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Amazing Spider-Man #679.1 – Review

By: Dan Slott & Chris Yost (writers), Matthew Clark (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Rob Schwager (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Detail is provided on the mysterious occupant of Lab Six at Horizon Labs. Four Things:  1. Unsure what this whole .1 thing is about anymore. - I can never [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #677 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Emma Rios (art), Javier Rodriguez (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey teams up with Daredeveil and Black Cat. Four Things:  1. Black Cat always makes the story better. – There’s no better way to start a heated comment thread than to suggest [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #676 – Review

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 [...]

X-Men #22 – Review

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Will Conrad & Steve Kurth (pencils), Conrad & Jay Leisten (inkers), Chris Sotomayor (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Jordan D. White (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: A team of X-Men plus War Machine try to stop a Balkan leader from siccing a bunch of Sentinels [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #675 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Giuseppe Camuncoli (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey & Carlie Cooper work together to take down the Vulture gang. Five Things:  1. Glad to have “Classic Vulture” back. - As I think I mentioned last issue, the redo [...]

Avenging Spider-Man #2 – Review

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Joe Madureira (art), Ferran Daniel (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey, Rulk & J. Jonah Jameson are underground trying to save the Mole Man (kinda). Five Things:  1. Again with the great art! - The main reason to buy this is if you [...]

Uncanny X-Men #2 – Review

By: Kieron Gillen (writer), Carlos Pacheco, Jorge Molina & Rodney Buchemi (pencils), Cam Smith, Roger Bonet, Walden Wong & Molina (inks), Frank D’Armata, Rachelle Rosenberg, Jim Charalampidis & Molina (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Jordan D. White & Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: Mr. Sinister has created [...]

Daredevil #6 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Marcos Martin (art), Muntsa Vicente (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Daredevil has to beat The Bruiser to help some innocents who know too much. Five Things:  1. Fun, street-level story. This is the kind of situation that I usually want to see [...]

Captain America and Bucky #624 – Review

By: Ed Brubaker & Marc Andreyko (writers), Chris Samnee (art), Bettie Breitweiser (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), John Denning (assistant editor) & Lauren Sankovitch (editor) The Story: Bucky is now the Winter Soldier. Five things:  1. Chris Samnee is just incredible!  – I hate to say someone’s art is “the best” because “the best” is so [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #674 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Giuseppe Camuncoli (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island is over and a certain winged foe of Spidey is back. Five Things:  1. Much better approach to the Vulture!  When ASM freshened up all of Spidey’s classic [...]

Avenging Spider-Man #1 – Review

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Joe Madureira (art), Ferran Daniel (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey and Red Hulk team up to fight a subterranean threat. Five Things: 1. The team-up is BACK!  How is it that Marvel can publish ~100 titles a month an none of [...]

X-Men #20 – Review

  By: Victor Gischler (writer), Will Conrad (artist), Chris Sotomayor (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Jordan D. White (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: Folks are still trying to acquire Sentinels.  The X-Men can’t have that. Five Things:  1. A unique team.  The team we get in this issue consists [...]

Avengers Academy #21 – Review

By: Christos Gage (writer), Sean Chen (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jeremy Cox & Veronica Gandini (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), John Denning & Jake Thomas (assistant editors) & Bill Rosemann (editor) The Story: After the destruction of the Infinite Mansion during Fear Itself, the Avengers Academy needs a new home, and possibly a new direction. Five [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #673 – Review

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Frank Martin (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The good guys have defeated the threats posed by Spider-Island.  Now they have to deal with the fallout. Five Things:  1. Settles things back down and sets the new status quo.  Lots happened [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #672 – Review

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:  [...]

Uncanny X-Men #544 – Review

By: Kieron Gillen (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Jordan D. White (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: The end is here!  Uncanny X-Men ends its long run of continuous, mostly monthly publication since Giant Size X-Men #1.  Of course, this is [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #671 – Review

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 [...]

Thunderbolts #164 – Review

By: Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (pencils), Terry Pallot (inks), Fabio D’Auria & Frank Martin (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters) & Tom Brennan (editor) The Story: A team of Thunderbolts, trapped in WWII, fights Nazis alongside the Invaders. Review: It’s all good with this comic right now.  I’ve never had a huge affinity for most Golden [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #670 – Review

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 [...]

Uncanny X-Men #543 – Review

By: Kieron Gillen (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Jordan D. White (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: Fear Itself-bedazzled Juggernaut battles the new champion of Cyttorak. What’s Good: It was kinda fun to watch Colossus beat down Juggernaut.  There’s gotta be [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #669 – Review

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 [...]

Thunderbolts #163 – Review

By: Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (artist), Frank Martin, Jr. (colorist), Joe Caramagna (letterer), Rachel Pinnelas (assistant editor) & Tom Brennan (editor) The Story: The Underbolts have escaped.  Now what? What’s Good: This series continues discovering ways to keep it fresh.  Jeff Parker and company have found a nice way to run this comic by [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #668 – Review

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 [...]

New Mutants #30 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), David Lafuente (art), Val Staples & Chris Sotomayor (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Sebastian Girner (editor) The Story: Dani Moonstar is trying to get some help from Hela, but Hela needs some help herself in this Fear Itself tie-in. What’s Good: If you like your New Mutants undiluted by [...]

Astonishing X-Men #41 – Review

By: Daniel Way (writer), Nick Bradshaw (artist), Rachelle Rosenberg (colorist), Joe Caramagna (letterer), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: X-Men versus Mentallo on Monster Island. What’s Good: This was a very enjoyable finale to a storyline that has helped Astonishing get back on track after a couple of years of wandering [...]

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