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WCBR Quick Hit Reviews – Week of 12/15/2010

Posted on December 21, 2010 by dfstell

Sometimes we get a few more comics than we can review in full, so here are the balance of the comics read by the WCBR staff, some good, and some pretty bad. Thunderbolts #151 – This was a great little story that tells the origin of Ghost (for those who care of such things).  Again, [...]

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Dean’s Drive-by Reviews

Posted on November 23, 2010 by dfstell

My pull list is way, way too long and every week there are a few titles that don’t get the full review treatment by me or my colleagues here at WCBR, but they still deserve a mention of some sort… Thunderbolts #150 – Sheesh! Is Jeff Parker on a can’t miss string right now, or [...]

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Thunderbolts #148 – Review

Posted on September 21, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jeff Parker (writer), Declan Shalvey (artist), Frank Martin & Fabio D’Auria (colorists) The Story: Luke Cage’s involvement in Shadowland is explained this month, even though the mini-series is almost over. But whatever. Oh, and the Thunderbolts fight some ninjas…bet you didn’t see that one coming, did ya? Bitter Random Thoughts: What. The Hell. Was [...]

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Captain America #608 – Review

Posted on August 6, 2010 by paladinking

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Butch Guice (pencils), Rick Magyar & Mark Pennington (inks), Dean White, Elizabeth Dismang, & Frank Martin (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Cap and Black Widow battle the Beetle as they struggle to discover the identity of their mysterious foe. What’s Good: Thus far, I’ve very much liked Brubaker’s use [...]

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Thunderbolts #146 – Review

Posted on July 24, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (artist), Frank Martin (colorist) The Story: Luke Cage and the team are scrambled to New Guinea to investigate the disappearance of U.N. and S.H.I.E.L.D. agents near a hidden vein of Terrigen Crystals. The Good: This new assembly of Thunderbolts continues to be one of the titles I look forward [...]

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Thunderbolts #145 – Review

Posted on June 24, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (artist), Frank Martin (colorist) The Story: Luke Cage and the all new Thunderbolts have been tasked with cleaning up the fallout from ‘Siege’, but they’ll have to survive their encounter with Baron Zemo before they get a chance to prove themselves. The Good: Holy crap, it’s a rare thing [...]

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Thunderbolts #144 – Review

Posted on May 28, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jeff Parker (writer), Kev Walker (artist), Frank Martin (colorist) The Story: It is the dawn of the Heroic Age, and Luke Cage has taken command of the Thunderbolts in an effort to rehabilitate the team’s image as well as its disparate members. And oh yeah, Man-Thing finally finds a reason to suck less ass [...]

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Thunderbolts #143 – Review

Posted on May 2, 2010 by tonyrak

By Jeff Parker (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (artist), Frank Martin (colorist) The Story: Asgard lies in ruins as Norman Osborn’s own empire falls to pieces around him. With the assembled might of Marvel’s heroes poised to emerge victorious, Osborn’s team of covert operatives must decide whether to go down fighting or betray their boss for a [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #22 – Review

Posted on January 14, 2010 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Ghost makes his move and the gang brings in some outside help. What’s Good: Stark Disassembled continues not to disappoint. For the second month in a row, the scenes in Tony’s mind have improved.  Tony’s new surroundings make him [...]

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Invincible Iron Man #21 – Review

Posted on December 10, 2009 by paladinking

by Matt Fraction (writer), Salvador Larroca (art), Frank D’Armata (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The surgery to restore Tony Stark takes place. What’s Good: The strange desert scenes within Tony’s mind were my high point in this month’s issue.  Last issue, I found these scenes a little too weird and obscure, but this [...]

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Thunderbolts #138 – Review

Posted on November 18, 2009 by DS Arsenault

By Jeff Parker (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (artist), Frank Martin(colorist) The Story: The Thunderbolts, having more than a few lunatics on the team, have a problem. The satisfaction of victory over Power Man and Iron Fist was snatched from them last issue. They’ve had nothing to do since then. So somebody prods at Mr. X, which [...]

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Nova Vol. 1 – Review

Posted on November 17, 2009 by tonyrak

By Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Sean Chen, Scott Hanna & Brian Denham (artists) The Marvel universe (by which I mean that vast expanse of space in which Silver Surfer, Galactus, and Ego run around in as opposed to the Marvel Universe, the corporate umbrella that we gather all of the company’s intellectual properties under [...]

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Thunderbolts #137 – Review

Posted on October 25, 2009 by pozzyfreak

by Rick Remender (Writer), Mahmud A. Asrar (Pencils), Rebecca Buchman (Inks), and Bruno Hang (Colorist) Some Thoughts Before The Review: With Jeff Parker due to take over the Thunderbolts series soon, I’m not entirely surprised to see a one-and-done story filling the space in between creative teams. It’s not such a bad thing as long [...]

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Thunderbolts #136 – Review

Posted on October 3, 2009 by paladinking

by Andy Diggle (writer), Pop Mahn & Carlos Rodriguez (art), Frank Martin & Rain Beredo (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: Black Widow and Songbird find themselves in a bad spot, as a divide begins to form between the Thunderbolts. What’s Good: It’s really quite tragic that in Diggle’s final issue,  the team finally [...]

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Spider-Woman: Agent of S.W.O.R.D. #3 – Review

Posted on September 21, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Brian Michael Bendis (Script) and Alex Maleev (Art) w/ voice work by Nicolette Reed (Spider-Woman/Jessica Drew/Madame Hydra), Patrick Bosold (Philli Natu), Andrew Edlin (Detective Wang), David J. Murphy (Paladin), and Anthony MacKenzie (Detective Chong) Some Thoughts Before The Review: While the motion-comic format definitely has a number of positives, I can’t help but feel [...]

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Captain America: Reborn #3

Posted on September 17, 2009 by paladinking

by Ed Brubaker (writer), Bryan Hitch & Butch Guice (art), Paul Mounts (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Bucky and Falcon battle the Thunderbolts, Cap’s glass coffin is exhumed, an old “friend” returns, and Cap battles skrulls in space… again. What’s Good: From the haunting first page, to the contents of Cap’s coffin, the [...]

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Thunderbolts #135 – Review

Posted on September 12, 2009 by paladinking

by Andy Diggle (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (art), Frank Martin (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: Black Widow and Songbird make a run for it. What’s Good: Diggle writes an interesting script for this issue, one that’s self-referential in many ways.  Whenever a character says a line that sounds ridiculous, cliche, or out of character, [...]

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Thunderbolts #134 – Review

Posted on August 1, 2009 by paladinking

by Andy Diggle (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (art), Frank Martin (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: Mr. X and Headsman butt heads and the Thunderbolts hunt down Songbird, but not before she makes contact with a couple of old friends. What’s Good: After not being present last month, I’m glad to see Mr. X establish [...]

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Fusion #3 – Review

Posted on July 25, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (Writers), Tyler Kirkham (Pencils), Sal Regla & Jay Leisten (Inks), and John Starr & Blond (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: As long as you read an issue of Fusion with the right mindset… The Story: Cyberforce and the Avengers face off against the Thunderbolts before all the teams realize [...]

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DARK REIGN: THE SINISTER SPIDER-MAN # 1 – Review

Posted on June 30, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Brian Reed (Writer), Chris Bachalo (Pencils & Colors), Tim Townsend (Inks), and Antonio Fabela (Color Guides) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I’m a huge fan of Chris Bachalo’s artwork and I’ve enjoyed nearly everything that I’ve read from Brian Reed. So, needless to say, Sinister Spider-Man #1 was an easy purchase. I expect good [...]

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Fusion #2 – Review

Posted on June 28, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (Writers), Tyler Kirkham (Pencils), and Sal Regla (Inks) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Fusion #1 was a fun ’90s throwback comic. It was dated as hell, but if you just went with the crazy stuff going on, there was far more to like than hate. Plus, you really can’t [...]

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Thunderbolts #133 – Review

Posted on June 26, 2009 by paladinking

by Andy Diggle (writer), Miguel Sepulveda (art), Frank Martin (colors), and Albert Deschesne (letters) The Story: All is not as it seems with Black Widow, nor is Ant-Man quite what he claims to be.  Meanwhile, a mysterious new team member is introduced. What’s Good: Andy Diggle gives us more of what this series needs: character [...]

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Ms. Marvel #39 (Dark Reign) – Review

Posted on May 29, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Brian Reed (Writer) and Sana Takeda (Artist) Some Thoughts Before The Review: I became a fan of Karla Sofen (Moonstone) back when she was part of the Thunderbolts, so it’s nice to see her finally playing a larger role in the Marvel universe. The Story: Ms. Marvel stops a meteor from crashing to earth [...]

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Thunderbolts #132 (Dark Reign) – Review

Posted on May 20, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Andy Diggle (Writer), Robert De La Torre (Artist), and Frank Martin (Colorist) Some Thoughts Before The Review: It’s about time that the Thunderbolts got back to business after being treated as fodder for Deadpool for a few months.  The whole “Magnum Opus” thing definitely hurt the credibility of the new Tbolts team.  Andy Diggle [...]

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Fusion #1 (Top Cow/Marvel crossover) – Review

Posted on May 15, 2009 by pozzyfreak

By Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (Writers), Tyler Kirkham (Pencils), Sal Regla (Inks), Rick Basaldua (Inks Pg. 12), Livesay (Inks Pg. 19), and John Starr (Colors) Some Thoughts Before The Review: Just looking at the cover of Fusion #1 makes me think it’s going to be something of a (rather dated) mess. Four teams from [...]

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