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Green Lantern Corps #9 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Peter J. Tomasi (story), Fernando Pasarin (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Gabe Eltaeb (colors) The Story: This is space law—you don’t get no Miranda rights out here! The Review: After a year in law school, I’ve gained a greater appreciation for America’s judicial system, believe it or not. My property professor made the best observation [...]

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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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Young Justice S02E03 – Review

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (story) The Story: Now this is the textbook definition of “frienemies.” The Review: One thing that has really impressed me with this show is how well the writers have paced themselves in terms of revealing major plot points, throwing in the occasional twist, and building up character storylines. Although season one had [...]

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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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Young Justice S02E01 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Greg Weisman (story) The Story: YJ’s philosophy toward recruitment? The more the merrier. The Review: When I reviewed the show’s season finale last week, I was all settled in for a summer’s break until its return. I suppose I should have known by now to give up trying to figure out this show’s release [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #8 – Review

Posted on April 21, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

hh By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin (penciller), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: This promotion better come with some cosmic benefits—health and dental! Thgge Review: Guy Gardner reminds me a lot of a certain type of dude I used to know back as an undergrad: loud, strident, and not afraid to [...]

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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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Young Justice Episode 22 – Review

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (writer) The Story: Joining the League is not unlike joining the Plastics in Mean Girls. The Review: To the show’s credit, the writers have done a careful job focusing on the young team itself, despite the constant temptation of the Justice League appearing tantalizingly on the fringes of stories. Still, we’re constantly [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #7 – Review

Posted on March 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Claude St. Aubin (penciller), Scott Hanna (inker), Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: There’s a reason why the benefits are so good when you join the Green Lanterns. The Review: I don’t know about you, but I know that for me, living in our pampered, lily-handed world, the sweatiest decisions I’ve [...]

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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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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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