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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 S02E03 – Review

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (story) The Story: Now this is the textbook definition of “frienemies.” The Review: One thing that has really impressed me with this show is how well the writers have paced themselves in terms of revealing major plot points, throwing in the occasional twist, and building up character storylines. Although season one had [...]

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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 #6 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), John Dell (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist), Sholly Fisch (feature writer), Chriscross (feature artist), Jose Villarrubia (feature colorist) The Story: Now you know where all those little voices in your head are coming from. The Review: I don’t think I’m the only one, but I sometimes give Morrison a [...]

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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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Action Comics #5 – Review

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Invasion of the Space Babies! They’ll overwhelm you with their cuteness! The Review: The coming of Superman to Earth as a babe rocketed from the doomed planet of Krypton is probably the origin story of origin stories, one which still retains a lot of its [...]

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Supergirl #3 – Review

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Michael Green & Mike Johnson (writers), Mahmud Asrar & Bill Reinhold (artists), Paul Mounts (colorist) The Story: Supergirl gets her first taste of Earthling villainy—and it’s bitter stuff. The Review: One thing that always struck me as odd about Supergirl in previous incarnations was her seemingly seamless transition into Earth—specifically American—culture. The last iteration [...]

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Supergirl #2 – Review

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Michael Green & Mike Johnson (writers), Mahmud Asrar (penciller), Dan Green (inker), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: On the plus, this means no more babysitting for Supergirl—probably. The Review: Back when DC brought back Kara Zor-El as Supergirl sometime in the first few years of the new millennium, they took a lot of things [...]

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Supergirl #1 – Review

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Michael Green & Mike Johnson (writers), Mahmud Asrar (penciller), Dan Green (inker), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: Take me to your leader…and your best mall. The Review: Most every comic book character is guilty of a burdensome back-history, but Supergirl has perhaps some of the most convoluted continuity of all. Compared to her famous [...]

Flashpoint: Project Superman #3 – Review

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Snyder & Lowell Francis (writers), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist) The Story: It’s a bird, it’s a plane—it’s a flying muscleman with Super-Seiyan hair! The Review: If you’re going to write one of these Elseworlds-type stories, my unsolicited suggestion would be to really take the plunge into the alternate universe aspect of [...]

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Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #3 – Review

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jonathan Vankin (writer), Marco Castiello (penciller), Vincenzo Acunza (inker), Barbara Ciardo (colorist) The Story: John, you should know the only thing to do with a stubborn weed is smoke it. The Review: Even if you’ve never taken improv comedy, you can appreciate one of its most important tenets: the only time you should enter [...]

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Superman #714 – Review

Posted on August 4, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Jamal Igle (penciller), Jon Sibal & Robin Riggs (inkers), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: Stop eating those French fries, Superman, have some self-respect! Don’t you know you can fly?! The Review: Superman has been around for so long, has been written by so many different kinds of [...]

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Brightest Day Aftermath: The Search for Swamp Thing #2

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jonathan Vankin (writer), Renato Arlem (artist), Barb Ciardo (colorist) The Story: Just the what the heck kind of fertilizer are they using around here? The Review: DC has its reasons for the existence Vertigo, and keeping it largely separate from popular continuity. It’s not just that in a Vertigo comic, you can cuss up [...]

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Flashpoint: Project Superman #2 – Review

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Snyder & Lowell Francis (writers), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist) The Story: “I’m only hurting you because I love you so much,” takes on all new meaning. The Review: Traditionally, we tend to see Superman’s values and virtues as something bred in him by the good, wholesome, Midwestern upbringing of Ma and [...]

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Superman #710 – Review

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Eddy Barrows & Travel Foreman (pencillers), J.P. Mayer & John Dell (inkers), Rob Reis & Dave McCaig (colorists) The Story: Can a nerd from the sticks and an emo from the big city work together to defeat an immortal caveman? The Review: I’ve managed to stay above [...]

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Superman: The Last Family of New Krypton #1 – Review

Posted on August 8, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Cary Bates (writer), Renato Arlem (artist), Allen Passalaqua (colorist), Rachel Gluckstern (assistant editor), Mike Carlin (editor) The Story: What would have happened if Jor-El, Lara and Kal-El all escaped the destruction of Krypton? What’s Good and What’s Not So Good: Right off, I really enjoyed Arlem’s art. He puts rich texture and detail onto [...]

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Superman: War of the Supermen #2 – Review

Posted on May 12, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Sterling Gates & James Robinson (writers), Eduardo Pansica (artist), Wayne Faucher (inker) The Story: General Lane has turned New Krypton into a pile of rubble, killing almost all the Kryptonians on it. Zod’s navy is on its way to Earth for retribution. Kal-El is the only person standing in their way. What’s Good: The [...]

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Superman: War of the Supermen #1 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Sterling Gates & James Robinson (writers), Jamal Igle (penciller), Jon Sibal (inker) The Story: Superman is getting the tar beat out of him by Zod’s henchmen while an army of super-powered Kryptonians closes on Earth. Superman is going to try to talk Zod out of the attack. Problem is, the Kryptonians are right – [...]

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Superman: World of New Krypton #12 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka and James Robinson (writers), Pete Woods and Ron Randall (artists), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: Adam Strange and Kal-El are in a pickle. Adam gets them out, but not for long. Then Zod, out of nowhere, gets them out of the next pickle. Then Adam Strange is dismissed from the series as [...]

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Superman: World of New Krypton #11 – Review

Posted on January 6, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: James Robinson and Greg Rucka (writers), Pete Woods and Ron Randall (artists), Nei Ruffino and Blond (colorists) The Story: Kal-El and Adam Strange investigate the mysterious assassin who has just struck at the council again. What’s Good: A good old detective mystery is always fun as the reader races to put together the pieces [...]

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Superman: World of New Krypton #9 – Review

Posted on November 4, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by James Robinson and Greg Rucka (writers), Pete Woods and Ron Randall (artists), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: In New Krypton’s council chambers, General Kal-El and Dae, the Thanagarian admiral, face off against Jemm, Son of Saturn and his powerful followers who make punching bags out of the first few Kryptonian red shirts who try [...]

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Blackest Night: Superman #3 – Review

Posted on October 21, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Eddy Barrows with Allan Goldman (pencils), Ruy José with Eber Ferreira (inks) The Story: Superman is getting the stuffing beat out of him by Black Lantern Kal-L and Superboy. Ma Kent is being stalked by Black Lantern Lois Lane. Psycho-Pirate is turning Smallville into a warzone. Welcome to the final issue [...]

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Superman: World Of New Krypton #8 – Review

Posted on October 8, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by Greg Rucka and James Robinson (writers), Pete Woods and Ron Randall (artists), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: Jupiter’s moon Callisto is on a collision course with New Krypton and is moving at a significant fraction of the speed of light. The Thanagarians are attacking the Kryptonians with weapons that can hurt them. Watch Kal-El [...]

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Blackest Night: Superman #2 – Review

Posted on September 23, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson (writer), Eddy Barrows (artist), Ruy Jose with Julio Ferreira (inkers), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Black Lantern Kal-L (the original Superman from Earth-2) is looking to paint Smallville black, and he brought some post-living help in the form of Psycho-Pirate and the original Lois Lane. Standing for truth, justice and a speedy [...]

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Superman: World of New Krypton #7 – Review

Posted on September 9, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By James Robinson and Greg Rucka (writers), Pete Woods (artist), Nei Ruffino with Pete Pantazis (colorists) The Story: After the attempt on Zod’s life, New Krypton is paralyzed. One faction wants to declare war on Earth, and the other doesn’t know what to do. Then Zod comes out of the hospital long enough to promote [...]

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