Posted on February 22, 2012 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: American Vampire #24, Aquaman #6, Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X #5, Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #2, Captain America and Bucky #627, Fantastic Four #603, Mighty Thor #11, Morning Glories #16, Secret Avengers #23, The Flash #6, Uncanny X-Force #22, Venom #13.3, Wolverine & the X-Men #6 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on February 16, 2012 by dfstell
Best From The Past Week: Fearless Dawn: Secret of the Swamp One-Shot – A LOT of good comics in the past week (with Severed #7 and Wolverine and the X-Men #5 being my other two favorites). Honestly, sometimes when I have a virtual “tie” like this, I choose the winner based on how many panels each [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #679.1, Batman #6, Daredevil #9, Glamourpuss #23, Thunderbolts #170 | 2 Comments »
Posted on February 8, 2012 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Batwoman #6, Blue Estate #9, Captain America #8, Cavewoman: Feeding Grounds #1, Demon Knights #6, Frankenstein #6, Green Lantern #6, Incredible Hulk #5, Journey into Mystery #634, Northlanders #48, Powers #8, PunisherMAX #22, Scarlet Spider #2, The Unwritten #34, Thief of Thieves #1, Wolverine and the X-Men #5 | 1 Comment »
Posted on February 2, 2012 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Action Comics #6, Alpha Girl #1, Amazing Spider-Man #679, Animal Man #6, Defenders #3, Fatale #2, I Zombie #22, Rachel Rising #2, Rachel Rising #2 review, Swamp Thing #6, Sweet Tooth #30, The Punisher #8, Uncanny X-Force #21, Uncanny X-Men #6, Winter Soldier #1 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 25, 2012 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: American Vampire #23, Aquaman #5, Bulletproof Coffin: Disinterred #1, Captain America and Bucky #626, Creepy Comics #7, Elephantmen #37, Fantastic Four #602, FF #14, Mighty Thor #10, The Flash #5, The Unwritten #33.5, The Walking Dead #93 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 18, 2012 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #678, Avengers #21, Batman #5, Cobra #9, Daredevil #8, Invincible Iron Man #512, Legion of Monsters #4, Moon Knight #9, Morning Glories #15, Superior #7, Uncanny X-Men #5 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 12, 2012 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #677, Batwoman #5, Captain America #7, Demon Knights #5, Frankenstein #5, Green Lantern #5, Incredible Hulk #4, Journey into Mystery #633, New Avengers #20, Scalped #55, Secret Avengers #21, Severed #6, The Activity #2, Unwritten #33, Wolverine #300, Wolverine & the X-Men #4, Wolverine and the X-Men #4 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on January 5, 2012 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Action Comics #5, Animal Man #5, Avengers: X-Sanction #2, Defenders #2, Defenders #3, Detective Comics 5, Fatale 1, GI Joe #9, Rachel Rising #4, Stormwatch #5, Swamp Thing #5, Sweet Tooth #29, The Punisher 7, Thunderbolts #168, Uncanny X-Men #4, Vescell #5, Wolverine and the X-Men: Alpha & Omega #1, X-Men #23 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 28, 2011 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: american vampire #22, Aquaman #4, Avengers: The Children's Crusade #8, Captain America #5, Captain America #6, FF #13, I, Mighty Thor #9, Secret Avengers #20, Spaceman #3, The Flash #4, The Unwritten #32.5, Uncanny X-Men #3, Vampire #4, Witch Doctor: Resuscitation One-Shot | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 22, 2011 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #676, Avengers #20, Batman #4, Daredevil #7, Defenders Strange Heroes #1, Lady Mechanika #3, Last Battle One-Shot, The Activity #1, Thunderbolts #167, Uncanny X-Force #19 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 7, 2011 by dfstell
Best From The Past Week: Wolverine #19 – This was just a really funny book. Not so much in a way that detracts from the gruff and grim character of Wolverine, but more in a smart-ass, black-humor kind of way. I love it. And it was also great to see a couple of characters like [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #675, Avenging Spider-Man #2, Hack/Slash #10, I Zombie #20, Sweet Tooth #28, X-Club #1, X-Men #22 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 30, 2011 by dfstell
Best of the Past Week: Wolverine and the X-Men #2 – Even though it was a light week volume wise, there was a LOT of quality last week (Secret Avengers and Cap & Bucky were also excellent), but my favorite was Wolverine and the X-Men #2. It just has such a different tone than what [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Bomb Queen VII #1, Daredevil #6, Haunt #19, Spaceman #2, Thunderbolts #166, Uncanny X-Men #2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 22, 2011 by dfstell
Best Of The Past Week: Batman #3 – The goodness just keeps on flowing with this story. You have to disconnect the part of your brain that wants you to think that Bruce Wayne is the master of Gotham; this is a new Batman and maybe he doesn’t know everything. The whole owls concept where [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Captain America & Bucky #624, Fantastic Four #600, Scalped #54, Secret Avengers #29, Vescell #4, Wolverine & the X-Men #2 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on November 15, 2011 by DS Arsenault
Best of the Past Week: Ghost Rider #5 –Ghost Rider is a character that keeps teasing on the edge of my radar, and when they made a new, female Ghost Rider, my first thought was that this was a marketing-driven creative decision. I tuned into GR #5 this week and to my delight, I think [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Carbon Grey Origins #1, Ghost Rider #5, Severed #4, Thunderbolts #165 | 8 Comments »
Posted on November 9, 2011 by dfstell
Best From The Past Week: Uncanny X-Men #1 – One of the problems the X-books have faced over the last few years was that there were LOTS of books, but they all seemed kinda the same: similar characters on the teams, similar types of stories, etc. Kieron Gillen has made two big things happen in [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Avenging Spider-Man #1, Batwoman #3, Loose Ends #3, Point One #1, Rachel Rising #3, Uncanny X-Force #17, Unwritten #31 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #673, American Vampire #20, Animal Man #3, Avengers Academy #21, Giant-Size Elephantmen #1, Hack/Slash #9, Infinite Vacation #3, Six Guns #1, Swamp Thing #3, Sweet Tooth #27, Uncanny X-Men #1, Witch Doctor #4 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 19, 2011 by dfstell
Best From The Past Week: American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #5 – Endings are always hard. Consider how much gushing the blog and podcasting element of the comic community does over #1 issues and then how the babble dies down because the creators can’t close the deal. Not a problem here. Scott Snyder still [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X #2, Batman #2, Cold War #1, Fear Itself #7 (TGIO!), Hulk #43, Justice League #2, Near Death #2, Superior #6 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on October 12, 2011 by dfstell
Best From The Past Week: Severed #3 – Lots of good comics last week that ended up in a figurative pig-pile: Sweet Tooth #26 had that creepy story and great Matt Kindt art, I Zombie had that uncluttered story and awesome Jay Stephens art. Vescell #2 is a fun, sexy romp. But I think Severed [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #671, AMERICAN VAMPIRE: SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST #5, Batwoman #2, Blue Estate #6, Irredeemable #30, Legion of Monsters #1, Morning Glories #13, Pigs #2, SHIELD #3, Unwritten #30, X-Men: Regenesis #1 | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 4, 2011 by dfstell
Best From The Past Week: Captain America & Bucky #622 – This was a really hard choice because the runners-up were equally high quality, but Cap & Bucky edges them out because it managed to do this in a self-contained issue. It isn’t the beginning of something exciting (like American Vampire #19) or the middle story [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Animal Man #2, Hulk #42, Severed #3, Swamp Thing #2, Sweet Tooth #26, Thunderbolts #164, X-Men Schism #5 | 2 Comments »
Posted on September 28, 2011 by dfstell
Best From The Past Week: Batman #1 – That was pretty easy. Scott Snyder pens a script that is both a good starting point for someone who heard about this new 52 thing and fanboys who have read hundreds of Batman comics over the years. That’s no mean feat and what helps him do it [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: All-Star Western #1, Amazing Spider-Man #670, American Vampire #19, Brilliant #1, Elephantmen #35, Fear Itself: Hulk vs. Dracula #2, Kick Ass 2 #4, Rachel Rising #2, Secret Avengers #17 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 21, 2011 by dfstell
Best of the Past Week: Amazing Spider-Man #669 – It’s just nuts how much fun this Spider-Island “event” is, especially when you compare it to the abject failure that Fear Itself has turned into. With Spider-Island, the main story running through the pages of Amazing Spider-Man is electric with Slott and Ramos doing their thing [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Avengers: The Children's Crusade #7, Batman #1, Game of Thrones #1, Hulk #41, Spider-Island: Cloak & Dagger #2, Thunderbolts #163.1, Treehouse of Horror #17, X-Men #18, X-Men: Schism $4 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 14, 2011 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: 27: Second Set #1, Amazing Spider-Man #669, American Vampire: Survival of the Fittest #4, Criminal: Last of the Innocent #4, Frankenstein: Agent of Shade #1, Pigs #1, Scalped #52, Severed #2, Uncanny X-Force #15, Unwritten #29 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: 50 Girls 50 #4, Action Comics #1, Animal Man #1, Atomic Robo: Ghost of Station X #1, Cavewoman Snow #3, Critter #2, Hack/Slash #7, Hulk #40, Irredeemable #29, Men of War #1, Morning Glories #12, Swamp Thing #1, Sweet Tooth #25, Thunderbolts #163, X-Men #17 | Leave a Comment »
Posted on August 31, 2011 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: Amazing Spider-Man #668, Butcher Baker #6, Elephantmen #34, Flashpoint #5, Haunt #17, Incredible Hulks #635, Justice League #1, The Mighty Thor #5 | 1 Comment »
Posted on August 24, 2011 by Ray Hilario
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 [...]
Filed under: Picks of the Week | Tagged: American Vampire #18, Astonishing X-Men #41, Avengelyne #2, FF #8, Graveyard of Empires #2, Kevin Smith’s Bionic Man #1, Kick Ass 2 #3, X-Men #16 | Leave a Comment »
