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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 Legacy #250 – Review

Posted on June 13, 2011 by dfstell

By: Mike Carey (writer), Khoi Pham, Tom Palmer & Marte Gracia (pencils/inks/colors – Legion Story), Steve Kurth, Jay Leisten & Brian Reber (pencils/inks/colors – Rachel Summers story), Cory Petit (letters), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor) & Daniel Ketchum (editor) The Story: A two-parter for this special anniversary issue.  In the first part, we visit some of [...]

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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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Uncanny X-Men #519 – Review

Posted on December 25, 2009 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Terry Dodson (pencils), Rachel Dodson (inks), Justin Ponsor (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Emma enters Scott’s mind while Magneto works to keep the island from sinking. What’s Good: Much like last issue, the Dodsons breathe so much life into Uncanny.  The characters all look significantly more individual and lovable [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #516 – Review

Posted on October 15, 2009 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Greg Land (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Justin Ponsors (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Magneto tries to make his position clear and Nation X faces its first attack/invasion. What’s Good: Magneto is the obvious star of the show here.  Fraction does a solid job of writing the character.  His voice is enjoyable, [...]

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Comics for 4-Year-Olds

Posted on October 5, 2009 by DS Arsenault

X-Men #1 By Stan Lee (writer), Jack Kirby (artist), Paul Reinman (inker) A few comments before the review: I started sharing my love of superheroes with my 4-year-old son a few months ago. At a recent comic con in Toronto, I bought him the X-Men Omnibus Volume 1 (collecting issues #1-31 of Uncanny). He loves [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #514 (Utopia) – Review

Posted on August 12, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Matt Fraction (Writer), Terry Dodson (Pencils), Rachel Dodson (Inks), and Justin Ponsor (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Utopia has been pretty weak so far. While it hasn’t been awful, it certainly feels like it’s getting in the way of better things. Dark Avengers was on a roll prior to Utopia, and Uncanny X-Men [...]

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Uncanny X-Men #513 (Utopia Chapter 2) – Review

Posted on July 1, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Matt Fraction (Writer), Terry Dodson (Pencils), Rachel Dodson (Inks), and Justin Ponsor (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: The Uncanny X-Men and Dark Avengers crossover, Utopia, got off to an unremarkable start. It laid the foundation for some interesting things though, so I look forward to seeing where Matt Fraction takes the story now [...]

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Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia #1

Posted on June 25, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Matt Fraction (Writer), Marc Silvestri (Pencils), Michael Broussard, Eric Basaldua, Tyler Kirkham, & Sheldon Mitchell (Pencil Assists), Joe Weems w/ Marco Galli, Eric Basaldua, Rick Basaldua, Jason Gorder, Jay Leisten, Sal Regla, Jon Sibal, and Ryan Winn (Inks), and Frank D’Armata (Colors) The Story: A riot breaks out as the March for Humanity (led [...]

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Ultimate Origins #3 – Review

Posted on August 4, 2008 by andrewcmurphy

By Brian Michael Bendis (Writer), Butch Guice (Artist), and Justin Ponsor (Colorist) Hey, hey, now that’s more like it! After last issue’s beat-for-beat retread of Captain America’s origin, we’re back in virgin territory. This time it’s the first meeting of Erik Lehnsherr and Charles Xavier (Magneto and Professor X, for you newbies), and the spirit of the story is the same [...]

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X-Men: Legacy #213 – Capsule Review

Posted on July 1, 2008 by pozzyfreak

Mike Carey, (Writer) Scot Eaton, (Penciler) Andrew Hennessey, (Inker) and Frank D’Armata (Colorist) All the pieces of the puzzle come together in this issue of X-Men: Legacy as the connection between Professor Xavier, Sebastian Shaw, Carter Ryking, and Juggernaut is finally revealed. The issue moves quickly as Gambit and Shaw form an unlikely alliance as [...]

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X-Men: Legacy #211 – Review

Posted on May 18, 2008 by pozzyfreak

Mike Carey (Writer), Scot Eaton (Present Day Penciler), Jon Dell, Andrew Hennessy, Dave Meikis (Present Day Inkers), Frank D’Armata (Present Day Colorist), Brandon Peterson (Flashback Art), and John Rauch (Flashback Colors) As some of you readers may know by now, I have been really enjoying the X-Men: Legacy storyline and, in a lot of ways, [...]

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X-Men: Legacy #209 – Review

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Deamentia

By Mike Carey (writer), Scot Eaton (pencils), John Dell (inks), Frank D’Armata (colors) Oh yes, I am digging this story arc! This book is the best thing to come out of Messiah Complex and for the first time in almost 5 years (Grant Morrison’s run), I’m actually hooked on an X-Men story line. I’ve read [...]

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