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American Vampire #25 – Review

Posted on April 1, 2012 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Jared Fletcher (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: This 50′s era arc wraps up with a big battle between Skinner & Travis. A Few Things:  Everything ties up nicely. - The last time it seemed like Scott Snyder was taking us in [...]

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American Vampire #24 – Review

Posted on February 27, 2012 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Jared Fletcher (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Fighting vampires on the hood of a speeding car. A few things:  1. Very smoothly written. - How do I know that Scott Snyder has a gift with the English language?  It’s because I don’t mind his [...]

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American Vampire #23 – Review

Posted on January 30, 2012 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (artist), Dave McCaig (colors), Jared Fletcher (letters), Gregory Lockard (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: The Death Race arc gives us a little background on our new vampire hunter, Travis. Four Things: [SPOILERS] 1. This is a background issue. – Last issue introduced a bunch of brand [...]

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American Vampire #22 – Review

Posted on December 28, 2011 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (artist), Dave McCaig (colors), Jared Fletcher (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: We jump forward to the 1950′s for another vampire story from Snyder & Albuquerque Five Things: [SPOILER WARNING] 1. Great to be back into the “ongoing” story” - I saw a few reviewers [...]

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American Vampire #18 – Review

Posted on August 25, 2011 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (artist), Dave McCaig (colorist), Pat Brosseau (letterer), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: The final issue of the WWII/Pacific-theatre story is here.  Some folks will survive and some won’t. What’s Good: I’m going to pick at a few things below, but overall….this is another strong [...]

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American Vampire #16 – Advance Review

Posted on June 27, 2011 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: When we last saw our Vassals of the Morning Star (masquerading as American Marines), they ran into some Imperial Japanese soldiers on a Pacific island infested with some funky vampires.  Will this [...]

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American Vampire #15 – Review

Posted on May 26, 2011 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Henry’s gang of vampire hunter/soldiers runs for their lives on the Japanese island of Taipan in WWII. What’s Good: Fun and exciting story?  Check!  A sense of mystery?  Check!  Great art?  Check! [...]

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American Vampire #14 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2011 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Pat Brosseau (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Henry goes to war with his secret little group of vampire hunters masquerading as Marines on the Pacific island of Taipan during WWII. What’s Good: It’s another good issue for Snyder, Albuquerque [...]

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American Vampire #13 – Review

Posted on April 2, 2011 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Steve Wands (letters), Joe Hughes (assistant editor) and Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: New story arc on American Vampire as we jump forward to World War Two and get a little more secret vampire-hunter society action. What’s Good: So many great things about this issue [...]

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Uncanny X-Force #5.1 – Review

Posted on March 19, 2011 by paladinking

by Rick Remender (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: X-Force races to stop Lady Deathstrike and the Reavers from destroying Utopia. Review: Out of all the .1  issues thus far, Rick Remender’s Uncanny X-Force may very well have come the closest to accomplishing what the .1 initiative is [...]

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American Vampire #9 – Review

Posted on December 2, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque & Mateus Santolouco (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Steve Wands (letters) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Events come to a head in Las Vegas and we have an inter-species vampire battle with the humans caught in the middle. What’s Good: Everything about this comic was excellent.  From a story [...]

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American Vampire #8 – Review

Posted on November 13, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors), Steve Wands (letters) & Mark Doyle (editor) The Story: Plots connect in a big way as Snyder starts to reveal more of his big concept vampire story. What’s Good: Boom!  This was the issue that we were waiting for.  American Vampire has been consistently good, [...]

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American Vampire #7 – Review

Posted on October 6, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Las Vegas continues to have a vampire problem as the Hoover Dam is being built and something weird is going on with the two federal agents sent to help the local lawman. What’s Good: This is a really, really [...]

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American Vampire #5 – Review

Posted on July 29, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder & Stephen King (writers), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Both of our American Vampire heroes (?) get some payback against their enemies. What’s Good: I really enjoyed this issue.  It has a little bit of everything: Action, love, slimy-yet-cool villains, bad vampire and vampirettes getting [...]

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American Vampire #4 – Review

Posted on June 26, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder & Stephen King (writers), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Pearl, the new American Vampire, finds a potential ally in her fight against the Euro-vamps.  And, in the past, we continue to follow Skinner Sweet and learn a little more about the weaknesses of American Vampires. [...]

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American Vampire #3 – Review

Posted on May 22, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder (writer – Story A), Stephen King (writer – Story B), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: American Vampires have neat and unique abilities and don’t get along that well with their old-world counterparts. What’s Good: This is another really strong issue of American Vampire.  I think [...]

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American Vampire #2 – Review

Posted on April 25, 2010 by dfstell

By: Scott Snyder & Stephen King (writers), Rafael Albuquerque (art), Dave McCaig (colors) & Steve Wands (letters) The Story: Fresh vampires are being “born” in America and they’re “new and improved” compared to the classic models. What’s Good: Rafael Albuquerque!  Goodness, goodness what nice art!  After I read this, I actually started poking around online [...]

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Superman/Batman #62 – Review

Posted on July 18, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Michael Green and Mike Johnson (writers), Rafael Albuquerque (artist), David Baker (inker) The Story: Supergirl and Robin (Tim Drake) meet for lunch and reminisce about their first adventure together. The book then flashbacks to them being left alone in Gotham by Batman and Superman and having to respond to a prison break in Arkham. [...]

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Captain America # 600 – Review

Posted on June 21, 2009 by rsg8101

By Ed Brubaker, Roger Stern, Mark Waid (writers), Alex Ross, Dale Eaglesham, Butch Guice, Howard Chaykin, Rafael Albuquerque, David Aja, Mitch Breitweiser, and Kalman Andrasofszky (art), Frank D’Armata, Edgar Delgado, Matt Hollingsworth, Paul Mounts, Marte Gracia and Mitch Breitweiser (colors) The Story: Everything you knew about the death of Captain America is wrong. On the [...]

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