malachai Nicolle and [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #9 – Review

By: Kevin Eastman & Tom Waltz (story), Dan Duncan (art), Ronda Pattison (colors) The Story: Doesn’t matter how big a robot is once you stick a knife through its motherboard. The Review: I don’t know exactly when it happened—though I’m guessing probably sometime in the seventies—but at some point weirdness became an attractive quality to [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #8 – Review

By: Kevin Eastman & Tom Waltz (writers), Dan Duncan (artist), Ronda Pattison (colorist) The Story: It’s generally not a good idea to take your girlfriend down a sewer on the first date. The Review: The hot news this week is Michael Bay, director of the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film adaptation, plans to revitalize [...]

Rocketeer Adventures II #1 – Quick Review

By: Marc Guggenheim, Peter David & Stan Sakai (story), Sandy Plunkett, Bill Sienkiewicz, Sakai & Arthur Adams (art), Jeromy Cox, Dave Stewart & John Rauch (colors) and Scott Dunbier (editor) The Story: Another anthology of Rocketeer stories from top-shelf creative talent. Review: If you enjoyed Rockteer Adventures last time around, IDW is back with another helping of [...]

GI Joe #11 – Review

By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Robbie Robbins (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: As the Cobra Command crossover comes to a close, Cobra has just about cleared out the country of Nanzhao. A Few Things:  1. Entertaining ideas, but… - This has been an entertaining and creative storyline, [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #7 – Review

By: Kevin Eastman & Tom Waltz (writers), Dan Duncan (artist), Ronda Pattison (colorist) The Story: Can’t a turtle rest easy in his own sewer home without pests crawling in anymore? The Review: No matter how you think about it, there’s just a major element of campiness about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.  Their very concept [...]

Cobra #10 – Review

By: Mike Costa (writer), Alex Cal (breakdowns), Beni Lobel (finishes), J. Brown (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: As the new Cobra Commander takes over a SE Asian nation, his lieutenants begin to scheme against him. A Few Things:  1. The Cobra characters are so much more interesting. - Honestly, [...]

Snake Eyes #10 – Review

By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Alex Cal (breakdowns), Beni Lobel (finishes), J. Brown (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) and John Barber (editor) The Story: As Cobra is taking over the small country, Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow are going to have some business together. Review: I honestly wasn’t planning to review this issue.  Last week [...]

GI Joe #10 – Review

By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Shawn Lee (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: Cobra has taken over a sovereign country and is driving the civilians out!  The Joe’s have to stop them. Five Things:  1. Cobra is a pretty compelling enemy. – The best thing [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle #6 – Review

By: Kevin Eastman and Tom Waltz (writers), Dan Duncan (art), Ronda Pattison (colors) The Story: Allez ninja, allez ninja, allez! The Review: It’s been rather fascinating to watch the development of IDW’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Co-creator Kevin Eastman and script-writer Tom Waltz have been combining elements from the Turtle’s original comic series and the [...]

Cobra #9 – Review

By: Mike Costa (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: Cobra has taken over a SE Asian country.  The Joes want to stop them and the new Cobra Commander’s lieutenants are fighting amongst themselves. Three Things: 1. The story is really kinda [...]

Snake Eyes #9 – Review

By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: Cobra has taken command of a piss-ant country.  Snake Eyes & his team go in to cause them trouble. Four Things:  1. Pretty simple & linear story. – This is kind of [...]

GI Joe #9 – Review

By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Alex Cal (artist), J. Brown (colors), Shawn Lee (letters), Carlos Guzman (assistant editor) & John Barber (editor) The Story: The Joes must react to the first big act of the new Cobra Commander. Four things: [SPOILER WARNING] 1. Beginning of a new crossover story. – Coming out of the Cobra Civil [...]

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #5 – Review

By: Kevin Eastman & Tom Waltz (writers), Dan Duncan & Mateus Santolouco (artists), Ronda Pattison (colorist) The Story: Sorry Turtles, no one delivers pizza on Christmas Eve. The Review: Much like my experience with Static Shock, I knew the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a cartoon long before I read them in comics, and even [...]

Cobra #8 – Review

By: Mike Costa (writer), Antonio Fuso & Werther Dell’edera (art), Scarletgothica (colors), Shawn Lee (letters) and Carlos Guzman & John Barber (editors) The Story: Now that the new Cobra Commander has been named, how will the remaining high-level Cobra operatives organize themselves in the new organizational chart. Five Things:  1. Fuso is doing the best [...]

Snake-Eyes #8 – Review

By: Chuck Dixon (writer), Casey Maloney (pencils), Juan Castro & Chris Dreier (inks), Simon Gough & Romulo Fajardo, Jr. (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters) & Carlos Guzman & John Barber (editors) The Story: Snake-Eyes and Duke try to find a cure for a Cobra engineered bioweapon. Four Things: 1. Generally been enjoying GI Joe comics recently. - [...]

Quick-Hit Reviews – Week of August 31, 2011

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 [...]

Kill Shakespeare #12 – Review

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: The (other) epic saga of Hamlet, Richard III, Lady The Scottish Play, Othello, Juliet, Iago and Shakespeare comes to a conclusion in an epic, no-holds-barred battle to determine the fate of their world. What’s Good and [...]

That Hellbound Train #1 – Review

By: Robert Bloch (original story), Joe R. Lansdale & John L. Lansdale (comic adaptation), Dave Wachter (art), Alfredo Rodriguez (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters) & Bobby Curnow (edits) The Story: A young orphan makes an Faustian bargain. What’s Good: The art is great!  In fact, it was the promise of sequential art from Dave Wachter that [...]

Rocketeer Adventures #1 – Review

By: John Cassaday, Laura Martin, Chris Mowry, Mike Mignola, Dave Stewart, Mike Allred, Laura Allred, Jim Silke, Kurt Busiek, Michael Kaluta The Story: An anthology of stories about Dave Stewart’s Rocketeer by an All-Star cast of creators. What’s Good: Just look at that list of creators!  I’m not even a huge Rocketeer fan, but when [...]

Kill Shakespeare #10 – Review

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Chris Mowry (letters) The Story: Juliet and Othello lead their ragtag band of Prodigals against Richard’s army, with predictably dire results. Things explode, people die, and Lady Macbeth uses her dark magic to ensure that the Prodigals remain on the defensive. [...]

Kill Shakespeare #9 – Review

By Conor McCreery and Anthony Del Col (writers), Andy Belanger (art), Ian Herring (colors), Shawn Lee (letters) The Story: This is the issue that all dedicated Kill Shakespeare readers have been waiting for since the very beginning…Hamlet finally comes face to face with the wizard Shakespeare. Will they fight? Ally? Betray each other? Not say [...]

Doc Macabre #3 – Review

By: Steve Niles (writer), Bernie Wrightson (art), Tom Smith (colors), Shawn Lee (letters) & Tom Waltz (editor) The Story: Doc Macabre gets to the bottom of the hauntings plaguing his town. What’s Good: What a great little 3-issue story this was.  I’m not sure I’d call it horror, because it isn’t scary or gory.  It’s [...]

Quick-hit Reviews – Week of Jan. 12, 2011

Our pull lists are all a little too long to give a full review to every comic we read in a given week.  So, here are a few quick thoughts on a few issues that were slipping through the cracks… Captain America: Man Out of Time #3  - I’ve like this series from the start, [...]

Doc Macabre #2 – Review

By: Steve Niles (writer), Bernie Wrightson (art), Tom Smith (colors), Neil Uyetake (letters) & Tom Waltz (editor) The Story: Young Doc Macabre ties to deal with a ghostly uprising. What’s Good: Lookie who the artist is: Bernie Wrightson.  He is legitimately one of the real masters of the comic art form to come along in [...]

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