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Justice League #9 – Review

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (story), Jim Lee (pencils), Scott Williams (inks), Alex Sinclair, Pete Pantazis, Gabe Eltaeb (colorists), Gary Frank (feature art), Brad Anderson (feature colors) The Story: Soon, the League will know the dangers of excessive fanship. The Review: One of this title’s biggest pitfalls has been its inability to establish a consistent tone, direction, [...]

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Young Justice S02E03 – Review

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (story) The Story: Now this is the textbook definition of “frienemies.” The Review: One thing that has really impressed me with this show is how well the writers have paced themselves in terms of revealing major plot points, throwing in the occasional twist, and building up character storylines. Although season one had [...]

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Smallville #1 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bryan Q. Miller (story), Pere Pérez (art), Randy Mayor & Chris Beckett (colors) The Story: Somebody save me…I don’t care how you do it…Just save…save…Come on…I’ve been waiting for you. The Review: Smallville was one of those oddball, hybrid shows the WB tends to produce: a bit too weird and geeky to get mainstream [...]

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Action Comics #9 – Review

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (story), Gene Ha (art), Art Lyon (colors) The Story: This is a president who can honestly say “Yes, I can” to just about any situation. The Review: It’s a fact that a lot of people had high hopes and expectations for this series, not the least because Morrison had writing duties. This [...]

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The New 52 #1 – Free Comic Book Day Review

Posted on May 5, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Everyone needs a lawyer—especially when your judges are master mages. The Review: I like free stuff as much as the next person. I’m an old hand at waiting for five minutes to get a sample of some Costco microwaveable piece of whatever that you can [...]

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Earth Two #1 – Review

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: James Robinson (story), Nicola Scott (pencils), Trevor Scott (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) The Story: With some stories, it’s better to start at the end. The Review: I can hardly believe this, but pretty close to a year ago, I talked about how much I liked parallel-universe ridiculousness in all its forms. I’m such a [...]

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Young Justice Episode 26 – Review

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Greg Weisman (story) The Story: Now is the time for the students to become the masters…too cheesy? The Review: If you ask me, last episode was really the big, team-centered climax of the season. Once all the secrets came out and the group became just that much tighter for it, that’s when you really [...]

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Justice League #8 – Review

Posted on April 20, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: If Arrows wants in so bad, you should at least give him the honor of hazing him. The Review: If anything proves that relentless flash and glam can’t make up for ill-conceived, incomprehensible storytelling, it has to be the Garry Marshall-Katherine Fugate series of star-studded, [...]

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Action Comics #8 – Review

Posted on April 6, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales, Brad Walker, Rick Bryant, Bob McLeod (artists), Brad Anderson & David Curiel (colorists) The Story: Watch out, Brainiac—Superman’s gonna blow your mind. The Review: Back in 2006, NBC premiered two new shows, both premised on the backstage activities of a sketch-comedy show. One was Studio 60 on the Sunset [...]

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Young Justice Episode 22 – Review

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Kevin Hopps (writer) The Story: Joining the League is not unlike joining the Plastics in Mean Girls. The Review: To the show’s credit, the writers have done a careful job focusing on the young team itself, despite the constant temptation of the Justice League appearing tantalizingly on the fringes of stories. Still, we’re constantly [...]

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Justice League #7 – Review

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Gene Ha (artist), Art Lyon (colorist), Gary Frank (feature artist), Brad Anderson (feature colorist) The Story: Working with the League isn’t unlike babysitting surly teens, as Steve Trevor learns. The Review: Something I learned the hard, painful way back in college was that you could bring your most creative ideas in [...]

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Action Comics #7 – Review

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist) The Story: Ooh—I love your miniatures in a bottle collection. Wait, is that my house in there? The Review: I tend to feel Superman has the same problem as the Flash in terms of appeal. The whole heart of the Man of [...]

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Justice League #6 – Review

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Batt, Mark Irwin (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Tony Avina, Hi-Fi (colorists) The Story: Darkseid, wouldn’t printing ads on the back of milk cartons work better than all this? The Review: Justice League Dark demonstrated, by negative inference, how important it is to give each member [...]

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Action Comics #6 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), John Dell (inker), Brad Anderson (colorist), Sholly Fisch (feature writer), Chriscross (feature artist), Jose Villarrubia (feature colorist) The Story: Now you know where all those little voices in your head are coming from. The Review: I don’t think I’m the only one, but I sometimes give Morrison a [...]

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Justice League #5 – Review

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, Joe Weems (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Gabe Eltaeb, Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: I’ll give this for Hal—the kid takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. The Review: Look, I get it. Even with a whole cast of perfectly formed, likable characters, you’re [...]

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Action Comics #5 – Review

Posted on January 5, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Invasion of the Space Babies! They’ll overwhelm you with their cuteness! The Review: The coming of Superman to Earth as a babe rocketed from the doomed planet of Krypton is probably the origin story of origin stories, one which still retains a lot of its [...]

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Justice League #4 – Review

Posted on December 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair & Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Vic, would this be a bad time for me to suggest you star as the new Bionic Man? The Review: I admit, I had mixed feelings when I heard Cyborg was going to join the Justice League. [...]

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Action Comics #4 – Review

Posted on December 8, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Man of Steel, meet Man in Steel. The Review: I’ve become a bit wary of DC’s backup and co-features over time. The fact they hang on to a bigger, stronger storyline definitely poses some drawbacks. Only rarely do they have a charm and intrigue of [...]

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JLA: The Age of Wonder – Review

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Adisakdi Tantimedh (writer), Galen Showman & P. Craig Russell (artists), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: I say, up in the sky! It’s a bird, it’s a plane—oh, wait, those don’t exist yet. The Review: I wasn’t sure how to classify these DC Comics Presents books. Even though they’re released as “issues,” they really represent [...]

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Superman #3 – Review

Posted on November 25, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: George Pérez (writer), Nicola Scott (penciller), Trevor Scott (inker), Brian Buccellato, Brett Smith, Blond (colorists) The Story: When in doubt, just shoot heat vision at your problem. The Review: Over in Action Comics, Grant Morrison is revamping the early days of Superman and essentially the core of his character. In Justice League, Geoff Johns [...]

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Supergirl #3 – Review

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Michael Green & Mike Johnson (writers), Mahmud Asrar & Bill Reinhold (artists), Paul Mounts (colorist) The Story: Supergirl gets her first taste of Earthling villainy—and it’s bitter stuff. The Review: One thing that always struck me as odd about Supergirl in previous incarnations was her seemingly seamless transition into Earth—specifically American—culture. The last iteration [...]

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Justice League #3 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair, Hi-Fi, Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Those ain’t no flying monkeys! The Review: One of the more intriguing elements to this version of the Justice League is the youth they project. Appearance-wise, they all look around their late twenties or early thirties, and [...]

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Action Comics #3 – Review

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Rags Morales (penciller), Rick Bryant (inker), Gene Ha (guest artist), Brad Anderson & Art Lyon (colorists) The Story: Corrupt people rabidly spouting nonsense on TV—what will fiction think of next? The Review: Anybody who’s read much of Superman has wondered this question at some point: which is the real alter-ego, Superman [...]

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Superman #2 – Review

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: George Pérez (writer), Jesús Merino (artist), Brian Buccellato (colorist) The Story: If you can’t see it, whip out your glasses! They’re not just for show, you know. The Review: While most characters generally survived the relaunch with their core personalities intact, with few exceptions nearly all of them had some tweaks and changes to [...]

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Supergirl #2 – Review

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Michael Green & Mike Johnson (writers), Mahmud Asrar (penciller), Dan Green (inker), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: On the plus, this means no more babysitting for Supergirl—probably. The Review: Back when DC brought back Kara Zor-El as Supergirl sometime in the first few years of the new millennium, they took a lot of things [...]

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