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Justice League #5 – Review

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, Joe Weems (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Gabe Eltaeb, Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: I’ll give this for Hal—the kid takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. The Review: Look, I get it.  Even with a whole cast of perfectly formed, likable characters, you’re [...]

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Justice League #4 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair & Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Vic, would this be a bad time for me to suggest you star as the new Bionic Man? The Review: I admit, I had mixed feelings when I heard Cyborg was going to join the Justice League.  [...]

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Justice League #3 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair, Hi-Fi, Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Those ain’t no flying monkeys! The Review: One of the more intriguing elements to this version of the Justice League is the youth they project.  Appearance-wise, they all look around their late twenties or early thirties, and [...]

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Justice League #2 – Review

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: You know, I guess it’s not a new-fangled Rubik’s cube after all. The Review: While the debut issue of this series had quite a lot of fun, engaging material to it, it also had the disappointment of a false promise.  [...]

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Justice League #1 – Review

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: I have only one question—what happened to everybody’s underwear? The Review: Funny.  It doesn’t feel like a new age of comics.  But DC insists one has come, and seeing the enormous slate they’ve just wiped clean, we must take their [...]

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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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Flashpoint #4 – Review

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Jesse Delperdang (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Remember kids: never accept juice boxes from strangers. The Review: It’s pretty clear that whatever point Johns originally conceived Flashpoint with, the series serves little more purpose now than as a convenient vehicle to carry the upcoming DCU into fruition.  [...]

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Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #2 – Review

Posted on July 7, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Robson Rocha, Felipe Massafera, Joe Prado (artists), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Well, you’re not exactly E.T., but at least you’re not the Borg. The Review: Do you remember how last week I talked about the importance of exposition done right?  How it’s best not to always have characters explaining everything?  [...]

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Flashpoint #3 – Review

Posted on July 6, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

  By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Sandra Hope (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Huh…  So this is Superman.  He’s shorter than I imagined. The Review: There are essentially two important conflicts driving the events in Flashpoint: you have Reverse Flash’s alterations to reality, the consequences of which remain unclear; and you also [...]

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Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance #1 – Review

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Eddie Nunez (penciller), Don Ho (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: All the single ladies, all the single ladies—put your hands up!  You’re under arrest! The Review: Considering the overwhelming span and scope of these Big Events, DC has made a laudable effort to ensure the numerous Flashpoint tie-ins [...]

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Flashpoint: Legion of Doom #1 – Review

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adam Glass (writer), Rodney Buchemi (penciller), Jose Marzan, Jr. (inker), Artur Fujita (colorist) The Story: Prison changes a man, but when he’s a psycho to begin with, you don’t really notice. The Review: Considering the sheer load of Flashpoint tie-ins DC’s putting on the stands, you have to be a little selective about what [...]

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Flashpoint #1 – Review

Posted on May 11, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Sandra Hope (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Nothing is as it seems!  Everything isn’t as it should be!  Alright, some things are kind of the same! The Review: I’m a huge fan of parallel-universe nonsense; there are few things quite as fun as taking the familiar and [...]

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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #6 – Review

Posted on November 11, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Lee Garbett, Pere Perez (artists), Alejandro Sicat and Walden Wong (inks) The Story: Bruce Wayne arrives at the end of time, where those weird-eyed, fuzzy archivists help him along on the last leg of his journey through time and into the final steps of Darkseid’s plan to use him as a [...]

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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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Titans #16 – Review

Posted on August 14, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Christopher Yost (writer), Angel Unzueta (artist), Wayne Faucher (inker), Edgar Delgado (colorist) The Story: The Titans book continues to examine its characters one by one. This issue is about Starfire talking to a therapist. As uninspiring as that sounds, Yost and Unzueta carry us through the logical fallout of what Starfire has suffered not [...]

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Titans #14 – Review

Posted on June 12, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Eric Wallace (writer), Michael Shoyket (artist), Edgar Delgado and Jo Smith (colorists) Some Thoughts Before the Review: I have to say that I’ve never been a Cyborg fan and after the continuing train wreck that has been the last few months of Titans, I came to this book with very low expectations. The Story: [...]

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