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Uncanny X-Force #21 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Greg Tocchini (art), Dean White (color art) The Story: Nightcrawler proves he’s more Sean Connery than Roger Moore. The Review: You know what, Greg Tocchini? You almost had me. I was honestly beginning to think here that you were using such thick, scribbly lines for an artistic purpose. I thought maybe [...]

Uncanny X-Force #20 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Greg Tocchini (artist), Dean White (colors) The Story: Fantomex, you’re being tried by a group called the “Captain Britain Corps,” and you have a French accent. Don’t speak in your own defense! The Review: Last issue, two members of the X-Force were abducted by the Captain Britain Corps and brought to [...]

Uncanny X-Force #19 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Robbi Rodriguez (art), Dean White with James Campbell (colors) The Story: “The Jean Grey School for Higher Learning is also open for, uh…non-traditional students…” The Review: Issues like Uncanny X-Force #19 can be tricky. It directly follows a massive and thrilling arc, and while the main conflict has been resolved, there [...]

Uncanny X-Force #18 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Jerome Opeña & Esad Ribic (artists), Dean White (colorist The Story: The new Apocalypse gives way to a new Genesis. What’s Good: The Dark Angel Saga has come to a close. It’s been quite a ride. In fact, it’s been such a ride that it’s been hard to follow occasionally. The [...]

Uncanny X-Force #17 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Jerome Opena (art), Dean White with Jose Villarubia & Chris Sotomayor (colors), Cory Petit (letters) & Jody LeHeup (editor) The Story: Things are almost done in the Dark Angel Saga. Three Things (this one is pretty straight forward and doesn’t need 5 points): 1. The art is very pretty.  Stylistically, this isn’t [...]

Kick-Ass 2 #4 – Review

By: Mark Millar (writer/creator), John Romita, Jr. (breakdowns/creator), Tom Palmer (finishes), Dean White & Michael Kelleher (colors), Chris Eliopoulos & Clayton Cowles (letters) & Aubrey Sitterson (editor) The Story: Following the wicked crimes from the previous issue, Red Mist and his crew to continue run amok. Review: This was a tough comic to read for [...]

Uncanny X-Force #15 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Jerome Opena (art), Dean White (colors), Cory Petit (letters) & Jody Leheup (editor) The Story: Archangel’s plan to usher in a new Age of _______ starts coming to fruition. What’s good: Jerome Opena’s art is great and Dean White is doing a wonderful job with the color art.  These pages are [...]

Kick Ass 2 #3 – Review

By: Mark Millar (writer/creator), John Romita, Jr. (breakdowns/creator), Tom Palmer (inks), Dean White (colors), Chris Eliopoulos (letters) & Aubrey Sitterson (editor) The Story: Kick-Ass and the new Justice Forever crew run into their first serious adversity. What’s Good: Fun issue, if you like this sort of thing.  Even though it has been almost 5 months [...]

Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #1

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Esad Ribic (art), Dean White (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: Nick Fury finds himself complete overwhelmed by disasters all around. What’s Good:  It’s not something I’d have expected out him in particular, but Jonathan Hickman fully nails the “blockbuster” feel of the Ultimates, and in doing so, hammers home [...]

Avengers #14 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: “The Red Hulk…proved himself an Avenger.” The Review:  As far as issue structure goes, this is a bit of a weird one.  We start out with the same talking heads format that found such [...]

Uncanny X-Force #11 – Review

by Rick Remender (writer), Mark Brooks (penciller & inker), Andrew Currie (inker), Dean White (colorist), and Cory Petit (letterer) The Story: X-Force heads off to the Age of Apocalypse to acquire the celestial life seed. The Review:  Somehow, Rick Remender has become the 90s guy and in a totally good way.  Once again, by revisiting [...]

Uncanny X-Force #9 – Review

by Rick Remender (script), Billy Tan (art), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Logan does a favor for Magneto that has him going solo. The Review:  Last month I raved about just how utterly amazing the art provided by Tan and White was and this month, I think it’s even better, though [...]

Uncanny X-Force: The Apocalypse Sollution HC – Review

Written by Rick Rememder, Art by Jerome Opena with Leonard Manco, colors by Dean White and Chris Sotomayor, cover art by Esad Ribic. The Story: Though Cyclops has ended X-Force, Wolverine and Archangel decide to continue operations, bringing in Deadpool, Psylocke, and Fantomex. Their first mission? Kill Apocalypse! As if this would be hard enough, [...]

Kick Ass 2 #2 – Review

By: Mark Millar (writer/creator), John Romita, Jr. (breakdowns/creator), Tom Palmer (inks), Dean White (colors), Chris Eliopoulos (letters) & Aubrey Sitterson & Cory Levine (editors) Millar & Romita, Jr. are kinda sticking with some of the formula elements that were featured in the first miniseries.  In this issue, we see Kick Ass getting to join a [...]

Captain America #610 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Rich Magyar with Butch Guice (inks), Dean White with Frank Martin and Paul Mounts (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters and production) The Story: Zemo subjects Bucky to several nasty blasts from the past as the pair have their final confrontation. What’s Good: For as much as I disliked [...]

Captain America #607 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Mitch Breitweiser (pencils), Butch Guice with Mitch Breitweiser (inks), Dean White and Elizabeth Dismang (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters and production) The Story: Zemo continues his nefarious campaign against Bucky, this time by taking over his very mind and causing very dangerous and destructive hallucinations. What’s Good: This was a fun [...]

Captain America #606 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (artist), Dean White (color art), VC’s Joe Caramagna and VC’s Joe Sabino (letterers and production) The Story: Bucky has yet to fully come to terms with himself, or his role as Captain America. When this begins to affect his performance as Cap, Steve Rogers and Sam Wilson sit him [...]

Avengers #1 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Steve Rogers ushers in the Heroic Age by putting a new team of Avengers together.  Just in time, too, because before their first meeting is even over, our heroes will be confronted not only [...]

Captain America #605 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Luke Ross (pencils), Butch Guice (inks), Dean White (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Captain America—Bucky’s Cap, that is—must find a way to escape from Evil Cap’s clutches before a heinous act of terrorism is committed. Not far away, the Falcon is working to stop a runaway train while also [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #629 – Review

By: Roger Stern (writer), Lee Weeks (art), Dean White (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters)  Back-up story: Zeb Wells (writer), Chris Bachalo (art) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: The three-way brawl between Spider-Man, Juggernaut, and Captain Universe comes to its dramatic conclusion! What’s good: Lee Weeks does a very nice job on the art in [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #628 – Review

By: Main Story: Roger Stern (writer), Lee Weeks (art), Dean White (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters); Back-up Story: Mark Waid & Tom Peyer (writers), Todd Nauck (art), Andres Mossa (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: Spidey tries to save Juggernaut (of all people) from the new Captain Universe, meanwhile in the back-up story, Peter’s [...]

Captain America: Who Will Wield the Shield? One Shot – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice & Luke Ross (artists), Dean White (colorist) Although we’ll never know whose bright idea it was to release this one shot before the last issue of ‘Reborn’, I suppose I should thank them nonetheless for saving me the $3.99 to find out how that story ends, since this comic [...]

Dark Reign: The List – Punisher #1- Review

By Rick Remender (Writer), John Romita Jr. (Pencils), Klaus Janson (Inks), and Dean White (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I’m a casual Punisher fan. While I haven’t been following the ongoing series (which I hear is really good), I will definitely be jumping on board when the Franken-Castle arc starts. So, in preparation, I [...]

Kick-Ass #7 – Review

By Mark Millar (writer) John Romita Jr. (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Dean White (colors) The Story: Red Mist’s ambush of Dave, Big Daddy, and Hit-Girl, comes to a brutal crescendo with the death of a major character, while Millar and Romita pay homage to the everyday fanboy. What’s Good: Well, this series has finally caught [...]

Dark Avengers #8 – Review

By Matt Fraction (Writer), Luke Ross (Pencils & Inks), Rick Magyar & Mark Pennington (Inks), and Dean White (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Anyone else getting annoyed by “X” crossovers? First the Messiah War came and screwed up all the momentum that X-Force had. Then Utopia started and completely derailed the Dark Avengers… The [...]

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