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Uncanny X-Force #18 – Review

By: Rick Remender (writer), Jerome Opeña & Esad Ribic (artists), Dean White (colorist The Story: The new Apocalypse gives way to a new Genesis. What’s Good: The Dark Angel Saga has come to a close. It’s been quite a ride. In fact, it’s been such a ride that it’s been hard to follow occasionally. The [...]

New Avengers #19 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story:  Norman Osborn explains the mission statement to his new Avengers and Victoria Hand plays her…hand? The Review:  Every now and then, as a devoted comic reader, you find yourself reading something that’s just mind-numbingly stupid.  New Avengers #19, [...]

X-23 #18 – Review

By: Marjorie Liu (writer), Sana Takeda (artist) The Story: Believe it or not, this is what you would call an easy evening minding the Fantastakids. The Review: This is a hard book to review, because I feel like I’m not the target audience. Everything about this issue, from the soft textures, to the pastel colors, [...]

Wolverine and the X-Men #1 – Review

by: Jason Aaron (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils and colors), Tim Townsend, Jamie Mendoza, and Al Vey (inks) The Story: Wolverine had the money to build a school with floating towers? So that’s why he is on every superhero team in the Marvel Universe! Good stuff: 1. Jason Aaron… fun? Everything I have read from Jason Aaron [...]

Herc #8 – Review

By: Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente (writers), June Brigman (penciller), Roy Richardson (inker), Jesus Aburtov (colorist) The Story: Herc learns that even a hideous mutation can’t stop him from scoring with the ladies. The Review: From what I’ve gathered, Spider-Island sure sounds like a fun romp.  But from the point of view of this [...]

Herc #7 – Review

By: Greg Pak & Fred Van Lente (writers), June Brigman (penciller), Roy Richardson (inker), Jesus Aburtov (colorist) The Story: Spider-Herc, Spider-Herc, / does whatever a Spider-Herc does. The Review: Once upon a time, crossovers were a rare, novel event.  Then they became frequent pleasures, then common fool’s errands.  Now they come about every other month, [...]

Deathstroke #1 – Review

Written by Kyle Higgins, Pencils by Joe Bennett, inks by Art Thibert, colors by Jason Wright The Story: A dude with Wolverine’s candor and Deadpool’s skill kills a lot of people. What’s Good: Is it wrong to say that out of all the New 52 I’ve read so far, this is the one I’ve had [...]

Wolverine #15 – Review

by Jason Aaron (writing), Goran Sudzuka (art), Matthew Wilson (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story:  Logan finds new and interesting ways of beating himself up after last month’s shocking finale. The Review:  Once in a while, our standard review format doesn’t quite work, particularly when a book’s positives and negatives are deeply intertwined.  This [...]

Wolverine #14 – Review

by Jason Aaron (writer), Renato Guedes (pencils), Jose Wilson Magalhaes (inks), Matthew Wilson (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story:  Logan realizes that it was never his revenge that he was working towards as the Red Right Hand’s plan reaches its gut-wrenching endgame. What’s Good:  Wow, Jason Aaron nails us with some huge, huge twists [...]

X-Men #16 – Review

By: Victor Gischler (writer), Jorge Molina (artist), Guru EFX (colors), Jordan D. White (assistant editor), Daniel Ketchum (associate editor) The Story: A very old flame sends a distress signal to Cyclops and Magneto. It is delivered by FF, who are now sporting their new Dr. Doom look. What Good: I was a fan of the [...]

New Avengers #15 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Squirrel Girl tries to prove her worth, as she runs through a New York City under attack to get to Luke and Jessica’s baby. What’s Good: When I read that this issue was going to be centred on [...]

Wolverine #13 – Review

by Jason Aaron (writer), Renato Guedes (pencils), Jose Wilson Magalhaes (inks), Matthew Wilson (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: It always comes down to those damned ninjas. What’s Good: In another flashback into the past of a “Wolverine victim,” Jason Aaron gives us an inside look into the Hand.  Overall, I enjoyed Aaron’s take [...]

Amazing Spider-Man #666 – Review

by Dan Slott (writer), Stefano Caselli (art), Marte Gracia (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: Life is good, and very busy, for Peter Parker, but unbeknownst to him, more and more people in New York City are gaining spider-powers. What’s Good: Apparently, Dan Slott and the rest of the crew in the Spider-office take [...]

X-Men: Schism #2 – Review

by Jason Aaron (writer), Frank Cho (art), Jason Keith (colors), and Jared K. Fletcher (letters) The Story: The X-Men race to deal with the global rash of out-of-control sentinels, Cyclops and Wolverine butt heads over Quire, and Kade Kilgore makes plans. What’s Good: Like many kids who grew up in the late 80s to early [...]

X-Men #15 – Review

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina and Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia (colorist) The Story: First To Last, Conclusion: The past and present encounters with the Evolutionaries converge on Cyclops and his choices, past and present. At stake… the survival of humanity. What’s Good: I continue to be delighted with [...]

Avengers #15 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils & colors), Tim Townsend, Wayne Faucher, Jaime Mendoza, Victor Olazaba, and Mark Irwin (inks), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Steve Rogers sends a strike-team to Brazil to tackle the Worthy-fied Hulk, including a Spider-Woman still searching for her big moment of redemption. What’s Good:  While I [...]

Wolverine #12 – Review

by Jason Aaron (writer), Renato Guedes (pencils), Jose Wilson Magalhaes (inks), Matthew Wilson (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: The story is revealed behind another of the Red Right Hand, as is the demonic source of their power.  Meanwhile, Wolverine finds himself in a two-on-one fight to the death. What’s Good:  Did you like [...]

New Avengers #14 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato (art), Rain Beredo (colors), and Joe Caramagna (letters) The Story: The New Avengers race to defend New York against Sin’s attack while Mockingbird tests her newly gained powers. What’s Good:  When he puts his mind to it, Brian Bendis is capable of truly fantastic, intimate character-work, and that’s [...]

X-Men: Schism #1 – Review

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 [...]

X-Men #14 – Review

By: Christopher Yost (writer), Paco Medina, Dalibor Talajic (pencillers), Dalibor Talajic, Juan Vlasco (inkers), Marte Gracia and Wil Quintana (colorists) The Story: “First to Last, Part 4″ opens up more of the past of the Evolutionaries (2.7M years ago) and of the original X-Men in the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants era. And in the present, [...]

Wolverine #11 – Review

by Jason Aaron (writer), Renato Guedes (pencils), Jose Wilson Magalhaes (inks), Matthew Wilson (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: Logan fights for his life against Shadow Stalker and just who is that sad looking, veiled old lady, anyway? What’s Good:  Much as was the case last month, I’m really digging the flashback scenes.  The [...]

Avengers #14 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), John Romita Jr. (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Dean White (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: “The Red Hulk…proved himself an Avenger.” The Review:  As far as issue structure goes, this is a bit of a weird one.  We start out with the same talking heads format that found such [...]

Wolverine #10 – Review

by Jason Aaron (writer), Renato Guedes (pencils), Jose Wilson Magalhaes (inks), Matthew Wilson (colors), and Cory Petit (letters) The Story: “I know you’re the bastards who sent me to hell!  I’m here to return the favor!” The Review:  With Wolverine on the warpath, Jason Aaron continues to right the ship on this title.  While this [...]

New Avengers #13 – Review

by Brian Michael Bendis (writer), Mike Deodato & Howard Chaykin (artists), Rain Beredo & Edgar Delgado (colorists), and Joe Caramagna (letterer) The Story: “Captain, my captain.  Well done, Miss Hand.” The Review:  New Avengers #13 is a frustrating issue.  Thankfully, it’s frustrating because it’s a good issue, but it’s good in an irritating way that [...]

Uncanny X-Force #11 – Review

by Rick Remender (writer), Mark Brooks (penciller & inker), Andrew Currie (inker), Dean White (colorist), and Cory Petit (letterer) The Story: X-Force heads off to the Age of Apocalypse to acquire the celestial life seed. The Review:  Somehow, Rick Remender has become the 90s guy and in a totally good way.  Once again, by revisiting [...]

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