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Legion Lost #6 – Review

By: Fabian Nicieza & Tom DeFalco (writers), Pete Woods & Matt Camp (artists), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Green man from Mars, meet the time-traveling people of the future! The Review: I’ve made these same observations before in my review of Stormwatch #6, but it really pains me to see a writer I admire depart [...]

Action Comics #6 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), John Dell (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist), Sholly Fisch (feature writer), Chriscross (feature artist), Jose Villarrubia (feature colorist) The Story: Now you know where all those little voices in your head are coming from. The Review: I don’t think I’m the only one, but I sometimes give Morrison a [...]

Legion Lost #5 – Review

By: Fabian Nicieza (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Can’t we have just a nice, calm, rational conversation, mind to mind? The Review: I don’t think bias in a critic is evil as long as he’s aware of it and makes it clear, so I have no problem in saying that I [...]

Action Comics #5 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Invasion of the Space Babies!  They’ll overwhelm you with their cuteness! The Review: The coming of Superman to Earth as a babe rocketed from the doomed planet of Krypton is probably the origin story of origin stories, one which still retains a lot of its [...]

Legion Lost #4 – Review

By: Fabian Nicieza (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: This—is—Fargoooo!! The Review: To this day, I still don’t understand DC’s aversion to adopting Marvel’s recap page, which is one of the most practical, useful devices you can have in serial fiction.  And it’s not just Marvel; TV shows use the opening “Previously…” [...]

Action Comics #4 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Man of Steel, meet Man in Steel. The Review: I’ve become a bit wary of DC’s backup and co-features over time.  The fact they hang on to a bigger, stronger storyline definitely poses some drawbacks.  Only rarely do they have a charm and intrigue of [...]

Legion Lost #3 – Review

By: Fabian Nicieza (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: When Timber Wolf starts calling you savage, you really have a problem. The Review: If you haven’t realized it already, let me just say: I am a Legion of Super-Heroes fan.  At the same time, it is never lost on me how irritatingly [...]

Action Comics #3 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Gene Ha (guest artist), Brad Anderson & Art Lyon (colorists) The Story: Corrupt people rabidly spouting nonsense on TV—what will fiction think of next? The Review: Anybody who’s read much of Superman has wondered this question at some point: which is the real alter-ego, Superman [...]

Legion Lost #2 – Review

By: Fabian Nicieza (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Can’t we just talk, energy-being to energy-being? The Review: I’ve noticed in reviews of the two new titles featuring the Legion of Super-Heroes that folks mostly take issue with the inaccessibility of the team itself.  Like many DC properties, the Legion has a [...]

Action Comics #2 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales & Brent Anderson (pencillers), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: We’re no Guantanamo, but we’ve got ways of making an alien in a T-shirt talk. The Review: One thing Morrison does consistently well is place characters into unusual situations, and when it comes to iconic superheroes, that [...]

Legion Lost #1 – Review

By: Fabian Nicieza (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Seems like everyone’s going retro these days. The Review: Paul Levitz’s at best uninspired run on Legion of Super-Heroes almost continuously dragged its heels from the day it relaunched and only rarely delivered any goods worth staying on for.  Adventure Comics, its youthful [...]

Action Comics #1 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: If he falls, a Superman has to get up, dust his jeans off, and hit even harder. The Review: For those of you desperately attempting to push back the memories of Grounded into the far-flung recesses of your brain, don’t [...]

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #10 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: You ever get the feeling your mother’s holding something back from you? The Review: Back in the olden days, whenever that was, heroes were the good guys and villains the bad, and hardly ever, if not never, did the twain meet.  Nowadays, members from both [...]

T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents #9 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: You know what they say: beware a redheaded woman with assassin’s credentials. The Review: You can always count on Nick Spencer to deliver an engaging, enjoyable read, even if the actual substance of the writing isn’t always what it should be.  That’s not to imply [...]

Action Comics #902 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Kenneth Rocafort & Axel Giménez (artists), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: And I was like Doomsday, Doomsday, Doomsday, no…  Stop singing?  Okay. The Review: One thing you’ll notice with a lot of movies nowadays is that they’ll pile on the action to keep you from noticing how little story there is [...]

Superman #712 – Review

By: Kurt Busiek (writer), Rick Leonardi (penciller), Jonathan Sibal (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: What’s the matter, boy?  What?  Connor’s stuck in a time-space crisis?  Let’s go! The Review: As much love exists between a man and his dog, it has nothing on that between a dog and his boy.  As a clone with [...]

Action Comics #901 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Kenneth Rocafort & Jesus Merino (artists), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: To kill five Super-people, of course you need five Doomsdays, right? The Review: In my review of Superboy #6, I described Doomsday as a shallow character who no one cared (or at least, I didn’t) much to see again, a [...]

Action Comics #900 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Lex Luthor is about to bring fun, love, and joy to all the people of the universe—the crazy part is I am being totally serious right now. The Review: Say what you like about Superman: he can be overly naïve, overbearingly preachy, arguably antiquated, and [...]

Action Comics #899 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Jesus Merino (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: My, those are some big black balls you’ve got there, Lex Luthor. The Review: It’s been a long, wild journey we’ve had, following Superman’s arch-nemesis on his quest for ultimate power.  He’s faced off against some of the baddest of the baddies in [...]

Action Comics #898 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Something went severely amiss in Larfleeze and Lex Luthor’s upbringing, as they seriously need to learn to share. The Review: As far as I know, the guest star is a feature exclusive to television shows and comics.  In television, the guests have pull [...]

Action Comics #897 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: It’s the World’s Un-Finest!  Can the world’s greatest mind keep up with the world’s sickest wit?  Yes and no, honestly. The Review: In the DCU, there can be no two personalities more complex and inscrutable than Lex Luthor and the Joker.  Either one [...]

Action Comics #896 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist), Nick Spencer (feature writer), RB Silva (feature penciller), DYM (feature inker), Dave McCaig (feature colorist) The Story: Lex Luthor enlists the Secret Six to get him out of a tight spot.  But things aren’t so cut and dry when they’re facing Vandal Savage, who just [...]

Action Comics #895 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Pete Woods (artist), Brad Anderson (colorist), Nick Spencer (back-up writer), RB Silva (back-up penciller), DYM (back-up inker), Dave McCaig (back-up colorist) The Story: Lex Luthor has a brilliant new scheme to use the Black Lantern energy domes for his own purposes.  The immortal Vandal Savage isn’t too stoked about Lex Luthor’s [...]

Chaos War: Chaos King #1 – Review

By: Brandon Montclare (writer), Michael William Kaluta (art), Brad Anderson, Nathan Eyring & Jim Charlampidis (colors), Jared Fletcher (letters) & Mark Paniccia (editor) The Story: The Chaos King turns his sights on new targets including Zenn-la, Earth & the devil himself. What’s Good: Holy cow can Mr. Kaluta draw!  That isn’t exactly a news flash, [...]

Batman #700 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Tony Daniel, Frank Quitely, Scott Kolins, Andy Kubert, and David Finch (artists), Ian Hannin, Alex Sinclair, Tony Avina, Brad Anderson, and Peter Steigerwald (colorists), Richard Friend (inker) The Story: Sometime in the past, Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson stop the Joker, the Riddler, Catwoman, the Scarecrow and the Mad Hatter from [...]

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