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8.6

Scarlet Spider #3 – Review

Mar 16, 2012 | Sean Elks | Comic Reviews

Scarlet Spider continues to deliver an interesting new Spider experience as Kaine begins to settle into his new role in Houston. Chris Yost and Ryan Stegman are doing a great job establishing this book, but there are some problems that are holding it back from being as good as it could potentially be.

In the past two issues, Kaine has made the unlikely decision to don a costume and become the protector of a young women who has been targeted for death by a human trafficking ring. And because he is in unfamiliar territory as a hero, he reaches out to anyone he can for help in this issue. Whether Kaine likes it or not, he’s a Parker, which means he has that unfortunate brand of luck. The situation escalates quickly, putting him in the position of the one with a target on his back.

3.8

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Age of Apocalypse #1 – Review

Mar 13, 2012 | Sean Elks | Comic Reviews

Is there anything left of the Age of Apocalypse worth revisiting? That is the question David Lapham and Roberto de la Torre struggle to answer in this first issue, and how hard they struggle with it is probably the answer.

I was honestly surprised when Marvel announced this series. Why? Because I was reading the Dark Angel Saga at the time, and the last thing I would’ve guessed it was doing was trying to stir up interest in going back to the Age of Apocalypse. That story took us back there and revealed the last few scraps left to pick from. Then, it proceeded to kill off or otherwise remove most of those scraps. What we were left with were Sabretooth, a Jean Grey bearing little resemblance to how her character was originally portrayed in that reality and Weapon X as the new Apocalypse in pretty ridiculous feat of strained characterization and story logic. From this, Marvel chose to launch a new Age of Apocalypse series. …Really?

6.0

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Red Lanterns #5 – Review

Mar 13, 2012 | Tim Vinton | Comic Reviews

It is always stunning to me how Peter Milligan, an author with such a deft hand in other books, is consistently able to make Red Lanterns such a silly book. Regardless of what is happening in the story, you always know that there is going to be one unifying theme present in every book: Everyone getting really pissed off. Of course, when everyone is getting pissed off it kind of takes away the impact that normally comes from someone flipping out. This has the presumably unintentional effect of making everything that happens completely over the top and needlessly melodramatic. I love it.

As I have attempted to make abundantly clear on numerous occasions, Red Lanterns is a series that I just cannot take seriously. I will say that there can be a bit more story progress now that there are a few Lanterns who are not mindless with rage and can actually talk, but a team of weird looking aliens unified by being really upset about stuff just does not seem like a valid story premise to me. Especially when they are led by a giant pink man with shark teeth and an adorable pet kitty cat. These characters really strike me more as recurring villains than as characters nuanced enough to deserve their own book.

5.0

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Action Comics #7 Review

Mar 13, 2012 | Kat 'Comic Uno' West | Comic Reviews

Action Comics is one of my favorite series from the New 52. I was surprised to like this series because I did not expect it do be so good. I have never read the Action Comics series before the New 52 so I was happy to start reading the series when the New 52 started.

I was not really excited for this issue because I was not really impressed with the cover. The art for the cover was good, but I was not really impressed with the concept of the cover. I did not think that the story was going to be that interesting because it was going to be about Metropolis stuck in a bottle.

9.4

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Princeless #1 – Review

Mar 11, 2012 | Nicole D'Andria | Comic Reviews

Once upon a time, in a castle full of plot-holes there lived the princess Adrienne… who thought fairytales were hogwash and could take care of herself. Who needs a prince? Adrienne is happily princeless.

Definitely a story targeted towards younger audiences (and tomboys like myself), Princeless #1 is a great first issue with few faults other than the art styles occasional quirks and the second side-story featured in this issue.

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Avengers The Children’s Crusade #9 – Review

Mar 9, 2012 | Kat 'Comic Uno' West | Comic Reviews

I am sad to see that this is the last issue of Avengers The Children Crusade. The past 9 issues have been great and this is one of my favorite stories from the past year and half. It brought a lot of the Marvel Universe together with interesting story.

The cover for this issue was great it really summed up the whole mini series. We get to see Avengers, Scarlet Witch, Dr. Doom, Young Avengers, and X-men. All of these characters and teams brought a vital role to this series. I also love Jim Cheung’s art. He did a great job with the interior art and their no exception of the great work he did for the cover.

5.0

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Huntress #6 – Review

Mar 9, 2012 | Eric Mesa | Comic Reviews

This series started out amazingly for me. In fact, over at Comic Vine I gave the first issue a rating of 5/5 stars. The next two both got 4/5 and 4.5/5 respectively. But it was around issue number four that the mini-series just started to drag for me. It had the feeling of a mini-series that was forced to be a little too long in order to match up with some deadline. And, now that we know that this mini-series leads directly into World’s Finest in May, perhaps we now know why this story went about two issues too long.

I first got into this mini-series because I somehow came across the information that Huntress is Batman and Catwoman’s kid from Earth 2. I’ve never been a huge DC fan, so I didn’t know anything about the different DC Crises and that before The New 52, that the Huntress that was a Wayne had been eliminated. While the series didn’t answer which Huntress this was in the early issues, the story ended up being really fun to read. It concerned a sex smuggling ring running out of Italy and it featured a female comic book character kicking some serious butt. It also had some lite Batman-style detective work.

8.1

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Cobra #10 – Review

Mar 7, 2012 | Sean Elks | Comic Reviews

Did Cobra Civil War end just for another one to begin? This issue seems to be setting up another internal conflict inside Cobra, but some really good character writing from Mike Costa makes that more than forgivable.

A new Cobra Commander has been appointed, and he is leading Cobra in a dramatic new direction that leaves some of Cobra’s top lieutenants less than pleased. Being bad guys, their solution is to conspire against the new Commander to install a leader they are more comfortable with. Now, this is why I forgive the comic for seemingly setting up another civil war inside of Cobra. It just makes sense. It is being driven by the characters, and with the excellent way these characters have been developed, it’s hard to imagine them doing anything else.

5.2

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Batman: The Dark Knight #6 – Review

Mar 6, 2012 | Nicole D'Andria | Comic Reviews

The man who broke the Bat is back… which would have been a shocking revelation had it not been advertised on the cover of this news and barely improved issue of Batman: The Dark Knight. The characters continue to bore, the interesting storyline gets shoved into the corner of the ring while action takes center stage, leaving this issue at a bland mediocrity that can’t be saved by cameos or corny jokes.

Batman deals with the aftermath of the drug and an ‘unexpected’ guest – Bane, hyped up on venom and ready to take Bats out with his super-strength. Will Flash and Superman make it back in time to save Batman, or will he (and the still infected Flash) perish at the hands of the powerful venom flowing through their veins?

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The Amazing Spider-Man #680 Review

Mar 6, 2012 | Kat 'Comic Uno' West | Comic Reviews

The Amazing Spider-man is one of my favorite series because Spider-man is one of my favorite comic book superheroes. I especially love this series because of Dan Slott’s story telling. He knows Spider-man very well and always makes entertaining stories for him.

The cover for this issue had great art. Even though it was simple it still made me entertained and made me want to read the issue. The only thing that I was hesitant about with this issue because of the cover was Spider-man teaming up with the FF. I hoped that in this issue it would not be all about the FF because we get enough of them in their own series. I remember when Spidey had just joined the FF team we always had stories about the FF. It did not feel like a solo series anymore, but I am glad in this issue it was a not a big FF issue.

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Cobra #10 – Review

Batman: The Dark Knight #6 – Review

The Amazing Spider-Man #680 Review

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