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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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Young Justice Episode 25 – Review

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (writer) The Story: Feel free to get real with each other, kids—Young Justice is a safe place. The Review: I’ve spoken critically about this point a few times over the course of the season, but twenty-odd episodes later, I still don’t feel a genuine group chemistry from Young Justice. While certain pairings [...]

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Young Justice Episode 24 – Review

Posted on April 9, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jon Weisman (writer) The Story: The YJers finally turn in their sidekick roles—for sideshow status. The Review: We’ve had a whole string of character-centric episodes lately, each showing us a different side of a YJer. So it was only a matter of time before we revisited Robin, whom we haven’t really explored since his [...]

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Young Justice Episode 23 – Review

Posted on April 2, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Peter David (writer) The Story: Imagine hanging with your boo’s ex—that’s the awkwardness we have here. The Review: I waxed poetic about David in my review of the last episode he wrote for this series, so there’s no need to fall over myself again here. I just have to wonder, though: how does he [...]

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Young Justice Episode 22 – Review

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (writer) The Story: Joining the League is not unlike joining the Plastics in Mean Girls. The Review: To the show’s credit, the writers have done a careful job focusing on the young team itself, despite the constant temptation of the Justice League appearing tantalizingly on the fringes of stories. Still, we’re constantly [...]

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Young Justice Episode 21 – Review

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Nicole Dubuc The Story: Well, this beats watching Sweet Valley High, I guess. The Review: It’s a pretty old cliché that most people all go through some kind of identity crisis in their teenage years. Not that there isn’t truth in the notion, but it doesn’t happen in one big, dramatic burst like in [...]

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Young Justice Episode 20 – Review

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jon Weisman (writer) The Story: When he says “Speedy delivery!” he really means it. The Review: Since each of his teammates have had a spotlight episode to themselves, the time was ripe for a Kid Flash-centric show. The Kid established his personality early on by serving as the team’s comedy relief, but besides the [...]

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Young Justice Episode 19 – Review

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Greg Weisman (writer) The Story: Well, they do say teens have one foot in youth and the other in adulthood. The Review: Yes, this review is a bit late in coming. In my defense, I had no idea the show had returned until just a day or so ago. The erratic scheduling of this [...]

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Teen Titans #5 – Review

Posted on January 30, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Lobdell (writer), Brett Booth (penciller), Norm Rapmund (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: Oh, let them punch and electrocute each other—kids will be kids! The Review: The first time a team comes together usually goes one of two ways: they may, by fate or fortune, surpass all expectations and work as a unit [...]

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Teen Titans #4 – Review

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Lobdell (writer), Brett Booth (penciller), Norm Rapmund (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: Cheer up, Wonder Girl. For some, it’s traditional to get beat up on New Year’s. The Review: Thus far, most of the Titans are pretty one-dimensional as individuals. Like J.T. Krul, the last writer to handle the title pre-relaunch, Lobdell [...]

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Teen Titans #3 – Review

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Lobdell (writer), Brett Booth (penciller), Norm Rapmund (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: Presenting the fabulous entrance of Bunker! The Review: It sure seems like Lobdell attracts more than the usual share of controversy on his titles. After the whole outcry over Starfire and sexism on Red Hood and the Outlaws, he almost [...]

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Young Justice Episode 18 – Review

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Peter David (writer) The Story: Will Artemis and Zatanna come to “Harm”? It’s a “Secret.” Yeah, I went there. The Review: Unlike the Teen Titans, which brought kids together to learn the value of friendship and heroism, David’s interpretation of the adolescent vigilante on the original Young Justice comics emphasized their most irritating qualities: [...]

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Young Justice Episode 17 – Review

Posted on November 13, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Andrew R. Robinson (writer) The Story: Someone call the doctor, because this Black Canary’s a total quack! The Review: If I took away one lesson from both my years as a teenager and my years teaching them, it’s that kids of that age tend to resist and resent counseling the most, yet they stand [...]

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Young Justice Episode 16 – Review

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Nicole Dubuc (writer) The Story: It’ll be the end of the world unless Young Justice saves us. So yeah, goodbye Earth. The Review: While the assumption is that the members of Young Justice will take over for their iconic forebears someday, you’re not really inclined to take the notion seriously. After all, time doesn’t [...]

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Teen Titans #2 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Lobdell (writer), Brett Booth (penciller), Norm Rapmund (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: All that talk about sewer mutants and mole people are just rumors, I swear! The Review: Just like in Justice League, this title has taken the strategy of introducing the cast in stages, which has a few downsides. For one, [...]

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Young Justice Episode 15 – Review

Posted on October 25, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Greg Weisman The Story: I think this is the beginning of a magical friendship. The Review: Zatanna has a rather complicated place in the DCU and especially with the Justice League. Originally, she came into the League as a rookie, one of its youngest, if not its very youngest, members. While her teammates carried [...]

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Young Justice Episode 14 – Review

Posted on October 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (writer) The Story: You have to hate it when villains catch on to the value of teamwork. The Review: Over the course of this series, we’ve seen a lot of interconnected plotlines, a neat feat for a cartoon, one for which the show’s writers should give themselves a hefty pat on the [...]

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Young Justice Episode 13 – Review

Posted on October 10, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Thomas Pugsley (writer) The Story: You’re not the boss of me now! And you’re not so big, either. The Review: Ever since Aqualad received word from Red Arrow that the team possible had a mole lurking about and he decided to keep it a secret, we all knew it would be only a matter [...]

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Young Justice Episode 12 – Review

Posted on October 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jon Weisman (writer) The Story: Four red-chromed elemental robots are better than one. The Review: Nowadays, hardly anyone wonders why, on a league populated by some of the most powerful superhumans on the planet, we need to have Batman around. No one is naïve enough to believe that his explosive Batarangs will turn the [...]

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Teen Titans #1 – Review

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Scott Lobdell (writer), Brett Booth (penciller), Norm Rapmund (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: All they want are some BFFs they can count on—to fight evil secret cabals with. The Review: Of all the new DC titles, perhaps the one with the most controversy attached is Teen Titans. The concern most people have, I [...]

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Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost #3 – Review

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Sterling Gates (writer), Oliver Nome, Scott Kolins, Trevor Scott (artists), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: Run, Flash, run! And bring back some fries while you’re at it. The Review: Some people see it as a burden, but I rather like that DC has a bunch of legacy heroes, those who’ve taken up the name, [...]

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Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost #2 – Review

Posted on July 30, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Sterling Gates (writer), Oliver Nome (penciller), Trevor Scott (inker), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: Oh, Bart, you can’t hide anything. I can see right through you. The Review: In watching a few episodes of Dexter I noticed that even though the titular lead is one of the most compelling figures in television, very little [...]

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Teen Titans #97 – Review

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: Who cares how many there are? You’ve seen one demon, you’ve seen ‘em all. The Review: If you’re going to dislike a certain writer’s style, it’s probably a good idea to be clear about what turns you off about their [...]

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Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost #1 – Review

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Sterling Gates (writer), Oliver Nome (penciller), Trevor Scott (inker), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: You ever get the feeling you just don’t belong to this world…and era…and reality? The Review: Dealing with an altered reality and all the taken-for-granted conventions it entails (subtle or not) can get pretty mind-boggling to begin with. And by [...]

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Teen Titans #95 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: First rule of creepy-island exploring: don’t split up! Geez, doesn’t anyone learn from movies? The Review: Writing these reviews can get a little tricky. A lot of the times, there’s so much to say even about one issue that parsing [...]

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