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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 [...]

Moon Knight #11 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Buck and Moon Knight go after Madame Masque in order to recover the Ultron head. The Review:  In it’s penultimate issue (unfortunately), Bendis and Maleev’s Moon Knight is cooking on all cylinders. The majority of the issue is [...]

Moon Knight #10 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), Matthew Hollingsworth (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Things go from bad to worse as Count Nefaria calls in some expert help from a family member. The Review:  I’m not sure when exactly it happened, but Moon Knight has become a truly good comic book.  Naysayers [...]

Heroes for Hire #12 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writer), Brad Walker (artist), Andrew Hennessy (inker), Jay David Ramos (colorist) The Story: Hero, are you for hire? We’ve got a job. The Review: Heroes for Hire #12 was a nice little single-issue story. We are thrown into the middle of the action in a moody and effective close-up [...]

Moon Knight #4 – Review

By Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (artist), Matthew Wilson (color artist), VC’s Cory Petit (letterer) The Story: Moon Knight and Echo team up together, and begin to peel back the layers of the criminal syndicate controlling LA. Naturally, Spector’s plethora of personalities are along for the ride as well. What’s Good: I’ll probably be [...]

Moon Knight #3 – Review

By Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), Matthew Wilson (color artist), VC’s Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Marc Spector brings another ally into his fold in the form of ex-S.H.I.E.L.D .agent Buck Lime. After testing Buck’s loyalty, Spector sets him to work authenticating the head of Ultron. It’s a race against time, though, since [...]

Moon Knight #2 – Review

By Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), Matthew Wilson (colors), VC’s Cory Petit (letters) The Story:Marc Spector continues to bring the crazy and the pain as he seeks out an Ultron smuggler hiding out in a strip club. Unfortunately, the crazy comes on a little too strong, as Spector’s one-man Avenger team act proves [...]

Moon Knight #1 – Review

By Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Alex Maleev (art), Matthew Wilson (colors), VC’s Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Our series begins with a clever meta-telling of Moon Knight’s origin, via the television premier if Marc Spector’s new series (which happens to involve a mercenary ‘being left to die outside an Egyptian temple.’ Spector is pulled away [...]

Secret Avengers #10 – Review

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Mike Deodato & Will Conrad (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Dave Lanphear (letters) The Story: Steve Rogers and his Secret Avengers rush to save Shiang-Chi and halt Zheng Zu’s plans for resurrection. The Review:  Secret Avengers #10 is one of those difficult issues to review in that while it does nothing [...]

Avengers #10 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), and Dean White (colors) The Story: The Avengers check to make sure that Xavier and Namor’s infinity gems are safe. The Review: Avengers #10 is, unfortunately, something of a stumbling block for the series after a couple of solid outings. The main culprit [...]

Secret Avengers #4 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Mike Deodato (artist), Rain Beredo (colorist) The Story: In the conclusion to “Secret Histories”, Commander Rogers hijacks the Nova Force in order to take out Richard Ryder, while Sharon Carter and Ant-Man make a disturbing discovery about one of the Shadow Council’s agents. The Good: To its credit, this issue of [...]

Shadowland #1 – Review

by Andy Diggle (writer), Billy Tan (pencils), Batt (inks), Christina Strain & Guru EFX (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Bullseye takes on a newer, nastier Daredevil while the Avengers grow increasingly concerned about that weird castle in the middle of Hell’s Kitchen. What’s Good: As the first issue of an event, one could [...]

Secret Avengers #2 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Mike Deodato and Will Conrad (artists), Rain Beredo (colorist) The Story: The Secret Avengers search Mars for Nova and answers as to why Roxxon Corporation was in possession of a Serpent Crown. The Good: Brubaker has done a rare, wonderful thing with this book: he’s taken everything we’ve come to expect [...]

Vengance of the Moon Knight #9 – Review

By Gregg Hurwitz (writer), Juan Jose Ryp (artist), Andres Mossa (colors) and VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: In (another) unexpected team-up, Moon Knight finds himself working with Spider-Man to bring down the Sandman. What’s Good: Ryp’s art is fantastic, let me say that right out of the gate. His take on both Spidey and [...]

Secret Avengers #1 – Review

By Ed Brubaker (writer), Mike Deodato (artist), Rain Beredo (colorist) “Our world is out of control… But the things I worry about most are the threats we don’t know about.” As the Marvel Universe breaks free from the dark reign of Norman Osborn to bask in the light of a new age, Steve Rogers has [...]

Vengeance Of The Moon Knight #3 – Review

by Greg Hurwitz (writer), Jerome Opena (art), Paul Mounts (colors) The Story: New York City continues to welcome the return of a kinder, gentler Moon Knight to its crime-fighting fraternity, while the vigilante reconnects with sometime lover, Marlene.  Meanwhile, archenemy Bushman is brought back from beyond the grave by The Hood in order to strike [...]

Moon Knight #25 – Review

By Mike Benson (Writer), Mark Texeira (Art), Javier Saltares (Layouts), and Dan Brown (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Probably the best thing that I can say about “The Death of Marc Spector” is that it has turned from being a story I was reading to get a Thunderbolts fix into something I have been [...]

Hulk #8 – Review

By Jeph Loeb (Writer) Art Adams & Frank Cho (Artists) Walden Wong (Inker) Albert Deschesne (Letters) Peter Steigerwald (Colours) The story: For the time being, at least until Ed McGuinness returns, Hulk Has been split into two separate stories with Art Adams and Frank Cho taking up the artistic duties on green and red Hulk [...]

Moon Knight #24 – Review

By Mike Benson (story) Javier Saltares and Mark Texeira (art) Arthur Suydam (cover) Dan Brown (colour art) The Story: Part four of “The Death of Mark Spector” continues with the Thunderbolts and S.H.I.E.L.D, both trying to bring in Moon Knight. When Moon Knight faces off against the Thunderbolts, he manages to escape once again as [...]

Moon Knight #20 – Review

By Mike Benson (Writer), Mike Deodato Jr. (Artist), and Rain Beredo (Colorist) This book is actually good. I certainly didn’t expect it to be. Let’s face it, Moon Knight is a B-lister. He’s always been a rip-off of Batman, and he always will be, except when he’s ripping off Daredevil. And he’s always been a bit [...]

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