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Superboy #6 – Review

By: Scott Lobdell & Tom DeFalco (writers), R.B. Silva (penciller), Rob Lean (inker), Richard & Tanya Horie (colorists) The Story: When Superboy meets Supergirl. The Review: Usually, I’m all for continuity respect across titles.  The sense of a shared universe feels a lot stronger when certain series make note or call attention to events happening [...]

Superboy #5 – Review

By: Scott Lobdell (writer), R.B. Silva (penciller), Rob Lean (inker), Richard & Tanya Horie (colorists) The Story: What is it about redheads that gets the best of every male superhero? The Review: One of my long-running complaints about this series has been its inability to take major steps forward in the story.  A lot of [...]

Flashpoint: Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager #3 – Review

By: Jimmy Palmiotti (writer), Tony Shasteen & Alex Massacci (artists), Rich and Tanya Horie (colorists) The Story: I’ll be a sea monkey’s uncle before I let my daughter get daddy issues! The Review: If you want people to care about something, you have to let them spend some time with it.  That goes double for [...]

Teen Titans #97 – Review

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: Who cares how many there are?  You’ve seen one demon, you’ve seen ‘em all. The Review: If you’re going to dislike a certain writer’s style, it’s probably a good idea to be clear about what turns you off about their [...]

Flashpoint: Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager #2 – Review

By: Jimmy Palmiotti (writer), Joe Bennett & Tony Shasteen (artists), Rich & Tanya Horie (colorists) The Story: One can never tell what lies under the sea…mayhap a dude in a fish mask and high-collar cape. The Review: Here’s the thing about pirates: expect a lot of hacking and slashing, but don’t expect much in the [...]

Flashpoint: Deathstroke and the Curse of the Ravager #1 – Review

By: Jimmy Palmiotti (writer), Joe Bennett (artist), John Dell (inker), Rich & Tanya Horie (colorists) The Story: Yargh, ‘tis Deathstroke, most fearsome pirate of the however many seas! The Review: We can all admit we’ve at one time or another fallen for something where the concept is so intriguing, it gets us halfway in before [...]

Teen Titans #95 – Review

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: First rule of creepy-island exploring: don’t split up!  Geez, doesn’t anyone learn from movies? The Review: Writing these reviews can get a little tricky.  A lot of the times, there’s so much to say even about one issue that parsing [...]

Teen Titans #94 – Review

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: If all you know about Hinduism is the Kama Sutra, let me tell you—there’s nastier where that came from. The Review: In a lot of ways, this current round of Teen Titans has been around each other a pretty long [...]

Teen Titans #93 – Review

By: JT Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood (inker), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: It’s getting dark, guys.  Hey Solstice–lend us a light? The Review: There’s a very clear separation between what’s good, what’s bad, and what’s mediocre, but it can be difficult to explain what makes them such, especially when something falls in [...]

Teen Titans #91 – Review

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Doug Hazlewood & Scott Kobush (inkers), Jason Wright (colorist) The Story: Teens these days…if they’re not listening to terrible pop music, they’re creating black holes in their schools. The Review: Each of the major teams in the DCU stands for something—the Justice League representing strength in numbers, while [...]

Faces of Evil: Deathstroke #1 – Review

By David Hine (writer), Georges Jeanty (artist), Mark McKenna (inker) From what I understand, “Faces of Evil” is supposedly tied to Final Crisis, and it supposed to portray what happens when evil finally wins.  Okay, for the stories DC are telling right now, this seems like a logical event to run, right?  You would think [...]

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