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Shaman's Tears TPB 0
Back of book blurb from the IDW Shaman's Tears TPB.***SPOILERS*** ...But look, Shaman's Tears is from 1993, and even this TPB is from 2011. You've had your chance.I include the back of book blurb here, because... well... it's kind of a lot, isnt' it? And this thirteen-issue series tried to fit it all in, and be artsy, and angsty, and statement-y, and... and I'm really kind of disappointed. I picked up Issues #1 & 2 back in 1993 when they came out, and ran across an ashcan of #3 sometime late...
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The New Adventures of The Human Fly #1 0
Bare bones plot descriptions, but no spoilers.Marvel's 1977 The Human Fly series is one of my favorites. So, I was really excited when I saw this on Amazon. The New Adventures of the Human Fly?! Yes, please!Then I received it in the mail. I thought, "Bonus," becuase it was a magazine-sized book, like the Marvel Graphic Novels of the 1982 series. That joy was immediately dampened when I looked inside, and discovered that the art was all in black-and-white. It's okay, it's a viable choice- I just ...
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Batwoman S1E1 Pilot 0
*SPOILERS* but c'mon, it's been over two years.IMPORTANT NOTE: To put my review in context, I feel the need to put my feelings on LGBTQ programming in print here. It was a process for me- stick with me.First: I haven't read the Batwoman series that spawned this show, so I can draw absolutely zero comparisons.Second: I was not for this show.I am all for inclusion and representation, but I really HATE the way DC does it. Or really, I hate the way CW does it. I have yet to ever see LGBTQ characters...
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Batwoman S1:E1 - Pilot 0
*SPOILERS* but c'mon, it's been over two years.IMPORTANT NOTE: To put my review in context, I feel the need to put my feelings on LGBTQ programming in print here. It was a process for me- stick with me.First: I haven't read the Batwoman series that spawned this show, so I can draw absolutely zero comparisons.Second: I was not for this show.I am all for inclusion and representation, but I really HATE the way DC does it. Or really, I hate the way CW does it. I have yet to ever see LGBTQ characters...
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Green Arrow: Here There Be Dragons TPB 0
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS*** The stories are from 1988, so you've had yer chance.Want to read the review on the previous volume? See Green Arrow: Hunters Moon TPB.I dinged the first volume of this series for seemingly wrapping up Dinah's trauma from Longbow Hunters, and moving on- saying it was a little too easy. While they didn't exactly redeem that in this volume, they at least did mention it again, so kudos for not completely letting it go.Where Dinah's trauma was dealt with in two issues, the six...
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Green Arrow: Hunters Moon TPB 0
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS*** They're from 1988; over thirty years ago. Y'had yer chance.Recently, I treated myself to a bunch of trade paperbacks, most at some very discounted prices. Among those, I got all nine currently-available volumes of the 1988 Green Arrow series. Easing into a three-day weekend, I finally got around to reading the first volume today. It's... well... right in line with what I expected it to be, but a tiny bit dated.Only "a tiny bit" though, because Oliver Queen was a "social j...
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Nancy In Hell: A Dragon In Hell #1 0
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS***You may be wondering how something like this happens. See the pic to the right- El Torres explained it himself in the back of this very issue. TL;DR? Allow me to get to the core of it with this quote:...I used that hey-we-are-in-the-same-company trick... "Can I use The Dragon in one of my books?", I asked."Yes," answered Erik...."Can I publish this book through Amigo?", I asked."Yes", answered Erik.El TorresSo, that's how that gets done. Easy, right?Y'know what wasn't easy...
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Savage Dragon #250 0
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS*** (you were warned)It's that time again! Another milestone issue for Savage Dragon! This title has been plugging along for 250 issues now... 256, if you count the original three-issue mini-series, #0, #1/2, and the #13 from the Image X-Month (although Larsen would prefer you forgot that last one). If you start counting the minis, crossovers, and significant guest appearances, there have been at least another 50 (FIFTY!!!) issues with Savage Dragon in them! That's OVER 300 i...
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Teen Machine #1 0
***POSSIBLE SPOILERS*** you were warned.Teen Machine #1 is a one-shot that collects the Teen Machine stories from Argo Comics Anthology. The stories are each fun for what they are, but as a whole, it seems like the creators were trying to decide what they wanted Teen Machine to be as they went along.In the first story, "Helping Melvin," nerdy Melvin wants to ask the beautiful Renee to the prom. The Teen Machine team decides to help him out, but the school bullies want Renee to themselves. The st...
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MPH TPB 0
Okay, so the first issue of this came out in 2014, and I don't think I bought it until 2015. Never did get the other issues. A few weeks ago, I was shopping around for another two trade paperbacks about a super drug, and it reminded me of MPH. So, I went looking, and found it for a pretty decent price (that is: less than cover). Before I get into the book though. let me get something out of the way...I kind of dislike Mark Millar. Kind of. To be fair, I liked parts of Wanted, and most of Starlig...
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Tales From the Dark Multiverse: Batman: Knightfall #1 0
After reading the Tales From the Dark Multiverse: TItans: The Judas Contract one-shot, I was super stoked to read the other Dark Multiverse books. Unfortunately, the story quality is apparently not consistent. This divergence on Batman: Knightfall is just weird.*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* you were waned.So Bane breaks Batman's back. Bruce works his way back to health to be Batman again. Here though, when he confronts Jean Paul Valley, the former Azrael decides he's the "one true Batman" (which had me th...
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The Futurists #1 0
Example of former webcomicBack in 2009, The Futurists was a webcomic. That and this one picture I found on comicsbeat are about all I can tell you about it, because the website - whoarethefuturists.com - is now gone. I imagine that they had to pull the webcomic when they decided to sell comics through Allegiance.Although the webcomic is no longer available to read, The Futurists #1 is! And I say: READ IT! British soldier Terry Gunn is caught up in a treasure hunt gone wrong which he tried to sto...
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Norah's Saga #1 0
Hammer of ThorNorah's Saga is my third of four reads from Allegiance Arts & Entertainment, and I have yet to be disappointed. Between the company name, and the way these titles have gone, I'm assuming they're being written with an eye towards film development. I gotta tell ya: I'm okay with that. These stories are fantastic!A few years after a death in the family Norah Karrlson is in a new town, and new high school, and she's not exactly fitting in the way she'd like to. A fateful trip durin...
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U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves #1 0
Badass Mofo should totally be an official job titleI love a good Western. There's just something about the tall tale mythic nature applied to gunfighters. Maybe it's the fact that some of them actually existed? Whatever the case, U.S. Marshall Bass Reeves delivers all of that, including the fact that this guy was real! I was surprised by that- I don't remember reading his chapter in Badass, but here's his entry on Badass of the Week which says he's in the book, so I must have read it. There's po...
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Red Rooster #1 0
I currently work at Wal-Mart. So, when I ran across an article saying that a new comic line would be distributed directly to Wal-Marts, and sold in their book section, I wanted to check them out. I'll be honest: I wasn't expecting much. I picked them up June 5th, and I'm happy to say: I was wrong. With fantastic art, and so-far great writing, I'd hold up this title to anything being put out at one of the larger companies.There's not a lot to tell as of this issue since it was mostly setup, but t...
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New Statesmen #5 0
Want to read my review of New Statesmen #4?Possible ****SPOILERS**** but for the love of life, take them, and don't buy this book!This story was originally serialized in fifteen chapters in the British anthology comic Crisis - sister title to 2000 A.D. It ran from #1-14, and resurfaced in #28. The five-issue mini-series was the way it was formatted for the American market. Frankly, maybe it loses something not having to wait from issue-to-issue for each chapter? Whatever the case, this issue was...
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New Statesmen #4 0
Want to read my review of New Statesmen #3?Possible **SPOILERS**, but take them and save yourself from buying the book.Stuff hits the fan right out of the gate this issue, and without warning. I mean, it's what Phoenix was planning in the previous issues, but we didn't know exactly what that was, and here we didn't get to see it start. There's no Ozymandias-like explanation of it either, beyond some vaguely hinted at puritanical cleansing of the non-Christian elements in the country, city-by-cit...
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New Statesmen #3 0
Want to read my review of New Statesmen #2?Possible ***SPOILERS***, but take them and don't buy this book.I was trying to read an issue, then write the review before going on to the next issue, but I couldn't stand it anymore with this issue. So, I went ahead and read #4 and #5. It doesn't get better.Ugh. This mini-series really goes downhill quick. I stated in a previous issue's review that this was published three years after Watchmen, and it just becomes more-and-more evident that they were o...
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New Statesmen #2 0
Want to read my review of New Statesmen #1?Possible ****SPOILERS**** but it's from 1989.I gotta be honest: I think maybe the first issue had such high marks from me, because of the similarities to my own Statesmen idea. This issue was way less... well, just way less than the first issue. Phoenix- the televangelist Statesman who's running for president- has some plan underway, and surprise, he suggests murder to his second-in-command, but "maybe you can make it look like a suicide." Le sigh. Not ...
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New Statesmen #1 0
****SPOILERS***** but this story is from 1989, so you had your chance.I ran across New Statesmen completely by accident. I was researching something in the Comic Vine wiki, and it came up in a search. I was intrigued, because in my own characters I have a group called The Statesmen. As it turns out, the idea is similar on the surface. That is: both teams are a group representing the United States- a member for each state. That's about as far as it goes.The story starts off in September, 2064, th...
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Legion of Super-Heroes #1 0
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* ...you were warned.Just to be upfront with everyone, I haven't liked much of what DC or Marvel have done since 2011. I pretty much stopped reading them after 2015. I've checked out only a few things here-and-there, and have been mostly disappointed. Which pains me to say, because I love DC and Marvel. I really do. I grew up with them, and these are the comics that made me fall in love with comics. But really... lately? Not so much.Honestly? I only bought Legion of Super-Heroe...
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Power Pack: Grow Up! #1 0
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* ...you were warned.Power Pack: Grow Up! #1 is a one-shot revisitation of the 1984 Power Pack series that made us love this group to begin with. The fact that they threw in some other nostalgic favorites like Kofi, Friday, Kitty Pryde, Wolverine, Lila Cheney, and the Brood just made this a really fun read. It's split into two stories: "Growing Pains!," which is the main story where they fight the Brood, and "The Gift!," which is really just an epilogue to the main story, but i...
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Spider-Ham #1 2
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* ...you were warned.I love funny animal comics in general. My three favorites though have to be Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew, Marvel's ten-issue Mighty Mouse, and Peter Porker, the Spectacular Spider-Ham. So when I saw Spider-Ham #1 on the shelf, I had to check it out.I have to be honest: the jerk version of Spider-Ham that's come about since 2015 is funny at times, but mostly, it's a poor replacement for Howard the Duck. I just want 'Ham to be fun. In this issue, h...
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Tales From the Dark Multiverse: Teen Titans: The Judas Contract #1 0
*POSSIBLE SPOILERS* ...you were warned.I haven't been reading a lot of DC or Marvel lately. I don't hate them or anything... I've just been really disappointed by them in the last several years. Not much has really interested me, and the few things I did check out were mostly lackluster and disappointing. It's completely possible that I missed some gems, but let's just leave it at that before this strays too far from the review. The POINT is: anything Titans... especially if it's related to the ...
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Savage Dragon #247 1
*SPOILERS* ...probably. I'll try to avoid it, but... well, we'll see.I have a feeling that this issue is just a bridge in something larger. I mean, there's always a larger arc, but this one was just... "filler" is too harsh, but... kind of? On its own, it wasn't much. A lone Demonoid Prince comes back from his travels to find his race slain, and wages a one-demonoid war against humanity as the new Demon King (DK). We get to see Amy (aka Battle Girl) in a Canadian-themed costume, and of course, h...
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Filthy Rich HC 0
I am ten years late to this book. I happened upon a first printing of a hardcover Filthy Rich in a used bookstore. I got it for a ridiculous $3.37, rather than its cover price of $19.99, but that was just a bonus to me. I picked it up because it had Brian Azzarello's name on it. I didn't actually know that he had written the excellent 100 Bullets, or Batman: Broken City, or Batman/Deathblow: After the Fire. I learned all that reading Silkcuts' review of this book (thanks, Silk'). But the New 52 ...
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How To Self-Publish Comics Not Just Create Them #1 4
This book was great, and only suffered in one, small area: Blaylock started the comic company Devil's Due Publishing. He couldn't help telling anecdotes about DDP, so it kind of came off like a promotion for publishing through DDP rather than self-publishing. (Personally, I'd look for a small publisher who lets you retain your ownership, rather than trying to do it all myself.)For the score, I'd say minus one star for the seeming promotion of DDP over self-publishing. Total score: 4 stars....
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The American Way: Those Above and Those Below #4 0
***Possible Spoilers***I read the first The American Way, and loved it. It was a nice mix of heroics and government manipulation- something I imagine would be much closer to the truth if superpowers existed in the real world. I've been reading The American Way: Those Above and Those Below since it started, and my reaction has been a bit mixed. I've been trying to sort it before doing any reviews on the issues, but I've decided that maybe those mixed feelings should be part of it. So, here we are...
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Titans #17 0
***Spoilers discussed***I know, I know- on last issue's review, I swore I was dropping this title. Here's the thing though: my comic shop requires five titles minimum for a subscription box, and I really didn't have anything else to add. So, I just kept this one on the list. Moving on...My peeve last issue was that the big bad behind the Fearsome Five was revealed to be an evil Donna Troy, and I predicted yet another "Who is Donna Troy?" arc. Well, I'm just going to go ahead and say, "I told you...
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Titans #16 0
***A few spoilers, but I'm over it***I'm done with this series. I really want to like it, and I've tried- I've really tried. The current roster is a nice mix of the 1960's and 1980's rosters, and they've hit some good beats- the return of red-headed Wally to the team, working Mal and Bumblebee into the book, and the return of the Fearsome Five. It's just...everything else.I get it- African-American Wally isn't going anywhere since he's all over the Arrow TV show, and frankly, I'm good with that....
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Deadman #1 0
I won't lie- I bought this issue for the glow-in-the-dark cover. Not lying again- the glow-in-the-dark cover didn't look so great in the dark. It certainly didn't work as well as the 1993 glow-in-the-dark cover of Radioactive Man #1. That aside, I also thought it was cool that Neal Adams was doing the artwork. Turns out he did the writing, drawing, and coloring. Pretty cool, since he did the art on an early incarnation of the character.After geeking on the gimmick cover and Adams doing the art, ...
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Fighting American #1 4
Having released a trade paperback of the original Fighting American material in 2011, Titan Comics jumps right into this continuation of that series. They give you a brief recap on the inside front cover, and then dive right into the action as if the previous issue was last month, and not in 1955, or 1966 if you're counting the Round Robin one-shot.So, what do we find out this issue? That Poison Ivan and some of his Communist co-conspirators have gotten to the future (our present of 2017) closel...
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Savage Dragon #227 0
Want to read my review of Savage Dragon #226?***SPOILERS, BECAUSE...***It's going to be nearly impossible to keep the spoilers out of this review, because so...little...happens. Actually, that's not completely accurate. A lot of setup happens, but it can be summed up in the two sentences I put in the wiki summary:Malcolm, Maxine, and the kids move to Toronto, Canada with the help of Thunderhead and the Chicago PD. Jennifer, Amy, and Alex remain stranded in Dimension-X, fighting whatever comes th...
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Savage Dragon #226 0
Want to read my review of Savage Dragon #225?***Probable Spoilers***This issue starts off with Dragon's funeral, and flows right into Malcolm Dragon and others continuing to fight crime amidst growing anti-alien sentiment prompted by president Trump. Oh, and in the montage panel of people complaining about aliens, one of them says, "Plenty of n***** and Muslim countries out there for them to move to." only the N-word isn't censored. Really, Larsen? Completely unnecessary. Yes, it's probably show...
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Savage Dragon #225 0
***Probably some spoilers***Okay, there's something to talk about right off the bat here: the XXX Cover D. That's right. There were four covers for this issue: two by Erik Larsen, a great one by Frank Fosco, and a Triple-X cover by Rafael Kras. And that XXX rating is no exaggeration. It pictures Malcolm in bed with Angel, Maxine, and Tierra. Chests, vaginas, and juices are showing, along with open condom packets and miscellaneous items of clothing strewn about (not to mention a couple of used co...
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The Spirit (Movie- 2008) 8
It has been eight-and-a-half years since The Spirit hit theaters, and ran down the wall like a carton of broken, rotten eggs. I had heard it was terrible. I mean, I cannot think of one person who said to me, "Well, it was okay." I had heard that it was plain gawd awful. So I had looked at it several times in the cheap bins of various stores over the years, and put off buying it. I wasn't sure I wanted to see the destruction of something by Will Eisner- a comic great whose death hit me harder tha...
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Savage Dragon #222 0
SPOILERS! You've been warned.Some really cool things happen this issue: Jennifer Murphy is back. We find out that Rapture had a daughter out there, and Malcolm helps her out during a battle. For more of her, see the Mighty Man one-shot that also came out this month. Alex Wilde was back. Dragon saw Alex. Dragon saw Jennifer. Jennifer proposed to Dragon.Then there's the other stuff. "Other stuff" meaning "lots of naked characters doing lots of sexual stuff." Now, I'm not a prude, and this title is...
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Titans #5 0
This issue, Wally saves everybody. With the doppelgangers killing everyone at the same time, Wally has to be everywhere at once. He pours on the speed, does the deeds, and in the end it appears that Linda may have remembered him. But maybe she was just shocked at what was happening to him. It's unclear.I felt like the saves were too easy, but what saves this for me is the way the creators successfully built the awe of everyone over Wally's power. That was pretty impressive. I'm still a bit under...
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Titans #4 0
Dang, I want to like this book so much better than I'm actually liking it. So this issue, Kadabra doubles the doppelgangers' powers, they fight the Titans again, and being more powerful, they win. Kadabra gives Wally the you-can-save-only-one-so-you-must-choose speech, and Wally boldly says he'll save them all, sprinting away.I really have next to nothing to say about this issue. They're trying really hard to keep the nostalgia pump primed, but on the second readings, it's just not there for me....
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Titans #3 0
I'm doing second readings on the first five issues before I do these reviews, and I'm frankly shocked at how much my personal nostalgia for this team has kept this book on my pull list. On the second readings, I am way less enthused.Okay, so this issue: Kadabra rants about becoming infamous, Wally has another long boring chat with an angry Linda who still doesn't remember him, and the Titans do little more than try to figure out their next step. We see Vox and Bumblebee out of costume, watching ...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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