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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 [...]

Daredevil #7 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Paolo Rivera (penciller), Joe Rivera (inker), Javier Rodriguez (color artist) The Story: It’s Christmas and Matt is struggling to turn a corner in his life, away from the tortured, guilt-ridden man he has been for so long. A group of kids he is mentoring gives him a kick in the pants. [...]

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 [...]

Irredeemable #30 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer/creator), Diego Barreto & Damian Couceiro (art), Zac Atkinson & Archie Van Buren (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters), Shannon Watters (associate editor) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Cary/Survivor may have a plan to power up to yet another level, Plutonian and Bette Noir get reacquainted & the surviving human government’s do something. [...]

Incorruptible #22 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Marcio Takara (art), Nolan Woodard (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Shannon Watters The Story: Max Damage finishes his building project and faces a old-time enemy. What’s Good: SPOILER WARNING…      Plutonian finally shows up at the ending of this issue.  It’s taken a long time for us to get to [...]

Irredeemable #29 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Eduardo Barreto & Diego Barreto (art), Zac Atkinson (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters), Shannon Watters (assistant editor) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Plutonian is back on Earth and the heroes and nations thereof have to rally to its defense. What’s Good: As much as I enjoyed the 5-6 issue stint where [...]

Incorruptible #21 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer/creator), Marcio Takara (artist), Nolan Woodard (colorist), Ed Dukeshire (letterer) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Urban planning continues in Coalville.  Max is building something and a new villain shows up. Review: This comic is well-written and pleasant to read, but it just lacks that zap that makes Irredeemable (its sister-title) a [...]

Daredevil #2 – Review

by Mark Waid (writer), Paolo Rivera (pencils), Joe Rivera (inks), Javier Rodriguez (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Matt discovers that there’s a lot more weirdness behind Ahmed Jobrani’s case than expected, but first he has to dodge the big, red, white, and blue shield aimed squarely at his head. What’s Good:  After last [...]

Irredeemable #28 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer/creator), Peter Krause (artist), Zac Atkinson & Nolan Woodard (colorists), Ed Dukeshire (letterer) & Matt Gagnon The Story: Plutonian is back on Earth.  That means bad things are gonna happen. What’s Good: He’s back!  And it was pretty powerful to get a reminder of what an insanely evil badass Plutonian is.  This series [...]

Daredevil #1 – Review

by Mark Waid (writer), Paolo Rivera (pencils), Marcos Martin (art), Joe Rivera (inks), Javier Rodriguez and Muntsa Vicente (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  Daredevil crashes a wedding to stop a kidnapping but finds that returning to his job as a lawyer isn’t quite as easy as he’d hoped. What’s Good:  After Shadowland, Andy [...]

Irredeemable #27 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer/creator), Peter Krause & Diego Barreto (art), Zac Atkinson (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Will Plutonian and his merry band of super-criminals escape from the galactic insane asylum? The Non-Spoiler Upshot: This is very much an event-driven issue, so while I’ll get into specifics in the sections [...]

Incorruptible #19 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer & creator), Marcio Takara (art), Nolan Woodard (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters), Shannon Watters (assistant editor) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Max Damage continues trying to clean up Coalville, but it’s difficult with all the super-villains seemingly finding haven there. What’s Good: Okay, this is more like it.  I’d been a [...]

Captain America: Man Out of Time (Hardcover) – Review

Written by Mark Waid, Penciled by Jorge Molina Story: An updating/retelling of Captain America’s origins that has his being unfrozen during Obama’s administration—and trying to return to the past to save Bucky. The Writing: Fantastic. This miniseries came out along with a dozen other Cap miniseries and got a little lost in the wash, which [...]

Irredeemable #26 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Peter Krause & Diego Barreto (art), Andrew Dalhouse (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Same as it’s been for the last few months: Plutonian trying to escape from his galactic insane asylum.  Also, the Plutonian is into cutting. What’s Good: This issue was a nice return to [...]

Incorruptible #18 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer & creator), Marcio Takara (art), Nolan Woodard (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters), Shannon Watters (assistant editor) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Max Damage tries to help Coalville rebuild from the damage inflicted by Plutonian’s rampage, but not everyone is so eager for this to happen. What’s Good: The supporting characters in [...]

Irredeemable #25 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Peter Krause & Diego Barreto (art), Andrew Dalhouse (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Ever wonder how the Plutonian’s powers really work?  Or how a villain with psychic powers flirts with women in a bar?  Well, in this issue you find out. What’s Good: This issue is [...]

Irredeemable #24 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Peter Krause & Diego Barreto (art), Andrew Dalhouse (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: The Plutonian starts busting out of prison & we learn some interesting things about Quibit. What’s Good: Irredeemable is really back to being one of the better comics on the stands.  A true [...]

Captain America: Man Out of Time #5

By Mark Waid (writer), Jorge Molina (pencils), Karl Kesel (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors), VC’s Joe Sabino (letters and production) The Story: Cap struggles with finding himself back “home” in the 40s…but without his comrades and without a war to fight. And with Kang still on the loose, he must also find a way to warn [...]

Irredeemable #23 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Peter Krause & Diego Barreto  (art), Andrew Dalhouse (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: The Plutonian is in a weird place and drama swirls back on Earth. What’s Good: What makes Irredeemable a special and important comic book is when it does stuff that you just wouldn’t [...]

Incorruptible #15 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Marcio Takara (art), Nolan Woodard (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Max Damage battles the Paradigm OR No body is going to tell Hardcase what to do! What’s Good: This is very much a transitional issue as Max Damage completes his journey from villain to anti-hero (who [...]

Quick Hit Reviews Week of Feb. 16, 2011

Some weeks it is just insane how many comics get published.  Despite the intrepid efforts of our writing staff here at WCBR, we simply can’t do a full review of every comic.  Thus, we bring you the quick-hit reviews where we say a few words about some comics that were pretty darn good and some [...]

Irredeemable #22 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Peter Krause & Diego Baretto (art), Andrew Dalhouse (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: Can the uber-aliens keep the Plutonian locked up? What’s Good: Even though this issue had a few bugaboos that I’ll discuss below, I was strongly reminded of why I LOVE this series by [...]

Incorruptible #14 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Marcio Takara (art), Nolan Woodard (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Matt Gagnon (editor) The Story: With Plutonian kidnapped by aliens (from the pages of Irredeemable), does Max Damage have a reason to be good anymore? What’s Good: There is a lot of good character work in this issue.  The town of [...]

Irredeemable #21 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Peter Krause & Diego Barreto (art), Andrew Dalhouse & Nolan Woodard (colors), Ed Dukeshire (letters) & Mark Gagnon (editor) The Story: So, what has the Plutonian been up to since getting captured by the uber-powerful space aliens? What’s Good: Irredeemable makes me a little jealous of the folks who got to [...]

WCBR Quick Hit Reviews Dec-22-2010

We all have pretty long pull lists and every week there are a few titles we read that we simply don’t have time to give a full review.  Some are good and some are bad… Uncanny X-Men #531 – Fraction’s script of the second chapter of ‘Quarantine’ moves along rather nicely. The addition of Keiron [...]

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