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Overcoming Fear 0
Van Jensen is definitely making the effort to take this series closer to where it was before the New 52, especially before Brightest Day, back when Tomasi was first writing it before he transitioned to Emerald Warriors. Not only have we had a focus on more of the corps with the new recruits, Salaak, Kilowog, and Soranik Natu; but now he's bringing regulars like Iolande, Isamot, and Vath back into the fold. And Jensen's balancing the focus of the narrative with them all very well.Tomasi basicall...
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Contrived Danger 0
The Star Sapphires just don't have a lot of strong scenes in this issue, a lot of weak writing in their segments drag this issue down. We begin with the entire Central Violet Battery weakening, like the Green Central Battery in the foreshadowing scene from GL #21. And what's their first thought? "We need the Predator back in the Lantern!" Haven't we been down this road before? Carol proved to them that that's not what truly powers the Lantern. Why are they back to the same logic? And then there...
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The New Universe 0
As with the rest of the Lantern books, a new era is beginning. There's a lot of changes to the universe in the wake of all the recent major events, and I'm enjoying the fact that this series seems to be finally aimed at more general threats in the cosmos, as opposed to building the next cosmic threat. There's a little bit of the connection to the one crossover building, but otherwise this series is veering away from the universe breakers and light wars.John Stewart is the main character here, f...
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Sins of Our Children 0
Alex Garner is a perfect cover artist. Just... perfect. So much detail and realism, and a beautiful sense of layout design. This one's just as intense and gorgeous as the previous two covers.Fernando Pasarin's interior art isn't the museum masterpiece of the cover, but it's damn fine comic artwork. The facial expressions are a little different than most, but once you quickly get used to them, the emotions are all incredibly strong, which is essential to a story like this. The action's pretty gr...
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Disappointment on Planet Valeria 0
Matt Fraction's Fantastic Four started out as in incredibly promising potential for an adventure beyond the scope of imagination, especially from the man who brings us Hawkeye every week. Unfortunately it soon became a painfully generic 'time/space adventure story, and it's kind of amazing that something like that became generic. The planets they've been to have been only mildly interesting, and pretty much all the time periods they've visited have been pretty 'safe' in terms of storytelling. Th...
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Love Conquers 0
This cover's a bit generic and simple in design, but Billy Tan's interior art continues to impress me on this series. It's not a crazy stylistic over the top good, but I never have any complaints, and the style always seems to suit the tone. Tan's a great choice for Green Lantern.Hal's really feeling the burden of leadership here, and he's definitely not the type used to being a full time leader. Yeah he can lead the strike team, but the head of an organization? In charge of all the infrastruct...
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Emotional Spectrum Crash Course 0
I'm not sure if it's Venditti familiarizing himself with the Green Lantern Universe, or planning for new readers to be jumping on after Geoff Johns' supermassive run is over, but this issue reads very new reader friendly without being too pandering about it. It feels a LITTLE forced that St. Walker and a Star Sapphire just HAPPENED to show up to end up demonstrating some of the unique ways certain rings affect each other, but overall I feel like it's good the issue is so accessible and that acc...
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Villains of War 0
I like how the covers for the war are continuing the War Propaganda theme, but this one's not quite as effective as the previous one. The characters depicted have all sorts of strange body and face shapes, so it's really hard to properly make them out in an image of that style. I like how it's a spiritual reversal of the previous one though, it represents how the tone takes a nose-dive into despair compared to the heroic atmosphere of the previous issue.Nicola Scott's artwork continues to be st...
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Heroes of War 0
I'm not completely impressed with the execution, but the overall propaganda tone of the cover is definitely on the right track. It's inspiring as we finally enter the big battle of Robinson's run.Nicola Scott's back on art, and I had forgotten how perfect he was on this series after the Annual and last month's issue. Nicola Scott nails all the characters, the epic entrances of the major players, and the smooth and varied action of the war. Comic wars can tend to turn into a discombobulated mess...
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The Flames of Filler 0
I feel like I'd be a little easier on this issue if I didn't know how few issues Robinson had left. We already barely skimmed the surface of the new Batman, we've got the big Steppenwolf War brewing, Hawkgirls' still investigating Sam's death and just got into a web of conspiracy, AND we've got Mister Miracle and Barda running around doing who knows what; so with only 4 issues left, is now really the time to take an entire issue to flesh out another new character and set the stage for some othe...
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CityWar 0
I'm surprised to see this arc come to a close so quickly, setting some other plot points to extend out into the next arc or so. The siege of the Coral City Police department wrapped up surprisingly quickly, especially since half this issue is dedicated to fleshing out character backstories. But in the context of the whole series, the point they're at now isn't exactly unreasonable. I like that we're getting the full story on each character (save Vengeance Moth and Virtue), it just comes at a we...
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Tears Fall From Empty Eyes 0
The Movement continues to flesh out its characters beautifully while driving the plot forwards at a smooth and steady pace. There were definitely a few major plot points all flying around, but it was never too hectic, but it's still satisfying to see them sort of roped together and streamlined leading into each other as things move forwards.It's intriguing, usually I'm frustrated when heroes jump the gun and get embroiled in a pointless and easily avoidable conflict. I almost forgot that it can...
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Meeting the Movement 0
Look, I get that this series is supposed to ride the very delicate moral ambiguity line, but there's a different fine line between true moral gray, and forced. Don't get me wrong, most of this issue is the same kind of gray I love, but there's this one scene that absolutely infuriates me because of how stupid and shallow it paints everyone. The headquarters of The Movement is an abandoned factory that had horrendous conditions, underage workers, etc. And the doors were locked to prevent the wom...
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Pale-Skinned Lovers and the Family Summers 0
A pretty simplistic cover, but the interior art is definitely excellent. But Larroca always delivers some pretty fantastic artwork here, so I'm not surprised.Last issue was completely devoid of Cable after his capture at the hands of the Uncanny Avengers, dedicated to one of the side missions he sent the rest of X-Force out on, but this issue manages to fit in a bit of Cable alongside the outing. It's a fairly interesting scene, the family drama is heavy in the atmosphere, and we get to see a n...
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Fearsome Carnage 0
Aside from the fact that Segovia's artwork is still excellent and well rounded, this issue I'm less disappointed in the lack of Clayton Crain mostly because right now it seems like this story really isn't about Carnage. He's a plot device, not the main villain or main character; unless something happens towards the end to bring him back to main villain status in the story. What this is, is a Fearsome Four story, mostly The Wizard. And that's not exactly bad, it's just going to turn away a lot o...
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Fearsome Carnage 0
Even though he's doing the covers, it's pretty hard not to be at least a little disappointed by a Carnage miniseries NOT drawn by Clayton Crain. He just achieved Carnage tone PERFECTION on Carnage and Carnage U.S.A., and all other artists just fail in comparison. However, Stephen Segovia's art definitely works really well in this story. It looks great, and it fits the more varied tone of villains it appears will be populating this story.I really like the way the story begins narrated by a compl...
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What's a Van Sloten Diamond? 2
Once again, Araujo is really pulling all the weight in this series. There's so many weak points in the story and the pacing; but somehow the flow seems pretty smooth due to the highly energetic artwork of Araujo. The facial expressions are excellent, the action is super dynamic, the colors are stunning... the design for this new super Sentinel thing is definitely excellent. The art REALLY is what makes this comic readable.There's almost no character development here, we get Mancha worried he's ...
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Dimitrios = Ultron The Next Generation 0
One of the best spin-offs from the so-so Age of Ultron event was the phenomenal #10A.I. One-shot, showing that Hank Pym had a whole new outlook on life after the events of the event. It dug into his history and endeared me strongly to the character. It was a can't-miss awesome one-shot. So I was understandably excited for Avengers A.I. But let's face it, the reason the one-shot was so spectacular is because it was written by Mark Waid, Marvel's current master of character work, but that's all h...
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Beauty In the Eye of the Beholder 0
Trillium is not a comic for the casual reader. Trillium is also probably not a good introduction to the world of deeper storytelling in comics. A lot of this is because of Jeff Lemire's artwork. I won't say it's bad, I'm not that shallow, but it's definitely no Jim Lee or Greg Capullo where it's obviously detailed and excellent. But close examination reveals the body proportions and details like hands are surprisingly skillfully portrayed, despite the initial sense of scribbly, loose, amateur a...
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Luxury Scrap Metal 0
This issue's definitely a bit better than the previous one, and I know exactly why. For starters, there's no scenes with Clark Kent, Lobdell just seems to muck those down with all sorts of weird subplots that go nowhere for a while. There's also less pointless fighting and more genuinely important fighting. There's a LOT of action in this issue of Action Comics, and it's all pretty awesome. Tyler Kirkham seriously makes the scale of things extremely epic.But a good chunk of the fighting in this ...
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Superman: Downfall 0
After the trippy Morrison epic, and even the amazingly character rich Andy Diggle story, Action Comics has hit it's downfall with this issue. It feels like an issue of the New 52 Superman, which is appropriate because it shares the writer, Scot Lobdell, and carries over many of the plot details. SO basically Action Comics is now the place for Lobdell to dump his extra story to give us his mediocre Superman twice a month. Up until now, Action Comics felt very interesting and unique in the way it ...
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Kryptonian Rivalries 0
This issue definitely has the best cover of the issues this arc. The previous two issues had pretty generic action pose covers, the kind that could easily jus be simple panels; but this one is definitely a solid cover. It's not the most unique or innovative design, but the execution is definitely great.Once again, Tony Danial does a top-nothc job at making this series earn the 'Action' in Action Comics. The situation is stacked against him, but that just makes for a more drawn out battle betwee...
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No Stairway To Heaven This TIme 0
This is a pretty useless Trinity War Tie-In. As far as I can tell, nothing is achieved along the path for Trinity War, except MAYBE the mysterious gift Dr. Light told The Stranger to bring to his family. But we've no idea if that'll come into play soon or not. I mean, it seemed like this was going to lead to something when Trinity War spun it off, but really its a dead end. This is only worth it to people reading this series.And it's too soon. Last issue teased what would happen if someday The ...
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Sixth Heaven 0
Jae Lee once again nails it with the covers, but I feel like this cover belongs on the previous issue. I mean, last issue BEGAN with The Phantom Stranger crucified like that, that was a hell thing, but this issue is about Heaven. In fact, last issue's cover would be better suited for the issue before it. Weird.-Once again, Dematteis pretty much scrapes by the bare basic minimum when it comes to journeying through Heaven like he did with Hell. There's less action or high stakes, but there's even...
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Hell Is Other Hells 0
My god, DC really knows how to push my buttons on this series, don't they? As much as I want to dismiss it, I always get weirdly excited whenever Jae Lee draws the covers, he does such a mind blowing job each time and I KNOW I'm not super excited about what's inside, but I can't wait to get the issue because DAMN is it gorgeous on the outside.Fernando Blanco's fill-in work for the last few issues of I, Vampire was a bit of a disappointment, but then it was competing with Andrea Sorrentino, and ...
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Lois Lane Annual 0
Ok, I gotta say I really like this cover. It's very unique, and even though the execution is fairly simplistic, the overall concept is surprisingly effective. But it's misleading. Yes, the whole story kind of revolves around leftovers from Brainiac's first attack back in Morrison's Action Comics, but Brainiac himself appears only in one short flashback and nowhere else. This story really just sets up a future Brainiac encounter, it doesn't chronicle one.Dan Jurgens' artwork definitely has a bit...
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Who Is Coop? 1
Does Ken Lashley just expend all his cover talent on Batwing and have none left over for Superboy? This one's seriously a poorly laid out jumble of a mess.This issue's art is done by Gui Babli, and in a way it looks like a weird imitation of R.B. Silva's work. There's times where it works, but overall this issue just looks really 'off'.I want to say I appreciated the reference with "McDuffie High School," but considering how weak this issue was overall, and the series in general, I can't help b...
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Another Dea Vu All Over Again 0
Why is it that Ken Lashley can deliver stunning covers for Batwing, but only pulls off mediocre ones for Superboy? This one just feels rushed and bland; and the linework is messy.But on the interior art, in some ways I would say R.B. Silva is at his best this issue. The facial expressions are stunning in an issue where it's definitely appropriate, and KRYPTO IS FLUFFY ADORABLE but still a badass wolf when need be. I don't totally remember Krypto and Superboy interacting all that much in H'el On...
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Mind Over Matter 0
Ken Lashley's given us some terrible covers on Ravagers, but lately he's definitely stepped up his game, and his Batwign covers are phenomenal. This Superboy cover's not quite up to those standards, but the boldness helps make the generic concept work fairly well.The interior art for this issue... is a mess. A good chunk of the issue is done by series regular R.B. Silva, and it looks how I'd expect from him, but suddenly it jumps into Kenneth Rocafot's art, who has a wildly different sstyle. I ...
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Signaling Minor Improvement 0
I really like this issue's cover. It's got the same basic concept as the previous one at it's core, but it tweaks bits of the basics and makes it even more interesting and unique. But beyond that, the execution is significantly better, since the threat shown is much more along the same lines as what the text suggests.The art's still just pretty good. The fight scenes are fairly well executed, but throughout the issue there's a bit of an overuse of close-ups on characters faces. This is especial...
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The Punishment Doesn't Fit the Lack of Crime 0
I really like the idea behind this first issue's cover, but I feel like the whole setting of the New 52 really limited its effectiveness. It doesn't feel like Pandora's about to take on "THE ENTIRE DCU", more like "Everyone Who Just Happens to Be Important Lately." There's major groups and characters missing like the Doom Patrol and The Outsiders and The New Gods, etc. But of course, most of them are absent in the New 52, so I guess there's no helping it. But the impact just isn't enough for a ...
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#Robotrock 0
Ok, I like this cover, but the content itself bothers me in relation to the issue. Cecilia's arm doesn't turn all robotic until the very end of the issue, it's actually the final page cliffhanger. So this issue implies we're going to be dealing with a lot of drama on her part for this arm, but really that plot point barely exists in this issue.I was surprised that this issue jumped focus from Mohammed to Cecilia, I thought Mo was our outsider to follow into the group for this whole first arc, b...
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Money Money Money 0
Like Animal Man and Swamp Thing, The Green Team sets out to be a great yin-yang counterpart to Gail Simone's The Movement. The Movement started out on the streets, a dark dismal setting and slowly introduced the various morally questionable protagonists mid-action after the basic premise was laid out fairly quickly. The Green Team jumps right into introducing a group that's actually quite likable and interesting despite being Scrooge McDuck rich. It's weird, the poor Movement should be more rel...
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GO TEAM WASHINGTON 1
After a disappointing cover last issue, Sepulveda really delivers a gorgeous one this time around. The super close up works really well when we get to see the details in the stitching in Bane's mask, the stretching folds in the material, and the cracks in the owl mask. Really nice work.I wish I could say the same for Sepulveda's interior art, there's just not a great flow to the action here, but it's definitely a very traditional fight scene, and Sepulveda excels more at strange kind of battles...
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Talon's Creed 0
So there was a 'crossover' between this series and Birds of Prey, but honestly the entire story happened in BoP #21. This issue promises to be a full second part of the story, especially with the cover, but honestly it only takes the first few pages to just finish out the epilogue kind of stuff from the crossover. I'm a little confused at how some of that worked, I mean, why was Calvin fighting so hard before if there would end up being a way to avoid killing Strix? He had to know Strix was jus...
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Welcome Home To Your Nice Warm Cage 0
I've seen very mixed reactions to the artist switch here. Personally one of my biggest problems with it is simply the fact that it's a DRASTIC change from Guillem March. But honestly, I thought March was perfect for the series. He didn't always seem to bring his A-Game, but I was waiting for it to come. March completely blew my mind when he did art for Azrael, the perfect balance of bright colors contrasting heavily with the dark tone to create a beautifully unnerving atmosphere. It was a maste...
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EVERYBODY IS EVIL 0
Despite Starfire looking frighteningly anorexic, this issue has a really nice cover. The soft color palate makes for a nice sort of dreamlike quality to the image, which is a very subtle yin-yang. And honestly I have to admire the way Starfire doesn't look like some kind of non-existant super skinny sexy, when she looks frighteningly thin, she looks literally malnourished. She DOESN'T look attractively skinny, she looks unnerving. I mean, there's no context to make that kind of statement, but I...
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A Step Backwards 0
There's something really inconsistent about Julius Gopez's artwork. THe first few pages it looks awesome, but during a lot of the later conflict and emotional portions it just looks kind of messy. I end up remembering the messy parts more overwhelmingly, so my impression at the end of the issue was that the art wasn't that great, but it some cases it was. I wish Gopez would bring his A-Game consistently.THe continuity of the New 52 takes another major hit of confusion here, as it seems Hugo Str...
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The Stage is Set 0
Ok. That cover. Is Stunning. Such a simplistic but clever idea coupled with PHENOMENAL execution... Just... wow. Beautiful. Perfect. Menacing. Catchy. Everything.The mystery of Reverse-Flash develops at a nice pace this issue, much more akin to the beginning of the arc than the unfortunate filler tangent last issue. Unfortunately this issue delves more into teasing a Barry-Patty-Iris love triangle, the idea of which infuriates me to no end because of all the amazing relationship developments we...
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Kid Filler 0
The cover gets across the point of the issue, but it's just so basic and boring, especially compared to the previous cover and the next one.So, as pointless as it is, the confrontation between Flash and Kid Flash looks stunning. Francis Manapul's artwork is gorgeous, and while his layouts aren't as wild and artistic as usual, they're a lot smarter on a basic level. There's a lot less wasted space in this issue than most, in terms of artwork.The end of this issue has some plot advancement with t...
3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
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