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Avengelyne #1 – Advanced Review

Posted on July 20, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Rob Liefeld and Mark Poulton (story), Mark Poulton (script), Owen Gieni (art and colors) The Story – Devil in the Flesh, Part 1 of 3: A psycho is stalking New York and we get to watch him work. A pornstar/stripper named Heaven Starr with a reputation for heavy drug use has a sudden loss [...]

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X-Men: Schism #1 – Review

Posted on July 13, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Jason Aaron (writer), Carlos Pacheco (penciller), Cam Smith (inker), Frank D’Armata (colorist) The Story: Cyclops, as leader of the world’s mutants, goes to an arms control conference, bringing Wolverine as his security. Midway through Cyclops’ speech advocating peace and disarmament (in this case, not for nukes, but for sentinels), a telepathic mutant comes in [...]

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Mystery Men #2 – Review

Posted on June 23, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: David Liss (writer), Patrick Zircher (artist), Andy Troy (colorist), John Denning and Rachel Pinnelas (assistant editors) The Story: The Operative and the Revenant must learn to play nice to start making headway on the investigation of the death of Alice Starr. And Alice’s sister, who happens to have built a jetpack, also wants a [...]

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Warlord of Mars: Dejah Thoris #4 – Review

Posted on June 15, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Arvid Nelson (writer), Carlos Rafael (artist), Carlos Lopez (colorist), Joseph Rybandt (editor), Edgar Rice Burroughs (creator) The Story: The Colossus of Mars, Part 4: The Jeddaks of Lesser and Greater Helium have fled to Ptarth, where they have summoned other red Jeddaks to convince them that Yorn is a threat to them all. The [...]

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Samurai’s Blood #1 – Review

Posted on June 13, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Owen Wiseman (script), Nam Kim (Pencils), Matthew Dalton (inks), Sakti Yuwono (colors), Michael Benaroya and Owen Wiseman (creators) The Story: Katashi is fostered to the Sanjo clan, a family of honor and power. Gakushi, one of the Sanjo clan’s chief aides, stages a coup and wipes out all of the Sanjo, except for two, [...]

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X-Men #12 – Review

Posted on June 3, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina, Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Juan Vlasco, Dalibor Talajic (inkers), Marte Gracia (colors) The Story: First to Last, Part 2: In three different times (2.7 million years ago, in the early issues of the original X-Men, and now) we learn about the evolutionaries. They are looking for the leader of mutantkind [...]

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X-Men Legacy #249 – Review

Posted on May 25, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Mike Carey (writer), Rafa Sandoval (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist), Sebastian Girner (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (editor) The Story: Aftermath, Part Two: The dust is still settling on the X-Men’s Age of X. Events in Age of X were so fast and so different, that the X-Men, back home and safe, have some breathing room [...]

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Kato Origins #8 – Review

Posted on May 1, 2011 by DS Arsenault

By: Jai Nitz (writer), Colton Worley (pencils and inks), Romulo Fajardo Jr. (colors) The Story: The Hellfire Club: Kato investigates some mysterious activity in 1942 Chicago. Businessmen and criminals. Strange meetings. What are criminals and businessmen up to? Kato investigates in clandestine ways and gets some help from both Green Hornet and his new friend/former [...]

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Two New Series To Be Freakishly Pumped About

Posted on September 28, 2010 by DS Arsenault

DS: Hey SoldierHawk! I heard a fangirlish squeal of joy all the way in Canada. What’s that all about? SH: Hey DS! That would have been me, reading that the new Batwoman monthly series–which I have been not-so-patiently waiting for since Rucka and Williams’ run on Detective Comics ended–finally has a release date! According to [...]

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Batman #702 – Review

Posted on August 27, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Tony Daniel (artist), Ian Hannin (colors) The Story: R.I.P. The Missing Chapter, Part Two: Batman’s Last Case. This story fills in the gaps in the story of Batman and the Justice League prepping to face Darkseid, and what happens when they finally do. What’s Good: Batman #701 had sub-wowed me, so [...]

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Kato Origins #2 – Review

Posted on June 28, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Jai Nitz (writer), Colton Worley (pencils and inks), Romulo Fajardo Jr. (colorist) The Story: Way of the Ninja, Part Two: A Korean grocer has been murdered. Kato, our favorite Japanese ninja sidekick, recognizes signs of ninja involvement that can only imply that he is a target too. The problem in tracking down people people [...]

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Brightest Day #1 – Review

Posted on May 8, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter J. Tomasi (writrs), Ivan Reis, Pat Gleason, Ardian Syaf, Scott Clark and Joe Prado (artists), Vicente Cifuentes, Mark Irwin, Oclair Albert, and David Beatty (inkers) The Story: The issue opens with Green Lantern and Star Sapphire with Sinestro, trying to figuree out the white lantern. At the same time, Boston [...]

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Green Lantern Corps #47 – Review

Posted on April 30, 2010 by DS Arsenault

by: Peter J. Tomasi (story), Patrick Gleason (art), Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne & Mark Irwin (inkers) The Story: Goodbye Darkness: The title says it all. This is the denouement of Blackest Night, the replanting of the trees in the Shire after the fall of Sauron. A lot of friends got hurt. A lot [...]

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Justice Society of America #38 – Review

Posted on April 29, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Bill Willingham (writer), Jesus Merino (artist), Jesse Delperdang (inker), Allen Passalaqua (colorist) The Story: The Fatherland, Part 3: Willingham peels back more of how the American Reich happened via the Darkness Engine that has depowered America’s heroes and villains. In the meantime, Willingham is pursuing his caper plot, with the surviving, depowered heroes getting [...]

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Green Lantern #53 – Review

Posted on April 24, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin and Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor (colorist) The Story: Brightest Day, The New Guardians Chapter One: This story sweeps slowly and deliberately over a wide cast of characters, from locations as diverse as a New Orleans prison, the planet Ryut, Coast City, [...]

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Kato Origins #1: Way Of The Ninja – Review

Posted on April 24, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Jai Nitz (writer), Colton Worley (pencils and inks), Romulo Fajardo Jr. (colors), Joe Rybandt (editor) The Story: Way of the Ninja, Part One: The police come to the home of the Green Hornet to ask Kato for help. A Korean grocer has been killed, and they need a steady hand doing translation. Britt (the [...]

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Justice League of America #44 – Review

Posted on April 21, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: James Robinson (writer), Mark Bagley (artist), Rob Hunter and Norm Rapmund (inkers), Ulises Arreola (colorist) The Story: A training session of the JLA is interrupted by a great big glowing green rock that sucks half the team into space. After the rescue, they race after it and face the demon Etrigan over who controls [...]

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Brightest Day #0 – Review

Posted on April 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi (writers), Fernando Pasarin (penciller), Fernando Pasarin, John Dell, Cam Smith, Prentis Rollins, Dexter Vines and Art Thibert (inkers) The Story: In Blackest Night #8, Aquaman, the Reverse-Flash, Captain Boomerang, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman and others (12 in all) were resurrected. They were resurrected for a reason. The mystery of Brightest [...]

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Weekly Comic Book Review Fan Page

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Ray Hilario

Question: How do you play Superhero City, while staying up to date on the latest comic book reviews? You become a fan of WCBR on Facebook.

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Weekly Comic Book Review’s Top Picks

Posted on March 30, 2010 by paladinking

Alex’s Top Picks Pick of the Week: Uncanny X-Men #522 – If only all of Fraction’s issues of Uncanny were so good.  The book shows what Fraction is truly capable of with the X-Men.  It’s unfortunate that we’re heading into a big event now, as I wouldn’t mind having a Kitty arc ASAP. Most Anticipated: [...]

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Green Lantern Corp #46 – Review

Posted on March 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Patrick Gleason (penciller), Rebecca Buchman, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen (inkers) The Story: The assembled ring corps are in the middle of a battle royale that has been going on for many issues. Guy Gardner adapts a Star Trek strategy to productive use, but both he and Kyle predictably face loved [...]

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Green Arrow #31 – Review

Posted on March 17, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By J.T. Krul (writer), Federico Dallocchio (artist), Michael Atiyeh (colorist) The Story: Green Arrow finished business with Prometheus in the conclusion of Justice League: Cry for Justice, but now he’s on the trail of Electrocutioner, Prometheus’ accomplice. Problem is, Green Arrow’s Justice League colleagues are on his trail. What’s Good: I had trashed Green Arrow [...]

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Batman and Robin #8 – Review

Posted on February 10, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Cameron Stewart (artist), Tony Aviña (colorist) The Story: Batman vs. Batman, Part Two: Bruce Wayne rises from the Lazarus Pit, but all doesn’t go according to plan. He’s confused and psycho and we get some tantalizing flashbacks that show us why. Problem is, he’s nearly unstoppable and not only drops the [...]

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Uncanny X-Men: First Class #8

Posted on February 10, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Scott Gray (writer), Fernando Blanco (artist), Jordan D. White (editor) The Story: An apparent suicide has occurred at Cassidy Keep and Banshee brings Nightcrawler, Colossus and Wolverine along to solve the mystery. What’s Good: There is almost no story you can tell in the early Uncanny X-Men era (let’s say before the death of [...]

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Batgirl #7 – Review

Posted on February 10, 2010 by DS Arsenault

By: Bryan Q. Miller (writer), Lee Garbett (penciller), Trevor Scott (inker), Guy Major (colorist) The Story: Core Requirements, Part Three of Three: Batgirl and Robin aren’t getting along well enough to rescue Batman, so they split up. Robin has got his own set of wheels, so Oracle loans Batgirl something suitable. Then, it’s Batgirl, Robin [...]

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