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Avengers vs. X-Men #0 – Review

Posted on March 28, 2012 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis & Jason Aaron (writers), Frank Cho (art), Jason Keith (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: The Scarlet Witch is back in action and Hope becomes a crime-fighter. The Review: How much you enjoy AvX #0 is largely contingent on what you expect to get out of this issue. In many [...]

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Avengers #23 – Review

Posted on March 1, 2012 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Daniel Acuna (art) The Story: Daisy to the rescue! The Review: I’ve gone on at length in previous reviews of this book and New Avengers about the ill-conceived, half-baked nature of the HAMMER War. Put simply, it’s dumb, it doesn’t make sense, and the concept falls apart at its base [...]

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Avengers #15 – Review

Posted on July 20, 2011 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils & colors), Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Jaime Mendoza, Victor Olazaba, and Mark Irwin (inks), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Steve Rogers sends a strike-team to Brazil to tackle the Worthy-fied Hulk, including a Spider-Woman still searching for her big moment of redemption. What’s Good: While I [...]

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Avengers #7 – Review

Posted on November 20, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: There’s somebody trying to collect infinity gems, and that can’t be good… What’s Good: After all the time-traveling hijinks, the is actually a really comforting issue of the Avengers if only because it feels [...]

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Avengers #6 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson & Tom Palmer (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The Avengers try to reach an agreement with Ultron to stop Kang’s breaking the timestream. What’s Good: This issue really goes out of its way to establish the Avengers as the [...]

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Avengers #5 – Review

Posted on September 23, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson & Tom Palmer (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The Avengers discover the truth behind the breaking of the time-stream and come up with a gameplan. What’s Good: The new main Avengers title continues to deliver its brand of old-school, [...]

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Avengers #4 – Review

Posted on August 27, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: In the future, the Avengers encounter the Next Avengers and their masters while in the present, the remaining Avengers meet an unlikely ally and struggle against total chaos. What’s Good: This issue is basically [...]

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Avengers #3 – Review

Posted on July 21, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The Avengers battle Apocalypse and his horsemen as the broken timestream causes mayhem. What’s Good: After complaining about the mediocrity of this title for the last two months, I admit that I was fully [...]

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Avengers #2 – Review

Posted on June 24, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The Avengers attempt to build a time machine with disastrous result and Wonder Man decides that it’s time for action. What’s Good: This issue is a definite improvement. Unlike last month’s unfortunate misstep, this [...]

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New Avengers Finale #1 – Review

Posted on May 14, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Bryan Hitch & Stuart Immonen (pencils), Butch Guice, Andrew Currie, & Karl Story (inks), Paul Mounts, Justin Ponsor, & Rain Beredo (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: With Siege ended, the New Avengers turn the tables, as they become the hunters and the Hood becomes the hunted. What’s Good: [...]

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New Avengers #63 – Review

Posted on March 25, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike McKone (art), Dave McCaig (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: The motivations of Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Ronin, and Mockingbird are explored in the days leading up to Siege. What’s Good: This is probably the best issue of New Avengers to come around in some time, and it’s [...]

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New Avengers #61 – Review

Posted on January 30, 2010 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Stuart Immonen (pencils), Daniel Acuna (art & colors), Wade von Grawbadger (inks), Dave McCaig (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: The Avengers find themselves embattled against the Hood’s newly Norm stone-powered goons. What’s Good: This issue is essentially divided into two separate, but parallel stories as the two Captain [...]

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New Avengers #59 – Review

Posted on November 30, 2009 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Stuart Immonen (pencils), Wade von Grawbadger (inks), Dave McCaig (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: The Avengers, with some friends, attempt a daring ploy to rescue Luke Cage. What’s Good: While it’s nothing groundbreaking, this issue is absolutely solid and as such, it’s the best single issue of New [...]

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Spider-Woman #3 – Review

Posted on November 21, 2009 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Madame Hydra attempts to recruit Jessica once again. What’s Good: Madame Hydra/Viper is certainly great fun to read and works as an excellent foil to Jessica. If Bendis hopes to use her as the arch-nemesis of the series, it certainly wouldn’t [...]

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Spider-Woman #2 – Review

Posted on October 22, 2009 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Jessica Drew finds herself in a Madripoor prison and that’s never good. What’s Good: As always, the first thing you’ll notice is the art. Maleev’s art once again looks amazing and unlike anything else on the market. As always, the modeled [...]

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Spider-Woman #1 – Review

Posted on September 24, 2009 by paladinking

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Jessica Drew gets recruited by S.W.O.R.D., heading to Madripoor for her first mission to find a Super-Skrull. What’s Good: In my opinion, this is some of Maleev’s best work. It’s just gorgeous, gorgeous stuff, sporting photorealistic detail not only in the photo-referenced Jessica [...]

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Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. #3 – Review

Posted on September 21, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Brian Michael Bendis (Script) and Alex Maleev (Art) w/ voice work by Nicolette Reed (Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew/Madame Hydra), Patrick Bosold (Philli Natu), Andrew Edlin (Detective Wang), David J. Murphy (Paladin), and Anthony MacKenzie (Detective Chong) Some Thoughts Before The Review: While the motion-comic format definitely has a number of positives, I can’t help but feel [...]

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Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. #2 (Motion Comic) – Review

Posted on September 5, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Brian Michael Bendis (Script) and Alex Maleev (Art) w/ voice work by Nicolette Reed (Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew/Madame Hydra) and Anthony MacKenzie (Detective Chong) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I enjoyed the first Spider-Woman motion comic quite a bit. It was easily worth the cheap asking price, especially considering that it was something that actually felt [...]

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Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. #1 (Motion-Comic) – Review

Posted on August 25, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Brian Michael Bendis (Script) and Alex Maleev (Art) w/ voice work by Nicolette Reed (Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew), Stephanie K. Thomas (Abigail Brand), and Geoff Boothby (Spider-Man) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Since the Spider-Woman motion-comic is quite a bit different than your average comic, I’ll be reviewing it by breaking down each of its different [...]

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New Avengers #48 (Dark Reign) – Review

Posted on December 26, 2008 by pozzyfreak

By Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Billy Tan (Pencils), Matt Banning (Inks), and Justin Ponsor (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: It’s about time! While I enjoyed the Secret Invasion stuff for the most part, I am definitely glad that New Avengers is back on track. I look forward to see what the series will be [...]

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New Avengers #42 (Secret Invasion) – Review

Posted on June 26, 2008 by pozzyfreak

Brian Michael Bendis, (Writer) Jim Cheung, (Pencils), John Dell, (Inks) and Justin Ponsor (Color Art) With each Avengers comic that comes out, whether it be of the Mighty or New variety, Brian Bendis is a bit closer to fulfilling the promise that all of this Secret Invasion stuff was planned years in advance. I will [...]

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