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Action Comics #8 – Review

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales, Brad Walker, Rick Bryant, Bob McLeod (artists), Brad Anderson & David Curiel (colorists) The Story: Watch out, Brainiac—Superman’s gonna blow your mind. The Review: Back in 2006, NBC premiered two new shows, both premised on the backstage activities of a sketch-comedy show. One was Studio 60 on the Sunset [...]

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Action Comics #7 – Review

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Ooh—I love your miniatures in a bottle collection. Wait, is that my house in there? The Review: I tend to feel Superman has the same problem as the Flash in terms of appeal. The whole heart of the Man of [...]

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Action Comics #4 – Review

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Man of Steel, meet Man in Steel. The Review: I’ve become a bit wary of DC’s backup and co-features over time. The fact they hang on to a bigger, stronger storyline definitely poses some drawbacks. Only rarely do they have a charm and intrigue of [...]

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Action Comics #2 – Review

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales & Brent Anderson (pencillers), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: We’re no Guantanamo, but we’ve got ways of making an alien in a T-shirt talk. The Review: One thing Morrison does consistently well is place characters into unusual situations, and when it comes to iconic superheroes, that [...]

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Action Comics #902 – Review

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Kenneth Rocafort & Axel Giménez (artists), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: And I was like Doomsday, Doomsday, Doomsday, no… Stop singing? Okay. The Review: One thing you’ll notice with a lot of movies nowadays is that they’ll pile on the action to keep you from noticing how little story there is [...]

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Action Comics #901 – Review

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Kenneth Rocafort & Jesus Merino (artists), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: To kill five Super-people, of course you need five Doomsdays, right? The Review: In my review of Superboy #6, I described Doomsday as a shallow character who no one cared (or at least, I didn’t) much to see again, a [...]

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