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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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The Flash #3 – Review

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato (writers and artists) The Story: The city that never stops—just did. The Review: I eat spring rolls dry. Even though I’m Vietnamese, I can’t stand the smell of fish sauce, so the stuff rarely touches anything I eat. When I pass on the bowl of pungent liquid, people always [...]

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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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The Flash #9 – Review

Posted on February 10, 2011 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Francis Manapul (art), Brian Buccellatto (colors), and Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: Barry Allen finds himself assigned to a very unusual homicide case as Hot Pursuit runs amok in Central City. What’s Good: For the second month in a row, Geoff Johns hits it out of the park on the Flash. [...]

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Green Lantern #59 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

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 [...]

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The Flash #5 – Review

Posted on September 24, 2010 by paladinking

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 [...]

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DC Universe Legacies #2 – Review

Posted on June 17, 2010 by jtmazz

Len Wein (writer), Scott Kolins (artist), Andy Kubert (penciler), Joe Kubert (inker) The history of the DCU continues to unfold as the story of Legacies proceeds forward. Our Justice Society of America is called before Congress, specifically the Un-American Activities Committee is, to answer for their vigilante behavior, but face a difficult decision when demanded [...]

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Brightest Day #0 – Review

Posted on April 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi (writers), Fernando Pasarin (penciller), Fernando Pasarin, John Dell, Cam Smith, Prentis Rollins, Dexter Vines and Art Thibert (inkers) The Story: In Blackest Night #8, Aquaman, the Reverse-Flash, Captain Boomerang, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman and others (12 in all) were resurrected. They were resurrected for a reason. The mystery of Brightest [...]

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Blackest Night #8 – Review

Posted on March 31, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (artist), Oclair Albert and Joe Prado (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) Everything was good! Cover to cover. Art. Story. Lettering. Everything. The art team, already superb, took it up a notch. Long-lost lovers, white lanterns, silvered manifestations of life, hazy mists of power, and faces frozen in fear, joy, greed, [...]

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Titans #23 – Review

Posted on March 21, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Eddie Berganza (writer), Scott Clark and Adrian Syaf (pencillers), Dave Beatty and Vicente Cifuentes (inkers) What’s Good: This is the first time I’ve seen Eddie Berganza in the writer’s chair. He’s been editing Blackest Night, Cry for Justice, Wednesday Comics, and others up to now, but I think he did a fine job as [...]

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Green Arrow #31 – Review

Posted on March 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By J.T. Krul (writer), Federico Dallocchio (artist), Michael Atiyeh (colorist) The Story: Green Arrow finished business with Prometheus in the conclusion of Justice League: Cry for Justice, but now he’s on the trail of Electrocutioner, Prometheus’ accomplice. Problem is, Green Arrow’s Justice League colleagues are on his trail. What’s Good: I had trashed Green Arrow [...]

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Justice League: Cry for Justice #6 – Review

Posted on January 28, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: James Robinson (writer), Scott Clark (artist), Siya Oum (colors) The Story: Supergirl has discovered out that Freddy is really Prometheus in disguise. An all-out battle follows. What’s Good: Mauro Cascioli’s artwork was what held me to this book when everything else crumbled. You can imagine my disappointment when I discovered that Scott Clark had [...]

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Titans #21 – Review

Posted on January 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Angel Unzueta & Chris Batista (pencils), Wayne Faucher (inker) The Story: Fractured, Part One: The Titans are mopping up a second string crew of thieves. Donna is pretty upset about what Prometheus has done to Roy in Cry for Justice #5. Flash is going through a crisis of his own due [...]

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Blackest Night: The Flash #1 – Review

Posted on December 2, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Geoff Johns (writer), Scott Kolins (artist), Michael Atiyeh (colors) The Story: This story begins between Blackest Night #3 and #4, when Barry Allen, the Flash, starts assembling the force of superheroes that will converge on Coast City to fight the Black Lanterns collected around their battery. It covers history of the Flash, as well [...]

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Justice League: Cry For Justice #5 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Mauro Casciolo & Scott Clark (artists), Adam Schlagman (assistant editor), Eddie Berganza (editor) The Story: The whole issue is one meeting after another, wherein heroes tell each other what has happened so far and start arguments they don’t finish. The only exceptions to the absence of action are the shocking last [...]

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Justice Society Of America #32 – Review

Posted on October 30, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by Matthew Sturges and Bill Willingham (writers), Jesus Merino (art), Allen Passalaqua (color), Rachel Gluckstern (assistant editor), Mike Carlin (editor) The Story: The Bad Seed, Part 4: Power Girl, the Flash and Mr. America struggle to find out who killed Mr. Terrific. In the meantime, Dr. Midnight discovers that the Green Lantern has been using [...]

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Justice League: Cry For Justice #4 – Review

Posted on October 9, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Mauro Cascioli (artist), Eddie Berganza (editor) The Story: Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Freddie Freeman, the Atom and Supergirl pull themselves out of the wreckage of last issue’s cliff-hanger explosion and decide to follow Prometheus’ trail through the torture of the other villains they’ve captured. Jay Garrick is running around the country, [...]

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Justice Society of America #31 – Review

Posted on September 30, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges (writers), Jesus Merino (artist), Allen Passalaqua (colorist) The Story: The gigantic JSA cast is in the brownstone where Wildcat and Magog have thrown down their gloves. No one manages to break it up until everyone is reminded that Mr. Terrific is dying on the operating table and needs blood. [...]

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Blackest Night #3 – Review

Posted on September 18, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (artist), Oclair Albert with Joe Prado (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: The Green Lantern and the Flash are fighting a losing battle against the Black Lanterns, Elongated Man, the Martian Manhunter, Firestorm, Hawkman, Hawkwoman and Sue Dibny. In the meantime, the new Firestorm (Jason and Gen) respond to [...]

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FanExpo 2009 Recap

Posted on September 1, 2009 by DS Arsenault

Last weekend, I attended Fan Expo 2009 in Toronto, Canada, a convention featuring science fiction, comics, anime, horror, and games. I paid the most attention to the comics stream (obviously) and attended panels by five publishers and sat in on two sessions by Len Wein (creator of Wolverine, some of the New X-Men, Swamp Thing, [...]

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Justice Society of America #29 – Review

Posted on July 30, 2009 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham & Matthew Sturges (writers), Jesus Merino (art), Allen Passalaqua (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: The Flash finds a mysterious black egg and it’s up to Mr. Terrific to figure out what it is. Meanwhile, two new members are introduced to the team, and a massive battle erupts, and there’s a [...]

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The Flash: Rebirth #2 – Review

Posted on May 9, 2009 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ethan Van Sciver (penciller & inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist), & Rob Leigh (letterer) The Story: Barry Allen continues to wrestle with existential issues while the mysteries presented in issue #1 tighten. The Good: After a somewhat modest first issue, this is a huge improvement. Last month, I wasn’t sure if I’d [...]

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