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The Mighty Thor #10 – Review

Posted on February 2, 2012 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: Heimdall has suspicions about Tanarus, Surfer and Loki try to figure out what to do with Mjolnir, and Thor makes his bid for freedom. The Review:  Last month, I touched upon how Matt Fraction is playing a dangerous game [...]

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The Mighty Thor #9 – Review

Posted on January 2, 2012 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writing), Pasqual Ferry & Pepe Larraz (art), Frank D’Armata, Frank Martin, & Wil Quintana (colors), and Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: Loki seeks the aid of Donald Blake and has a weird run-in with the Silver Surfer, Kelda begins to suspect the truth, and Asgardia begins the difficult task of governance. The [...]

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The Mighty Thor #8 – Review

Posted on November 27, 2011 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Sabino (letters) The Review:  This is one of those comics that I hate reviewing. On the one hand, it’s a pretty good read.  It doesn’t do anything wrong, and does quite a bit right, but in order to manage this, it’s a book [...]

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The Mighty Thor #7 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Roman Colombo

The Story: The original showdown between Odin and the Serpent. The Good: Here’s the thing…there actually is good things to say about this issue. In fact, there’s a lot of good things to say about it. Fear Itself was a disaster. I don’t see many people arguing that point–the most that can be said is that it [...]

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Thor #621 – Review

Posted on March 30, 2011 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry & Salvador Larroca (art), Matt Hollingsworth & Ulises Arreola (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: The Blood Legion battles the World Eaters for all the marbles. The Review: I’m really pretty torn over this comic.  As a huge fan of Thor, there were things that really worked and [...]

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Thor #620 – Review

Posted on February 24, 2011 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: Odin summons some very powerful forces in his defense against the World Eaters. The Review: After a rocky issue last month, Thor comes back this issue with all guns blazing, leading to a much more enjoyable experience overall. That [...]

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Thor #619 – Review

Posted on January 21, 2011 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: Odin is greeted by a returned Loki and we learn some interesting facts about the World Tree courtesy of old One Eye before Balder and Tyr go on the attack. What’s Good: I’ve been going on and on about [...]

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Thor #618 – Review

Posted on December 12, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: Asgard finds itself beseiged by World Tree refugees. What’s Good: Epic.  That’s a pretty apt description of Fraction’s story thus far, and this issue only cements that.  With refugees coming in from all over the World Tree, there’s a [...]

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Thor #617 – Review

Posted on November 14, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: Thor awakens the resurrected Loki and Dr. Eric Solvang finally finds someone to listen to him as Uthana Thoth continues to expand his dominion. What’s Good: In all honesty, if you’ve liked Matt Fraction’s first two issues of Thor, [...]

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What We’re Looking Forward To In November

Posted on October 31, 2010 by paladinking

Dean There is a LOT to look forward to in November. For one thing, there is a lot of neat stuff in the Spider-Man world as Amazing Spider-Man kicks off its new “big” story line Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos. This is also the end of the thrice-monthly ASM [...]

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Thor #616 – Review

Posted on October 19, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: Volstagg tries to get Thor to listen to a grave warning as the god of thunder comes to a decision about Loki. What’s Good: One of the things that has me most excited about Matt Fraction’s run is his [...]

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Thor #615 – Review

Posted on September 23, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Pasqual Ferry (art), Matt Hollingsworth (colors), and John Workman (letters) The Story: A new age for Thor and Asgard begins, as an ominous threat fills Asgard’s void and rages across the metaverse. What’s Good: Thor fans can breathe a sigh of relief; Matt Fraction arrives and his first issue is a [...]

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Ender’s Game: Battle School #1 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2008 by andrewcmurphy

By Orson Scott Card (Story), Christopher Yost (Writer) and Pasqual Ferry (Artist), Frank D’Armata (Colors) The Story: Humanity’s existence is threatened by alien invaders (known as “Buggers” in the novel, here called “Formics,” Latin for “Ant”) who have already destroyed several colony planets. For reasons that aren’t entirely clear, Earth’s military commanders have decided to entrust [...]

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Ultimate Iron-Man II #4 (of 5) – Review

Posted on April 4, 2008 by binobo

By Orson Scott Card (writer), Pasqual Ferry (artist), Dean White, Laura Martin, Dave McCaig, Paul Mounts (colorists), VC’s Cory Petit (letterer)  Ultimate Iron-Man #4 really picks up the pace after the wading through most of issue #3′s  buildup. There are intense moments, comic relief, and an interesting revelation on who may be responsible for what [...]

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Ultimate Iron-Man II #3 – Review

Posted on February 27, 2008 by binobo

By Orson Scott Card (writer), Pasqual Ferry (artist), Dean White, Laura Martin, Dave McCaig, Paul Mounts (colorists) VC’s Cory Petit (letterer) The first two issues of Ultimate Iron-Man were excellent! That said, Iron Man II #3 falls a bit short of expectations. The good build up, action, and intensity that ran through the previous issues [...]

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Ultimate Iron Man II #2 (of 4) – Review

Posted on February 13, 2008 by binobo

By Orson Scott Card (writer), Pasqual Ferry (artist), Dean White (colorist) VC’s Cory Petit (letterer) Issue #2 begins with Tony Stark and James Rhodes coming to a decision on which of the foreign men is the real threat. In an odd turn of events the terrorist takes his own life so the two don’t have [...]

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Ultimate Iron-Man II #1 (of 4) – Review

Posted on February 13, 2008 by binobo

By Orson Scott Card (writer), Pasqual Ferry (artist), Dean White (colorist) VC’s Cory Petit (letterer) This sequel to Ultimate Iron Man takes place right after the events of Volume 1. But don’t let the sequel status throw you off. Even though one may think it’s unaccessible to new readers, the first page synopsis does a [...]

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