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Action Comics #6 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), John Dell (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist), Sholly Fisch (feature writer), Chriscross (feature artist), Jose Villarrubia (feature colorist) The Story: Now you know where all those little voices in your head are coming from. The Review: I don’t think I’m the only one, but I sometimes give Morrison a [...]

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Action Comics #5 – Review

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Invasion of the Space Babies! They’ll overwhelm you with their cuteness! The Review: The coming of Superman to Earth as a babe rocketed from the doomed planet of Krypton is probably the origin story of origin stories, one which still retains a lot of its [...]

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Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes – Review

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Cameron Stewart & Chris Burnham (artists), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Now that’s a boat ride you’re not bound to forget. The Review: While it’s unclear where Batman Inc. fits into this refreshed DCU, with everyone still in the youth of their vigilante careers, it’s obvious Morrison’s grand idea for the [...]

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Action Comics #4 – Review

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Man of Steel, meet Man in Steel. The Review: I’ve become a bit wary of DC’s backup and co-features over time. The fact they hang on to a bigger, stronger storyline definitely poses some drawbacks. Only rarely do they have a charm and intrigue of [...]

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Action Comics #3 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Gene Ha (guest artist), Brad Anderson & Art Lyon (colorists) The Story: Corrupt people rabidly spouting nonsense on TV—what will fiction think of next? The Review: Anybody who’s read much of Superman has wondered this question at some point: which is the real alter-ego, Superman [...]

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Action Comics #2 – Review

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales & Brent Anderson (pencillers), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: We’re no Guantanamo, but we’ve got ways of making an alien in a T-shirt talk. The Review: One thing Morrison does consistently well is place characters into unusual situations, and when it comes to iconic superheroes, that [...]

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Action Comics #1 – Review

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: If he falls, a Superman has to get up, dust his jeans off, and hit even harder. The Review: For those of you desperately attempting to push back the memories of Grounded into the far-flung recesses of your brain, don’t [...]

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Batman Incorporated #8 – Review

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Scott Clark & Dave Beaty (artists) The Story: Look, just as long as you don’t let your kid starve to death, play online all you want. The Review: The idea of taking our technological connections, the virtual threads that seem to wrap us tighter together by the day, and going one [...]

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Batman Incorporated #7 – Review

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Chris Burnham (artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: These guys are cowboys and injuns! The Review: We all know how important fleshing out a story beyond its skeleton of plot points can be. Going about it, however, takes a certain amount of craft, otherwise you wind up with huge swaths of [...]

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Batman Incorporated #6 – Review

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Chris Burnham (artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: No matter where you go, you can always count on your Bat-family. The Review: Early issues of Batman Inc. made out this series as a world-hopping, adventure extravaganza—which it still is. But recently, Morrison revealed an even bigger scope to Batman’s mission, as [...]

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Batman Incorporated #5 – Review

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michel Lacombe (inker), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: I’m afraid a bat’s too big to be caught in your web, Dr. Dedalus! The Review: In talking about Batman Incorporated, plenty of people have made references to the James Bond quality of the series’ adventures. The comparison has only [...]

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Batman Incorporated #4 – Review

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Chris Burnham (artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Batman doesn’t like a lot of people, so killing off his first love is not a great idea. The Review: Probably the most distinguishing trademark of Morrison’s writing is the grand scope of his vision: his ideas stretch far into the future, and [...]

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Batman Incorporated #3 – Review

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michel LaCombe (inker), Pere Perez (supporting artist), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Pack in your venom antidote and tie up your bandana, muchachos—Batman’s going south of the border! The Review: A good idea doesn’t always pan out into a good story. Quite often, once you start bearing down [...]

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Joe the Barbarian #8 – Review

Posted on March 7, 2011 by dfstell

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Sean Murphy (artist), Dave Stewart (colors), Todd Klein (letters), Pornsak Pichetshote (associate editor) & Karen Berger (editor) The Story: Joe the Barbarian wraps up. Will “the dying boy” overcome a hypoglycemia? And what will become of his family’s home? What’s Good: Sean Murphy’s art is very, very good. There isn’t a [...]

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All-Star Superman (Film) – Review

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Dwayne McDuffie (writer), Sam Liu (director), Bruce Timm (producer), James Denton, Christina Hendricks, & Anthony LaPaglia (voice actors) The Story: How does Superman spend his last days? Shuffleboard probably isn’t on the bucket list. The Review: Anyone who has ever tried to adapt anything into film will come across a lot of challenges: how [...]

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X-Force: Sex + Violence (Graphic Novel Review)

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Criag Kyle and Christopher Yost, Art by Gabrielle Dell’Otto I rarely start with price, and even more so, I never recommend a book that the price costs more than the individual issues (like the Siege hardcover edition)…but in this case, I have to change my stance. Sure, Sex + Violence is only a [...]

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Batman Incorporated #2 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2010 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michel Lacombe (inker), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Lord Death Man rises again, and this time he’s ready to bring senseless crime back into fashion for the great nation of Nihon. With Mr. Unknown out of the picture, it’s up to Batman to make sure Shiny Happy Aquazon [...]

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Batman and Robin #17 – Review

Posted on November 24, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Scott McDaniel (artist), Rob Hunter (inker) The Story: Una Nemo, one of Bruce’s old girlfriends, now dead, has been dug up from her grave. Batman (Dick Grayson) and Robin (Damian Wayne) are on the case. New Gotham weirdness. What is missing? What’s Good: Paul Cornell is new to this big, big [...]

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Batman Incorporated #1 – Review

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Ray Hilario

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Yanick Paquette (penciller), Michael LaCombe (inker), Nathan Fairbairn (colorist) The Story: Bruce Wayne begins his mission to recruit an international association of Batmen by looking up Mr. Unknown, his counterpart in Japan. Lord Death Man, boss baddie of the Land of the Rising Sun, however has announced his goal to “Kill [...]

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Batman: The Return #1 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), David Finch (penciller), Batt and Ryan Winn (inker), Peter Steigerwald (colorist) The Story: Bruce Wayne is back in Gotham and giving orders. It might be best to say that General Wayne is back, because he’s got a small army of people he can draw on for his new vision of crime-fighting. [...]

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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #6 – Review

Posted on November 11, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Lee Garbett, Pere Perez (artists), Alejandro Sicat and Walden Wong (inks) The Story: Bruce Wayne arrives at the end of time, where those weird-eyed, fuzzy archivists help him along on the last leg of his journey through time and into the final steps of Darkseid’s plan to use him as a [...]

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Batman and Robin #16 – Review

Posted on November 3, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Cameron Stewart, Chris Burnham, Frazer Irving (artists), Alex Sinclair and Frazer Irving (colorists), Mike Marts (editor) The Story: We see Thomas Wayne in 1765 summoning the demon Barbatos. We then shift forward to now, where Dr. Hurt is facing Batman, Robin, and DC’s spoiler for the whole Return of Batman miniseries. [...]

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What We’re Looking Forward To In November

Posted on October 31, 2010 by paladinking

Dean There is a LOT to look forward to in November. For one thing, there is a lot of neat stuff in the Spider-Man world as Amazing Spider-Man kicks off its new “big” story line Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos. This is also the end of the thrice-monthly ASM [...]

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Batman and Robin #15 – Review

Posted on October 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Frazer Irving (artist), Janelle Seigel (assistant editor), Mike Marts (editor) The Story: Batman and Robin Must Die, Part 3: The Joker has Robin in his insane clutches, but he must convince the boy wonder to go after Thomas Wayne instead of giving the Joker his comeuppance. Damian isn’t known for his [...]

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Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #5 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Ryan Sook (penciller), Mick Gray (inks), Pere Perez (art), Jose Villarrubia (colors) The Story: The Return of Bruce Wayne, Part 5: Masquerade: Bruce Wayne wakes up in a hospital in the 1950s or so and a woman who needs a detective offers him a job (incidentally, investigating the murder of his [...]

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