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Aquaman #26 is a weird shift-change from what came before, but in exactly the way Aquaman needed. 0
Do you remember the stories where a giant monster attacks a city, and a hero is scrambled to go fight with it? The hero has these moves, and the monster seems invulnerable, but he fights anyway? Yeah, of course you do, it was the kind of crap that most comic readers were probably brought up on. My particular trashy heroes were the Power Rangers, and I still, to this day, love them. The show was/is formulaic, cheesy, and overblown, but you know what, they were fun as hell. Every episode, the ran...
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The Saviors is a tale told through action, and is not afraid to let that do the talking. 0
Setting a scene in a comic book takes a very deliberate hand. The artist needs to nail the expression and movement, or lack thereof, and the writer needs to carefully plan what to include and what to omit. Very often, scenes are overwritten and explained due to a writer's common inclination. That is: to write. But with writing comic books it is about more than the words on the page, it is about the words directing the scene, guiding it, and more often than not, very few words are actually neede...
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Secret Avengers finds something new by infusing a sense of ownership and personality. 0
I had a defining moment with this book. You see, I decided to just jump in having read little of what came before(Read as: I picked up issue 12 as well, because it was part one) and had no idea what I was in store for. The last time I thought about the Secret Avengers was during Rick Remender's run, and I only caught that in the closing few issues before jumping off weekly comics altogether. The concept for the team is a fun one; spy stories, but in the whacky and wonderful Marvel Universe. The...
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Three is a great piece of historical-fiction, illuminating the often unmentioned aspects of Spartan Culture. 0
Historical accounts are, at the best of times, to be taken with a certain degree of scepticism. Who tells the story is about as important as why. Upon hearing about Gillen's idea for Three I immediately jumped to a kind of weird defensive state. And like Gillen, I had a certain bias over what was being said. Whether the Spartans were what many consider them to be today or not, is kind of irrelevant to the everyday person. But to those interested, it can be a heavily debated thing. One account s...
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Velvet's story is one you may think you've heard before, but you haven't heard it told this way. 0
Velvet is a spy story and one you have probably somewhat heard before. Velvet Templeton is a secretary for a secret agency, with a mysterious past in the field, who is set up as a traitor. It has a lot of threads that can be correlated with many films and pieces of fiction, most recently I can think of something like Salt, and as a plot summary they have a lot of shared blood. But the story of Velvet is not a summary laid out in plot points.The world of Velvet is a dark one engulfed in forebodi...
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Exploring the questions that inhabit Bedlam is what urges you forward, but its diverse style is what truly intrigues. 0
Asking questions is the foundation of a mystery. In the genre's greatest works, the answers hang tantalisingly above the reader's reach as they wade through the untruths and misdirection's of the author's uncertain world. In Bedlam, the mystery is one the character's don't know about and the reader's need for answers is challenged by a compelling narrative that asks just as many questions as it answers.Opening on a flashback of the protagonist's days as Madder Red, he waits for the arrival of t...
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Despite its fantastic visuals, the story of Black Science felt rushed and the narration oppressive. 0
Black Science #1 never takes a breath; it is a sprint to the finish line. Grant Mckay, a former member of a group known as The Anarchist Order of Scientists has delved into 'black science' and now he is paying for it. With a sprint? Well kind of actually. You see he has landed himself and his family on a strange world full of frog people and fish ladies and if he doesn't get back to them-- they will all die.It is all very urgent. The scientist, who I am also convinced is Rambo, hurls himself th...
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A well-told story that just wasn't for me. 0
DC: The New Frontier takes the heroes back to their roots. Spanning across from the second world war through the 50's and McCarthyism into the early 60's, this Mini-series by Darwyn Cook retells the advent of the classic DC superheroes.The book opens with The Losers on a mysterious island inhabited by monsters as the story is told from the perspective of the last remaining member. From there the book begins to jump around the world introducing each new character and, in many cases, their origins...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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