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Aquaman #9 – Review

Posted on May 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Ivan Reis (pencils), Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, Andy Lanning (inks), Rod Reis (colors) The Story: All those years of PTSD therapy, undone by one super-villain attack. The Review: As I read through this issue, it struck me that I haven’t been giving Johns enough credit for what he’s been doing on [...]

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Demon Knights #9 – Review

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (story), Diógenes Neves & Robson Rocha (pencils), Oclair Albert & Julio Ferreira (inks), Marcelo Maiolo (colors) The Story: I left my love in Avalon…something, something…And so I’ll travel on to Avalon. The Review: Now that our “heroes” have proven capable of amazing feats as a team, the next step is seeing if [...]

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Demon Knights #8 – Review

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves (penciller), Bernard Chang (guest artist), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: Except for the demon choking you part, that’s a pretty romantic story, Xanadu. The Review: Most of the great superhero teams come together by necessity; some disaster strikes, and there’s no one to face it except [...]

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Demon Knights #7 – Review

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves & Robson Rocha (pencillers), Oclair Albert & Julio Ferreira (inkers), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: Someone turn on the Braveheart soundtrack—it’s time to get hyped for war! The Review: This title has so successfully gotten us caught up in its fantasy, humor, and tension that only sporadically do we [...]

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Demon Knights #6 – Review

Posted on February 12, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves & Robson Rocha (artists), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: It’s the ultimate showdown, featuring Amazon versus Triceratops! Heck yeah. The Review: Nothing quite like a battle against impossible odds to see what your characters are made of, huh? These types of crises tend to accomplish two [...]

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Demon Knights #5 – Review

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves (artist), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: I know this isn’t Deal or No Deal, but…y’all should take that deal! The Review: One of the few life lessons I’ve learned is that getting a group together is easy; getting them to stick together is not. Even when [...]

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Demon Knights #4 – Review

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornel (writer), Michael Choi & Diógenes Neves (pencillers), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: Call me a Philistine, but are we really going through all this trouble for a cup? The Review: If you ever read Cornell’s terrific run on Action Comics (or even his current work on Stormwatch), you know [...]

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Demon Knights #3 – Review

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves (penciller), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: The Horde is coming, the Horde is coming! The Review: Works of fantasy have lent a kind of glamour to the period in which they take place. Whether you’re talking Arthurian legend, Tolkien, or even World of Warcraft, their tales [...]

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Demon Knights #2 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves (penciller), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: You know, the T-bones of T-Rexes make s’good eatin’. The Review: Anyone who’s watched almost any episode of Seinfield knows that when you have a group of characters that vibrant and diverse, you can be entertained watching them do pretty [...]

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Demon Knights #1 – Review

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Diógenes Neves (penciller), Oclair Albert (inker), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: Don’t be fooled into thinking you’re playing WoW—this is a comic you’re reading. The Review: It just occurred to me that I’ve spent quite a bit of time on this site discussing any number of fictional genres: sci-fi, pulp, noir, [...]

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Superman #713 – Review

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: J. Michael Straczynski & Chris Roberson (writers), Diogenes Neves, Oclair Albert, Eddy Barrows, JP Mayer, Jamal Igle, Jon Sibal (artists), Marcelo Maiolo (colorist) The Story: This is a job for Superman! What? He’s not there? Leave a voicemail, I guess…. The Review: No matter how much you get into a superhero comic, at some [...]

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Brightest Day #23 – Review

Posted on April 6, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Norm Rapmund, Oclair Albert (artists) Peter Steigerwald (colors) The Story: Rise and Fall: The Earth is under seige by all sorts of odd manifestations of darkness and chaos. Heroes from all over are leaping into action to try to stem the tide. At [...]

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Brightest Day #20 – Review

Posted on February 17, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis and Joe Prado (artist), Julio Ferreira, Oclair Albert, Norm Rapmund, Marlo Alquiza, Andy Owens (inkers) The Story: It’s Aquaman and company against Black Manta and a school of water-breathing killers. Problem is, Aquaman has got his hand full just holding on to his baggage. What’s [...]

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Brightest Day #19 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Joe Prado, Oclair Albert, Rob Hunter (artists), Peter Steigerwald (colorist) The Story: On one front, Boston Brand, all duded up as Deadman, deals with the white ring that has just greased Hawkman and Hawkgirl. One another front, Aquaman and Aqualad race against time to contain [...]

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Wolverine #4 – Second Review

Posted on December 19, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jason Aaron (writer), Renato Guedes (artist), Jose Wilson Magalhaes & Oclair Albert (inkers), Matthew Wilson (colorist) The Story: Wolverine’s still in Hell. Still fighting the Devil. Still crying about all the pain and suffering he’s inflicted over the years. Meanwhile, his body is still on Earth. Still possessed by a demon. Still running around [...]

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Brightest Day #16 – Review

Posted on December 15, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), David Beaty and Oclair Albert (inkers) The Story: Aqualad learns who he is. Aquaman looks cool. Firestorm seems to have destroyed the universe. What’s Good: What a relief! A great issue of Brightest Day! Out of the gates, Ivan [...]

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Brightest Day #10 – Review

Posted on September 15, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Scott Clark, Joe Prado, (artists), Oclair Albert, David Beaty (inkers) The Story: A Change is Gonna Come: Professor Stein gets to the bottom of the secret of the Firestorm matrix, but is he too late? And Aquaman and Black Manta and Mera’s sister are all [...]

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Brightest Day #4 – Review

Posted on June 18, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark, Oclair Albert (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, David Beaty (inkers), Peter Steigerwald (colorist) The Story: Hawkman and Hawkgirl pass through Hath-Set’s tunnel of bones. Somebody can finally see Boston Brand (Deadman). Ronnie is visited by a salty image from Blackest Night. What’s Good: [...]

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Brightest Day #3 – Review

Posted on June 4, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writers), Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, David Beaty and Mark Irwin (inkers) Happy Memorial Day to all our American readers! Your brothers to the north are hard at work, but our LCSs are open! The Story: Step right up! [...]

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Brightest Day #1 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writrs), Ivan Reis, Pat Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, Mark Irwin, Oclair Albert, and David Beatty (inkers) The Story: The issue opens with Green Lantern and Star Sapphire with Sinestro, trying to figuree out the white lantern. At the same time, Boston [...]

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Blackest Night Director’s Cut – Review

Posted on April 24, 2010 by SoldierHawk

Featuring the commentary of Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert (ink), Joe Prado (ink), Alex Sinclair (colors), Nick J. Napolitano (letters) The Story: The book starts out with a page-by-page (and occasionally panel by panel) discussion by the creators of all eight issues of Blackest Night. A beautiful cover gallery (with some neat [...]

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Blackest Night #8 – Review

Posted on March 31, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (artist), Oclair Albert and Joe Prado (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) Everything was good! Cover to cover. Art. Story. Lettering. Everything. The art team, already superb, took it up a notch. Long-lost lovers, white lanterns, silvered manifestations of life, hazy mists of power, and faces frozen in fear, joy, greed, [...]

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Blackest Night #6 – Review

Posted on December 30, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) Story: Last issue’s combined lantern corps attack failed to stop Nekron. A bunch of resurrected DC heroes have been turned into Black Lanterns (Superman, Wonder Woman, etc), further strengthening Nekron’s hand. Black Lantern rings pursue Hal Jordan and Barry [...]

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Blackest Night #5 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (penciller), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inkers) The Story: The leaders of the seven lantern corps ready themselves for an assault on the black power battery. Barry Allen and Wally West lead the DCU’s heavy hitters against the tide of black lanterns defending their own power battery in Coast [...]

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Blackest Night #4 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2009 by DS Arsenault

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (Inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist), Eddie Berganza (editor) The Story: We’re deep in Act II of Blackest Night, so things aren’t going so good. The Flash, Mera and the Atom are being overwhelmed at the JLA headquarters. The heroes of the rest of the [...]

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