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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 [...]

Flashpoint #1 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Andy Kubert (penciller), Sandra Hope (inker), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Nothing is as it seems!  Everything isn’t as it should be!  Alright, some things are kind of the same! The Review: I’m a huge fan of parallel-universe nonsense; there are few things quite as fun as taking the familiar and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Wonder Woman #608 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Geraldo Borges (pencils), Marlo Alquiza (inks), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana is forced to take on Cheetah and the other fallen Amazonians in a brutal, bloody battle that the princess does not get the better end of. Fortunately, although the terrible trio manage to destroy most [...]

Wonder Woman #607 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski and Phil Hester (writers), Don Kramer with Eduardo Pansica (pencils), Andy Owens, Sean Parsons and Eber Ferreira (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors) and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana–who, I can’t help pointing out, has actually started acting like Diana for a change of pace–and two of her closest Amazon guardians descend [...]

Superman #708 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski (plot), Chris Roberson (script), Eddy Barrows (pencils), J.P. Mayer with Julio Ferreira (inks), Rod Reis (colors) and John J. Hill (letters) The Story: The “Superman Squad” arrives from the future to convince the original Superman that he is, in fact, important, and that his heroics do actually help people. Also, Wonder [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Batman: The Return of Bruce Wayne #6 – Review

By: Grant Morrison (writer), Lee Garbett, Pere Perez (artists), Alejandro Sicat and Walden Wong (inks) The Story: Bruce Wayne arrives at the end of time, where those weird-eyed, fuzzy archivists help him along on the last leg of his journey through time and into the final steps of Darkseid’s plan to use him as a [...]

Wonder Woman #604 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski (writer), Don Kramer and Eduardo Pansica (pencils), Jay Leisten (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana faces off against the mysterious warrior bent on destroying the last of the Amazons. As the battle rages, the warrior reveals some of his past, and Diana begins to fully understand–and tap [...]

Wonder Woman #603 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski(writer), Don Kramer, Eduardo Pansica and Allan Goldman (pencils), Jay Leisten and Scott Koblish (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: While trying to escort the Amazon refugees to safety, Diana is attacked by the Keres—evil spirits of death—and is dragged down to the Underworld. She escapes with the help [...]

Wonder Woman #602 – Review

By J. Michael Straczynski (writer), Don Kramer and Eduardo Panscia (pencils), Jay Leisten, Michael Babinski and Ruy Jose (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana joins her people in the Temple of Aphrodite to help them escape from the human assault. What’s Good: This version of Diana is…taking some getting used to, [...]

Batman #702 – Review

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 [...]

Wonder Woman #601 – Review

by J. Michael Straczynski (writer), Don Kramer (pencils), Michael Babinski (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), and Travis Lanham (letters) The Story: Diana learns about the fall of Paradise Island and sets off in pursuit of her people’s mysterious tormenters. What’s Good: If there’s one thing JMS’ first full issue of Wonder Woman has going for it, [...]

Wonder Woman #600 – Review

By Gail Simone (writer), George Perez (pencils), Scott Koblish (inks), Amanda Conner (writer and artist), Paul Mounts (colors), Louise Simonson (writer), Eduardo Pansica (pencils), Bob Wiacek (ink), Geoff Johns (writer), Scott Kolins (art), Michael Atiyeh (colors), and J. Michael Straczynski (writer), Don Kramer (pencils), Michael Babinski (inks) The Stories: Gail Simone (yay!) gives us a [...]

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