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Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #3 – Review

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Robson Rocha & Felipe Massafera (artists), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Abin Sur’s just dying to save our world. The Review: For a lot of these tie-ins, the main events of Flashpoint have little bearing on the stories told, some of them literally avoiding the thick of the action until the [...]

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Brightest Day #24 – Review

Posted on April 27, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Goeff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Norm Rapmund, Vicente Cifuentes, Oclair Albert, Tom Nguyen, Mick Gray, Mark Irwin, David Beaty (artists), Peter Steigerwald (colors) The Story: This is the conclusion of the Brightest Day 24-issue series. Nekron is kind of back, as is [...]

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Green Lantern #65 – Review

Posted on April 22, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin, Mick Gray, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Randy Major (colors) The Story: War of the Green Lanterns, Part Four: All their allies have been turned to serve the enemy. Their powers are gone. They are being hunted. Times are tough if you’re Hal Jordan [...]

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Brightest Day #23 – Review

Posted on April 6, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Norm Rapmund, Oclair Albert (artists) Peter Steigerwald (colors) The Story: Rise and Fall: The Earth is under seige by all sorts of odd manifestations of darkness and chaos. Heroes from all over are leaping into action to try to stem the tide. At [...]

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Green Lantern #64 – Review

Posted on March 24, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inks), Randy Mayor (colors) The Story: War of the Green Lanterns, Part One: Krona has left the rebellious Green Lantern Hal Jordan with the six other leaders of the other rings corps on the planet Ryut with the Book of [...]

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Brightest Day #22 – Review

Posted on March 16, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Scott Clark, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty (inker), Peter Steigerwald and Rod Reis (colors) The Review: It’s hard not to like a flawed hero, being mentored by someone less experienced than him, travelling through a dark and storied wilderness, to sneak up on the most [...]

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Green Lantern #63 – Review

Posted on March 8, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ed Benes and Ardian Syaf (pencils), Ed Benes, Rob Hunter, Vicente Cifuentes (inks), Randy Major (colors) The Story: Hal Jordan, with a few allies, is trying sort some personal stuff out. Krona, the batty Oan who has been in solitary confinement since pretty close to the birth of the universe, blasts [...]

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Brightest Day #21 – Review

Posted on March 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Patrick Gleason, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (artists) The Story: On Earth, the Hawks and Aquaman are dead and the world’s superheroes are seeing the coming wave of disaster. On Mars, the Martian Manhunter gets into the final showdown with D’Kay, the last Martian femme fatale. Against [...]

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Brightest Day #20 – Review

Posted on February 17, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (artist), Julio Ferreira, Oclair Albert, Norm Rapmund, Marlo Alquiza, Andy Owens (inkers) The Story: It’s Aquaman and company against Black Manta and a school of water-breathing killers. Problem is, Aquaman has got his hand full just holding on to his baggage. What’s [...]

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Green Lantern #62 – Review

Posted on February 16, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Randy Major (colors) The Story: The New Guardians, Conclusion: Hal goes toe to toe with Krona, the nutcase Oan who has spent most of the history of the universe imprisoned. Hal doesn’t do as well as he hoped. What’s Good: I [...]

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Brightest Day #19 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, Rob Hunter (artists), Peter Steigerwald (colorist) The Story: On one front, Boston Brand, all duded up as Deadman, deals with the white ring that has just greased Hawkman and Hawkgirl. One another front, Aquaman and Aqualad race against time to contain [...]

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Brightest Day #18 – Review

Posted on January 22, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes and David Beaty (inkers), Peter Steigerwald and Beth Sotelo (colorists) The Story: The White Ring is charging on Deadman’s finger. Hawkman and Hawkgirl (with Carol Ferris) take on Hawkgirl’s entity-charged mom. What’s Good: I am [...]

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Brightest Day #17 – Review

Posted on January 8, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes and David Beaty (inkers), Peter Steigerwald with Beth Sotelo (color) The Story: Homecoming. I’ve got the “Love, Love, Love” part of “All You Need Is Love” by the Beatles after reading this story, because everything in [...]

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The Best of 2010

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Ray Hilario

Forward Welcome to WCBR’s year end comic book industry report card. In essence, this report card is a list of offerings we’ve enjoyed for the entire year 2010. There will probably be a lot to debate about– who got snubbed, or who really deserved it… So let us know if we’re out of our minds, [...]

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Green Lantern #61 – Review

Posted on December 30, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin (inkers), Randy Mayor (colorist) The Story: It’s a rage-fest! Atrocitus hunts the Butcher, his entity of rage, the one that matches his red lantern and red power ring. The Butcher is hungry, seeking to feed on the rage of the [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #55 – Review

Posted on December 22, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Tyler Kirkman (artist), Batt (inker), Nei Ruffino (colors) The Story: The Weaponer, Part Three: The Weaponer of Qward makes cornmeal out of five Green Lanterns. Also, Ganthet pukes up Atrocitus blood, sparking a secret revelation! What’s Good: Visually, Kirkman and Batt have really hit their stride. I loved the art in [...]

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Green Lantern #60 – review

Posted on December 15, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke and Shawn Moll (inker) The Story: Parallax has possessed the Flash. That’s a crappy combination for Hal: Fear plus speed force. But then some of his other color-friends show up, as well as that creepy, rag-dressed guardian who’s been hunting then entities! [...]

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Brightest Day #16 – Review

Posted on December 15, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty and Oclair Albert (inkers) The Story: Aqualad learns who he is. Aquaman looks cool. Firestorm seems to have destroyed the universe. What’s Good: What a relief! A great issue of Brightest Day! Out of the gates, Ivan [...]

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Brightest Day #15 – Review

Posted on December 2, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Patrick Gleason and Scott Clark (artists), David Beaty, Mick Gray, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin, Rebecca Buchman, Keith Champagne, Sandra Hope and Patrick Gleason (yeah, that’s right….8 inkers for 24 pages) Conclusion: Yes, I know that conclusions usually come at the end, but I can’t properly complain about [...]

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Green Lantern #59 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor and Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) What’s Good: It is my opinion that Johns continues to use the main Green Lantern book to unravel the implications of Blackest Night and Brightest Day. Yes, yes, I know there’s a whole series called [...]

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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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Brightest Day #12 – Review

Posted on October 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Patrick Gleason, Scott Clark, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado (artists), Mark Irwin, David Beaty, Tom Nguyen, Rebecca Buchman, Mick Gray, Christian Alamy, Patrick Gleason (inkers), Rex Ogle (assistant editor) The Story: The Martian Manhunter dominates this issue as he finally meets up with the mysterious D’Kay D’Razz, the [...]

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Green Lantern #58 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor (colors) The Story: Hope Burns Bright: Atrocitus and Sinestro show up at a prison that has been set on fire by the Butcher. They take care of a bit of business. In the meantime, Hal is still having his [...]

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Brightest Day #11 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark, Patrick Gleason and Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty, Oclair Albert, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen (inkers) The Story: Father’s Day: Aquaman and Black Manta slap down, with all their fatherhood issues in tow. Ronnie and Jason (as Firestorm) do the same with Black Lantern [...]

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Brightest Day #9 – Review

Posted on September 1, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Joe Prado (artists), Rebecca Buchman, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen, Ivan Reis (inkers), Peter Steigerwald (colors) The Story: Aquaman and Mera talk with Boston Brand and Dove. We’re getting some hints of who’s going to be the next Aqualad. Martian Manhunter blows his hands [...]

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