Review — ‘Star Wars: Inquisitors’ Succeeds Despite Its Title Characters
The Inquisitors occupy an interesting place in the Star Wars mythos. Seemingly born of the need to give the good guys somebody with a
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Retro-Review: Batman #450 The Joker Misses The Funny
After looking at a surprise Joker story earlier today, the Comicon team continues April Fool’s Day and takes a look
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Intriguing New Status Quo, Mixed Execution — Reviewing ‘Phoenix: Orbital Resonance’
Wolverine, and occasionally Cable, aside, the X-Men don’t have a great history of supporting solo series for their members. Many
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Review: ‘The Patchwork Girl Of Oz’ #3 Brings Trouble
The cover features a variety of hues with most of them being dark in order to highlight the lighter coloring
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Previously On X-Men: ‘X-Manhunt Omega’ #1 Leads This Week’s X-Books…Somewhere!
In this week’s “Previously On X-Men“, the hunt for Charles Xavier ends in X-Manhunt Omega #1 as the rest of
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Review: ‘The Seasons’ #3 Slows Down
Writer Rick Remender creates very little plot progression, and this problem combines with some arguably repetitive characterization to make the
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Making The Most Of A Crossover Tie-In — Reviewing ‘Iron Man’ #6
Usually, when a major crossover plunges its narrative tendrils into a series that doesn’t otherwise have a direct connection to
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Troping Its Way To Success — Reviewing ‘Space Ghost’ #10 And #11
One of the defining elements of Space Ghost has been the way it riffs on different tropes, both character-specific ones
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Previously On X-Men: “X-Manhunt” Makes The Best Issue Yet of X-Force
This week, “X-Manhunt” marches on, but turns in maybe it’s best showing yet in the process, in X-Force #9 and
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Kylo Ren Is A Sadboy In Another Strong Issue — Reviewing ‘Star Wars: Legacy of Vader’ #2
Thanks to the way it’s come to symbolize the divided reaction to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Kylo Ren’s repeated
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An Abrupt But Satisfying Conclusion — Reviewing ‘Transformers’ #18
It was a little stunning, reaching the end of this issue and reading the letters page, to see it referred
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‘Rogue: Savage Land’ #2 Mostly Picks A Lane And Is Better For It — Review
After trying to be too many things at once — pulpy jungle adventure, cheesecake spectacle, and continuity insert — in
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Fighting The Past With A Big Honking Sword — Reviewing ‘Iron Man’ #5
After starting with a series of issues involving magic armor, demonic pacts, and big swords, Iron Man #5 is the
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Another Befuddling Mess In Service of Easy Satire — Reviewing ‘X-Factor’ #7
The cover is the best thing about X-Factor #7. Though, in true comic book cover fashion, it is more a
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Review: ‘Star Wars: Jedi Knights’ #1 Is Another Win For ‘Star Wars’ Comics
The Prequel Era of Star Wars storytelling in an interesting place. Once the butt of jokes amongst fans, the aging
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Review: ‘The Tin Can Society’ #6 Continues Off The Premise
The premise that co-plotter Rick Remender and co-plotter/writer Peter Warren are using continues to have interesting developments occur because of
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Review: ‘Gunsmith Cats Omnibus’ Book 1 Is Kind Of Creepy
This is the first in a multi-volume series of omnibuses and it collects a lot of Gunsmith Cats. However, this
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Advance Review: ‘The Seasons’ #2 Continue To Build Their World
Writer Rick Remender continues what might be one of the best homages to cartoonist Winsor McCay’s style of storytelling. There
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Advance Review: ‘The Patchwork Girl Of Oz’ #2 Shows Artistic Love
Writer/artist/colorist/letterer Otis Frampton and color flattener Kate Frampton continue adapting author Lyman Frank Baum’s novel The Patchwork Girl Of Oz
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Advance Review– `Assorted Crisis Events’ #1 Makes Post-Apocalyptic Life Interesting
The comic book universe is no stranger to the occasional crisis. Every decade or so, DC rolls out a crisis
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Comic Couples We Love: Rogue & Gambit Are ‘Mr. & Mrs X’
I’ve never been the biggest fan of the Rogue/Gambit relationship. Sure, when it was running hot in the early 1990s
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Advance Review: ‘Defiant’ #1 Tries To Tell A Story Too Big For The Page
Imagine being able to write the last chapter of your own story – to create that one last tale and
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Review — ‘Wolverine’ #5 Spins Its Wheels
The cliffhanger ending to the previous issue suggested some notable developments in the Adamantine subplot. In practice, Wolverine #5 stands
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Review: ‘The Seasons’ #1 Brings The Creep And Beauty
Writer Rick Remender conceives a mostly great script. The only obvious disagreement one may have with it is on the
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Review — ‘Howl’ #1 Succeeds By Backgrounding Its Alien Invasion
There is a trope, to the point of becoming a cliché, if it’s not already. In stories set in the
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Soft Magic And Massive Swords — Reviewing ‘Absolute Wonder Woman’ #4
When facing down an ancient evil attacking humanity, an empathetic can-do attitude will get a person pretty darn far. Weapons,
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Review — ‘Space Ghost’ #9 Is An Effective “Part 2 Of 2” For Better And Worse
If last issue read like the penultimate episode of a TV season finale, then Space Ghost #9 continues the trend,
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‘Bereavement’ Successfully Explores Grief Through The Lens Of Sci-Fi — And An Adorable Robot
Can a robot grieve? That’s the Pixar-ish question at the heart of Bereavement, a new sci-fi murder mystery comic launching
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Review: ‘Iron Man’ #3 Proves The Pen And The Sword Are Equally Mighty
After forging magik-based armor and wielding a honking-big sword over the previous two issues, Iron Man #3 is the issue
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‘Lucky Devils’ #1 Is An Exposition-Laden Start To An Intriguing New Series
The follow-up to writer Charles Soule and artist Ryan Browne‘s acclaimed Eight Billion Genies, Lucky Devils is a cracked-mirror version
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Review — Factional Divides Make ‘Transformers’ #16 A Success
One of the things this latest iteration of Transformers has done consistently to set it apart from previous incarnations —
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