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Fatale #1 – Review

Posted on January 5, 2012 by paladinking

by Ed Brubaker (writing), Sean Phillips (art), and Dave Stewart (colors) The Story: Mysterious assassins in bowler hats!  Exploding airplanes!  Cultists!  Nazis! The Review: Breathe a sigh of relief:  Fatale is just as good as you were hoping it might be and only further substantiates the fact that the team of Brubaker and Phillips can [...]

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Severed #3 – Review

Posted on October 5, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft (writers), Attila Futaki (artist) The Story: Jack and his cross-dressing friend start making their way to Louisiana by busking, using Jack’s violin playing. Then they run into Victor the Travelling Phonograph Salesman, version 2.0. He invites them to his apartment and starts feeding them liquor and playing bear trap [...]

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Avengelyne #2 – Review

Posted on August 29, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Rob Liefeld and Mark Poulton (story), Mark Poulton (script), Owen Gieni (art and color) The Story: Devil in the Flesh, Part 2 of 3: Avengelyne, in her new body, faces the Red Dragon, a mortal enemy, wearing her old body. The knife-wielding lunatic Torment strikes again, while a friend returns, packing Jesus Fire. What’s [...]

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Deadlands: Death Was Silent – One-Shot – Advanced Review

Posted on August 17, 2011 by DS Arsenault

Death Was Silent By: Ron Marz (writer and editor), Bart Sears (artist), Michael Atiyeh (colors) Backup Dime Novel “Prey” By: C. Edward Sellner (writer and colorist), Alejandro Aragon (artist) The Story: Lead (Death Was Silent): A bounty hunter with an odd way of talking drifts into town on a rainy night and he isn’t here [...]

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Severed #1 – Advanced Review

Posted on August 2, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Scott Snyder and Scott Tuft (writers), Attila Futaki (artist) The Story: An old man receives a letter that sends the story backward to an innocent, menacing time forty years earlier, a time before he lost his arm. The Review: Snyder, Tuft and Futaki were in complete control of this story. From panel one, I [...]

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The Vault #1 – Advanced Review

Posted on July 26, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Sam Sarkar (script), Garrie Gastonny (art), Sakti Yuwoko (colors) The Story: A team of explorers is excavating an underwater wreck that is reputed to hold a whole swack of swag. But there’s some weird stuff going on. Like, how the heck did the people who put the treasure there get that far into the [...]

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Avengelyne #1 – Advanced Review

Posted on July 20, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Rob Liefeld and Mark Poulton (story), Mark Poulton (script), Owen Gieni (art and colors) The Story – Devil in the Flesh, Part 1 of 3: A psycho is stalking New York and we get to watch him work. A pornstar/stripper named Heaven Starr with a reputation for heavy drug use has a sudden loss [...]

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SkullKickers Vol 1: 1000 Opas and a Dead Body -Graphic Novel Review

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Jim Zub, Line art by Edwin Haung, Colors by Misty Coats, and Art by Chris Stevens Story: The Dwarf and the Big Guy go around kicking the ass of anything that gets in their way…or just seems convenient to kick. The Good: First of all, if you are a fan of comics and [...]

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Deadlands One-Shot – Advanced Review

Posted on June 13, 2011 by DS Arsenault

Main Story by: David Gallaher (writer), Steve Ellis (artist), Troy Peteri (letterer) Backup Story by: C. Edward Sellner (writer and colorist), Oscar Capristo (artist) The Stories: An inventor has made a deal to build a gun that can kill the devil, and he’s been given a ghostly stone to help him do it. In the [...]

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Carbon Grey #3 – Advanced Review

Posted on May 24, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Houng Nguyen, Khari Evans, Paul Gardner, Mike Kennedy (story), Paul Gardner (script and lettering), Khari Evans, Kinsun Loh, Hoang Nguyen (art) The Story: Life is pretty crappy all around for the four special sisters who are the elite enforcers of a Reich-like empire. The Kaiser is killed on their watch, enemies encircle, and the [...]

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Super Dinosaur #2 – Advance Review

Posted on May 24, 2011 by paladinking

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Jason Howard (artist & colorist), and Rus Wooton (letterer) The Story: The Kingstons fit out SD with some new Arctic gear as he and Derek go up North to battle Tricerachops and a new enemy…the Exile. The Review:  I’ll admit that I’ve often not been kind to Robert Kirkman when chatting [...]

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Skullkickers #7 – Advance Review

Posted on May 24, 2011 by paladinking

by Jim Zub (writer), Edwin Huang (artist), Misty Coats (colorist), and Marshall Dillon (letterer) The Story:  At their own celebratory dinner, our two adventurers find themselves framed for a bloodbath they didn’t commit. The Review:  It’s been a while since I’ve read Skullkickers.  I picked up the first issue and found myself disappointed, and moved [...]

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Super Dinosaur Origin Special #1 – Review

Posted on May 20, 2011 by paladinking

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Jason Howard (artist & colorist), and Rus Wooton (letterer) The Story: Derek Dynamo tells of the origins of his buddy SD, the creation of SD’s harness, the discovery of Inner Earth, and the blossoming of Max Maximus’ villainous tendencies. The Review:  I’ll admit, comic books weren’t a huge part of my [...]

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Science Dog Special #2 – Review

Posted on May 20, 2011 by paladinking

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Cory Walker (penciller & inker), Dave Stewart & Chris Chuckry (colorists), and Rus Wooton (letterer) The Story:  Science Dog desperately tries to rewrite history. The Review:  Time for me to come clean: I’ve never really been a fan of Cory Walker.  Invincible co-creator or not, his work always seemed a little [...]

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Morning Glories Vol. 1 – Review

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Words by Nick Spencer, Art by Joe Eisma, Covers by Rodin Esquejo, Colors by Alex Sollazzo A friend of mine recently got into Lost and said that if he had watched it week to week, he didn’t think he would have enjoyed it half as much as watching them all at once. It would have [...]

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Invincible #77 – Review

Posted on February 4, 2011 by paladinking

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Ryan Ottley (pencils), FCO Plascencia & Sheila Saldana (colors), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: The Viltrumite War comes to end, but will it end in blood or in something more interesting? What’s Good: Robert Kirkman sure knows how to surprise readers.  That said, he doesn’t do so this month with [...]

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Morning Glories #6 – Review

Posted on January 23, 2011 by paladinking

by Nick Spencer (writer), Joe Eisma (art), Alex Sollazzo (colors), and Johnny Lowe (letters) The Story: A scientist on the run is given an offer she can’t refuse: pardon for the crimes of her past in exchange for working on that mysterious metal object we’ve been seeing around the Academy. What’s Good: It’s a testament [...]

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Morning Glories #5 – Review

Posted on December 28, 2010 by paladinking

by Nick Spencer (writer), Joe Eisma (art), Alex Sollazzo (colors), and Johnny Lowe (letters) The Story: Backed into a corner, Casey and Zoe try to evade their pursuers while doggedly continuing on with their rescue attempt. What’s Good: This was my favourite issue of Morning Glories since the series debut blew me away.  It’s compulsively [...]

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Chew #16 – Review

Posted on December 27, 2010 by paladinking

by John Layman (writer & letterer) and Rob Guillory (art & colors) The Story: Tony discovers someone with a food-based power he’d never heard of while the chicken prohibition grows slack in light of the “alien fire writing.” What’s Good: Chew’s easily the funniest book on my pull list and it’s issues like this that [...]

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Invincible #76 – Review

Posted on December 26, 2010 by paladinking

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Ryan Ottley (pencils), Cliff Rathburn (inks), FCO Plascencia & Sheila Saldana (colors), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: The battle over the ruins of Viltrum reaches its conclusion and a new leader is chosen for the Coalition of Planets. What’s Good: In an issue with a whole ton of fighting, it [...]

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Chew #15 – Review

Posted on November 15, 2010 by paladinking

by John Layman (writer & letterer) and Rob Guillory (art & colors) The Story: We meet Tony’s dysfunctional family as they gather for a less than legal Thanksgiving dinner. What’s Good: It’s a cliché, I know, but Layman really puts the “fun” in dysfunction when it comes to Tony’s family.  There’s really no other way [...]

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Invincible #75 – Review

Posted on November 6, 2010 by paladinking

by Robert Kirkman (writer), Ryan Ottley (pencils & inks), Cliff Rathburn (inks), FCO Plascencia (colors), Sheila Saldana & Ivan Plascencia (color assistants), and Rus Wooton (letters) The Story: The Coalition’s band of heroes clashes with the Viltrumites above Viltrum. What’s Good: Robert Kirkman is notoriously merciless when it comes to the shocking death of beloved [...]

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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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Morning Glories #3 – Review

Posted on October 20, 2010 by paladinking

by Nick Spencer (writer), Joe Eisma (art), Alex Sollazzo (colors), and Johnny Lowe (letters) The Story: Casey tries to rescue Jade, who discovers another secret on her way to the nurse’s office. What’s Good: There’s some really awesomely powerful stuff going on at Morning Glories Academy.  From the first page onward,  Spencer is great enhances [...]

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Comics You Should Be Reading

Posted on October 12, 2010 by paladinking

Welcome to a new feature here at WCBR, which will hopefully resurface periodically. Here we highlight series that we reviewers feel are not getting the readers, or the attention, that they deserve.  These are books that we’ve been particularly enjoying.  These are DC/Marvel books that should be in the top ten, or at least the [...]

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