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Amazing Spider-Man #679 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Time is almost up!  How can Spidey prevent the future destruction of New York? Five Things:  1. This is how to pace superhero stories! – Slott really understands how to [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #678 – Review

Posted on January 20, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A new time-hopping Spidey story kicks off. Five Things: 1. Time travel done right. – This is how time travel should happen, right?  At the very least, this is [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #676 – Review

Posted on December 22, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: It’s an all supervillain throw-down as the Sinister Six attacks the Intelligencia. Five Things:  1. No Spider-Man in this issue. - It’s a very good issue and establishes a lot [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #672 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba & Karl Kesel (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The finale of Spider-Island.  How are the heroes going to stop the Queen and save all civilians who have turned into big, nasty spiders? Five Things:  [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #671 – Review

Posted on October 13, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A cure for the spider-infections is discovered, but the bad guys are surely going to try to destroy it. Review: This story is rounding into shape [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #670 – Review

Posted on September 29, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island transitions into a more serious story. What’s Good: Dan Slott seems to really understand what makes a good Spider-Man story as he is mixing together the elements of [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #669 – Review

Posted on September 16, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island is in full swing,  Will they find a cure for the infected folks?  Will Peter reveal his secret identity?  And who is the Big Bad who’s been working [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #668 – Review

Posted on September 1, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island really get’s moving as the good guys start to actually try to solve the problem. What’s Good: I was a little hard on Amazing Spider-Man #667 a few [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #667 – Review

Posted on August 10, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Everyone in NYC is getting spider-powers.  Oh no!  It’s Spider-Island!!! What’s Good: Honestly, the build-up to this Spider-Island mini-event hasn’t been that great, so expectations were a little tempered [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man 2011 Free Comic Book Day – Review

Posted on May 11, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Does Spider-Man need a little something extra now that he’s lost his spider sense? What’s Good: The Slott/Ramos team kicked off the “Big Time” arc for [...]

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The Amazing Spider-Man: Big Time (Hardcover)

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Dan Slott, Art by Humberto Ramos, Inks by Carlos Cuevas, Colors by Edgar Delgado What more can anyone say about Spider-Man: Big Time? Seriously, I need to know because this was the newest thing my bookstore had in stock, so I’m trying to review it. But it’s kind of hard when the cover [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #654.1 – Review

Posted on February 16, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Flash Thompson is introduced as the all-new Venom. What’s good: This is yet another example of great art making all the difference.  Just merely having Humberto Ramos doing pencils on this issue pushes [...]

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Captain America #614 – Review

Posted on January 28, 2011 by SoldierHawk

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Stefano Gaudiano w/ Mark Morales, Tom Palmer, Rick Magyar, Mike Perkins and Butch Guice (inks), Bettie Breitweiser w/ Chris Sotomayor, Humberto Ramos and Frank Martin (colors), VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters and production) The Story: The trial of Bucky Barnes continues, with things going about as well as can [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #651 – Review

Posted on January 12, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Joseph M. Damon (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Scorpion back-up by : Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (pencils), Delgado (colors), Caramanga (letters) & Wacker (editor) The Story: The story arc wraps up as Spidey & Black Cat try to [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #650 – Review

Posted on December 15, 2010 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas, Nikki Damon & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Marc Gargan back-up: Slott (writer), Neil Edwards (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Morry Hollowell (colors) & Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: A new Spidey-suit makes its debut, as Peter Parker gets [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #649 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2010 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Tom Brennan (Associate Editor) The Story: Hobgoblin is back, but is it the Hobgoblin we’ve been expecting. What’s Good: This Thanksgiving I’m thankful for good Spider-Man comics.  My comic happiness meter is somewhat tied to the quality of [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #648 – Review

Posted on November 10, 2010 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Spider-Girl back-up by: Paul Tobin (writer), Clayton Henry (art), Chris Sotomayor (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Nathan Crosby (editor) The Story: Spidey enters the Big Time with Avengers action that was better than anything that [...]

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X-Men: Messiah Complex – Review

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Roman Colombo

Writers: Ed Brubaker, Peter David, Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost, and Mike Carey Pencilers: Mark Silvestri, Billy Tan, Scot Eaton, Humberto Ramos, and Chris Bachalo There probably will be spoilers in this about the entire Messiah Trilogy. Thou hath been warned! Last week I wrote about Endangered Species and how it set the tone for Messiah [...]

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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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Avengers: The Initiative #25 (Dark Reign) – Capsule Review

Posted on June 30, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Christos N. Gage (Writer), Humberto Ramos (Art), and Edgar Delgado (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I’ve been enjoying the transition that’s taken place as Avengers: The Initiative heads full force into Dark Reign. That said, I’m pretty glad that the latest issue of the series finally marks the end of the transition…it’ll be [...]

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Avengers: The Initiative #23 (Dark Reign) – Review

Posted on April 25, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Christos N. Gage (Writer), Humberto Ramos (Art), and Edgar Delgado (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Avengers: The Initiative is almost always a sure thing as far as quality is concerned. Nearly every issue feels like a trip to a giant Marvel sandbox filled with all sorts of different characters. While recent issues have [...]

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New X-Men #46 (Messiah Complex: Part 12) – Review

Posted on January 17, 2008 by Deamentia

By: Kyle Yost (Writer), Humberto Ramos (Pencils) Messiah Complex is coming to an end! After two months of non-stop chase scenes, the pay offs are finally here. This is easily the best X-Men storyline I’ve read in a decade, but what I don’t understand is why Marvel planned to wrap up this series in the [...]

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