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Reviews of Swordsmith Assassin #4, X-Men Legacy #229, Dr. Horrible & Mighty Avengers #31

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. SWORDSMITH ASSASSIN #4 - If I had the cash, I would buy the movie rights to this comic. In just four issues, writers Andrew Cosby and Michael Alan Nelson have crafted a classic story of revenge, honor, redemption and love set in the waning days of feudal ...

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.

Hope & Cable Return To The Present In X-Men: Second Coming

Winding through X-Men Legacy, Uncanny X-Men, X-Force and New Mutants; X-Men: Second Coming will be the third chapter in the Messiah CompleX storyline started back in 2007 and continued in the disappointing Messiah War this past summer. The first mutant child born since M-Day, Hope is now in her teens, having spent most of her life with Cable on the run from Bishop in the future (hopefully, this means the end of the awful Cable series…). When she and Cable return to the present, Cyclops and the r...

More Shake-Ups for Marvel’s Ultimate Universe

In the Ultimatum storyline that decimated the heroes of the Ultimate universe - the X-Men were all but destroyed, the Fantastic Four disbanded, the Ultimates were forced to regroup with S.H.I.E.L.D. and even Spider-Man had to get a job at a fast food restaurant. All the titles were cancelled, but Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man (ongoing), Ultimate Comics: Iron Man Armor Wars (limited series) and Ultimate Comics: Avengers (ongoing) quickly replaced the old titles. All this destruction and rebooting s...

X-Men: First Class Movie To Use Harry Potter For Inspiration?

“All-Things-X” Lauren Shuler-Donner recently told Empire Online that Fox s planning on using the Harry Potter franchise as a template for the X-Men: First Class movie(s). She is and Fox both are definitely planning on this to be a multiple-movie undertaking given their cautiousness at approving the recent screenplay submitted by Josh Schwartz. Her plan is to show the kids getting in trouble, rebelling and going on unapproved missions/adventures that Prof. X doesn’t know about. One interesting bi...

Comic Reviews For the Week of 10/14/09

TRUST ME, BUY THESE COMICS… BLACKEST NIGHT: BATMAN #3 - Dick and Tim are forced to confront their dead parents and their killers as Damian gets Barbara and Jim Gordon to safety. Having recruited Deadman last issue, he goes to get the help of Jason Blood/Etrigan the Demon (against his will of course…). Dick and Tim are about to join the ranks of the dead just when Deadman shows up with The Demon and starts burning the living dead trying to feed off of Tim and Dick’s emotions. Dick determines t...