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Captain America #12 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Patrick Zircher (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The identity of Scourge, and the man pulling his strings, are revealed. The Review:  With this second issue, this arc is really starting to seem a like a “righting of the ship” of Captain America since the relaunch.  Really, [...]

Fantastic Four #606 – Review

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), Ron Garney (art), Jason Keith (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: The Fantastic Four go on a mission in a strange environment to save the life of an old friend. The Review:  I think Hickman came into this with a good idea, but due to comics being just as much [...]

The Mighty Thor #14 – Review

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pepe Larraz (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Sabino (letters) The Story:  Thor finds himself trapped in his own nightmare, while Enchantress takes more pounds of flesh from Donald Blake than he expected. The Review:  It’s always an annoying situation when you get issues like this that are divided into two [...]

Secret Avengers #27 – Review

by Rick Remender (writer), Renato Guedes (art), Bettie Breitweiser & Matthew Wilson (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: Mar-Vell, Noh-Varr, and Ms. Marvel deliver a beatdown on a Hala gone mad. The Review: This is an issue where in many respects, the script plays second-fiddle to the art.  Much as was the case last [...]

Journey into Mystery #638 – Review

by Kieron Gillen, Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Carmine Di Giandomenico (art), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: As they run wild, we learn that everything we thought we knew about the history of the Disir is wrong. The Review:  While Journey into Mystery is one of favourite books, I’ll admit [...]

Venom #18 – Review

By: Rick Remender & Cullen Bunn (writers), Lan Medina (pencils), Nelson Decastro (inks), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: Flash races to get to Betty before Jack and the Savage Six. The Review:  With co-writer in tow, it’s another solid outing for Venom.  Aside from the brief Circle of Six crossover, it’s [...]

The Invincible Iron Man #517 – Review

by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Stane goes poking around his own body, Spymaster wreaks office havoc, Tony removes the Extremis Armour, and “Detroit Steel” gets creepy. The Review:  Matt Fraction gets a lot of slack for the decompression present in a lot of his [...]

The Avengers #26 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Walter Simonson (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jason Keith (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Cap sends Thor and a team of Avengers to space on a suicide mission to head off the Phoenix.  However, all is not what it seems for Noh-Varr. The Review:  Let’s be clear here: the [...]

Daredevil #13 – Review

by Mark Waid (writer), Khoi Pham (pencils), Tom Palmer (inks), Javier Rodriguez (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Matt fights for his life against Megacrime, still holding onto the Omega Drive The Review:  You’ve got to feel for Khoi Pham.  Daredevil has had some really, really great artists work on it (Marcos Martin, Paolo [...]

Avengers vs. X-Men #4 – Review

by Jonathan Hickman (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Laura Martin (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: As the Phoenix streaks towards Earth, Hope tries to make a deal with Wolverine. The Review:  In a twelve-issue maxi-series, issues like this are all but inevitable – the dreaded, treading water, transitional issue. Much [...]

The Punisher #11 – Review

by Greg Rucka (writer), Mirko Colak (art), Dan Brown & Jim Charalampidis (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Detective Warren Bolt comes clean about his relationship with the Punisher after a crazy night with Frank in Times Square killing….zombies? The Review: There are two ways of reading this comic.  On the one hand, you [...]

Journey into Mystery #637 – Review

by Kieron Gillen, Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Carmine di Giandomenico (art), Andy Troy (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: So what did Sigurd’s spell do?  Not that much…it just turned all the Asgardian gods into humans. The Review:  What an utterly bizarre issue. Of course, that’s rather the point.  Through Sigurd’s spell, [...]

Captain America #11 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Patrick Zircher (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Someone’s leaking SHIELD intel to a vigilante who’s taken to killing reformed criminals in SHIELD’s witness protection program. The Review:  As another arc of the relaunched Captain America begins, the same problem rears its head again.  Put simply, the [...]

The New Avengers #26 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  K’un-Lun gets its new Iron Fist as well as a very special guest. The Review: This issue proves that last issue wasn’t just a fluke, one-issue thing: despite not featuring a single Avenger, being set in the past, [...]

Venom #17 – Review

By: Rick Remender & Cullen Bunn (writers), Kev Walker (pencils), Terry Pallot (inks), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Flash attempts to kill Crime-Master to extricate himself from his situation once and for all. The Review:  The first thing to address with this issue are the two big additions to the creative [...]

The Invincible Iron Man #516 – Review

By: Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  Hammer makes being Iron Man impossible; Stane finds himself trapped with his back against the wall; the mole within Stark Resilient is revealed. The Review:  The sudden resurgence of Matt Fraction’s Invincible Iron Man after Fear Itself has been [...]

Daredevil #12 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Chris Samnee (art), Javier Rodriguez (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Matt and Kirsten go on a date which leads to Matt telling a tale from he and Foggy’s days at Columbia Law. The Review:  This issue is really yet another effort by Mark Waid to expand the variety of [...]

The Defenders #6 – Review

By: Matt Fraction (writer), Victor Ibanez (art), Tom Palmer & Terry Pallot (finishes), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story: Delving into ancient secrets, Danny and the Surfer discover a connection between the Concordance Engines and the Prince of Orphans, as well as an old, forgotten team of superheroes – the awesomely named [...]

Exiled #1 – Review

By: Kieron Gillen, Dan Abnett, & Andy Lanning (writers), Carmine di Giandomenico (art), Andy Troy (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story:  After a mysterious hero from ages past dons his suit of armour, the Disir break loose from their enslavement in hell. The Review:  I confess that I’m not at all a New Mutants [...]

Avengers vs. X-Men #3 – Review

By: Ed Brubaker (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Laura Martin (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: Cap and Wolverine have a “discussion” regarding his actions on Utopia. The Review: I figure a lot of readers are going to have a different interpretation of this issue, one that ends up being much [...]

FF #17 – Review

By: Jonathan Hickman (writer), Nick Dragotta (art), Chris Sotomayor (colors), and Clayton Cowles (letters) The Story:  Can Peter Parker possibly survive the sheer, mind-imploding aggravation of having Johnny Storm for a room-mate? The Review:  Jonathan Hickman is among my favourite writers, but he wouldn’t exactly be my first choice to write a sitcom, much as [...]

Moon Knight #12 – Review

By: Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Moon Knight versus Count Nefaria, head to head, one last time. The Review:  All good things must come to an end and, sadly, it has come all too soon for Bendis and Maleev’s Moon Knight.  Thankfully, however, reading [...]

Daredevil #11 – Review

By: Mark Waid (writer), Marco Checchetto (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Daredevil tries to recapture the Omega Drive from Cole (Alves?). The Review:  The Omega Effect has been a really nice little crossover.  It’s small, contained, and went across titles that worked well with each other.  If you enjoyed the [...]

Secret Avengers #26 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Renato Guedes (art), Bettie Breitweiser & Matthew Wilson (colors), and Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: A special team of Avengers head off into space in a desperate attempt to contain the Phoenix before it reaches Earth. The Review:  It’s hard not to be skeptical going into this issue of Secret Avengers: [...]

New Avengers #25 – Review

By: Brian Michael Bendis (writers), Mike Deodato & Will Conrad (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The ancient, until now unknown ties between K’un Lun, the Iron Fist, and the Phoenix Force are revealed. The Review: I imagine a lot of people are going to be pretty upset about this issue [...]

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