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Fairest #3 – Review

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (story), Phil Jiminez (pencils), Andy Lanning & Mark Farmer (inks), Andrew Dalhouse (colors) The Story: You’re never too old—or tyrannical—for a good story. The Review: Three months into this series’ run, it’s still not clear what role it’s meant to serve in the grand scheme of the Fables universe. Though ostensibly a [...]

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Previews – May 2012

Posted on April 29, 2012 by dfstell

Maybe we’ll start this as a new feature? I’ll flip through Previews, tell you what I think is worthwhile and you can tell me I’m a moron. Sound like fun? DARK HORSE - Axe Cop: President of the World #1 - At some point, this odd comic that is written by 8 year old Malachai Nicolle and [...]

Filed under: DC Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Marvel Comics, Vertigo, IDW, Image Comics | Tagged: Marvel, DC Comics, Dark Horse, Marvel Comics, Vertigo, IDW, Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, G.I. Joe, The Walking Dead, DC, Previews, Bernie Wrightson, Image, IDW Publishing, COBRA, Vertigo Comics, The Unwritten, Sweet Tooth, Haunt, Dean Stell, Elephantmen, iZombie, Fatale, Rachel Rising, Spaceman, Secret, Rachel Grey, Glamourpuss, Hoax Hunters, Prophet, The Manhattan Projects, Saucer Country, Saga, The Secret History of DB Cooper, The New Deadwardians, Axe Cop: President of the World, Axe Cop: President of the World #1, Eerie Comics, Eerie Comics #1, Creepy Comics, Creepy Comics #9, Fatima: The Blood Spinners, Fatima: The Blood Spinners #2, Mind Mgmt, Mind Mgmt #3, The Massive, The Massive #2, Batman #11, Punk Rock Jesus #1, Punk Rock Jesus, iZombie #27, Sweet Tooth #35, Spaceman #8, The New Deadwardians #5, Saucer Country #5, The Unwritten #39, The Muck Monster, GI Joe #15, Cobra #15, The Walking Dead #100, Revival, Revival #1, Debris, Debris #1, Hoax Hunters #1, Elephantmen #43, Fatale #7, Haunt #28, The Manhattan Projects #5, Mind the Gap, Mind the Gap #3, Planetoid, Planetoid #2, Prophet #27, Saga #5, Secret #4, Glamourpuss #26, The Secret History of DB Cooper #5 | 7 Comments »

Fables #116 – Review

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (story), Mark Buckingham (pencils), Steve Leialoha, Andrew Pepoy, Dan Green (inks), Lee Loughridge (colors), Shawn McManus (feature art) The Story: If your own family can’t rescue you from the clutches of maniacal toys, who can? The Review: When Ozma delivered her prophecy regarding the fate of the Cubs, it was natural to [...]

Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Andrew Pepoy, Bigby, Bill Willingham, Bufkin, Dan Green, Darien, DC, DC Comics, Fables, Fables #116, Fables #116 review, Lee Loughridge, Lily, Mark Buckingham, Ozma, Pinocchio, Shawn McManus, Snow White, Steve Leialoha, the Cubs, Therese, Vertigo, Vertigo Comics, winter | 2 Comments »

Saucer Country #2 – Review

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Ryan Kelly (artist), Giulia Brusco (colorist) The Story: They’re everywhere! In the mirror! This couch! That potted plant over there! The Review: It’s been a long time since I thought about the show, but it seems appropriate to mention The X-Files here. Fear of what’s out there has been a recurring [...]

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Fairest #2 – Review

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Phil Jiminez (penciller), Andy Lanning (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: Sleeping Beauty, you say “We’ll have to snuggle” like it’s a bad thing. The Review: When you have a successful series, it’s natural to start thinking of spin-off opportunities. After all, more of a good thing is always a good [...]

Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Ali Baba, Andrew Dalhouse, Andy Lanning, Bill Willingham, Briar Rose, DC, DC Comics, Fables, Fairest, Fairest #2, Fairest #2 review, Lumi, Phil Jiminez, Sleeping Beauty, Snow Queen, Vertigo, Vertigo Comics | 6 Comments »

Fables #115 – Review

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Mark Buckingham (penciller), Steve Leialoha (inker), Lee Loughridge (colorist), Shawn McManus (feature artist) The Story: On the bright side, Therese, at least you’re not being made queen of Haiti. The Review: Even though “happily ever after” doesn’t apply equally to all ye olde fairy tales, that’s generally the feeling such stories [...]

Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Ambrose, Beast, Beauty, Bufkin, Darien, DC, DC Comics, Fables, Fables #115, Fables #115 review, Lily, Nurse Spratt, Snow White, Therese, Vertigo, Vertigo Comics, Werian Holt | 1 Comment »

Saucer Country #1 – Review

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Paul Cornell (writer), Ryan Kelly (artist), Giulia Brusco (colorist) The Story: I swear, I was abducted by green men who took me to a museum—or I was drunk. The Review: I’m a big Cornell fan, if my last review of Stormwatch didn’t make that clear—and it did, because I practically slipped on my own [...]

Filed under: DC Comics, Reviews, Vertigo | Tagged: Arcadia Alvarado, DC, DC Comics, Giulia Brusco, Paul Cornell, Ryan Kelly, Saucer Country, Saucer Country #1, Saucer Country #1 review, Vertigo, Vertigo Comics | 3 Comments »

Fairest #1 – Review

Posted on March 12, 2012 by Minhquan Nguyen

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Phil Jiminez (penciller), Andy Lanning (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: Hustlin’ ain’t an easy biz, even for the Prince of Thieves. The Review: I’ve said this at least once, that Fables just has so much going on at any one time, with so many different characters in all manner of [...]

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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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