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Ultimate Comics: X-Men #4 – Review

Posted on December 20, 2011 by jmiddle3

By: Nick Spencer (writer), Paco Medina (artist), Juan Vlasko (inker), Marte Gracia (colorist) The Story: The ninety-nine percent of non-humans Occupy Time Square. The Review: The premise of Ultimate Comics: X-Men is actually really interesting. With the majority of the old guard dead, the second tier characters have the opportunity to graduate to positions of leadership, [...]

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X-Men: First to Last HC – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Chris Yost; Now: Penciled by Paco Media, inked by Juan Vlasco, and colored by Mrate Gracia; Then: Art by Dalabor Talajic, colored by Juan Vlasco. The Story: One of the apes who got the crap beaten out of him with a femur bone in 2001: A Space Odyssey has his own bone to [...]

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X-Men #15 – Review

Posted on July 22, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina and Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia (colorist) The Story: First To Last, Conclusion: The past and present encounters with the Evolutionaries converge on Cyclops and his choices, past and present. At stake… the survival of humanity. What’s Good: I continue to be delighted with [...]

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X-Men #14 – Review

Posted on July 12, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina, Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia and Wil Quintana (colorists) The Story: “First to Last, Part 4″ opens up more of the past of the Evolutionaries (2.7M years ago) and of the original X-Men in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants era. And in the present, [...]

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X-Men #13 – Review

Posted on June 15, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Dalibor Talajic, Paco Medina (artists), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia, Wil Quintana (colors) The Story: First To Last, Part 3: The evolutionaries continue to attack and we see, through emerging memories, the origin of the evolutionaries. At the same time, their last visit is further illuminated, while their fight [...]

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X-Men #12 – Review

Posted on June 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina, Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Juan Vlasco, Dalibor Talajic (inkers), Marte Gracia (colors) The Story: First to Last, Part 2: In three different times (2.7 million years ago, in the early issues of the original X-Men, and now) we learn about the evolutionaries. They are looking for the leader of mutantkind [...]

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X-Men Giant-Size #1 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina and Dalabor Talajic (pencillers), Juan Vlasco and Dalabor Talajic (inkers), Marte Gracia and Wil Quintana (colorists), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor), Axel Alonso and Nick Lowe (editors) The Story: First to Last, Part I: In this new arc, the Neos, another mutant offshoot of humanity (different from homo superior) is [...]

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X-Men #10 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2011 by dfstell

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Chris Bachalo & Paco Medina (pencils), Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Jaime Mendoza, Al Vey & Juan Vlasco (inks), Antonio Fabela & Jim Charalampidis (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: The X-Men / Spider-Man spectacular sewer team-up comes to a close. What’s Good: It [...]

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X-Men: Curse of the Mutants (Hardcover) – Review

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Roman Colombo

Written by Victor Gischler, Penciled by Paco Medina, Inked by Juan Vlasco, and colored by Marte Gracia The Story: Marvel writers and editors sit around and come up with one of the worst concepts in comic book history: mutants vs. vampires. And yet they somehow manage to pull it off. The Actual Story: Vampires try [...]

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X-Men #6 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2010 by dfstell

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Juan Vlasco (inks), Marte Gracia (colors), Clayton Cowles (letters)  & Axel Alonso (editor) The Story: An aftermath of sorts to the battle between the X-Men and the vampires. What’s Good: Lots of good Cyclops stuff in this issue.  One of the biggest changes from the X-Men of my [...]

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X-Men #5 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2010 by dfstell

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Juan Vlasco (inks), Marte Gracia (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Jake Thomas (editor) The Story: It’s time for the mutant – vampire, battle-royale, loser-leaves-town, cage-match. What’s Good: X-Men kicking vampire ass.  Did you have any doubts about how this would turn out?  This comic mostly consists of one [...]

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X-Men #4 – Review

Posted on October 14, 2010 by dfstell

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Juan Vlasco (inks), Marte Gracia (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: Vampire Wolverine!  Whether that is a good thing or not is up to you. What’s Good: There are some good moments in this issue mostly revolving around Blade and Angel going on a vampire hunt at [...]

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X-Men #3 – Review

Posted on September 10, 2010 by dfstell

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Juan Vlasco (inks), Marte Gracia (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: Dracula comes back and another mutant falls to the vampires. What’s Good: After the last issue, I was a little hard on some logical inconsistencies in the story (really???  you think it’s a good idea to [...]

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X-Men #2 – Review

Posted on August 13, 2010 by dfstell

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Jan Vlasco (inks), Marte Gracia (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: The war between the vampires and the mutants is joined in full. What’s Good: If you’re willing to suspend disbelief and logical thinking (more on this below), the plan that the X-Men come up with to [...]

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X-Men #1 – Review

Posted on July 9, 2010 by joelopez101

by Victor Gischler (writer), Paco Medina (artist) The Story: Spinning out of last week’s The Death of Dracula one-shot, the vampires of the world unite and decide to send a suicide bomber to San Francisco, not to kill innocent people, but to infect them.  While the X-Men begin to gather their forces and intelligence to [...]

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Deadpool & Cable #25 – Review

Posted on April 11, 2010 by SoldierHawk

By Duane Swierczynsk (writer), Paco Medina (pencils), Juan Velasco (inks), Edgar Delgado (colorist) and VC’s Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Cable fights his way through the hospital where Hope (the potential savior of mutantkind) has just been born. He manages to take her, but becomes overwhelmed while trying to flee. Fortunately his backup arrives just [...]

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Deapool #17 – Review

Posted on November 13, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inks), and Marte Gracia (Colors) The Story: Cyclops sends Domino to do what she can to keep Deadpool from killing Mr. Kincaid. Meanwhile, Norman Osborn relishes watching the mutant’s situation and does what he can to make it even worse. What’s Good And What’s Not So [...]

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Deadpool #16 – Review

Posted on October 10, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inks), Marte Gracia (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Given how the recent “X” crossovers have turned out, I’m a bit concerned about what’s going to happen to Deadpool now that Wade is headed towards becoming one of the X-Men. Now, granted, I do realize that [...]

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Deadpool #15 – Review

Posted on September 2, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inks), and Marte Gracia & Antonio Fabela (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: While Shawn Crystal’s work definitely has its merits, I’d be lying if I acted as though I wasn’t pumped for the return of Paco Medina and his art team. The Story: After pondering [...]

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Deadpool #11 (Dark Reign) – Review

Posted on June 13, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inks), and Marte Gracia (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Surprisingly dark, Deadpool #10 was just a (somewhat disappointing) teaser for the Bullseye (Hawkeye)/Deadpool showdown. I fully expect the main event to make up for arc’s lackluster start…. The Story: Bullseye and Deadpool fight. Blood is [...]

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Deadpool #10 (Dark Reign) – Review

Posted on May 6, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inks), and Marte Gracia (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Deadpool Vs. Bullseye? Sign me up! I can’t wait to tear into Deadpool #10, so I’m just going to get right to it. The Story: Norman Osborn decides to send Dark Hawkeye (A.K.A. Bullseye) after Deadpool [...]

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Deadpool #9 (Magnum Opus Pt. 3) – Review

Posted on April 2, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inks), and Marte Gracia (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: If you take a minute to check out our “Best and Worst of ’08″ feature, you’ll find that “Magnum Opus” was one of my most anticipated things of 2009. Now, with half of the crossover finished, [...]

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Deadpool #6 (Dark Reign) – Review

Posted on January 14, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inks), and Marte Gracia (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: With Deadpool #6, the series heads into Dark Reign by putting the Merc with a Mouth on a collision course with Norman Osborn and the Thunderbolts. But first, as revealed last issue, Wade Wilson must deal [...]

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Deadpool #4 – Review

Posted on November 24, 2008 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Carlo Barberi & Paco Medina (Pencils), Juan Vlasco (Inker), and Marte Gracia & Raul Trevino (Colorists) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Fresh off an incredibly entertaining Secret Invasion launching point, Deadpool #4 marks the true test of whether or not the “merc with a mouth,” has the power to carry his [...]

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Deadpool #3 (Secret Invasion) – Review

Posted on October 14, 2008 by pozzyfreak

By Daniel Way (Writer), Paco Medina (Artist), Juan Vlasco (Inker), and Marte Gracia (Colorist) The Story: Deadpool fights a Super Skrull and works to complete the mission that was assigned to him by Nick Fury. Violence, witty banter, and general wackiness ensues in a way that only “The Merc with a Mouth” can deliver. What’s [...]

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