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Green Lantern #53 – Review

Posted on April 24, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin and Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor (colorist) The Story: Brightest Day, The New Guardians Chapter One: This story sweeps slowly and deliberately over a wide cast of characters, from locations as diverse as a New Orleans prison, the planet Ryut, Coast City, [...]

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Blackest Night Director’s Cut – Review

Posted on April 24, 2010 by SoldierHawk

Featuring the commentary of Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert (ink), Joe Prado (ink), Alex Sinclair (colors), Nick J. Napolitano (letters) The Story: The book starts out with a page-by-page (and occasionally panel by panel) discussion by the creators of all eight issues of Blackest Night. A beautiful cover gallery (with some neat [...]

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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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Green Lantern #52 – Review

Posted on March 25, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke, Rebecca Buchman and Keith Champagne (inkers) The Story: This is it! The endgame of Blackest Night. John Stewart leads an army of light against giant Black Lantern planet as it descends on the Earth. In the meantime, Hal Jordan is on Earth, fighting Nekron [...]

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Green Lantern Corp #46 – Review

Posted on March 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (penciller), Rebecca Buchman, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen (inkers) The Story: The assembled ring corps are in the middle of a battle royale that has been going on for many issues. Guy Gardner adapts a Star Trek strategy to productive use, but both he and Kyle predictably face loved [...]

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Green Lantern #51 – Review

Posted on February 19, 2010 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (art), Randy Mayor (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Parallax returns to battle the Black Lantern Spectre. What’s Good: This is a really, really fun issue.  A lot of this is thanks to the twists and turns that Johns provides with the emotional spectrum.  One such twist, involving [...]

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #3 – Review

Posted on February 4, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka (writer), Nicola Scott (pencils), Jonathan Glapion (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors) The Story: Diana, just saved from being a black lantern, is guided by Carol Ferris as they go to fight the other black lanterns. Although the black lanterns are a big deal in their zombie apocalypse sort of way, a bigger piece [...]

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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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Green Lantern #50 – Review

Posted on January 27, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin, Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The newly reinforced armies of light are making good headway against the black lanterns, but black lantern Spectre is still there, and nothing they do will stop him. So it’s time to pull out the [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #44 – Review

Posted on January 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (penciller), Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne & Patrick Gleason (inkers) The Story: Red Badge of Rage, Part 2: Black Lanterns have overrun the power battery on Oa. A giant green lantern planet hovers over Oa. And Guy Gardner is a psycho (oh, and he has a red [...]

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Blackest Night #6 – Review

Posted on December 30, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) Story: Last issue’s combined lantern corps attack failed to stop Nekron. A bunch of resurrected DC heroes have been turned into Black Lanterns (Superman, Wonder Woman, etc), further strengthening Nekron’s hand. Black Lantern rings pursue Hal Jordan and Barry [...]

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Green Lantern #49 – Review

Posted on December 26, 2009 by tonyrak

By Geoff Johns (writer), Ed Benes & Marcos Marz (artists), Ed Benes & Luciana Del Negro (inkers The Story: John Stewart guest stars in Hal’s book this month to single handedly take on the Black Lantern planet Xanshi. The Good: Wow. I love, love, love it when a comic can get me to re-examine characters [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #43 – Review

Posted on December 16, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (penciller), Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen & Patrick Gleason (inkers) The Story: Red Badge of Rage: Between the cliffhanger of last issue (the death of Kyle Rayner) and the cover of this issue (Guy Gardner becomes a Red Lantern), you have all I can tell you without spoiling. What’s [...]

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Blackest Night #5 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inkers) The Story: The leaders of the seven lantern corps ready themselves for an assault on the black power battery. Barry Allen and Wally West lead the DCU’s heavy hitters against the tide of black lanterns defending their own power battery in Coast [...]

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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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Green Lantern Corps #42 – Review

Posted on November 13, 2009 by paladinking

by Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (pencils), Rebecca Buchman & Tom Nguyen (inks), Randy Mayor & Gabe Eltaeb (colors), and Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Along with their new Indigo ally, the Green Lantern Corps make their last stand defending the central power battery. What’s Good: This is probably the best issue of Green [...]

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Blackest Night #4 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (Inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist), Eddie Berganza (editor) The Story: We’re deep in Act II of Blackest Night, so things aren’t going so good. The Flash, Mera and the Atom are being overwhelmed at the JLA headquarters. The heroes of the rest of the [...]

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Green Lantern #47 – Review

Posted on October 29, 2009 by joelopez101

by Geoff Johns (Writer), Doug Mahnke (art) The Story: The Black Lanterns enter the War of Light as Green Lantern Hal Jordan and his archenemy Sinestro are both confronted with faces from the past. What’s Good: You’d think that with Johns’ handling the scripting chores on both the core Blackest Night title as well this [...]

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Blackest Night: Titans #3 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by JT Krul (writer), Ed Benes (art), Rex Ogle (assistant editor), Brian Cunningham and Eddie Berganza (editors) The Story: The Titans are trapped in a massive slugfest with the dead. What’s Good: Krul did a great job of tying a lot of the feeling of Blackest Night together. Blackest Night is about making every hero [...]

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Blackest Night: Batman #3

Posted on October 17, 2009 by Ray Hilario

By Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Adrian Syaf (artist), Nei Ruffino (colors), John J. Hill (letterer) The Story: The Blackest Night in Gotham concludes, as the Flying Graysons are reunited, and it’s identity crisis all over again for the Drake family. As Dick and Tim are confronted by their deceased loved ones and forced to relive [...]

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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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WCBR’s Top Picks

Posted on October 6, 2009 by pozzyfreak

Kyle’s Top Picks Best of the Past Week: Secret Warriors #8 - The ”God of Fear, God of War” arc continues to impress the hell out of me thanks to the strong character work that’s been done for both Phobos and his father, Ares. Most Anticipated: Dark Reign: The List – Secret Warriors #1 – Predictable choice, [...]

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Green Lantern #46 – Review

Posted on October 1, 2009 by tonyrak

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 [...]

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Blackest Night: Titans #2 – Review

Posted on September 30, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By J.T. Krul (writer), Ed Benes (artist), Scott Williams and Ed Benes (inkers) The Story: Donna Troy’s dead husband and baby come after her as Black Lanterns. Black Lantern Terra and a few other old friends from the post-living move to smash Gar, Kid Flash, Cyborg and Starfire. Hawk and Dove fight Black Lantern Hawk [...]

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