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Amazing Spider-Man #686 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Frank Martin, Jr. (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The plot twists always hit in the penultimate act. Review (with SPOILERS): Pretty hot issue guys!  Honestly, I thought the first couple of issues of this Spidey-event were a little tepid.  Things seemed [...]

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Captain America #12 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2012 by paladinking

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Patrick Zircher (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The identity of Scourge, and the man pulling his strings, are revealed. The Review:  With this second issue, this arc is really starting to seem a like a “righting of the ship” of Captain America since the relaunch.  Really, [...]

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Fantastic Four #606 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2012 by paladinking

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Ron Garney (art), Jason Keith (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: The Fantastic Four go on a mission in a strange environment to save the life of an old friend. The Review:  I think Hickman came into this with a good idea, but due to comics being just as much [...]

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The Mighty Thor #14 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2012 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pepe Larraz (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Sabino (letters) The Story:  Thor finds himself trapped in his own nightmare, while Enchantress takes more pounds of flesh from Donald Blake than he expected. The Review:  It’s always an annoying situation when you get issues like this that are divided into two [...]

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Secret Avengers #27 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2012 by paladinking

by Rick Remender (writer), Renato Guedes (art), Bettie Breitweiser & Matthew Wilson (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: Mar-Vell, Noh-Varr, and Ms. Marvel deliver a beatdown on a Hala gone mad. The Review: This is an issue where in many respects, the script plays second-fiddle to the art.  Much as was the case last [...]

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Journey into Mystery #638 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2012 by paladinking

by Kieron Gillen, Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Carmine Di Giandomenico (art), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: As they run wild, we learn that everything we thought we knew about the history of the Disir is wrong. The Review:  While Journey into Mystery is one of favourite books, I’ll admit [...]

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Thunderbolts #174 – Review

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jeff Parker (story), Declan Shalvey (art), Frank Martin Jr. (colors) The Story: Centurius discovers the secrets of hair growth, to Fixer’s benefit. The Review: Time-traveling is a messy business, not just within a story, but for storytelling purposes in general.  As much fun as all that period-hopping can be, they usually tend to implode [...]

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John Carter: The Gods of Mars #3 – Review

Posted on May 23, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Sam Humphries (story), Ramón Pérez (art), Jordie Bellaire (colors) The Story: People throw swords at you to show moral support.  This really is a different world. The Review: I personally view the purely written mediums of poetry and prose as superior to every other form of art because of how much substance they can [...]

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Venom #18 – Review

Posted on May 21, 2012 by paladinking

By: Rick Remender & Cullen Bunn (writers), Lan Medina (pencils), Nelson Decastro (inks), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: Flash races to get to Betty before Jack and the Savage Six. The Review:  With co-writer in tow, it’s another solid outing for Venom.  Aside from the brief Circle of Six crossover, it’s [...]

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The Invincible Iron Man #517 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2012 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Stane goes poking around his own body, Spymaster wreaks office havoc, Tony removes the Extremis Armour, and “Detroit Steel” gets creepy. The Review:  Matt Fraction gets a lot of slack for the decompression present in a lot of his [...]

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The Avengers #26 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2012 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Walter Simonson (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jason Keith (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Cap sends Thor and a team of Avengers to space on a suicide mission to head off the Phoenix.  However, all is not what it seems for Noh-Varr. The Review:  Let’s be clear here: the [...]

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Daredevil #13 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2012 by paladinking

by Mark Waid (writer), Khoi Pham (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Javier Rodriguez (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Matt fights for his life against Megacrime, still holding onto the Omega Drive The Review:  You’ve got to feel for Khoi Pham.  Daredevil has had some really, really great artists work on it (Marcos Martin, Paolo [...]

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Avengers vs. X-Men #4 – Review

Posted on May 17, 2012 by paladinking

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Laura Martin (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: As the Phoenix streaks towards Earth, Hope tries to make a deal with Wolverine. The Review:  In a twelve-issue maxi-series, issues like this are all but inevitable – the dreaded, treading water, transitional issue. Much [...]

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X-Factor #236 – Review

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Roman Colombo

Written by Peter David, Art by Leonard Kirk, colors by Matt Milla The Story: Shatterstar in a fight that is more awesome than anything he’s been in for the last ten years. Awesome. The Review: (This won’t take long) I read, through Peter David’s twitter feed, a review that called this issue a “return to [...]

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Takio #1 – Review

Posted on May 15, 2012 by dfstell

By: Brian Michael Bendis & Michael Avon Oeming (writing and art), Nick Filardi (colors) and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: Two sisters deal with typical young kid problems while also coming to grips with their newly acquired superpowers. Recap/Review: The first thing to keep in mind is that Takio is not necessarily a comic for “us”.  By [...]

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The Avengers – Movie Review

Posted on May 13, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

The Story: When these guys show up, it’s your signal to stock up on disaster insurance. The Review: Don’t take this as a sweeping statement of superhero movies, but I tend to think they work best when they’re just straight-up action-adventure vehicles.  Just give people what they want: plenty of thrills and laughs, a solid [...]

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The Punisher #11 – Review

Posted on May 12, 2012 by paladinking

by Greg Rucka (writer), Mirko Colak (art), Dan Brown & Jim Charalampidis (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Detective Warren Bolt comes clean about his relationship with the Punisher after a crazy night with Frank in Times Square killing….zombies? The Review: There are two ways of reading this comic.  On the one hand, you [...]

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Journey into Mystery #637 – Review

Posted on May 12, 2012 by paladinking

by Kieron Gillen, Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Carmine di Giandomenico (art), Andy Troy (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: So what did Sigurd’s spell do?  Not that much…it just turned all the Asgardian gods into humans. The Review:  What an utterly bizarre issue. Of course, that’s rather the point.  Through Sigurd’s spell, [...]

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Captain America #11 – Review

Posted on May 10, 2012 by paladinking

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Patrick Zircher (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Someone’s leaking SHIELD intel to a vigilante who’s taken to killing reformed criminals in SHIELD’s witness protection program. The Review:  As another arc of the relaunched Captain America begins, the same problem rears its head again.  Put simply, the [...]

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The New Avengers #26 – Review

Posted on May 10, 2012 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  K’un-Lun gets its new Iron Fist as well as a very special guest. The Review: This issue proves that last issue wasn’t just a fluke, one-issue thing: despite not featuring a single Avenger, being set in the past, [...]

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Venom #17 – Review

Posted on May 7, 2012 by paladinking

By: Rick Remender & Cullen Bunn (writers), Kev Walker (pencils), Terry Pallot (inks), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Flash attempts to kill Crime-Master to extricate himself from his situation once and for all. The Review:  The first thing to address with this issue are the two big additions to the creative [...]

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The Invincible Iron Man #516 – Review

Posted on May 4, 2012 by paladinking

By: Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  Hammer makes being Iron Man impossible; Stane finds himself trapped with his back against the wall; the mole within Stark Resilient is revealed. The Review:  The sudden resurgence of Matt Fraction’s Invincible Iron Man after Fear Itself has been [...]

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Daredevil #12 – Review

Posted on May 4, 2012 by paladinking

By: Mark Waid (writer), Chris Samnee (art), Javier Rodriguez (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Matt and Kirsten go on a date which leads to Matt telling a tale from he and Foggy’s days at Columbia Law. The Review:  This issue is really yet another effort by Mark Waid to expand the variety of [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #685 – Review

Posted on May 4, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (art), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The classic “middle issue” where the action transitions from the set-up (i.e. is Doc Ock possibly trying to stop global warming) to the big finale. Recap/Review (with mild SPOILERS): This was [...]

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The Defenders #6 – Review

Posted on May 4, 2012 by paladinking

By: Matt Fraction (writer), Victor Ibanez (art), Tom Palmer & Terry Pallot (finishes), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: Delving into ancient secrets, Danny and the Surfer discover a connection between the Concordance Engines and the Prince of Orphans, as well as an old, forgotten team of superheroes – the awesomely named [...]

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