Tag: Marvel Comics
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Marvel’s Siege #2 Review
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Marvel, 3.99 Writer: Brian Michael Bendis Pencils: Olivier Coipel Inks: Mark Morales Colours: Laura Martin Now that Siege is halfway through, is it an epic “seven years in the making” or yet another oversized crossover that is more likely to bore me off the Marvel Universe for good than lengthen my pull list? A return…
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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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Iron Man: Virus Competition – 3 Copies to Give Away
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Titan Books have been kind enough to provide shelfabuse.com with 3 copies of the new Iron man prose novel by Alex Irvine, ‘Virus,’ which fills in the blanks between the first movie and the upcoming sequel. More info at Titan Books. Hopefully this synopsis should whet thine appetite: Iron Man: Virus In the clear blue…
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Dark Reign: Elektra TPB Review
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2009, Marvel Writer: Zeb Wells Pencils: Clay Mann Inks: Mark Pennington Colours: Matt Hollingsworth When Elektra was the first major character to be exposed as a Skrull in the run-up to Secret Invasion she seemed a good choice of character to send to spandex heaven. Take a look at the numerous series Elektra Natchios has…
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Dark X-Men #1 Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Story: Paul Cornell Art: Leonard Kirk, Jay Leisten, Brian Leber Norman Osborn’s own band of merry mutants get yet another miniseries. As with much of Marvels’ Dark Reign related material, it’s decently written, nicely illustrated… but somehow feels completely unnecessary. Whereas the central plot element of the Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men Utopia crossover was…
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Fall of the Hulks: Alpha Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Story: Jeff Parker Art: Paul Pelletier, Vicente Cifuentes, Guru eFX Like the green goliath himself, the Hulk series and its offshoots have grown out of control, and currently exist in a state of flux that nobody seems able to fix. Fortunately, Jeff Parker, whose immensely enjoyable Agents of ATLAS has been a definite…
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Spider-man Noir: Eyes Without a Face #1 (of 4) Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Story: David Hine, Fabrice Sapolsky Art: Carmine Di Giandomenico Does anyone still care for the Marvel Noir range? Marvel clearly thinks so, with this Spider-man follow-up out this week and another X-men miniseries released next week. While the various titles have all maintained a consistent level of quality, this sequel suffers somewhat as…
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Iron Man vs. Whiplash #1 (of 4) Review
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Marvel, $3.99 Story: Marc Guggenheim, Brannon Braga Art: Phillipe Briones, Matt Milla Okay, let’s not beat around the bush: Iron Man vs. Whiplash is a shameless cash-in on the impending Iron Man movie sequel. There’s no reason for this plot existing outside of the regular series, other than Marvel seeing an opportunity to cram another…