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Detective Comics #3 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written and Drawn by Tony S. Daniel, inks by Sandu Florea, colors by Tomeu Morey The Story: Batman faces off against the Dollmaker and his twisted family. The Good: There was a lot of action in this issue. Brutal, Batman-getting-his-ass-kicked action. And we get to see how much balls Batman has–or still has, despite the [...]

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Batwoman #2 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By J.H. Williams III (co-writer & artist), W. Haden Blackman (co-writer), Dave Stewart (colors), Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Batwoman continues her investigation of the mysterious Weeping Woman while avoiding the federal agents trying to capture and unmask her. What’s Good: Good lord this book is beautiful. I know I should expect that, after all [...]

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Suicide Squad #2 – Review

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Adam Glass, Art by Federico Dallocchio and Andrei Bressan, Colors by Val Staples The Story: Suicide Squad is dropped into…some stadium (they forgot to give us the name in this issue and I’m too lazy to go back to the last one to figure it out) and are instructed to kill everyone inside [...]

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Detective Comics #2 – Review

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written and Drawn by Tony S. Daniel, Inked by Ryan Winn and Sandu Florea, Colored by Tomeu Morey The Story: Batman and Gordon discover the Joker’s face left behind in Arkham and begin their investigation. But first, Batman must save a little girl… The Good: An issue 2 that doesn’t feel like filler to fit [...]

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The State of the DCnU – Part Two

Posted on October 5, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

Earlier, I gave a mild, encouraging evaluation of DC’s creative efforts. But what of their commercial ones? For some prospects on that, I went to Comics Unlimited, easily the finest and most successful shop of its kind in Orange County. Mark and Nancy, the estimable owners of Comics Unlimited, were not in, but Laine and [...]

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The State of the DCnU – Part One

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

With the release of Justice League #1 on August 28, DC officially launched its sparkling new universe for the masses to behold and begrudge. Can you believe it’s been over a month already? Me neither. Why, it feels like just yesterday I was reading plagues of blog comments, all lambasting the relaunch as a strategy [...]

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The Savage Hawkman #1–Review

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Tony S. Daniel, Art by Philip Tan, Colors by Sunny Gho The Story: Side effects of the Hawkman suit: piss it off and it will bond to your muscles. What’s Good: I have almost no knowledge of the character Hawman, so I was a little excited reading this–especially after reading Daniel’s Detective Comics. [...]

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Deathstroke #1 – Review

Posted on September 18, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Kyle Higgins, Pencils by Joe Bennett, inks by Art Thibert, colors by Jason Wright The Story: A dude with Wolverine’s candor and Deadpool’s skill kills a lot of people. What’s Good: Is it wrong to say that out of all the New 52 I’ve read so far, this is the one I’ve had [...]

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Suicide Squad #1 – Review

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Adam Glass, Art by Federico Dallocchio, Ransom Getty, and Scott Hanna The Story: Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to vanquish the Thunderbolts in a game of softball. And by choose, we mean “if you don’t do this, we blow up your neck.” What’s Good: The ending. Or at least, it [...]

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Batwoman #1 – Review

Posted on September 14, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By J.H. Williams III (co-writer & artist), W. Haden Blackman (co-writer), Dave Stewart (colors), Todd Klein (letters) (Before we get started, for the sake of full disclosure, let me just say: ITSHEREITSFINALLYHERE!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!! We now return to your regularly scheduled, completely impartial review.) The Story: In a continuity seemingly untouched from the vaunted Detective Comics [...]

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Detective Comics #1

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written and Drawn by Tony S. Daniel, Inked by Ryan Winn, Colored by Tomeu Morey The Story: The Joker’s murders are even more gruesome than usual, and as usual, Batman has had enough and goes to deal with the laughing menace. The Good: This is a good start for a new era of Batman. The Batman vs. [...]

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