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Birds of Prey #9 – Review

By: Duane Swierczynski (story), Travel Foreman (pencils), Jeff Huet (inks), Gabe Eltaeb (colors) The Story: We have a serial killer and a group of pretty women—who’ll come out on top? The Review: Another “Night of the Owls” tie-in.  Huzzah.  In all seriousness, though, it’s not like I think Batman-spawned plot is terrible—I haven’t even read [...]

Justice League #9 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (story), Jim Lee (pencils), Scott Williams (inks), Alex Sinclair, Pete Pantazis, Gabe Eltaeb (colorists), Gary Frank (feature art), Brad Anderson (feature colors) The Story: Soon, the League will know the dangers of excessive fanship. The Review: One of this title’s biggest pitfalls has been its inability to establish a consistent tone, direction, [...]

Green Lantern Corps #8 – Review

hh By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin (penciller), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: This promotion better come with some cosmic benefits—health and dental! Thgge Review: Guy Gardner reminds me a lot of a certain type of dude I used to know back as an undergrad: loud, strident, and not afraid to [...]

Justice League #8 – Review

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: If Arrows wants in so bad, you should at least give him the honor of hazing him. The Review: If anything proves that relentless flash and glam can’t make up for ill-conceived, incomprehensible storytelling, it has to be the Garry Marshall-Katherine Fugate series of star-studded, [...]

Green Lantern Corps #7 – Review

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Claude St. Aubin (penciller), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: There’s a reason why the benefits are so good when you join the Green Lanterns. The Review: I don’t know about you, but I know that for me, living in our pampered, lily-handed world, the sweatiest decisions I’ve [...]

Justice League #6 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Batt, Mark Irwin (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Tony Avina, Hi-Fi (colorists) The Story: Darkseid, wouldn’t printing ads on the back of milk cartons work better than all this? The Review: Justice League Dark demonstrated, by negative inference, how important it is to give each member [...]

Green Lantern Corps #6 – Review

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin (artist), Scott Hana (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Admit it, Guy—you’ve always dreamed of a Rambo moment like this. The Review: I’m no historian, so I don’t know when comic book writers started doing this kind of thing, but nowadays, it’s common practice for them to have [...]

Green Lantern Corps #5 – Review

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin (artist), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: For fast, easy disposal of mortal enemies, send ‘em to the Mean Machine! The Review: The best part about a piece of serial fiction, one that can go on indefinitely, is the opportunity to build and flesh out a [...]

Justice League #4 – Review

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.  [...]

Green Lantern Corps #4 – Review

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin (penciller), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Wanted: a suitable candidate to be good cop to Guy Gardner’s bad cop. The Review: With all these different teams and organizations and forces running around the DCU, with all their various agendas and missions, you’d expect there to [...]

Justice League #3 – Review

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 [...]

Green Lantern Corps #3 – Review

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Geraldo Borges (penciller), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: With the Green Lantern Corps, you’ll learn all about the importance of teamwork! The Review: While diversity is something we all like to promote in theory, the fact is anytime you have a lot of people with diverse backgrounds [...]

Green Lantern Corps #2 – Review

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin (penciller), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Here’s a natural resources shortage solution for you: just steal ‘em. The Review: While the main Green Lantern title offers an epic scope to its tales, Green Lantern Corps shows how even the nitty-gritty grind of a Lantern’s daily [...]

Green Lantern Corps #1 – Review

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin (artist), Scott Hana (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Alright, who let all the water run out? The Review: Don’t let Green Lantern’s title fool you; it may technically apply to any one of the 7,200 members of the universe’s primo space cowboys, but we all know the [...]

Green Lantern #67 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin (inkers), Gabe Eltaeb & Randy Mayor (colorists) The Story: This makes me want to break out into a chorus of, “Feelings…woah, woah, woah…” The Review: With all this Flashpoint business going on, War of the Green Lanterns has gotten kind [...]

Green Lantern #59 – Review

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 [...]

Green Lantern Corps #52 – Review

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Ardian Syaf (artist), Vicente Cifuentes (inker), Randy Mayor with Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) The Story: Boodikka, the dying Alpha-Lantern, narrates the end of the Revolt of the Alpha-Lanterns arc. Green Lanterns Ganthet, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart, Hannu and Soranik are in deep trouble against Cyborg-Superman and the army of Alpha-Lanterns on Grenda. [...]

Green Lantern #57 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Major with Gabe Eltaeb (colors) The Story: What Happens in Las Vegas: Hector Hammond has swallowed the orange power lantern. The main power battery for the Star Sapphires is petering out. Carol Ferris has to trap the purple [...]

Green Lantern #54 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor and Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) The Story: The New Guardians, Chapter Two: Brightest Day creeps out of its shell. Atrocitus is on Earth, searching. Behind the scenes, an old force is assembling the entities for each color of [...]

Green Lantern #46 – Review

By Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy (inker), Randy Mayor & Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) The Story: Hal and Indigo-1 begin their quest to unify the disparate factions of light by approaching Carol and the Star Sapphires even as the Black Lanterns attack Zamaron.  Meanwhile, Mongul and Sinestro discuss executive management opportunities within the [...]

Green Lantern Corps #37 – Review

By Peter Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (penciler), Rebecca Buchman and Tom Nguyen (inkers), and Gabe Eltaeb (colors) The Story: Three exceedingly awesome plot-line continue exploding under Tomsai’s craftsmanship. First we see that after Sodam Yat’s self-sacrifice into the heart of Daxam’s redson, the occupied Daxamite population develops their latent superpowers and take on Mongul and his rogue band of yellow lanterns. Next [...]

The Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs #4 – Review

By Hans Rodionoff (writer), Joel Gomez (pencils), Don Ho (inker), Gabe Eltaeb, Randy Mayor (colors) The best inside joke in all of comics comes to its conclusion with this issue. Luckily, the story will continue in Lost Boys: The Tribe which I assume is an adaptation of the movie. Hans Rodionoff answers a lot of [...]

Lost Boys: Reign of Frogs #2 (of 4) – Review

By: Hans Rodionoff, Joel Gomez (pencils), Don Ho (inks), Randy Mayor, and Gabe Eltaeb (colors) Growing up, I was a huge fan of the original Lost Boys movie. In this comic series, the story turns and focuses on the Frog Brothers and their lives post-Lost Boys. Basically, these two have stayed in the fictitious city of Santa [...]

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