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All-Star Western #5 – Review

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray (writer), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist), Phil Winslade (feature artist), Dominic Regan (feature colorist) The Story: Instead of seeing the situation as a death trap, Arkham, consider it an adventure! The Review: I think the real fun of these buddy stories—although calling Hex and Arkham buddies is admittedly a [...]

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All-Star Western #4 – Review

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti (writers), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist), Phil Winslade (feature artist), Dominic Regan (feature colorist) The Story: Gee, it’s good to be together again.  I just can’t imagine that you’ve ever been gone! The Review: The beauty of Jonah Hex and Dr. Arkham’s partnership is not only how well they [...]

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All-Star Western #3 – Review

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti (writers), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist), Jordi Bernet (feature artist), Rob Schwager (feature colorist) The Story: A rough beat for a Gotham cop is…pretty much everywhere in Gotham. The Review: One of the more intriguing elements to this series has been the “fish out of water” story placing Hex [...]

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All-Star Western #2 – Review

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Justin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotti (writers), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist), Jordi Bernet (feature artist), Rob Schwager (feature colorist) The Story: As long as there are donuts at the end of it, sign me up for the Religion of Crime! The Review: At first, it wasn’t clear why of all the new 52, this [...]

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All-Star Western #1 – Review

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jimmy Palmiotti & Justin Gray (writers), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist) The Story: Sounds like y’all have need of a pop-eyed cowboy ‘round these here parts. The Review: DC has devoted itself to many genres in its publishing history, even those that have fallen out of favor in modern times, like the western.  Give [...]

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The Spirit #15 – Review

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: David Hine (writer), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist) The Story: Oh, Honey—you were too good for him anyway.  Or is it the other way around? The Review: If you’re any kind of optimist, you’ll believe that even in the most depraved of individuals, there’s a soul lurking around there somewhere.  Fiction spends a lot [...]

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The Spirit #12 – Review

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: David Hine (writer), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist) The Story: You ever get a feeling from dolls that their eyes keep following you around the room?  Well, you should be worried—because actually they might kill you. The Review: With any genre of art, you’ve got a few ways of going about it: stick to [...]

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The Spirit #11 – Review

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: David Hine (writer), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista & Pia Guerra (colorists) The Story: The Spirit takes on Central City’s illegal immigrant problem, mafia style. The Review: A good story can be told given any length.  In fact, when page or word limits constrain a writer, it forces the writing to cut the fat and [...]

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The Spirit #10 – Review

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: David Hine (writer), Moritat (penciller), John Kantz (inker), Gabriel Bautista (colorist) The Story: No one’s very fond of the cockroach, but Roscoe Kalashnikov is crazy about them—not in a good way.  And yes, his craziness involves guns. The Review: Considering the ongoing nature of comic books, you’d think writers could afford to let their [...]

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The Spirit #9 – Review

Posted on December 19, 2010 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: David Hine (writer), Moritat (artist), Gabriel Bautista (colorist), Paul Dini (co-feature writer), Mike Ploog (co-feature artist) The Story: The feud between the Ottoman and Bauhaus families ratchets up when the Spirit discovers a connection between Ophelia Ottoman’s murders, her dead husband, and a long-lost treasure.  But since this is Central City, that connection isn’t [...]

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Elephantmen #25 – Review

Posted on April 24, 2010 by dfstell

By: Richard Starkings (writer), art by various The Story: In a recap of sorts, we follow the inner monologue of one of Hip and Ebony’s fellow agents at the Information Agency, as he reflects on the history of the Elephantmen. What’s Good: I love Elephantmen, but this is the first really good “jumping on point” [...]

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