Avengers Arena #1 Review “Worse Things” Teenage super heroes have teenage super hero sized problems these days. Stripped from the Avangers Academy, impressionable young teens must murder all of their peers in order to survive a madman’s psychotic fantasy. Avengers Arena is supposed to be the Marvel version of Battle Royale meets Hunger Games. Fortunately, […]
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Cable and X-Force #1 Review “Wanted” This week Marvel NOW! brings you an X-Force book, and to not get it confused with January’s Uncanny X-Force, they added Cable to the title. Pretty sneaky them guys there. If you’ve been reading Marvel at all, you know there was some kind of battle royale between the Avengers
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Avengers #1 Review “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” “Avengers World” “Wake the World” Have you ever felt like you just have to try? You don’t want to fail, but you know deep down you have no choice but to fail. The Avengers are “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” and they’re going against a power much greater than anything they’ve
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Thunderbolts #1 “Enlisted” You remember the original Thunderbolts? It seems so long ago when a rag tag bunch of villains got it in their heads to fool the entire universe into thinking they were the good guys. Then things dragged along, they got “real” talent, and then were not Thunderbolts but Dark Avengers, and confusing
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FF #1 Review “Parts of a Hole” Contrary to my popular belief, FF is not a new Fantastic Four from Marvel NOW!. It’s in fact Reed’s school for brilliant minds called the Future Foundation, not to be confused with Jean Grey School of Higher Learning. If you read the latest Fantastic Four #1, you’d know
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Captain America #1 Review “Saga of Dimension Z” Marvel NOW! has been mixing it up throughout the Marvel Universe, super heroes teams not only getting new members, but also getting new creative teams as well. Well, Captain America is taking it one step further, he’s changing his dimension. In a strange turn of events involving
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Thor #1 Review “A World Without Gods” Thor had a good run last year, in my opinion anyways, but with Marvel NOW! shaking things up, the now series with the newest creative team is underway. Thor is starting a five part series meekly titled, The God Butcher. The first book amply named “A World Without
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All New X-Men #1 Review Marvel NOW! is almost in full swing and the All New X-Men has hit store shelves this week. What effects has the Phoenix force had on mutant kind, better yet, what effect did it have on the human race? When the Phoenix force was dispersed, it’s powers didn’t just disappear,
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Iron Man #1 Review “Demons and Genies” Literally truck loads of Marvel NOW! books have come out over the past two weeks, so many in fact that I’ve almost become overwhelmed by them…almost. Iron Man #1 didn’t elude me, it just didn’t arrive on time, like the playboy Tony Stark himself, this one was fashionably
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Shadowman #1 Review The revamped Valiant Comics is still pumping out their rebooted/refreshed books from the 1990’s and this month they’ve thrown Shadowman in the mix. For reasons I don’t understand, this book takes place in the mystical lands of New Orleans, the main problem probably being that I’ve never been there. Voodoo and witchcraft
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Moloch the Mystic #1 Review “Forgive Me, Father, For I Have Sinned” DC Comics is pumping out a ton of “Before Watchmen” books, and not all of them are the heroes you would expect to see. No, it seems they’ve wandered into unwritten territory, dove head first into one of Watchmen’s most notorious villains, Moloch
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Joe Kubert Presents: Review “Hawkman” “Angel and the Ape” “U.S.S. Stevens” I always try to add comedy and randomness to my reviews, and hopefully the many of you who actually read them, enjoy that part of my reviews. To respect the late Joe Kubert, I plan to refrain from too much randomness and focus on
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