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Action Comics #894 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2010 by paladinking

by Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (art), Brad Anderson (color), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Lex meets Death and tries to worm his way back into the world of the living. What’s Good: If it wasn’t clear before, it sure is now: Paul Cornell gets Lex Luthor. Even clearer is the fact that this may [...]

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The Flash #3 – Review

Posted on July 1, 2010 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Francis Manapul (art), Brian Buccellato (colors), and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: Captain Boomerang makes a break for it after getting a mysterious upgrade; the Renegades continue their quest to apprehend the Flash. What’s Good: Atmosphere and tone continue to be the strongest thing going for Johns’ new Flash ongoing. This [...]

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Brightest Day #4 – Review

Posted on June 18, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Oclair Albert (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, David Beaty (inkers), Peter Steigerwald (colorist) The Story: Hawkman and Hawkgirl pass through Hath-Set’s tunnel of bones. Somebody can finally see Boston Brand (Deadman). Ronnie is visited by a salty image from Blackest Night. What’s Good: [...]

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Brightest Day #3 – Review

Posted on June 4, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, David Beaty and Mark Irwin (inkers) Happy Memorial Day to all our American readers! Your brothers to the north are hard at work, but our LCSs are open! The Story: Step right up! [...]

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Brightest Day #2 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, Tom Nguyen, Rebecca Buchman, David Beaty and Patrick Gleason (inkers) The Story: The twelve resurrected are still trying to figure out why they’ve been brought back and what’s going on. Hawkman and Hawkgirl [...]

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Blackest Night #7 – Review

Posted on February 27, 2010 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), and Nick J. Napolitano (letters) The Story: The nature of the white light of creation stands revealed. What’s Good: How high can a single cliffhanger ending raise the overall experience of an entire issue? That’s often a question I [...]

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #3 – Review

Posted on February 4, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka (writer), Nicola Scott (pencils), Jonathan Glapion (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors) The Story: Diana, just saved from being a black lantern, is guided by Carol Ferris as they go to fight the other black lanterns. Although the black lanterns are a big deal in their zombie apocalypse sort of way, a bigger piece [...]

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Green Lantern #50 – Review

Posted on January 27, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin, Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The newly reinforced armies of light are making good headway against the black lanterns, but black lantern Spectre is still there, and nothing they do will stop him. So it’s time to pull out the [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #44 – Review

Posted on January 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (penciller), Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne & Patrick Gleason (inkers) The Story: Red Badge of Rage, Part 2: Black Lanterns have overrun the power battery on Oa. A giant green lantern planet hovers over Oa. And Guy Gardner is a psycho (oh, and he has a red [...]

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Suicide Squad #67 – Review

Posted on January 9, 2010 by paladinking

by Gail Simone & John Ostrander (writers), J. Calafiore (art), Jason Wright (colors), and Swands (letters) The Story: It’s Suicide Squad vs. Secret Six as Amanda Waller decides she wants Deadshot back and won’t take no for an answer. What’s Good: As an issue of Secret Six, this really is a lot of fun. There’s [...]

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2 – Review

Posted on January 7, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka (writer), Nicola Scott and Eduardo Pansica (pencillers), Jonathan Glapion & Eber Ferreira (inkers) The Story: The contents of this issue take place entirely between the back splash page of Blackest Night #5 (Wonder Woman becomes a black lantern) and the back splash page of Blackest Night #6 (Wonder Woman becomes a star [...]

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Adventure Comics #5 – Review

Posted on December 12, 2009 by DS Arsenault

Superboy Prime Story by Geoff Johns and Sterling Gates (writers), Jerry Ordway (artist), Bob Wiacek and Jerry Ordway (inkers) Superboy Backup Story by Geoff Johns (writer) Francis Manapul (artist), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: Superboy Prime fights a bunch of zombies through the offices of the DC editors and creators. Alex Luthor teleports the whole [...]

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Blackest Night #4 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (Inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist), Eddie Berganza (editor) The Story: We’re deep in Act II of Blackest Night, so things aren’t going so good. The Flash, Mera and the Atom are being overwhelmed at the JLA headquarters. The heroes of the rest of the [...]

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Blackest Night: Superman #3 – Review

Posted on October 21, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Eddy Barrows with Allan Goldman (pencils), Ruy José with Eber Ferreira (inks) The Story: Superman is getting the stuffing beat out of him by Black Lantern Kal-L and Superboy. Ma Kent is being stalked by Black Lantern Lois Lane. Psycho-Pirate is turning Smallville into a warzone. Welcome to the final issue [...]

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Blackest Night: Titans #2 – Review

Posted on September 30, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By J.T. Krul (writer), Ed Benes (artist), Scott Williams and Ed Benes (inkers) The Story: Donna Troy’s dead husband and baby come after her as Black Lanterns. Black Lantern Terra and a few other old friends from the post-living move to smash Gar, Kid Flash, Cyborg and Starfire. Hawk and Dove fight Black Lantern Hawk [...]

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Blackest Night #3 – Review

Posted on September 18, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (artist), Oclair Albert with Joe Prado (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: The Green Lantern and the Flash are fighting a losing battle against the Black Lanterns, Elongated Man, the Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkwoman and Sue Dibny. In the meantime, the new Firestorm (Jason and Gen) respond to [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #40 – Review

Posted on September 10, 2009 by paladinking

by Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (pencils), Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen & Prentis Rollins (inks), Randy Mayor & Gabe Eltaeb (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Kyle Rayner battles his old lover, the Corps settles on who’s in charge of Oa with the Guardians gone, and the Black Lanterns do a good amount [...]

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Blackest Night: Superman #1 – Review

Posted on August 25, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Eddy Barrows (penciller), Ruy Jose with Julio Ferreira (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Kal-L, the original Superman, the one born on pre-crisis Earth-2, rises from the dead. Kal-El (the current Superman) and Conner (Superboy) are in Smallville on the anniversary of Pa Kent’s death. Just imagine how things gets bad. [...]

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