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Mister Terrific #2 – Review

By: Eric Wallace (writer), Gianluca Gugliotta (penciller), Wayne Faucher (inker), Mike Atiyeh (colorist) The Story: I’m a comic book reviewer, not a quantum physicist! The Review: In real life, a super-genius of the first degree would have no problems finding admirers and adulation anywhere he or she chooses to practice his or her intellect.  In [...]

Mr. Terrific #1 – Review

By: Eric Wallace (writer), Gianluca Gugliotta (penciller), Wayne Faucher (inker), Mike Atiyeh (colorist) The Story: If you’re such a hot-shot, how come you don’t have your own reality show? The Review: By a show of hands, who else has ever wondered at the premise behind the modern Mr. Terrific?  You can instantly grasp the appeal [...]

Wonder Woman #613 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer & Travis Moore (pencils), Wayne Faucher, Walden Wong & Drew Geraci( inks), Pete Pantazis (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: In a long bout of desperately needed exposition and explanation, Diana finally learns the details of, and the motivation behind, the Nemesis’s plans for [...]

Wonder Woman #612 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer (pencils), Wayne Faucher (inks), Pete Panrazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman is granted divine intervention in her fight against the Morrigan, and the purpose behind her existence is revealed as well. But can even her newfound allies and knowledge be enough to [...]

Wonder Woman #611 – Review

J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer & Eduardo Pansica (pencils), Wayne Faucher & Eber Ferreira (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: The Morrigan make the final push to force Diana to become one of them. Not everyone survives the battle, and as her friends begin to fall all around [...]

Wonder Woman #610 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Eduardo Pansica (pencils), Wayne Faucher and Eber Ferreira (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman begins to live up to her name as she (finally!) discovers the source of the temporal disturbance affecting her future, and finds a way to begin to fight [...]

X-Men #10 – Review

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Chris Bachalo & Paco Medina (pencils), Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Jaime Mendoza, Al Vey & Juan Vlasco (inks), Antonio Fabela & Jim Charalampidis (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: The X-Men / Spider-Man spectacular sewer team-up comes to a close. What’s Good: It [...]

Wonder Woman #609 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer (pencils), Sean Parsons and Wayne Faucher (inks), Alex Sinclair with Pete Pantazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Of all the people in the world, Dr. Psycho–longtime Wonder Woman nemesis–pulls Diana in a sort of limbo between life and death. There, it is revealed that [...]

The Legion of Super-Heroes #11 – Review

By: Paul Levitz (writer), Daniel HDR & Wayne Faucher (artists), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: It’s like playing Where’s Waldo?, only with several dozen super-powered criminals across interplanetary space.  That’s fun, right? The Review: It’s a common issue in comics that once you take a step back from the flashy action sequences and charged emotional scenes, [...]

X-Men #9 – Review

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Jamie Mendoza & Al Vey (inks), Bachalo (colors), Joe Caramagna (letters), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: The X-Men battle lizards and a mystery villain in the sewers of NYC while looking for missing children. What’s Good: The X-Men work [...]

X-Men #8 – Review

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils & colors), Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Jaime Mendoza & Al Vey (inks), Joe Caramanga (letters) & Nick Lowe (editor) The Story: A team of X-Men run into Lizards in the NYC sewers. What’s Good: Really good story that picks up directly from the Shed storyline in Amazing Spider-Man [...]

Legion of Super-Heroes #10 – Review

By: Paul Levitz (writer), Yildiray Cinar & Wayne Faucher (artists), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: Family, the ties that bind…and gag.  Chameleon Boy finds to his regret that having a rich aunt isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. The Review: Before I get to the specifics of this issue, I think it’s important I stake [...]

Wonder Woman #606 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Eduardo Pansica (pencils), Jay Leisten, Marlo Alquiza, Wayne Faucher and Eber Ferreira (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana and her friends are assaulted by mystical creatures determined to destroy them, and are forced out of their safe house after a tragedy. Things [...]

Legion of Super-Heroes #9 – Review

By: Paul Levitz (writer), Yildiray Cinar & Wayne Faucher (artists), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: Brainiac 5 and Chameleon Boy hit up Durla for some new leads to the assassinations on the United Planets Council, while Tyroc and Timber Wolf try to prevent more deaths. The Review: The Legion’s massive cast tends to pose a lot [...]

Wonder Woman #605 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer, Eduardo Panasica and Daniel HDR (pencils), Jay Leisten, Marlo Alquiza, Wayne Faucher and Eber Ferreira (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: An interlude, as Diana returns home to relax, recover, and engage in some exposition and–amazingly–character development as well. The short [...]

The Legion of Super-Heroes #7 – Review

By: Paul Levitz (writer), Yildiray Cinar & Wayne Faucher (artists), Francis Portela (back-up artist) The Story: Cosmic Boy, Timber Wolf, Ultra Boy, and Tyroc investigate the murder of a United Planets councilor, leading them to confront the assassins and prevent further government deaths.  Meanwhile, Sun Boy considers Legion leadership, and Mon-El and Earth-Man have words [...]

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

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 [...]

Wonder Woman #44 – Review

By Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott and Travis Moore (pencils), Doug Hazelwood, Wayne Faucher, John Dell and Hi-Fi (inks), Hi-Fi (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman must fight for Earth’s freedom in a one-on-one duel against the Citizenry’s finest warrior, as well as by outsmarting their leader— Diana’s own cousin. What’s Good: [...]

The Legion Of Super-Heroes #1 – Review

By: Paul Levitz (writer), Yildiray Cinar (penciller), Wayne Faucher (inker), Sal Cipriano (letterer) Where DS is coming from: I’ve been a Legion fan since 1982, pulled in by the exuberant fun of the far future where thirty heroes on a team flew through space, fought alien invasions and captured super-villains.  What other team would show [...]

Superman: War of the Supermen #2 – Review

By: Sterling Gates & James Robinson (writers), Eduardo Pansica (artist), Wayne Faucher (inker) The Story: General Lane has turned New Krypton into a pile of rubble, killing almost all the Kryptonians on it. Zod’s navy is on its way to Earth for retribution. Kal-El is the only person standing in their way. What’s Good: The [...]

Wonder Woman #43 – Review

By Gail Simone (writer), Nicola Scott and Fernando Dagnino (pencils), Doug Hazelwood and Wayne Faucher (inks), Brad Anderson (colors/additional digital inks), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Wonder Woman (with a little help from her friends) continues the fight against the invasion led by Captain Astarte, Diana’s own blood relative. What’s Good: This book does a [...]

Titans #21 – Review

By: J.T. Krul (writer), Angel Unzueta & Chris Batista (pencils), Wayne Faucher (inker) The Story: Fractured, Part One: The Titans are mopping up a second string crew of thieves. Donna is pretty upset about what Prometheus has done to Roy in Cry for Justice #5. Flash is going through a crisis of his own due [...]

Titans #16 – Review

By Christopher Yost (writer), Angel Unzueta (artist), Wayne Faucher (inker), Edgar Delgado (colorist) The Story: The Titans book continues to examine its characters one by one. This issue is about Starfire talking to a therapist. As uninspiring as that sounds, Yost and Unzueta carry us through the logical fallout of what Starfire has suffered not [...]

Outsiders #19 – Review

By Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Fernando Pasarin & Jeremy Haun (artist), Prentis Rollins & Wayne Faucher & Jeremy Haun (inker) The Story: A mysterious group of near-immortal acolytes starts the book off by pulling together enough pieces of an ancient immortality-granting meteorite to be able to gather the remaining pieces and thereby renew themselves. Switch [...]

Titans #13 – Review

By Sean McKeever (writer), Angel Unzuera (artist), Wayne Faucher (inker) Some Thoughts Before the Review: I’ve been following the Deathtrap storyline from the beginning. I’ve read the pre-deathtrap fights with Jericho too, and they were honestly starting to bleed together. This issue hasn’t changed much for me. The Story: Jericho holds a bunch of rich [...]

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