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Earth Two #1 – Review

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: James Robinson (story), Nicola Scott (pencils), Trevor Scott (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) The Story: With some stories, it’s better to start at the end. The Review: I can hardly believe this, but pretty close to a year ago, I talked about how much I liked parallel-universe ridiculousness in all its forms.  I’m such a [...]

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Superman #3 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: George Pérez (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Trevor Scott (inker), Brian Buccellato, Brett Smith, Blond (colorists) The Story: When in doubt, just shoot heat vision at your problem. The Review: Over in Action Comics, Grant Morrison is revamping the early days of Superman and essentially the core of his character.  In Justice League, Geoff Johns [...]

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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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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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Teen Titans #94 – Review

Posted on April 21, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: If all you know about Hinduism is the Kama Sutra, let me tell you—there’s nastier where that came from. The Review: In a lot of ways, this current round of Teen Titans has been around each other a pretty long [...]

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Teen Titans #93 – Review

Posted on March 31, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: JT Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: It’s getting dark, guys.  Hey Solstice–lend us a light? The Review: There’s a very clear separation between what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s mediocre, but it can be difficult to explain what makes them such, especially when something falls in [...]

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Teen Titans #91 – Review

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood & Scott Kobush (inkers), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: Teens these days…if they’re not listening to terrible pop music, they’re creating black holes in their schools. The Review: Each of the major teams in the DCU stands for something—the Justice League representing strength in numbers, while [...]

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Teen Titans #90 – Review

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: JT Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: The Titans track down the source of the genetically modified teens to a seemingly normal high school, only to be buried inside with a slew of crazed adolescents. The Review: The biggest pitfall a writer can fall into when writing [...]

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Teen Titans #89 – Review

Posted on November 24, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (artist), Doug Hazelwood (inker)   The Story: Bruised Egos: Batman (Dick Grayson) has Robin (Damian Wayne) join the Teen Titans. This is not something that either Robin or the Teen Titans wanted. Action and sniping ensues. What’s Good: I love Damian Wayne as the unhinged psycho Robin. Comics have [...]

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Teen Titans #88 – Review

Posted on October 29, 2010 by dfstell

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (pencils), Doug Hazlewood (inks), Sal Cipriano (letters) & Jason Wright (colors) The Story: The Teen Titans face a mad scientist and get a new team member. What’s Good: I try to stay away from telling the reader what my personal experience with a comic series or character is because [...]

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Wonder Woman #44 – Review

Posted on May 27, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott and Travis Moore (pencils), Doug Hazelwood, Wayne Faucher, John Dell and Hi-Fi (inks), Hi-Fi (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman must fight for Earth’s freedom in a one-on-one duel against the Citizenry’s finest warrior, as well as by outsmarting their leader— Diana’s own cousin. What’s Good: [...]

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Wonder Woman #43 – Review

Posted on April 28, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott and Fernando Dagnino (pencils), Doug Hazelwood and Wayne Faucher (inks), Brad Anderson (colors/additional digital inks), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman (with a little help from her friends) continues the fight against the invasion led by Captain Astarte, Diana’s own blood relative. What’s Good: This book does a [...]

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Wonder Woman #42 – Review

Posted on April 3, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott and Fernando Dagnino (pencillers), Doug Hazelwood (inker) The Story: The story opens with a flashback to a scene where three Green Lanterns were pursuing a planetary infestation so lethal that one of them didn’t make it back alive. Fast forward to Wonder Woman today, dealing with Steve Trevor and [...]

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #3 – Review

Posted on February 4, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka (writer), Nicola Scott (pencils), Jonathan Glapion (inks), Nei Ruffino (colors) The Story: Diana, just saved from being a black lantern, is guided by Carol Ferris as they go to fight the other black lanterns. Although the black lanterns are a big deal in their zombie apocalypse sort of way, a bigger piece [...]

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #2 – Review

Posted on January 7, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Greg Rucka (writer), Nicola Scott and Eduardo Pansica (pencillers), Jonathan Glapion & Eber Ferreira (inkers) The Story: The contents of this issue take place entirely between the back splash page of Blackest Night #5 (Wonder Woman becomes a black lantern) and the back splash page of Blackest Night #6 (Wonder Woman becomes a star [...]

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Blackest Night: Wonder Woman #1 – Review

Posted on December 4, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Greg Rucka (writer), Nicola Scott (artist), Prentis Rollins, Jonathan Glapion, Walden Wong & Drew Geraci (inks) The Story: Wonder Woman is on the trail of black lantern Maxwell Lord, the she killed What’s Good: Nicola Scott has never looked better than when Rollins, Glapion, Wong and Geraci are inking her. Granted, it sounds like [...]

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Secret Six #15 – Review

Posted on November 5, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by John Ostrander (writer), J. Calafiore (artist), Jason Wright (colorist), Sean Ryan (editor) The Story: Deadshot is having some problems. He’s having control issues with his homicidal tendencies. So he calls in an old confidante and has a chat. The story follows themes back and forth in time, to his formative years and to his [...]

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Secret Six #13 – Review

Posted on September 11, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott with Carlos Rodriguez (pencillers), Doug Hazlewood with Rodney Ramos & Carlos Rodriguez (inkers) The Story: Half the team (Bane, Scandal and Jeannette) are on the run on the lunatic island prison with Artemis, who is looking to save other Amazons. The other half of the team (Deadshot, Catman and [...]

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Secret Six # 9 – Review

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Ryan Lynch

Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott (pencils), Jason Wright (colors) The Story: Three teams. Three targets. Three villains. Maximum body count. It’s Catman, Ragdoll, and Bane doing what they do best… saving the innocent? The Good: DC’s secret weapons strikes again; the Secret Six team put out an issue that delivers as a stand-alone issue, a [...]

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Secret Six #8 – Review

Posted on April 8, 2009 by Ryan Lynch

Gail Simone (writer), Carlos Rodriguez (artist), Jason Wright (colorist) Thoughts before the review: Secret Six, as indicated by the IGN quote on the cover of #8, is best described as “wonderfully wicked” and “hilariously twisted.”  And, on the whole, is an enjoyably decadent ride through the world of six pay-for-hire villains. Story : After the [...]

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