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Wonder Woman #6 – Review

By: Brian Azzarello (writer), Tony Akins (artist), Dan Green (inker), Matthew Wilson (colorist) The Story: Actually, Wife Sharing With the Gods may be the one reality show I would watch. The Review: If any of you have ever read Azzarello’s 100 Bullets (and if you haven’t, it might be a very good idea to start), [...]

Justice League #5 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams, Sandra Hope, Mark Irwin, Joe Weems (inkers), Alex Sinclair, Gabe Eltaeb, Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: I’ll give this for Hal—the kid takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’. The Review: Look, I get it.  Even with a whole cast of perfectly formed, likable characters, you’re [...]

Wonder Woman #5 – Review

By: Brian Azzarello (writer), Tony Akins (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist) The Story: Let this be a lesson to you—never eat anything you fish up from a city river. The Review: I don’t consider myself a particularly impatient person.  Why, back in the days of dial-up, I used to bring a book to the computer with [...]

MQ’s Favorite Things of 2011

Right around now, when most people are speculating on the year to come, I tend to reflect on the year that has passed.  I think of opportunities missed (cross-country road trips) and those taken instead (law school).  I think of people who have left my life and others who have entered it.  And of course, [...]

Wonder Woman #4 – Review

By: Brian Azzarello (writer), Cliff Chiang (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist) The Story: Someone pop on some AC/DC and turn it up—Wonder Woman’s mourning. The Review: As a young buff of Greek mythology, I always found the gods and goddesses baffling in their arbitrariness.  Even the most reasoned and benevolent ones would have their petty streaks [...]

Justice League #4 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair & Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Vic, would this be a bad time for me to suggest you star as the new Bionic Man? The Review: I admit, I had mixed feelings when I heard Cyborg was going to join the Justice League.  [...]

JLA: The Age of Wonder – Review

By: Adisakdi Tantimedh (writer), Galen Showman & P. Craig Russell (artists), Dave McCaig (colorist) The Story: I say, up in the sky!  It’s a bird, it’s a plane—oh, wait, those don’t exist yet. The Review: I wasn’t sure how to classify these DC Comics Presents books.  Even though they’re released as “issues,” they really represent [...]

Wonder Woman #3 – Review

By: Brian Azzarello (writer), Cliff Chiang (artist), Matthew Wilson (colorist) The Story: Diana joins the ranks of women (and men) who have major daddy issues. The Review: Even back in ancient days the concept of the Amazons captured people’s fancies.  Granted, society at that point was such that a race of women who lived and [...]

Justice League #3 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Jim Lee (penciller), Scott Williams (inker), Alex Sinclair, Hi-Fi, Gabe Eltaeb (colorist) The Story: Those ain’t no flying monkeys! The Review: One of the more intriguing elements to this version of the Justice League is the youth they project.  Appearance-wise, they all look around their late twenties or early thirties, and [...]

Wonder Woman #2 – Review

By: Brian Azzarello (writer), Cliff Chiang (art), Matthew Wilson (colorist) The Story: Can’t you gods work out your issues on Maury or something? The Review: Actually, it may have been in Wonder Woman that I read this, but I distinctly remember a character musing on the idea that gods, as idealizations of humans, represent not [...]

Wonder Woman #1 – Review

By Brian Azzarello (writer), Cliff Chiang (art), Matthew Wilson (colors), Jarred K. Fletcher (letters) Minhquan Nguyen and I both felt strongly about this book and wanted to give it a review. Rather than publish two separate reviews, we decided to co-author one together. Two opinions for the price of one! Let us know what you [...]

Wonder Woman #614 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski & Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer & Lee Garbett (pencils), Drew Geraci, Robin Riggs & Trevor Scott (inks), Pete Pantazis (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana finally learns the secret of Nemisis, and faces one final battle with the darkness inside herself. The Review: It’s a shame that most of [...]

Flashpoint: Lois Lane and the Resistance #3 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Christian Duce (penciller), Walden Wong (inker), Hi-Fi (colorist) The Story: No, no, I said we need to get the truth out there! The Review: I had a literary journalism major as an undergrad.  One of the required courses I took was on journalistic ethics, which included a session [...]

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies #3 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Agustin Padilla (penciller), Jose Aviles (inker), Andrew Dalhouse (colorist) The Story: Anything Arthur and Diana do, Orm and Penthesilea can do better. The Review: Batman may be a man of mystery, but Wonder Woman and Aquaman, for all their fame and stature, are easily the most enigmatic characters [...]

Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman #3 – Review

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Vicente Cifuentes (artist), Diana Egea (inker), Kyle Ritter (colorist) The Story: I know I killed your wife, but do you have to act like such a jerk? The Review: We’ve known for a while now that Prince Orm of Atlantis and Penthesilea of the Amazons have worked together since day one [...]

Flashpoint #4 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Jesse Delperdang (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Remember kids: never accept juice boxes from strangers. The Review: It’s pretty clear that whatever point Johns originally conceived Flashpoint with, the series serves little more purpose now than as a convenient vehicle to carry the upcoming DCU into fruition.  [...]

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 [...]

The Real Thing – ft. Kelly Sue DeConnick (Part 2)

Hello again from the Real Thing, where we give you, absolutely free of charge, part two of our talk with Kelly Sue DeConnick.  Yesterday we spoke about the place of women behind comics.  Today we talk about women in comics (and some dudes as well). ——- You’ve said that you were a fan of Wonder [...]

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies #2 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Augustin Padilla (penciller), Jose Aviles (inker), Val Staples (colorist) The Story: Boy, that decision to not sign a pre-nup sure takes on new meaning now, doesn’t it? The Review: In the thick of war, neither party can claim to be innocent of wrongdoing, which is often the same [...]

What I Wonder About Wonder Woman

As is well documented, I’m still a relative neophyte when it comes to the comic scene. There is one character, though, who I’ve been a fan of and followed since I was a small child: Wonder Woman. Not only was the fact that there was a female (!) fighting alongside Batman and Superman mind blowing [...]

Flashpoint: Emperor Aquaman #2 – Review

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Vicente Cifuentes (artist), Diana Egea (inker), Kyle Ritter (colorist) The Story: Think Little Mermaid, but with a lot more drama and stabbing. The Review: In almost every kind of traditional storytelling, a strong narrator is essential to detailing a scene and giving us insight into the characters’ minds.  In a visual [...]

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 [...]

Flashpoint: Wonder Woman and the Furies #1 – Review

By: Dan Abnett & Andy Lanning (writers), Scott Clark (penciller), Dave Beaty (inker), Nei Ruffino (colorist) The Story: Now, you guys are absolutely positive this isn’t a shotgun wedding? The Review: Of course, one of the most impacting changes in the Flashpoint world is Wonder Woman and Aquaman’s fierce enmity, which has led to countless [...]

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 [...]

Flashpoint #2 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Sandra Hope (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Barry, I need you to know, if you don’t make it through this…this is the stupidest thing you’ve ever done. The Review: Unlike many comic book Events, Flashpoint intends to move fast (ba-dum­-tch!), as its story has been written to [...]

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