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Amazing Spider-Man #685 – Review

Posted on May 4, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (art), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The classic “middle issue” where the action transitions from the set-up (i.e. is Doc Ock possibly trying to stop global warming) to the big finale. Recap/Review (with mild SPOILERS): This was [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #684 – Review

Posted on April 21, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: After the smack-down that Spider-Man and the Avengers received from the Sinister Six, can anyone save the day? Recap/Review: The first few issues of this Ends of the Earth mini-event had [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #679 – Review

Posted on February 3, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor), Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Time is almost up!  How can Spidey prevent the future destruction of New York? Five Things:  1. This is how to pace superhero stories! – Slott really understands how to [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #678 – Review

Posted on January 20, 2012 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A new time-hopping Spidey story kicks off. Five Things: 1. Time travel done right. – This is how time travel should happen, right?  At the very least, this is [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #676 – Review

Posted on December 22, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: It’s an all supervillain throw-down as the Sinister Six attacks the Intelligencia. Five Things:  1. No Spider-Man in this issue. - It’s a very good issue and establishes a lot [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #672 – Review

Posted on October 28, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba & Karl Kesel (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: The finale of Spider-Island.  How are the heroes going to stop the Queen and save all civilians who have turned into big, nasty spiders? Five Things:  [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #671 – Review

Posted on October 13, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: A cure for the spider-infections is discovered, but the bad guys are surely going to try to destroy it. Review: This story is rounding into shape [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #670 – Review

Posted on September 29, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island transitions into a more serious story. What’s Good: Dan Slott seems to really understand what makes a good Spider-Man story as he is mixing together the elements of [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #668 – Review

Posted on September 1, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Island really get’s moving as the good guys start to actually try to solve the problem. What’s Good: I was a little hard on Amazing Spider-Man #667 a few [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #662 – Review

Posted on May 27, 2011 by dfstell

Main story by: Christos Gage (writer), Reilly Brown (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), John Rauch (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Infested Part 3 by: Dan Slott (writer), Emma Rios (art), Rodriguez (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors) & Caramagna (letters) Magnetic Man back up by: Frank Tieri (writer), Javier Rodriguez (art), [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #661 – Review

Posted on May 19, 2011 by dfstell

By: Christos Gage (writer), Reilly Brown (art), Victor Olazaba (inks), John Rauch (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Spider-Man guest lectures at the Avengers Academy. What’s Good: You know how sometimes Spider-Man, despite being well established as a very powerful superhero, member of the Avengers, etc. turns [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man 2011 Free Comic Book Day – Review

Posted on May 11, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Ellie Pyle (assistant editor) & Stephen Wacker (editor) The Story: Does Spider-Man need a little something extra now that he’s lost his spider sense? What’s Good: The Slott/Ramos team kicked off the “Big Time” arc for [...]

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Annihilators #3 – Review

Posted on May 9, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Tan Eng Huat (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), June Chung (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), John Denning (assistant editor) & Bill Rosemann (editor) Rocket-Raccoon story by: Abnett & Lanning (writers), Timothy Green, II (art), Nathan Fairbairn (colors), Clayton Cowles (letters) & Denning & Rosemann (editors) The Story: We finally see [...]

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Annihilators #1 – Review

Posted on March 3, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Tan Eng Huat (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), June Chung (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters), John Denning (assistant editor) & Bill Rosemann (editor) Rocket Raccoon/Groot by: Abnett & Lanning (writers), Timothy Green, II (art), Nathan Fairbairn (colors), Clayton Cowles (letters), Rachel Pinnelas & Denning (assistant editors) & Rosemann (editor) The [...]

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Quick Hit Reviews Week of Feb. 16, 2011

Posted on February 22, 2011 by dfstell

Some weeks it is just insane how many comics get published.  Despite the intrepid efforts of our writing staff here at WCBR, we simply can’t do a full review of every comic.  Thus, we bring you the quick-hit reviews where we say a few words about some comics that were pretty darn good and some [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #653 – Review

Posted on February 2, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (plot), Fred Van Lente (script), Stefano Caselli (art), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Power-Man back-up by: Van Lente (writer), Reilly Brown (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Andres Mossa (colors), Caramanga (letters) & Wacker (editor) The Story: Spidey needs a little help to foil the plans of the Spider-Slayer. [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #652 – Review

Posted on January 19, 2011 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Power Man back-up by: Fred Van Lente (writer), Reilly Brown (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Andres Mossa (colors), Caramanga (letters) & Wacker (editor) The Story: Peter Parker settles into his nice, happy life and some arthropod-themed villains have a [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #650 – Review

Posted on December 15, 2010 by dfstell

By: Dan Slott (writer), Humberto Ramos (pencils), Carlos Cuevas, Nikki Damon & Victor Olazaba (inks), Edgar Delgado (colors), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Stephen Wacker (editor) Marc Gargan back-up: Slott (writer), Neil Edwards (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Morry Hollowell (colors) & Chris Eliopoulos (letters) The Story: A new Spidey-suit makes its debut, as Peter Parker gets [...]

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X-Men Curse of the Mutants: Storm & Gambit #1 – Review

Posted on August 28, 2010 by dfstell

By: Chuck Kim (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Tim Townsend, Jaime Mendoza, Wayne Faucher, Al Vey, Victor Olazaba, Mark Irwin & Bachalo (inks), Antonio Fabela & Bachalo (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: Storm and Gambit try to break into Vampire Island to steal the body of Dracula. What’s Good: If you’ve followed the X-Men [...]

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Age of Heroes #2 – Review

Posted on June 21, 2010 by dfstell

“Who Needs Gravity” by: Sean McKeever (writer), David Baldeon (pencils), N. Bowling (inks), Chris Sotomayor (colors) & Joe Sabino (letters) “Heroic Rage” by: Brian Reed (writer), Chad Hardin (pencils), Victor Olazaba (inks), Sotomayor (colors), Sabino (letters) “Young Masters” by: Paul Cornell (writer), Mark Brooks (art) & Dave Lamphear (letters) “Semper Fidelis” by: Dan Slott (writer), [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #633 – Review

Posted on June 17, 2010 by dfstell

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Chris Bachalo & Emma Rios (art), Tim Townsend, Victor Olazaba, Mark Irwin & Bachalo (inks – over Bachalo’s art only), Antonio Fabela (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: The wrap up of The Lizard story line: The Lizard personality has completely driven Curt Connors from his mind and gained the [...]

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Amazing Spider-Man #632 – Review

Posted on May 28, 2010 by dfstell

By: Zeb Wells (writer), Chris Bachalo & Emma Rios (pencils), Tim Townsend, Jamie Mendoza, Victor Olazaba & Bachalo (inks), Antonio Fabela (colors) & Joe Caramanga (letters) The Story: The Lizard continues his rampage through NYC. What’s Good: Wow!  This was the kind of issue that restores one’s faith in superhero comics.  I read a LOT [...]

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Iron Man Legacy #2 – Review

Posted on May 15, 2010 by dfstell

By: Fred van Lente (writer), Steve Kurth (pencils), Allen Martinez & Victor Olazaba (inks), John Rauch (colors) & Dave Lanphear (letters) The Story: Tony Stark’s one-man war against the villains with stolen Iron Man technology in Transia continues. What’s Good: I was a little hard on the initial issue of Iron Man Legacy, but this [...]

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Iron Man Legacy #1 – Review

Posted on April 14, 2010 by dfstell

By: Fred Van Lente (writer), Steve Kurth (pencils), Allen Martinez & Victor Olazaba (inkers), John Rauch (colors) and Dave Nphear (letters) The Story: Iron Man gets a second on-going series where the bad-guy is using (no surprise) stolen Iron Man technology against civilians. What’s Good: Not a whole lot to be honest.  The best part [...]

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Guardians of the Galaxy #21 – Review

Posted on December 26, 2009 by tonyrak

By Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Brad Walker (artist), Andrew Hennessy & Victor Olazaba (inkers), Wil Quintana (colorist) The Story: Following the events of last month’s issue, the Luminals have foolishly brought back an alien life form with them from their unwarranted expedition into The Fault. The Guardians want to send the abomination back [...]

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