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Aquaman #9 – Review

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Ivan Reis (pencils), Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, Andy Lanning (inks), Rod Reis (colors) The Story: All those years of PTSD therapy, undone by one super-villain attack. The Review: As I read through this issue, it struck me that I haven’t been giving Johns enough credit for what he’s been doing on [...]

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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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Aquaman #8 – Review

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Ivan Reis (art), Joe Prado (inks), Rod Reis (colors) The Story: It’d be a good idea to get the old gang back together while there’s still a gang. The Review: Like a lot of his fellow Justice Leaguers, Aquaman has always struggled with figuring out who he is and where he [...]

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Aquaman #7 – Review

Posted on March 29, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: So tell me, Aquaman—was your ex-superteam as good as the one you have now? The Review: Aquaman has been around for a long time, yet the point of this series is really about revitalizing him in the public eye again.  [...]

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Aquaman #6 – Review

Posted on February 23, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (breakdowns), Joe Prado (artist), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: See, Mera, this is where a little concept called a shopping list would come in handy. The Review: I don’t know about other reviewers, but I like to throw around the words “cliché,” “predictable,” “trope,” “formula,” and “archetype” like time’s [...]

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Aquaman #5 – Review

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado & Eber Ferreira (inkers), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Hey, Aquaman—talk about a fish out of water, huh?  …Please don’t kill me. The Review: As a longtime reader of Johns’ work, I’m always amazed at the difference in effect his stories have depending on whether you [...]

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Aquaman #4 – Review

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado & Eber Ferreira (inkers), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Hey, Trench—your mama’s so fat, she cuts herself and calls it rare!  Booyah. The Review: As relatively civilized beings, we impose some standards of morality upon ourselves, one we in our lily-handed society can easily adhere to.  [...]

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Aquaman #3 – Review

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: These guys would make one heck of a ninth-grade biology dissection project. The Review: Johns gets a lot of attention and devotion because he not only brings such genuine enthusiasm to the job, he also injects enormous heart into the [...]

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Aquaman #2 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Just don’t expect Aquaman to break out into a verse of “Candle on the Water.” The Review: Last issue tackled the merits of Aquaman as superhero right on the head by having him addressed as a joke at every opportunity [...]

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Aquaman #1 – Review

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Joe Prado (inker), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: He does more than just talk to fish—he’s pretty good buddies with dolphins, too. The Review: I’m an Aquaman fan.  There—I said it.  Let the jokes fly.  But seriously, all funny business aside, the concept of his character has a [...]

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Brightest Day #24 – Review

Posted on April 27, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Goeff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Norm Rapmund, Vicente Cifuentes, Oclair Albert, Tom Nguyen, Mick Gray, Mark Irwin, David Beaty (artists), Peter Steigerwald (colors) The Story: This is the conclusion of the Brightest Day 24-issue series. Nekron is kind of back, as is [...]

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Brightest Day #23 – Review

Posted on April 6, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Norm Rapmund, Oclair Albert (artists) Peter Steigerwald (colors) The Story: Rise and Fall: The Earth is under seige by all sorts of odd manifestations of darkness and chaos. Heroes from all over are leaping into action to try to stem the tide. At [...]

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Brightest Day #22 – Review

Posted on March 16, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Scott Clark, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty (inker), Peter Steigerwald and Rod Reis (colors) The Review: It’s hard not to like a flawed hero, being mentored by someone less experienced than him, travelling through a dark and storied wilderness, to sneak up on the most [...]

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Brightest Day #21 – Review

Posted on March 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Patrick Gleason, Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (artists) The Story: On Earth, the Hawks and Aquaman are dead and the world’s superheroes are seeing the coming wave of disaster. On Mars, the Martian Manhunter gets into the final showdown with D’Kay, the last Martian femme fatale. Against [...]

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Brightest Day #20 – Review

Posted on February 17, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (artist), Julio Ferreira, Oclair Albert, Norm Rapmund, Marlo Alquiza, Andy Owens (inkers) The Story: It’s Aquaman and company against Black Manta and a school of water-breathing killers. Problem is, Aquaman has got his hand full just holding on to his baggage. What’s [...]

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Brightest Day #19 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, Rob Hunter (artists), Peter Steigerwald (colorist) The Story: On one front, Boston Brand, all duded up as Deadman, deals with the white ring that has just greased Hawkman and Hawkgirl. One another front, Aquaman and Aqualad race against time to contain [...]

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Brightest Day #18 – Review

Posted on January 22, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes and David Beaty (inkers), Peter Steigerwald and Beth Sotelo (colorists) The Story: The White Ring is charging on Deadman’s finger. Hawkman and Hawkgirl (with Carol Ferris) take on Hawkgirl’s entity-charged mom. What’s Good: I am [...]

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Brightest Day #17 – Review

Posted on January 8, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes and David Beaty (inkers), Peter Steigerwald with Beth Sotelo (color) The Story: Homecoming. I’ve got the “Love, Love, Love” part of “All You Need Is Love” by the Beatles after reading this story, because everything in [...]

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Brightest Day #16 – Review

Posted on December 15, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty and Oclair Albert (inkers) The Story: Aqualad learns who he is. Aquaman looks cool. Firestorm seems to have destroyed the universe. What’s Good: What a relief! A great issue of Brightest Day! Out of the gates, Ivan [...]

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Brightest Day #13 – Review

Posted on November 6, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf, Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes (inker), Peter Steigerwald, John Starr, Ray Dillon (colorists) The Story: All Hawkman! All the time! Step right up for the eternal lovers in danger and mace-to-the-face action! What’s Good: As with the last (successful) issues of Brightest Day, [...]

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Brightest Day #12 – Review

Posted on October 20, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Patrick Gleason, Scott Clark, Ivan Reis, Joe Prado (artists), Mark Irwin, David Beaty, Tom Nguyen, Rebecca Buchman, Mick Gray, Christian Alamy, Patrick Gleason (inkers), Rex Ogle (assistant editor) The Story: The Martian Manhunter dominates this issue as he finally meets up with the mysterious D’Kay D’Razz, the [...]

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Brightest Day #11 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark, Patrick Gleason and Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty, Oclair Albert, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen (inkers) The Story: Father’s Day: Aquaman and Black Manta slap down, with all their fatherhood issues in tow. Ronnie and Jason (as Firestorm) do the same with Black Lantern [...]

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Brightest Day #10 – Review

Posted on September 15, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark, Joe Prado, (artists), Oclair Albert, David Beaty (inkers) The Story: A Change is Gonna Come: Professor Stein gets to the bottom of the secret of the Firestorm matrix, but is he too late? And Aquaman and Black Manta and Mera’s sister are all [...]

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Brightest Day #9 – Review

Posted on September 1, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Joe Prado (artists), Rebecca Buchman, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen, Ivan Reis (inkers), Peter Steigerwald (colors) The Story: Aquaman and Mera talk with Boston Brand and Dove. We’re getting some hints of who’s going to be the next Aqualad. Martian Manhunter blows his hands [...]

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Brightest Day #8 – Review

Posted on August 18, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns & Peter Tomasi (writers), Patrick Gleason, Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf (artists) The Story: Defiance: Boston Brand starts his search for the White Lantern’s new “Chosen One.” The Martian Manhunter makes a startling discovery about his own past. Hawkman gets a guided tour of Hawkworld and makes a decision. Hawkgirl tries to slap [...]

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