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Dean’s Top Picks Best of the past week: Fantastic Four #605.1 – I probably should give this to Saga #3 and can’t believe that I’m giving any honors to an issue with art by Mike Choi (because his art was very pedestrian in this issue), but Jonathan Hickman did enough to get it over the hump. [...]

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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 of the past week: Mind the Gap #1 – Admittedly, it wasn’t the strongest week in comics history, and that’s allowed a comic that wasn’t “awesome” to win honors.  But….that’s how it goes sometimes.  It looks like Jim McCann and Rodin Esquejo have a nice, longer-form mystery to tell us and I’m [...]

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Dean’s Top Picks Best of the past week: American Vampire #26 – This issue was a real treat.  For one thing, it introduced me to a wonderful fill-in artist in Roger Cruz.  I’d love to see more of his work after this AV stint is finished.  Seriously….how is Vertigo able to continually find guys of this [...]

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Dean’s Top Picks Best of the past week: Batman #8 – Even if you’re not interested in reading a Bat-event (like me), this was a wonderful issue.  Scott Snyder has made the atmosphere so damn claustrophobic that it’s hard to see what Bruce/Batman can do but fight for his life at this point.  This is also an [...]

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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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Best of the past week: Rachel Rising #6 – Easy choice.  I love that the groundrules of Terry Moore’s super-natural, reanimation horror-story are becoming clear.  Something weird is clearly going on that makes all these ladies rise from the dead, but I’m also looking forward to learning what the story is about.  Moore is a rarely [...]

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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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Best of the past week: Prophet #22 – This was just as fun as I thought it would be.  Don’t let the unwise numbering fool you, this is only the second issue of a VERY new reader friendly reboot of Prophet.  I love the world building that Brandon Graham and Simon Roy are doing as John [...]

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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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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 [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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