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Stormwatch #6 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (artist), Alex Sinclair & Pete Pantazis (colorists) The Story: Just ‘cause you’re dying in space doesn’t mean you can’t get a little flirting on! The Review: Ahh…nothing like a bunch of creative shake-ups to get the emotions flowing, huh?  By now, DC’s first wave of cancellations, replacements, and switcheroos [...]

Stormwatch #3 – Review

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (artist), Alex Sinclair & Pete Pantazis (colorists) The Story: Cloudy, with a chance of meteors that may devastate the planet.  Bundle up! The Review: Whenever you have a band of super-powered individuals banding together to fight evil, comparisons to the Justice League are inevitable.  Since the League is universally [...]

Wonder Woman #614 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer & Lee Garbett (pencils), Drew Geraci, Robin Riggs & Trevor Scott (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana finally learns the secret of Nemisis, and faces one final battle with the darkness inside herself. The Review: It’s a shame that most of [...]

Wonder Woman #613 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer & Travis Moore (pencils), Wayne Faucher, Walden Wong & Drew Geraci( inks), Pete Pantazis (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: In a long bout of desperately needed exposition and explanation, Diana finally learns the details of, and the motivation behind, the Nemesis’s plans for [...]

Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #2 – Review

By: Jeff Lemire (writer), Ibraim Roberson & Alex Massacci (artists), Pete Pantazis (colorist) The Story: You grew up in a swamp?  You really are from the sticks, aren’t you? The Review: The vast majority of Elseworlds turn out either uninspired or middling, leaving a much smaller percentage with premises strong enough to support an enjoyable [...]

Wonder Woman #612 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer (pencils), Wayne Faucher (inks), Pete Panrazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman is granted divine intervention in her fight against the Morrigan, and the purpose behind her existence is revealed as well. But can even her newfound allies and knowledge be enough to [...]

Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1 – Review

By: Jeff Lemire (writer), Ibraim Roberson (artist), Pete Pantazis (colorist) The Story: Avoid playing “Monster Mash” around this Frankenstein.  He’s not the party type. The Review: With an Elseworlds tale, the better known and established the characters, the more enjoyable it is to see all the changes to their personality and history.  But with Frankenstein, [...]

Wonder Woman #610 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Eduardo Pansica (pencils), Wayne Faucher and Eber Ferreira (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman begins to live up to her name as she (finally!) discovers the source of the temporal disturbance affecting her future, and finds a way to begin to fight [...]

Weird Worlds #4 – Review

By: Too many to list; check the review below. The Story: Lobo versus an army of pink, naked four-armed dudes!  Garbage Man loses his arm to the Wolf Man!  Tanga defeats the monstrous, doughboy-eating Bob! The Review: If you’re writing a comic book miniseries, try to keep in mind that unlike an ongoing title, you [...]

Wonder Woman #609 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer (pencils), Sean Parsons and Wayne Faucher (inks), Alex Sinclair with Pete Pantazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Of all the people in the world, Dr. Psycho–longtime Wonder Woman nemesis–pulls Diana in a sort of limbo between life and death. There, it is revealed that [...]

Giant-Size Atom – Review

By: Jeff Lemire (writer), Mahmud Asrar, Allan Goldman, Robson Rocha (pencillers), John Dell, Andy Owens, Eber Ferreira, JP Mayer (inkers), Pete Pantazis (colorist) The Story: When it comes to big problems, the Atom thinks small—literally. The Review: After reading through the work he’s done so far for DC, it’s pretty clear that Lemire has a [...]

Adventure Comics #521 – Review

Lead Story By: Paul Levitz (writer), Geraldo Borges and Marlo Alquiza (artists) Back Up Story By: Jeff Lemire (writer), Mahmud Asrar (penciller), John Dell (inker), Pete Pantazis (colorist) The Lead Story: Some sort of Oan intelligence is looking for someone strong enough and fearless enough to carry a green lantern ring. In the meantime, a [...]

Captain America and Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers #2- Review

By Reginald Hudlin (writer), Denys Cowan (pencils), Klaus Janson (pencils), Pete Pantazis (colors), VC’s Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: Captain America and Black Panther forage a (still tentative) alliance by fending off a Nazi invasion together, while the Howling Commandos remain “guests” of the Wakandans back at their village. Elsewhere, Red Skull is gathering intelligence [...]

Captain America/Black Panther: Flags of Our Fathers #1 – Review

By Reginald Hudlin (writer), Denys Cowan (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), VC’s Joe Sabino (letters) The Story: Gabe Jones and the Howling Commandos find themselves in a tough spot on the WWII battlefield. Captain America arrives in time to lend a hand though, and helps them finish the fight. Elsewhere, the Nazis have [...]

Batman #691

by Judd Winick (writer), Mark Bagley (art), Rob Hunter (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), and Jared K. Fletcher (letters) The Story: After spending long periods of time cutting out pictures of Batman smiling and interviewing teleporters, Two-Face finally invades the Batcave and throws it down with the Dark Knight. What’s Good: The fact that the atrocious [...]

Superman: World of New Krypton #7 – Review

By James Robinson and Greg Rucka (writers), Pete Woods (artist), Nei Ruffino with Pete Pantazis (colorists) The Story: After the attempt on Zod’s life, New Krypton is paralyzed. One faction wants to declare war on Earth, and the other doesn’t know what to do. Then Zod comes out of the hospital long enough to promote [...]

Ultimate Spider-Man Requiem #1 – Review

By Brian Bendis (writer), Mark Bagley and Stuart Immonen (pencils) Scott Hanna and Wade von Grawbadger (inks), Pete Pantazis, Justin Ponsor, and Edgar Delgado (colors) The Story: In the aftermath of Ultimatum, JJ Jameson is full of repentance and remorse for his non-stop attacks against Peter Parker, Ultimate Spider-Man. He digs up a story about Spidey saving [...]

Trinity #9 – Review

By Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza (writers), Mark Bagley, Tom Derenick, Wayne Faucher (artists), Art Thibert & Andy Owens (inks), Pete Pantazis, Allen Passalaqua (colors), Pat Brosseau, Ken Lopez (letters), Andy Kubert (cover) I said before that Trinity is the biggest disappointment so far this year. In that regard, this issue doesn’t fail me and, well, [...]

Trinity #7 – Review

By Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza (writers), Mark Bagley, Tom Derenick, Wayne Faucher (artists), Art Thibert (inker), Pete Pantazis, Allen Passalaqua (colors), Pat Brosseau, Ken Lopez (letters), Andy Kubert (cover) For each glimmer of hope, there is a reminder of why Trinity is mediocre. Even with everything that’s happening I don’t feel any significant story movement. [...]

Trinity #6 – Review

By Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza (writers), Mark Bagley, Mike Norton, Mark Farmer, Scott McDaniel, Andy Owens (artists), Art Thibert (inker), Pete Pantazis, Allen Passalaqua (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Carlos Pacheco & Jesus Merino (cover) Trinity #6 goes back to the formula of issue #1 by having more story than action. The more I read it, [...]

Trinity #5 – Review

By Kurt Busiek, Fabian Nicieza (writers), Mark Bagley, Mike Norton, Mark Farmer (artists), Art Thibert (inker), Pete Pantazis, Allen Passalaqua (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Carlos Pacheco & Jesus Merino (cover) Well, it’s about time. That’s all I can really say about this issue of Trinity.  Not only am I finally getting a sense that these [...]

Trinity #4 – Review

By: Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley, Scott McDaniel, Tom Derenick, Mike Norton (pencils), Art Thibert, Andy Owens, Wayne Faucher, and Jerry Ordway (inks), Pete Pantazis, Allen Passalqua (colors) The Trinity event continues and still hampered by the same problems as previous weeks. The good news is I’ve finally put my finger on why I don’t like [...]

Superman/Batman #49 – Review

By Michael Green, Mike Johnson, Shane Davis (pencils), Matt “Batt” Banning (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors) Batman and Superman continue their quest to rid the world of Kryptonite. Along the way they duke it out with the Government and an old ally from Clark’s past.  It’s an emotional chapter, especially when the fate of Superman’s existence [...]

Trinity #3 – Review

By Kurt Busiek and Fabian Nicieza (writer) Mark Bagley, Scott McDaniel, Tom Derenick, Mike Norton (pencils), Art Thibert, Andy Owens, Wayne Faucher, and Jerry Ordway (inks), Pete Pantazis, Allen Passalqua (colors) Okay, here’s the gist of the story: The Justice League (B Squad) does battle with Konvikt while Enigma and Morgaine Le Fey watch from [...]

Trinity #2 – Review

By Kurt Busiek, Mark Bagley, Scott McDaniel, Tom Derenick, Mike Norton (pencils), Art Thibert, Andy Owens, Wayne Faucher, and Jerry Ordway (inks), Pete Pantazis, Allen Passalaqua (colors) “Trinity rolls on this week…” is what I would be saying to you if anything happened. Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman experience a very real hallucination connected to [...]

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