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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...

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...

Reviews of Batgirl #5, Uncanny X-Men #519 & God Complex #1

UNCANNY X-MEN #519 - So it’s not a big surprise that Beast decides to take an indefinite leave of absence from the X-Men for awhile. Seems he’s still a little peeved at Scott for letting him languish in Osborn’s prison during Utopia until it suited Scott’s purposes to free him. Hank has graciously put together the X-Club to act as the X-Men’s brain trust in his absence. Fine. Done. Good-bye Cowardly Lion. Go hang out in S.W.O.R.D. with your green-haired girlfriend. This issue is once again stole...

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...

ComicCenter Reviews Daredevil #502, Deadpool #17 & Cable #20

Watch ComicCenter as Griz and I review some of this week's new comics. Visit Things From Another World for a massive selection of these comics and more.

Comic Review For The Week Of 11/14/09

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. DEADPOOL #17 - Whoo-hooo! More Deadpool. And a real Deadpool with a story that isn’t just a filler to boot. Now that Wade has “joined” the X-Men, he’s decided to kill that father of one of mutants on Nation X who’s working with Osborn to throw some bad PR...

Comic Review For The Week of 11/4/09

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. STAR WARS: INVASION #5 - This is the last issue of the Invasion limited series, but probably not the end of the story. Dark Horse announced recently that Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic would be ending some time next year to be replaced by a new St...

Comic Reviews For The Week Of 10/28/09

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. ANTI-VENOM: NEW WAYS TO LIVE #2 - I get it. Venom is popular. So was the Joker rip-off, Carnage. I’m a big Marvel and Spidey fan, but I firmly believe that the Symbiote Saga and the Clone Crap have damaged the Spider-Man books so bad that even “big” event...

ComicCenter Reviews Uncanny X-Men Nation X

Watch as The Undercover Fanboy is forced to work ComicCenter alone as he reviews the Nation X storyline. Visit Things From Another World for a massive selection of Marvel favorites.

ComicCenter Reviews Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 DLC Characters and Brutal Legend

Watch as Griz and The Undercover Fanboy review the new characters DLC for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 and review the hit game Brutal Legend. Visit Things From Another World for a massive selection of Marvel favorites.