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Lighthearted Spidey tale 0
Every 5 to 6 years for a while there, J.M. DeMatteis would write yet another tale of Spiderman vs. the villainous White Rabbit. The White Rabbit was a screw up, not just a screw up, but the only villain that would be her partner was usually Wallrus Man.This tale takes place back whe Spidey had a bounty on his head, two minor reformed villains, now heroes are captured by the white rabbit, and unless her ransom is paid, she will head them to mutated, flesh eating rabbits and drop carrot bombs from...
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Death of a semi-major marvel character, um... for a while 0
With the increasing number of comic book stores around the country, Marvel's first large-format graphic novel was amazing. Not because of the size of the book or the glosy pages, but because of the death of a classic hero, Captain Marvel (Mar-vel in the Kree language). Many heroes on the market have had their close calls or have come back less than a year latter, but what made his death special was instead of dying from an alien named Doomsday, getting knocked off a bridge during a superhero slu...
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Skipped ahead?? 0
Have you ever read a series, where there was a sudden twist, and you felt that you missed a few things, well welcome to the new Exiles. Weird twist on a slightly new book. The book followed a pattern, the team would teleport in, get their mission and then port out. But with Chris Claremont as their new writer, the bugs are gone, their safety net has been dropped, and the Exiles are extremely lost, as is the story. The main story really isn't going anywhere, but the smaller stories are. Much like...
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The Death of John Bryne 0
This was a great take on the Marvel Universe. Back in the day, when the Fantastic Four first became a team, Jack Kirby and Stan Lee asked them if they could make a comic about their real life adventures. Now, years latter, the artist/writer of She-Hulk's book has died, or so Jennifer is told, and she must find someone to take over the book, since Marvel was loosing so much on their mutant books (Marvel, that is, in the comic book). With the mutants of the Marvel universe being hated, it would st...
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New Order 0
Inferno was in full swing, the Avengers are gone, and the heroes are literary picking up heroes along the way. It may seem like a bunch of story lines bunched into one, but it works together well. This story happens before Captain America issue 350 and after Thor issue 400 (clever the way Marvel had all three come up the same month). The team battles the Nanny, an egg shaped villain out to capture mutant children (no, seriously) and then fights to stop Inferno.Not a bad tale, but you might need ...
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Wait, weren't the Avengers a team? 0
The Avengers, at this point, are gone. Walter Simonson, who started writing the book a mere 7 issues back, started right away taking the Avengers down, one by one, but in a good way. When all was said and done, the Avengers broke up, but without the knowledge of Captain America, who was known as the Captain. This was a weird book, much like 3 other issues which focused on Jarvis, this one was strictly about him and his battle with the widespread mutant tale of Inferno. This tale marked the welco...
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Interesting take on Iron Man 0
For those who do not know the history of Iron Man, well he doesn't spout his origin off a lot. Unlike Spiderman, once the artificial heart was put in Tony, his origin was rarely told. Even during the start his background story was only a few pages, until now. But instead of telling the story from the main character's point of view, we hear it from Pepper Potts, one of his first secretaries/assistants. The story is fairly solid, as Pepper tells the tell of her and Tony, the life of the company an...
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Enter Peter David 0
Brought together by fate, Peter David (a Star Trek novelist and writer of the popular series, the Spectacular Spider-Man, was asked out of the blue to do this book by popular artist George Perez, artist to multiple books including the Avengers Vol.3 Up to this point, the Hulk series was good, not great, but simply good. Lacking direction as he was passed to writer to writer. This tale gives a sort of end of the road look to the Hulk, where he'd be in the future. If you haven't read this one, thi...
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Death of a legend, well done, but in bad taste 0
There comes a time in a comic book company's history, where the dead have come back to life so many times, it's really lost all meaning. The mentioning of Doctor Faustus (died twice at least, last death was from a slit neck from a dead Red Skull), don't get me started on the Winter Soldier (Bucky, rode a flying bomb which blew), or Sharon Carter (burned to death in front of a live camera). Whoops, I forgot Falcon and Crossbones, who have never died, well at least not in this reality. The art is ...
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Further issues of the Marvel Universe 0
The Marvel Universe handbooks were supposed to be a series which came out every few years. The main set was released in 85-87 and this set, which listed not only new characters but listed recently updated characters such as the gray Hulk, was a great addition. While the size was smaller and the series was less than half the size of the original, the series came close to filling in the gaps from the previous series such as the Red Ghost's Super Apes and finally listing the original issues that he...
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Best handbook to date 0
A few years back, Marvel had begun releasing the new handbooks with a handy scale of 1 to 10 rating the heroes. Not bad for an update, but if you really want to know the powers of Thor's hammer, the details on how Ant-Man's helmet works, the mechanics behind Quin Jet, then check out this book. The first version, published in 1984, missed some of the primary heroes and villains. The deluxe version gives a detailed account of the heroes history, abilities, powers, weaknesses, and even a detailed v...
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Going Nova 0
Due to the fact that he is a living thing, and heroes, no matter how big a threat the villain might, always have that nagging need to save living beings.Reed, with the help of Iron Man, revives Galactus who takes Frankie Raye, a sort of meaningless background character until a few years before this issue came out, as his herald. With all of his heralds, each one had a power based on an element of nature. Because Frankie was exposed to chemicals which turned her into a Human Torch, Galactus gave ...
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An all out battle with Galactus 0
Back when crossovers were a rarity, this title had one of the biggest crossovers to date, at least until the Secret Wars.Galactus, who just saved New York from his previous herald who was seen in the previous issue falling to his doom, was now ready to feed on the nearest source of life, since his own life force was so dangerously low. When he threatens to feed upon the Earth, the Fantastic Four, Thor, Iron Man, Captain America, the Wasp, Daredevil, Spider-man, and Dr. Strange rush in to save th...
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Off the wall greatness 0
The Fan 4 has always come off as the superpowered Waltons, not just the team, but the way the book read. No smut, no blood, just wholesome fun. During this time, the Thing had quit the team, and the She-Hulk was his replacement, but little was done with giving her much screentime, until now.While sun bathing nude on the top of the Baxter building, Jen (she-Hulk) is photographed by a smut magazine and she fights tooth and nail to get it back. Really funny book, sort of a one shot, one of the few ...
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Not a lot of story, but tons of action 0
This is the one book that really got me into the Fantastic Four. Dr. Doom tricks the grey Hulk into battling the now enhanced Thing. The Hulk at the time could, at some point, bench his normal over 100 ton strength limit, but in this form, he could only bench 70 tons and did not have the rage to increase his strength quickly enough to defeat the Thing. The Thing, who had lost 8 times before, his strength was maybe a little above Thor's, of course his now enhanced strength is taken from him a fe...
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Good book, not so good for spinoffs 0
Reprinted from What If issue 105, this was the start of something special, a new idea done in a classic design. With the What If series slowly circling the bowl, this was a welcome change. For once, instead of just changing one event and seeing the world right after, the story starts years in the future. Tom DeFalco gives a strong story, giving the story a very classy feel, and Ron Frenz's pencils really help the story by giving the characters that little extra umph. Sadly, the series would be c...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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