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S.H.I.E.L.D. #4 – Review

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Sonia Oback, Rachelle Rosenberg, Christina Strain (colorists) The Story: Man, I am experience some major crazy déjà vu right now. The Review: Ten months ago, when I did my first review for this series, I felt pretty gung-ho about the type of story Hickman had to tell, and [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. #3 – Review

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Sonia Oback (colorist) The Story: The property rates are just gonna plummet after this, aren’t they? The Review: The pace of release for this series has just gotten into joke territory, hasn’t it?  Two months between issues is simply way too long.  When you take a step back [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. #2 – Review

Posted on August 6, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Sonia Oback (colorist) The Story: Genius white men…and other sorry excuses for the state of the world! The Review: In ordinary circumstances, S.H.I.E.L.D. would be the kind of title I’d fallen hopelessly in love with by now; it has fresh ideas, remarkable craft, rounded characters, and some gorgeous [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 – Review

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Sonia Oback (colorist) The Story: Stay in school kids, and you too can become an omnipresent being of light. The Review: While we’ve had plenty of writers who’ve used the comics medium to produce stories that can be qualified as literary, there are only a handful that bring [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. #6 – Review

Posted on February 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Christina Strain (colorist) The Story: Who says Renaissance men can’t kick butt?  Sir Isaac Newton and Leonarda da Vinci can—and they’re ready to rumble! The Review: Secret societies are nothing new to the world of fiction.  Writers have been entranced with them since time knows when, whether with [...]

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The Best of 2010

Posted on December 31, 2010 by Ray Hilario

Forward Welcome to WCBR’s year end comic book industry report card. In essence, this report card is a list of offerings we’ve enjoyed for the entire year 2010. There will probably be a lot to debate about– who got snubbed, or who really deserved it… So let us know if we’re out of our minds, [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. #4 – Review

Posted on October 12, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Christina Strain (colors) Dear Jonathan Hickman, I think I’m in love with you. Being a recently divorced, heterosexual, thirty-something I don’t admit this easily to the Internet, but shit man, your stories excite me like a twenty-dollar hooker on a Friday night!!! You’ve had my attention ever since [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. #3 – Review

Posted on August 6, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Christina Strain (colorist) The Story: The secret history of High Council member Isaac Newton is revealed along with tantalizing clues regarding the development and significance of the Five-Fold Understanding. The Good: This comic is really being published, right? I mean, this isn’t some strange spectre of an old [...]

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S.H.I.E.L.D. #1 – Review

Posted on April 8, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jonathan Hickman (writer), Dustin Weaver (artist), Christina Strain (colorist) Sturgeon’s Law states that ninety-percent of everything is crap. Books, movies, politicians, your mom’s cooking, and my love-making abilities. Ninety percent of all of it: crap. We’ll save my prowess in bed and your mom’s quiche for another day. For now, let’s talk about how [...]

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X-Men: Legacy #227(Utopia) – Review

Posted on August 22, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Mike Carey (Writer), Dustin Weaver (Pencils), Ed Tadeo (Inks), and Brian Reber (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: The X-Men: Legacy Utopia arc serves the dual purpose of expanding the riots and getting Rogue (possibly Gambit and Danger as well) back into the main X-Men scheme of things. That makes for a good “X” [...]

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X-Men: Legacy #226 (Utopia) – Review

Posted on July 9, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Mike Carey (Writer), Dustin Weaver (Pencils), Ed Tadeo (Inks), and Brian Reber (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I always feel like part of the problem when I pick up an issue of a series just because it’s a tie-in to some sort of event. And I feel like an even bigger part of [...]

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