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Green Lantern Corps #6 – Review

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

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 [...]

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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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Justice League #5 – Review

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, Joe Weems (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Gabe Eltaeb, Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: I’ll give this for Hal—the kid takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. The Review: Look, I get it. Even with a whole cast of perfectly formed, likable characters, you’re [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #5 – Review

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

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 [...]

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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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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 Corps #4 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

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 [...]

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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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Justice League International #4 – Review

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Dan Jurgens (writer), Aaron Lopresti (penciller), Matt Ryan (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: This is how the world ends—as a flashing, neon disco light before obliteration. The Review: This issue picks up where we left off last time, with Booster Gold and Batman fending off a legion of golems as they attempt to prevent [...]

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JLA: The Age of Wonder – Review

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adisakdi Tantimedh (writer), Galen Showman & P. Craig Russell (artists), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: I say, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane—oh, wait, those don’t exist yet. The Review: I wasn’t sure how to classify these DC Comics Presents books. Even though they’re released as “issues,” they really represent [...]

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Voodoo #3 – Review

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Ron Marz (writer), Sami Basri (artist), Jessica Kholinne (colorist) The Story: Who ya gonna call? Green Lantern! The Review: The idea of aliens taking over the world from the inside has been around for practically as long as the very notion of aliens. Invasion of the Body Snatchers established the default mode of such [...]

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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 Corps #3 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

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 [...]

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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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Justice League International #3 – Review

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Dan Jurgens (writer), Aaron Lopresti (penciller), Matt Ryan (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: Actually, I can believe it’s not the Justice League. The Review: On the topic of super-teams that need to distinguish themselves from the Justice League, let’s turn our attention to one of the most obvious offenders. We mustn’t forget that for [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #2 – Review

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

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 [...]

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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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Justice League International #2 – Review

Posted on October 12, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Dan Jurgens (writer), Aaron Lopresti (penciller), Matt Ryan (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: Well, it’s not “Hands Around the World,” but it’ll have to do. The Review: With one Justice League already in existence, and with all the world’s biggest, brawniest, most recognizable heroes counted in the roster, it really puts all other teams [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #1 – Review

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

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 [...]

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Green Lantern #1 – Review

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Tom Nguyen (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: Sinestro, to the rescue! For once, I’m actually not kidding you. The Review: One of the few titles sticking to its guns and continuity post-relaunch is Green Lantern, so we can safely start by talking about what [...]

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Justice League International #1 – Review

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Dan Jurgens (writer), Aaron Lopresti (penciller), Matt Ryan (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: I don’t know about you guys, but all this is giving me an urge to visit EPCOT. The Review: While there’s nothing inherently wrong with the idea of JLI, its recreation does call into question the place of T.H.U.N.D.E.R. Agents in [...]

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Justice League #1 – Review

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: I have only one question—what happened to everybody’s underwear? The Review: Funny. It doesn’t feel like a new age of comics. But DC insists one has come, and seeing the enormous slate they’ve just wiped clean, we must take their [...]

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Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #3 – Review

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Robson Rocha & Felipe Massafera (artists), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Abin Sur’s just dying to save our world. The Review: For a lot of these tie-ins, the main events of Flashpoint have little bearing on the stories told, some of them literally avoiding the thick of the action until the [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #63 – Review