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Marvel’s X-23 One-Shot is a Must Pass

X-23 ONE-SHOT - Being an X-Fan, I had some hope for this book. Even with the whole “Women of Marvel” thing they are trying to pull to shell out more money each month (in addition to the Siege/Heroic Age, Second Coming and Hulk crossovers. Just keep bleedin’ us dry Joe…). The Alina Urusov cover was a great draw on the shelf and where there’s X-23, there’s sure to be Wolverine. Should be a can’t miss, but it’s really a don’t bother. X decides to revisit her past life after the events of...

Review of X-Force #25

X-FORCE #25 - Thank God the Nechrosha storyline is over. The longer this story went on, the more I could tell that Craig Kyle and Chris Yost had this thrown on them from Marvel High Command. Sure Blackest Night made some money for DC, but that doesn’t mean you have to pump out a crappy story to weakly compete. Does anybody else remember when comic panels had backgrounds drawn into them? I thought Rob Liefeld was bad, but Clayton Crain is the new master of the no background style. Stick to covers...

The DC Front Office Shake-Up Is Complete

A few months ago, in an obvious reaction to Disney acquiring Marvel, Warner Bros hired Diane Nelson as new President - replacing the longtime Paul Levitz. Nelson has finalized her executive team and announced that Dan Didio and Jim Lee would act as Co-Publishers, Geoff Johns would become Chief Creative Officer, Jim Rood would take on Executive V.P. of Sales and Marketing and Patrick Caldon is now Executive V.P. of Finance and Administration. The last two probably won’t affect the comics too much...

Reviews of Dark Avengers #13, G.I. Joe Origins #11 & #12 and Green Lantern Corps #44

DARK AVENGERS #13 - So last issue we found out that The Sentry is more powerful than Molecule Man and can’t die. Even after having his atoms dispersed, he was able to reassemble himself and force MM to put everything back to normal. That actually makes three times that Sentry has died and came back: the battle with MM, against Morgan Le Fey and when his own wife shot him in the face with an alien gun. This issue delves into the events just before and after Lindy shot him. After shooting Bob and ...

Reviews of Blackest Night #6, X-Men Legacy #231, Fantastic Four #574 & HALO Bloodlines #1

FANTASTIC FOUR #574 - It’s Franklin’s birthday and much too Johnny’s dismay, the kid’s only request was that Spider-Man be there. Artie and Leech (formerly mutant friends of Franklin’s from waaaay back…) and three of the Power Pack kids also attend. The FF also seem to have adopted one of the Wizard’s clones they found still alive in his HQ. Roughly the same age as Franklin they have named him Bentley (The Wizard’s real name…) although he insists on being called thirty-two. After everyone has en...

Comic Reviews of Dark Avengers #12, Batman #694, Cable #21 & X-Force #22

CABLE #21 - I think I may have figured out just who and what Hope is. Review first, then theories. Last issue, Cable ad Hope just barely managed to escape the Brood and Bishop by using the ship’s escape pods. Bishop also manages to survive by bonding with a living Brood-ship and chases the two pods for two years on their course to Earth. Over the two years, Hope has become a young woman is her teens. Once back on Earth, Cable and Hope have one last confrontation with Bishop in which Hope manifes...

Comic Reviews of Captain America Reborn #5, GL Corps #43, Mighty Avengers #32 & Daredevil #503

CAPTAIN AMERICA REBORN #5 - By now, every Marvel reader knows Steve Rogers is back - already having appeared in Fall of the Hulks, Who Will Wield the Shield?, Dark Avengers Annual and the list goes on. This is another example of Marvel editors not communicating very well. However, that does stop this from being an incredible issue. The Red Skull had succeeded in supplanting Steve Rogers’ personality with his own… effectively taking over Captain America’s body. Cap-Bucky, Black Widow, Ronin, ...

Reviews of Green Lantern #43, Star Wars Legacy #42, Spider-Woman #3 & Dark Reign- The List: Spider-Man

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. SPIDER-WOMAN #3 - Brain Michael Bendis just wrote a line of script in Dark Avengers that went something like this: “I’m a patriot. Why did you join S.H.I.E.L.D.?” “Because they have the best flying cars.” That’s a lie. After seeing Viper’s flying ’67 Ford...

Reviews of Blackest Night #5, Uncanny X-Men #517, Thor Giant-Sized, Secret Warriors #10, Black Knight, New Avengers #59

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. UNCANNY X-MEN #517 - You will all bow before the best writer at Marvel: Matt Fraction. Sure, I’m a tad biased towards anything with an X on it, but the way Fraction is crafting this new era of the X-Men; I’m beginning to think he’s secretly Chris Claremon...

Comic Review of Hulk #17, Ares #2, Superman Secret Origin #3, Image United #1 & Fantastic Four #573

Rating System: 0 to 1.5 stars = save your money unless you are just mindlessly collecting the title. 2 to 3.5 = worth a shot if you are up to trying something new or wanting to get back into a title. 4 to 5 = a must buy for any comic reader. FANTASTIC FOUR #573 - Jonathan Hickman has really started something special with his run on Fantastic Four. We saw in last issue that as Ben and Johnny were heading for a quick vacation on Nu-Earth, Franklin and Val stowed-away in the Fantasti-Car. When t...