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Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #3 – Review

By: Jonathan Vankin (writer), Marco Castiello (penciller), Vincenzo Acunza (inker), Barbara Ciardo (colorist) The Story: John, you should know the only thing to do with a stubborn weed is smoke it. The Review: Even if you’ve never taken improv comedy, you can appreciate one of its most important tenets: the only time you should enter [...]

Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #2

By: Jonathan Vankin (writer), Renato Arlem (artist), Barb Ciardo (colorist) The Story: Just the what the heck kind of fertilizer are they using around here? The Review: DC has its reasons for the existence Vertigo, and keeping it largely separate from popular continuity.  It’s not just that in a Vertigo comic, you can cuss up [...]

Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #1 – Review

By: Jonathan Vankin (writer), Marco Castiello (penciller), Vincenzo Acunzo (inker), Barb Ciardo (colorist) The Story: You bloody well better get out of his way—the bloke’s John Constantine, like! The Review: Considering the large scope and cosmic forces involved in Brightest Day, it certainly threw off a lot of people (namely me) when the title ultimately [...]

Green Lantern #63 – Review

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 [...]

Green Lantern #62 – Review

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 [...]

Brightest Day #19 – Review

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 [...]

Brightest Day #18 – Review

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 [...]

Green Lantern #61 – Review

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 [...]

Green Lantern Corps #55 – Review

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 [...]

Green Lantern #60 – review

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! [...]

The Flash #7 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Scott Kolins (art), Brian Buccellato (colors), and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: As Captain Boomerang has a meeting with the Reverse Flash, his back-story is explored. What’s Good: At the very least, Geoff Johns gets an A for effort on this one, as he works his butt off to put as [...]

The Flash #6 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Francis Manapul (art), Brian Buccellato (colors), and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: The Flash goes on trial and tries to settle the score with Top. What’s Good: I remember a little over a year ago, when I lived in the UK (Bristol to be exact), having a conversation about Geoff Johns [...]

Green Lantern #59 – Review

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 [...]

Brightest Day #12 – Review

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 [...]

The Flash #5 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Francis Manapul (art), Brian Buccellato (colors), and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: The Flash and Top try to stop the Rogues from unleashing the Mirror Lords while the Rogues and Renegades to battle. What’s Good: Despite my feelings to the contrary during the first couple of issues, I’m really starting to [...]

Green Lantern Corps #52 – Review

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Ardian Syaf (artist), Vicente Cifuentes (inker), Randy Mayor with Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) The Story: Boodikka, the dying Alpha-Lantern, narrates the end of the Revolt of the Alpha-Lanterns arc. Green Lanterns Ganthet, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Hannu and Soranik are in deep trouble against Cyborg-Superman and the army of Alpha-Lanterns on Grenda. [...]

Brightest Day #10 – Review

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark, Joe Prado, (artists), Oclair Albert, David Beaty (inkers) The Story: A Change is Gonna Come: Professor Stein gets to the bottom of the secret of the Firestorm matrix, but is he too late? And Aquaman and Black Manta and Mera’s sister are all [...]

Green Lantern #57 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Major with Gabe Eltaeb (colors) The Story: What Happens in Las Vegas: Hector Hammond has swallowed the orange power lantern. The main power battery for the Star Sapphires is petering out. Carol Ferris has to trap the purple [...]

Brightest Day #9 – Review

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 [...]

Brightest Day #7 – Review

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, David Beaty, Mark Irwin (inkers) The Story: The Secret of Life: Okay! Chesseburgers are done! It’s time for the White Lantern to give out class assignments to all twelve resurrectees. What’s Good: The rubber [...]

Green Lantern #56 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne and Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The New Guardians, Chapter Four: A really creepy Hector Hammond is sprung from prison by an even creepier former guardian. In the meantime, Hal is trying to deal with Larfleeze, who is discovering the true meaning [...]

The Flash #4 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Francis Manapul (art), Brian Buccellato (colors), and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: The Flash battles Captain Boomerang in downtown Central City and learns the secrets behind his future murder of Mirror Monarch. What’s Good: I think part of what marks out this issue is the sense of wonder that is present [...]

Brightest Day #6 – Review

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Scott Clark, Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, David Beaty, Mark Irwin, Christian Alamy (inkers) The Story: Dead Zone: The Martian Manhunter is hunting a murderer, but discovers some creepy truths about his resurrection in the process. Boston Brand, Hawk and Dove plumb the [...]

Birds of Prey #3 – Review

by Gail Simone (writer), Ed Benes (pencils & inks), Adriana Melo (pencils), Mariah Benes (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: The Birds find themselves under siege as White Canary’s deadline looms. What’s Good: I’ve enjoyed the Penguin’s presence throughout this arc and I loved his role this month more than ever. [...]

Brightest Day #5 – Review

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Aridan Syaf and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes (inker), Peter Steigerwald (colorist) The Story: Aquaman and Mera are dealing with a BP-level oil rig disaster, but run into something really big from Mera’s past. Boston Brand is considering raising someone from the dead. He’s got [...]

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