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Aquaman #9 – Review

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Ivan Reis (pencils), Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, Andy Lanning (inks), Rod Reis (colors) The Story: All those years of PTSD therapy, undone by one super-villain attack. The Review: As I read through this issue, it struck me that I haven’t been giving Johns enough credit for what he’s been doing on [...]

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Justice League #9 – Review

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

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, [...]

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Green Lantern #9 – Review

Posted on May 10, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) The Story: Considering the success of rehab on Hollywood celebrities, this isn’t surprising in the least. The Review: While I generally like Johns as a writer, and there are quite a few of his works I [...]

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The New 52 #1 – Free Comic Book Day Review

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Everyone needs a lawyer—especially when your judges are master mages. The Review: I like free stuff as much as the next person. I’m an old hand at waiting for five minutes to get a sample of some Costco microwaveable piece of whatever that you can [...]

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Aquaman #8 – Review

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Ivan Reis (art), Joe Prado (inks), Rod Reis (colors) The Story: It’d be a good idea to get the old gang back together while there’s still a gang. The Review: Like a lot of his fellow Justice Leaguers, Aquaman has always struggled with figuring out who he is and where he [...]

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Justice League #8 – Review

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

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, [...]

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Green Lantern #8 – Review

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Mark Irwin, Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: When the Indigos do rehab, they definitely don’t screw around. The Review: If there’s one lesson we’ve learned on this title, it’s that membership to a color corps—any color corps—isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. [...]

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Aquaman #7 – Review

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: So tell me, Aquaman—was your ex-superteam as good as the one you have now? The Review: Aquaman has been around for a long time, yet the point of this series is really about revitalizing him in the public eye again. [...]

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Justice League #7 – Review

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist), Gary Frank (feature artist), Brad Anderson (feature colorist) The Story: Working with the League isn’t unlike babysitting surly teens, as Steve Trevor learns. The Review: Something I learned the hard, painful way back in college was that you could bring your most creative ideas in [...]

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Green Lantern #7 – Review

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Nok nok. Who’s there? Indigo. Indigo who? Indigo home! Like E.T., get it? The Review: As my last few reviews show, Johns has fallen into something of a slump on Justice League, where characters rarely venture [...]

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Justice League #6 – Review

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

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 [...]

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Aquaman #6 – Review

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (breakdowns), Joe Prado (artist), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: See, Mera, this is where a little concept called a shopping list would come in handy. The Review: I don’t know about other reviewers, but I like to throw around the words “cliché,” “predictable,” “trope,” “formula,” and “archetype” like time’s [...]

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Green Lantern #6 – Review

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Mike Choi (artist), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: In which Sinestro finds prophecies to be heavy reading. The Review: At some point in every superhero’s life there comes a time when they have to face the prospect of hanging up the cape/putting away the spandex outfit for a while, even for [...]

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Aquaman #5 – Review

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado & Eber Ferreira (inkers), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Hey, Aquaman—talk about a fish out of water, huh? …Please don’t kill me. The Review: As a longtime reader of Johns’ work, I’m always amazed at the difference in effect his stories have depending on whether you [...]

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Green Lantern #5 – Review

Posted on January 12, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Mark Irwin, Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Alex Sinclair & Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: Instead of power rings, maybe it’s best the mob goes back to pitchforks and torches. The Review: It’s a funny thing about people. We spend a great lot of our time [...]

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Aquaman #4 – Review

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado & Eber Ferreira (inkers), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Hey, Trench—your mama’s so fat, she cuts herself and calls it rare! Booyah. The Review: As relatively civilized beings, we impose some standards of morality upon ourselves, one we in our lily-handed society can easily adhere to. [...]

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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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Green Lantern #4 – Review

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Keith Champagne (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Sinestro, you can’t just hand out these power rings like they’re candy! The Review: Oh, come on—seeing Hal get fried in the Yellow Central Battery was all good and fun, but no one thought for one second [...]

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Aquaman #3 – Review

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: These guys would make one heck of a ninth-grade biology dissection project. The Review: Johns gets a lot of attention and devotion because he not only brings such genuine enthusiasm to the job, he also injects enormous heart into the [...]

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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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Green Lantern #3 – Review

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: You know what the Korugans need? An Occupy movement. The Review: Just as Green Lantern has risen in stature in the last few years to the point where he now has the same iconic [...]

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Aquaman #2 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Just don’t expect Aquaman to break out into a verse of “Candle on the Water.” The Review: Last issue tackled the merits of Aquaman as superhero right on the head by having him addressed as a joke at every opportunity [...]

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Justice League #2 – Review

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: You know, I guess it’s not a new-fangled Rubik’s cube after all. The Review: While the debut issue of this series had quite a lot of fun, engaging material to it, it also had the disappointment of a false promise. [...]

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Green Lantern #2 – Review

Posted on October 13, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Keith Champagne (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: It’s easy to see who’s the bad cop in this pairing. The Review: While comics mostly serve as escapist fiction, that doesn’t mean they can’t bear commentary on real life as well. A lot of writers seem [...]

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Aquaman #1 – Review

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: He does more than just talk to fish—he’s pretty good buddies with dolphins, too. The Review: I’m an Aquaman fan. There—I said it. Let the jokes fly. But seriously, all funny business aside, the concept of his character has a [...]

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