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Fables #114 – Review

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist), Shawn McManus (feature artist) The Story: Now’s the perfect time to say, “Toy boat, toy boat, toy boat.” The Review: Fables has such a huge, sprawling universe, populated with so many prominent characters, even prominent feature characters, that when Willingham chooses to [...]

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Fables #113 – Review

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Too many to list—check out the review. The Story: Sit down, kids, and prepare to grow old, as I tell you about the olden days. The Review: Bill Willingham likes to throw out these semi-out-of-continuity issues from time to time, which is all well and good. He largely does a good job with them, [...]

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Fables #112 – Review

Posted on December 28, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Dan Green (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Santa, that toy boat better not have my name on it. The Review: I have quite a few friends of diverse religion and some of no religion at all. While most of them find the materialistic [...]

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Fables #111 – Review

Posted on December 3, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller) Steve Leialoha & Shawn McManus (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Get ready to see who’ll be the new North Wind—he (or she) will blow you away! The Review: Reading this series occasionally reminds me of something I often wondered when reading Harry Potter: for all the drama [...]

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The Unwritten #31.5 – Review

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Mike Carey (writer), Michael WM. Kaluta, Rick Geary, Bryan Talbot (artists), Chris Chuckry (colorist) The Story: What a day, what a day for an auto-da-fé! The Review: While some people would like to dismiss stories as just that—stories—they must have something more to them, otherwise why would people react to them with such passion [...]

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Fables #110 – Review

Posted on October 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha & Shawn McManus (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: If you’re an enemy of the state, prepare to be pooped by the Yoop. The Review: Having multiple running plots can be a handy way to keep your story from stalling in one place too long, but [...]

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Fables #109 – Review

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Heavy is the crown the king must wear on his noggin—or whatever. The Review: The last couple arcs spent a lot of time building up the tension for when Mr. Dark would rain down his nightmarish power over all the [...]

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Fables #108 – Review

Posted on August 21, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Oh, they just can’t wait to be king! The Review: If you have a series that reaches a hundred issues, and haven’t accumulated a whole slew of engaging, enjoyable characters by then, you’ve done something wrong. Not so for Willingham, [...]

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Sweet Tooth #24 – Review

Posted on August 9, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Jeff Lemire (creator), Jose Villarrubia (colorist) The Story: Somebody tell me this isn’t death and I’m just trippin’. The Review: One of the most inadequately written scenes in Flashpoint: The World of Flashpoint #3 involves Traci 13, spear in her gut, internally commenting, “So this is what dying is like.” The line is effectively [...]

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Fables #107 – Review

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Terry Moore (artist), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: One can only imagine the morning breath of several years’ enchanted sleep. The Review: A few of Vertigo’s titles do an interesting thing where after every major story arc or so, they’ll follow up with what we would call in mainstream comics a [...]

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Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #6 – Review

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Shawn McManus (artist), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Clean the house, Cinderelley, kill off that assassin, Cinderelley. The Review: Perhaps the most brilliant thing about Fables is how even though it’s a serious plot and character driven series, with quite a lot of dark material, because the very nature of its [...]

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Sweet Tooth #23 – Review

Posted on July 9, 2011 by paladinking

by Jeff Lemire (writer & artist), Jose Villarrubia (colors), and Pat Brousseau (letters) The Story: Gus and co. debate whether or not to leave the Dam for Alaska. What’s Good: This is the sort of script that really shows off what a strong, ensemble cast Lemire has put together and ends up being all about [...]

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Fables #106 – Review

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker) The Story: Things come to a head for the man with a tophat and the man with a fur coat! The Review: All along Willingham has built up Mr. Dark’s street cred, what with spending so many issues having all the Fables work themselves into [...]

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Cinderella: Fables Are Forever #5 – Review

Posted on June 21, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Chris Roberson (writer), Shawn McManus (artist), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Watch what you’re doing with that glass cat! You break it, you bought it! The Review: Does anything beat a good rivalry? It’s a rhetorical question, because of course nothing does. I’m quite a fan of the sitcom nemesis, the one who pops [...]

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DMZ #65 – Review

Posted on May 20, 2011 by paladinking

by Brian Wood (writing), Riccardo Burchielli (art), Jeromy Cox (colors), and Jared K. Fletcher (letters) The Story: Matt faces possibly the biggest decision of his life. The Review: If you’re a long-time reader of Brian Wood’s DMZ, this is the sort of issue that you read it for, the sort of issue that looks at [...]

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Fables #105 – Review

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha & Andrew Pepoy (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: Who knew Mister Dark has the most effective beauty treatment regimen in all the homelands? The Review: Of course, one of the harder parts of writing comics is creating characters who can convince us of their realism [...]

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Fables #104 – Review

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha & Andrew Pepoy (inkers), Lee Loughridge (colorist) The Story: It’s up to one team of super Fables to defeat the dastardly Mister Dark—provided Boy Blue doesn’t come back to life and do it himself. The Review: Jumping onto an ongoing title can be quite daunting, especially [...]

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Sweet Tooth #19 – Review

Posted on March 6, 2011 by paladinking

by Jeff Lemire (writer & artist), Nate Powell, Emi Lenox, & Matt Kindt (art), Jose Villarrubia (colors), and Patrick Brosseau (letters) The Story: Lucy, Becky, and Wendy share their histories with one another as they wander through the forest. The Review: One certainly can’t fault Jeff Lemire for not taking creative risks with Sweet Tooth. [...]

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DMZ #62 – Review

Posted on February 21, 2011 by paladinking

by Brian Wood (writer), Riccardo Burchielli (art), Jeromy Cox (colors), and Jared K. Fletcher (letters) The Story: We get back to the present day, as Matty Roth finds himself as the eyes and ears at the vanguard of the US invasion of the DMZ. The Review: I cannot begin to express how relieved and overjoyed [...]

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Fables #102 – Review

Posted on February 20, 2011 by paladinking

by Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), and Todd Klein (letters) The Story: Ozma begins to assemble a super team under the guidance of Pinocchio as the Dark Man threatens Haven. The Review: As weird as it seems at first, and as dubious the reasoning is behind it, this [...]

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Sweet Tooth #18 – Review

Posted on February 6, 2011 by paladinking

by Jeff Lemire (writer & artist), Jose Villarrubia (colors), and Pat Brosseau (letters) The Story: Gus and the gang hit the road to Alaska, readjusting to the outside world. What’s Good: Jeff Lemire is never afraid of getting experimental with Sweet Tooth’s layouts, and nowhere is this more on display than this month, where the [...]

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Sweet Tooth #17 – Review

Posted on January 10, 2011 by paladinking

by Jeff Lemire (writer & artist), Jose Villarrubia (colors), and Pat Brosseau (letters) The Story: As the battle for the militia camp reaches its bloody end, Jepperd learns the truth about his child. What’s Good: Beneath all the evocative writing, moody visuals, experimental layouts, and grim atmosphere, Sweet Tooth is a damned good story. It’s [...]

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Unknown Soldier #25 – Review

Posted on November 8, 2010 by paladinking

by Joshua Dysart (writer), Alberto Ponticelli (art), Oscar Celestini (colors), and Clem Robins (letters) The Story: Moses comes face to face with Joseph Kony in the explosive series finale. What’s Good: Though the mid-twenties has proven a frequent cancellation point for Vertigo series, the end has come too soon for Unknown Soldier. With that said, [...]

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Sweet Tooth #15 – Review

Posted on November 5, 2010 by paladinking

by Jeff Lemire (writer & artist), Jose Villarrubia (colors), and Pat Brousseau (letters) The Story: Jepperd and the hybrid cultists prepare for war, Gus makes good his escape, and Singh and Abbott unearth some secrets about Gus’ family. What’s Good: This is one hell of an issue and the best issue of Sweet Tooth to [...]

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What We’re Looking Forward To In November

Posted on October 31, 2010 by paladinking

Dean There is a LOT to look forward to in November. For one thing, there is a lot of neat stuff in the Spider-Man world as Amazing Spider-Man kicks off its new “big” story line Big Time written by Dan Slott with art by Humberto Ramos. This is also the end of the thrice-monthly ASM [...]

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