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Justice League #9 – Review

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Jim Lee (pencils), Scott Williams (inks), Alex Sinclair, Pete Pantazis, Gabe Eltaeb (colorists), Gary Frank (feature art), Brad Anderson (feature colors) The Story: Soon, the League will know the dangers of excessive fanship. The Review: One of this title’s biggest pitfalls has been its inability to establish a consistent tone, direction, [...]

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Young Justice S02E01 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Greg Weisman (story) The Story: YJ’s philosophy toward recruitment?  The more the merrier. The Review: When I reviewed the show’s season finale last week, I was all settled in for a summer’s break until its return.  I suppose I should have known by now to give up trying to figure out this show’s release [...]

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Young Justice Episode 26 – Review

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Greg Weisman (story) The Story: Now is the time for the students to become the masters…too cheesy? The Review: If you ask me, last episode was really the big, team-centered climax of the season.  Once all the secrets came out and the group became just that much tighter for it, that’s when you really [...]

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Justice League #8 – Review

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: If Arrows wants in so bad, you should at least give him the honor of hazing him. The Review: If anything proves that relentless flash and glam can’t make up for ill-conceived, incomprehensible storytelling, it has to be the Garry Marshall-Katherine Fugate series of star-studded, [...]

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Justice League #7 – Review

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist), Gary Frank (feature artist), Brad Anderson (feature colorist) The Story: Working with the League isn’t unlike babysitting surly teens, as Steve Trevor learns. The Review: Something I learned the hard, painful way back in college was that you could bring your most creative ideas in [...]

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Justice League #6 – Review

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Batt, Mark Irwin (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Tony Avina, Hi-Fi (colorists) The Story: Darkseid, wouldn’t printing ads on the back of milk cartons work better than all this? The Review: Justice League Dark demonstrated, by negative inference, how important it is to give each member [...]

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Justice League #5 – Review

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, Joe Weems (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Gabe Eltaeb, Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: I’ll give this for Hal—the kid takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. The Review: Look, I get it.  Even with a whole cast of perfectly formed, likable characters, you’re [...]

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Justice League #4 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair & Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Vic, would this be a bad time for me to suggest you star as the new Bionic Man? The Review: I admit, I had mixed feelings when I heard Cyborg was going to join the Justice League.  [...]

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Justice League #3 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair, Hi-Fi, Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Those ain’t no flying monkeys! The Review: One of the more intriguing elements to this version of the Justice League is the youth they project.  Appearance-wise, they all look around their late twenties or early thirties, and [...]

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Justice League Dark #2 – Review

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Peter Milligan (writer), Mikel Janin (artist), Ulises Arreola (colorist) The Story: Enchantress would never have gotten into this funk if she had a sassy gay friend. The Review: Now that DC has a whole host of supernatural books under their Dark group of titles, it’s easier than ever to distinguish which ones really float [...]

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Justice League #2 – Review

Posted on October 19, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: You know, I guess it’s not a new-fangled Rubik’s cube after all. The Review: While the debut issue of this series had quite a lot of fun, engaging material to it, it also had the disappointment of a false promise.  [...]

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Justice League Dark #1 – Review

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Peter Milligan (writer), Mikel Janin (artist), Ulises Arreola (colorist) The Story: Madame Xanadu, you are being a major downer right now. The Review: Some words come with major connotative baggage attached, which people don’t always realize when they use them.  I’d say “dark” falls in this category.  Lately, you hear writers drop this word [...]

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Justice League #1 – Review

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: I have only one question—what happened to everybody’s underwear? The Review: Funny.  It doesn’t feel like a new age of comics.  But DC insists one has come, and seeing the enormous slate they’ve just wiped clean, we must take their [...]

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Justice Society of America #50 – Review

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Look out Haggar of Metro City—the Flash is giving you a run for the money in the superhero mayor department. The Review: This has been a good week for oversized, anniversary issues.  Like Action Comics #900, you get a good chunk of the title’s running [...]

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Zatanna #2 – Review

Posted on June 26, 2010 by paladinking

by Paul Dini (writer), Stephane Roux (pencils & inks), Karl Story (inks), John Kalisz (colors), and Pat Brosseau (letters) The Story: Zatanna battles Fuseli in the realms of nightmare and Brother Night makes Detective Colton an offer he can’t refuse. What’s Good: Stephane Roux’s artwork in this issue is awesome.  He takes his game up [...]

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The Flash: Secret Files & Origins 2010 #1 – Review

Posted on April 8, 2010 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Scott Kolins & Francis Manapul (art), Michael Atiyeh & Brian Buccellato (colors), and Rob Clark Jr. (letters) The Story: A primer serving as an introduction to the Flashes’ universe, preceded by a short story where Barry grapples with his past. What’s Good: If you’re a reader unfamiliar or only slightly familiar [...]

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Justice League of America #40 – Review

Posted on December 20, 2009 by paladinking

By James Robinson (writer), Mark Bagley (pencils), Rob Hunter, Scott Hanna, & Marlo Alquiza (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), and John J. Hill (letters) The Story: Dr. Light, Vixen, and Gypsy battle the Black Lantern versions of the former Dr. Light, Vibe, and Steel. What’s Good: Mark Bagley continues to satisfy me with his output on [...]

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Justice League of America #39 – Review

Posted on November 26, 2009 by joelopez101

By James Robinson (writer), Mark Bagley (artist) The Story: The JLA arrive at their headquarters only to find it empty and destroyed in this Blackest Night tie-in.  As they move deeper into unknown danger, they’re confronted not only with former teammates from past incarnations of the team, but a former loved one and a hated [...]

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Justice League: Cry For Justice #5 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Mauro Casciolo & Scott Clark (artists), Adam Schlagman (assistant editor), Eddie Berganza (editor) The Story: The whole issue is one meeting after another, wherein heroes tell each other what has happened so far and start arguments they don’t finish. The only exceptions to the absence of action are the shocking last [...]

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Justice League of America #38 – Review

Posted on October 23, 2009 by paladinking

by James Robinson (writer), Mark Bagley (pencils), Rob Hunter (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Someone dies, the remnants of the JLA discuss their future, and Despero attacks. What’s Good: Even though it’s the death of an absolute z-lister, I really did like the opening scene this month. In providing a [...]

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Justice League: Cry For Justice #4 – Review

Posted on October 9, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Mauro Cascioli (artist), Eddie Berganza (editor) The Story: Green Lantern, Green Arrow, Freddie Freeman, the Atom and Supergirl pull themselves out of the wreckage of last issue’s cliff-hanger explosion and decide to follow Prometheus’ trail through the torture of the other villains they’ve captured. Jay Garrick is running around the country, [...]

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The Flash: Rebirth #4 – Review

Posted on August 28, 2009 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ethan Van Sciver (art), Brian Miller (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Barry Allen’s true relationship with the Speed Force is revealed, as the battle with Professor Zoom begins. What’s Good: It’s no secret that Rebirth has been a bit tepid at times, and often I find the best thing [...]

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The Flash:Rebirth #3

Posted on June 11, 2009 by paladinking

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ethan Van Sciver (art), Brian Miller (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Barry Allen and the Justice League wrestle with him being the Black Flash. What’s Good: First things first: With Speed Force and lightning aplenty, Ethan Van Sciver’s art continues to be absolutely amazing.  I’ve read that several people [...]

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Green Arrow and Black Canary #6 – Review

Posted on March 18, 2008 by Deamentia

By Judd Winick (writer), Cliff Chiang (art), David Baron (colors) This issue goes by fast. Maybe a little too fast. But damn was it good! After two issues of mourning, Oliver and Dinah get to work on Connor’s kidnappers / assassins. With some clever detective work, they seem to have deduced that whoever shot Connor [...]

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Tiny Titans #1 – Review

Posted on February 18, 2008 by Deamentia

By Art Baltazar (writer, artist) & Franco (writer) I’m not sure why I bought this book. It just looked so odd and off the wall that I had to give it a try. Now, if you’re looking for a serious story line, you’re in the wrong place. Tiny Titans aims to do nothing more than [...]

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