Category: Comic Book Reviews
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Siege: Embedded #2 Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Writer: Brian Reed Artist: Chris Samnee Colours: Matthew Wilson While the Civil War crossover event a few years back turned out to be a big fuss over nothing, one of several highlights was the Front Line miniseries, which detailed the unfolding events post-Stamford from journalist Ben Urich’s perspective. And with Siege looking to…
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Incorruptible #1 Review
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Boom! Studios, $3.99 Writer: Mark Waid Pencils: Jean Diaz Inks: Belardino Brabo Colours: Andrew Brabo Take Mark Waid’s excellent series about a superhero gone bonkers, Irredeemable, turn it on its head, and what do you have? Mark Waid’s new series about a supervillain seeking redemption, Incorruptible! The above oversimplification isn’t intended to demean Incorruptible by…
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Dante’s Inferno #1 Comic Review
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Wildstorm, $3.99 Writer: Christos Gage Artist: Diego Latorre As the comic book and video game industries progressively compete for the same demographic, there’s understandably a lot more comics based on game franchises hitting the shelves each month. Dante’s Inferno has the distinction of being not only based on the upcoming game of the same name,…
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Mass Effect: Redemption #2 Comic Review
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Dark Horse, $3.50 Story: Mac Walters Script: John Jackson Miller Art: Omar Francia Colours: Michel Atiyeh The universe Bioware have forged for Mass Effect is nothing short of magnificent, but it doesn’t take a particularly keen eye to spot the problem in expanding this blossoming space opera franchise into other media. While the promotional material…
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Pilot Season: Murderer #1 Review
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Top Cow, $2.99 Story: Robert Kirkman Pencils: Nelson Blake II Inks: Sal Regla Colours: Dave McCaig Often considered more “content writers” than literary artistes, comic writers seem destined to grab at whatever conventions are currently popular and craft tales that are familiar enough to sell to fans of the fictional fad of the moment (at…
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God Complex #1 Comic Review
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Image, $2.99 Story: Mike Oeming Script: Dan Berman, Mike Oeming Art: John Broglia Colours: Dan Berman You only have to glance at the first issue of God Complex, the new series by Oemin, Berman and Broglia, to appreciate who the series’ target market is. From the TV animation inspired artwork to Oeming’s dialogue-heavy script, God…
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Daytripper #1 Review
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Vertigo, 2009 By: Fabio Moon, Gabriel Bá Colours: Dave Stewart Eisner Award winning Brazilian duo Fabio Moon and Gabriel Bá’s new series Daytripper is a mature title in the truest sense. And by that I don’t mean that this is a comic that feels the need to shove tits and incest in the reader’s face…
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Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #3 Review
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2009, Grim Crew Writers: Martin Brandt II, Tiffany Brandt, Adam Wilson Artists: Gaston Pacheco, Drake Harris, Michael Stewart, Mark Dodson See also: Grim Crew Presents: Dead Future #1 and #2 Review Martin Brandt and company continue to forecast the undead apocalypse in this anthology series by writers and artists from around the world. As with…