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A missing Avenger 0
In his last arc story in charge of the Avengers, Bendis will bring back a team member long missing, for happyness or misery of the fans. As I read this issue, I was surrounded with confusion, because in the initial pages, pencilled by Peterson, we see a frenzy pursuit that I can only describe as a Star Wars - Return of the Jedi racing shuttles, filled with aliens and a mysterious girl whose identity will be revelead in the next issue. At the same time, as Captain America is grinding with bitter ...
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Save the girl, Kill the girl! 0
It's another arc story tunnelling in Logan's mysterious past and guess what: there're ninjas, secret groups, chicks from the past, the regular "I don't remember this", monsters and a maiden Logan must save. Ok, looking at this brief description, it sounds as one more boring story, isn't that right? WRONG!! Cullen Bunn makes from all these elements a very good jump start of this arc story, with good dialogues, excellent action scenes, a different team up and a decent plot. If you can look past al...
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Who called for a symbionte? 0
Embrace the Abyss, the darkness that will rule all - that's the mission some of the Secret Avengers' team members are trying to avoid and help their fellow coleagues that were taken by Serpent Crown's powers. This is Remender's second arc story grand finalle (not including AvX) and it's amazing how he pulled elements from Brubaker's first arc story and turned it into a true black ops mission! I really liked a lot the ending in which it's commented that you've saved the world and no one will ever...
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The dream of Charles Xavier (minor spoilers) 0
In the wake of AvX events Rick Remender and John Cassaday join forces to deliver a new ongoing book from Marvel, selling the idea that a team made of Avengers and X-Men will help the healing process. The concept of this new book is very good, especially now that human's hatred towards mutants tends to increase and escalate to big proportions. The contradiction and paradigm here is hilarious: for years, after the "No more mutants", Cyclops and the X-men have been fighting to spark their kind agai...
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The magic mountains of...Disney! 0
Note: this is a review of issues 24 to 30!Unfortunately this title was assigned with the worst theme, in my opinion, of the AvX big event, which is the whole Kung Fu and Kun Lu stuff that will save the day from the Phoenix - it's not that I don't like the idea. balancing the sicence in comics with a little religion and mysticism, but add that the same feelling I had reading Fear Itself about the whole Weapons and the Worthy sub plot: what was it good for? Absolutely nothing!! What was the point ...
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Walter Simonson!'Nuff Said! 0
Note: this is a review of issues 25 to 30!Hate or love Bendis, I don't care, but something you can't say about him and that's he sure delivers great dialogues - in these six issue run of the Avengers title I saw better dialogues than the majority of AvX tie ins and main series, perhaps not the deep characterizations of Aaron's Wolverine and the X-Men, but definitely better aproaches than Fraction, Gage or Gillen. Bendis is a master of dialogues and often forgets to deliver action, but that didn'...
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Relax, there's milk! 0
I believe this was probably one of the best issues of the year, not only because of the magnificent art of Dustin Weaver, but also on account of Gillen's fantastic and finesse writing. Gillen is one of those writers who are very literate and intelligent, also googles a lot I guess, so he delivers tons of references, from art in general to the ability of transmiting in his plot notions of History, Geography and all the other disciplines, making the story so interesting to read, it's easy to plung...
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AvX's Last Act 1
The last hour of this event has come and while Wolverine is fighting side by side with his fellow X-Men and Avengers in Utopia, Kitty Pride and the rest of the staff are doing their best back at Jean Grey's School, trying to keep things as normal as possible and what would be better for that than throwing a ball? Welcome to the first ever Jean Grey School Dance!! But not everything is dandy in the school, since Aaron is stirring things a lot, like the return of the evil kids of Hellfire Club (th...
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The Gates of Delirium 0
Valentine is a soldier of the French army and as he tries to escape from the icy fields of Russia, a magical and extraordinare thing happens that will change his life forever. This is a story about magic, a modern fairy tale, and though the initiative is filled with creativity and originality, also some interesting dialogues, the format of this book, also how the frames were designed made the reading a little boring. I really don't understand why publishers insist on putting on shelves books of ...
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New students, reconciliations and preparations for War 0
Amidst all the fighting and endless conflict going on among Avengers and the X-Men, this issue comes with a soothing and calming mood, like the easyness before a storm. This issue is a time (very deserved indeed) for the X-men in Jean Grey's school to get things in perspective, mend "broken" relationships, get their mojo going, almost like a farewell and relaxation before the big battle against Phoenix Cyclops and Emma Frost. Don't be fooled, there're also big decisions being made in this issue,...
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In the memory of Jean Grey: keeping the school 0
Note: this is a review of issues 9 to 14!When it's about tie ins of Marvel big events I'm always a little suspicious of the quality of the stories, but being a big fan of Chris Bachalo and Nick Bradshaw, also since I was enjoying a lot this ongoing title, I decided to give it a shot and let me tell you all, it has been worth it, a lot!! Jason Aaron is doing a terrific job in this arc story, delivering fun, action and a deep aproach on the characters involved, something you don't see in the main ...
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No more Phoenix 0
Note: this is a review of issues 7 to 12I do believe Marvel tried to use all their last major stories to build this event, connecting Messiah Complex, Second Coming, Civil War, Fear Itself and Avengers Disassembled/House of M, fixing all the loose ends and at a certain point, it really worked, but as I read the last six issues of this crossover I was convinced that long big spanning events are boring, tiresome and really doesn't have the same appeal as it used to, like 5 to 7 years ago. The atte...
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Changing the World 0
Note: this is a review of issues 1 to 6Big spanning stories, the so called "next big thing" and endless tie-ins, a 12-issue event, often get burned, due to the excess of numbers published or to the "boring" effect that comes around with this kind of comics material being published, that's a fact. However, as I read the first six issues of this event, I can say that I was impressed, not entirely because of the "sharpness" and "quality" of the material, but mostly because of the nature of the even...
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Hey Peter, guess who has a clone too?? 0
Wolverine always has been the bad boy in Marvel, not only because he can go bersek on everyone, or for his killing, but because of the whole mystery involving his past, making him a difficult character to decypher. I believe that Logan's past is one of the things the "top creative minds" in Marvel can often count as a big sell and honestly this worked perfectly in the mini series written by Jenkins and the arc story delivered by this same creative team before. Unfortunately, this isn't the same ...
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What does it mean to be a Johnson? 0
"There's two kinds of people in this world: Johnsons and Shits"! What does it mean to be a Johnson? That's a philosofical question asked by Jamie Delano in this psychedelic novel (collecting issues # 1 to 11), in wich he just provokes and pokes, pointing teasers, not providing an accurate answer. Sometimes, being a Johnson means to be tough and fair, others to run like hell and be smart, others to honor duty and family, others to cheat in card games and kill people. It's a double standard questi...
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All pieces in One 0
By far, this is the best material published by GG Studio, mostly because of the sensational art of Pasquale Quelano, whose style is a perfect combination of a more reallistic tone and great landscapes. Definitely all the credit is due to this fantastic artist, who can put you in the middle of a medieval battle or a frenzy melee fight or a frantic escape from a dungeon, you name it, everything Dungeons & Dragon or Lord of The Rings related is marvelous painted in this seven issues run. Praise...
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A bad sci-fi 0
This review will be portraited (or framed) as a mirror: 1) If you're looking for curves, skin and sexy art, this is definitely the best place to look it, since this book has tons of almost naked women doing tons of different stuff, from fighting winged fairy from hell to almost girl-on-girl action; 2) RPG fans will enjoy this, because it pictures several different scenarios, characters and locations, involving solutions of how to escape the cities, and there're some interesting battles too, mach...
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Watching to much History Channel Ancient Aliens and Prometheus 0
I'm totally doing this review in breaking a very important rule of mine: "don't review terrible comic book", but unfortunately this is an exception, think of it as a public service, so other don't commit the same terrible mistake I did. Europeans comic books are different from the american ones, that's fact. But this series is so immensibly gaped with the story it's trying to tell from the reallity presented in itself, it's ridiculous. The story is about an alien civilization that is responsible...
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More blood than a Tarantino flick 0
Attention: the main character in this book has got the moves (all of them)!! Do not read this book if you're one of those people that goes to see an action movie of Bruce Willis and leaves the premises saying: "No way he could've thrown that hellicopter in the police car!". Imagine this book like a mix of Punisher meets Kill Bill after taking some lessons from Neo of Matrix and Mr. Miyagi. This book isn't epic only in it's name, it's epic in action!! Think you saw action in Mark Millar's Nemesis...
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The Mind really can move mountains 1
This is one of those books that at first you really don't know what's going on, but after reading the first three issues you get the big picture and start apreciating it for the creativity, originality and great execution that Matt Kindt has done in it. Artistically speaking this is no master piece, since Matt isn't a great artist, but I believe, being a original series, no one would or could have done a better job penciling and coloring it. After all, this is a book whose story is more importan...
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There's nothing more important than the cause 0
Creating an interesting comic book story combining important figures from Science (i.e. Oppenheimer, Fermi, Einstein), from polictics (i.e. F.D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman), WWII and the Nazis, Science Fiction (i.e. worm holes, robots, AI's) and the Cold War isn't a very easy task, and truth be told, I doubt other writer could have pulled this off as briliantly and superbly way as Jonathan Hickman has achieved in this 6 issues first run. His spanning multi-character narrative grows bigger, brighter...
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Fantasy life, Harsh reality 0
Remender thought through this whole series from issue number one, that's what I praise in comic books, not only continuity, but the writer's perception, how the good writer has a vision and is able to materialize it, like working on a rough diamond, driving a straight line to tell the story, that doesn't come very often. Sure there're some bad dialogues, some macho and stupid lines, but hey, what you should expect from characters like Wolverine and Wade, but there're so many important and core i...
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Bay of Sharks 0
Garth Ennis is well known for his bloody tales, filled with torture, curses, bizarre and weird scenes, deemed of a Tarantino or Robert Rodrigues' movies, but he's a writer that, even his lack of "finesse", delivers interesting and cohesive stories too. Amidst all the blood, names and gutting there's a brilliant tale of one of the most delicate (and disastrous) moments of USA History: the Bay of Pigs! Nick Fury was assigned to terminate Fidel Castro, but that didn't end very well. Ennis entangles...
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The city cries Castle 0
Rucka delves deep into this character, building layer by layer all the bricks that made Frank Castle who he is and all this fantastic construction (or deconstruction) leads to this issue, where all the blood from the prior 15 issues turn into a river, bathing only those who are fit to wear the skull of vengeance. Nobody can be like Frank Castle, that's the ultimate phylosophical answer and conclusion that Rucka leaves for us: there can only be one worthy or completely emotional voidless cold kil...
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Wrapping things up 0
I guess it must be really difficult to write self contained, concise and interesting/captvating stories, recycling from loose ends and plots that weren't the first choices to begin with, and though all credit is due to the fantastic job Hickman did in this title - let's say that I've become a fan of Fantastic Four because of him, I feel that the last issues, this one included, except # 609, kinda of let me down, not a real disapointment, but nothing as spectacular as I was used reading this titl...
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The Minotaur and his maze 0
One of the best things Azzarello has been doing in this comic book is to insert new background and info to the character of Wonder Woman and I'm specificaly talking about the information displayed in issue # 3, and the way the writer picks up the whole fatherhood of Diana (made clay or not? Read if you want to discover!) in this zero issue was nothing but brilliant. I missed the relaunch of Wonder Woman and I terribly regret it, this is one of the best things being published in the market these ...
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Liked Ocean's Eleven (or the sequels?) Read this!! 0
Ok, so this is issue counts both as an end and a beginning for Redmond, since his hardcore decision (back in issue # 1) got revised, basically because he did a pact of the demon, sort of speak. This eternal cycle of pain that the main character is in revolves in my sadistic feelings, so it keeps me hooked in what will happen to the character - apart from the big picture, this issue doesn't represent a great example of how Kirkman and Specer were building and deconstructing this character, layer ...
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Talon is a Great Great GreatFather 0
This is basically a tie-in of the Night of the Owls crossover focusing on Damian Wayne - This event, involving the Batman family, is an attack of an ancient group that rules in Gotham City, consisting on an act of assassination of Gotham's prestigious and most important citiziens - As Batman is dealing with the Talons (The owls' assassins) in his manor, Alfred discovers a hit list and assign each character of the Batman family to prevent the killing (as seen in Batman # 8) - This issue is Damian...
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This ain't American Idol 0
I consider this as a very fun issue, a light read, something to clear problems away, nothing dense or even connected to a arc story (or even a plot), sure there're some hints and clues interesting to previous and future stories, but this was, essentialy, a filler, but a good one, designed to show why JLA isn't taking new members, now or in the future! Green Arrow's constant attempts of getting the League attention only served as a plataform for Johns to deliver some fun dialogues, to throw some ...
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Heroes Worship 0
I often consider it very hard (or a challenge at least) to review a book pencilled by Jim Lee, because I cannot separate the emotional from the rational and be unbiased, since Jim Lee is my Artist Hero, but writting a review must not succumb to such arguments of illogical or "I like/Dislike" conundruns, in order to be objective and deliver an emotional free review, at least that's the goal and from time to time it's not achieved. That being said, Jim Lee was incredible in this issue, there I sai...
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Same ol' Same ol' 0
I really enjoy Brubaker's writing on this character, but this arc story was very weak, to begin with the use of old refurnished ideas, like the mad bomb, the bad guys or even the fail attempt of updating lame villains like the Serpent Squad, Cobra is the lamest character of them all, but what I really disliked about this 5 issue run was the sensation that I was reading something that felt like I already read in other issues delivered by the same writer, plus there was no sense of good developmen...
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There's so much a roommate can take 0
Hickman proves, once again, that he's a versatile writer: so what that there's no great plot, no saving the universe in this issue? There're other important things in life too, like having fun!! And who's better to hang out than Spidey and Human Torch?!? Hickman sells gold here, using tons of great ideas that's been around for ages, like the whole rivaltry going on behind Peter and Johnny (includin a certain red headed gal), but that's one quality that separates Hickman from other writers: his a...
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Gazing the Wall 0
Daniel Abraham continues to marvel me with his adaptation of George R. R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire - Game of Thrones", creating a solid foundation of the characters and even when he changes minor details, like in the dialogue with Eddard Stark and his daughter Arya, he preserves the core, the essence of the characters. This issue is very important because it helps to sell Tyrion's image as a benefactor, as oppose to a person that only thinks of himself, not exactly an altruist, but a per...
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The end of the Terminator 0
DC's relaunch (or reboot) has made some several differences in characters all around it's universe, though others only suffered minor changes or, at least, a relocation of it's story in time, changing the continuity - Slade Wilson was a character that suffered minor changes, in fact, this is one of the titles that most looked like an 80's publishing by DC and I say that because Kyle Higgins decided to make a very intelligent aproach on the character, bringing him closer to the classic stories of...
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Brunhilde is a fantastic character 0
Fear Itself was a terrible, nothing but common and boring event, endlessly spawning from title to title, so imagine my surprise (or even bravery or lack of good sense) when I decided to adventure myself in this 12 issue after shock title that is The Fearless, even bigger the surprise the fact that I enjoyed reading it! The fact that this story, put together by Cullen Bunn (Marvel's new favorite son, after Nick Spencer), Chris Yost and Matt Fraction, with better than average and high quality art ...
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Another issues with ninjas!! 0
Aaron continues to disapoint with his run in this title, bringing up familiar themes and juggling with Loeb's mess that will be Sabretooth's return, but the fact is, amidst all the recycling and refurnished ideas, there aren't really a core in the story, no character's development and I felt Mystique and Sabretooth were totally out of character - since it's one of Aaron's last issues with Wolverine, the feeling that this whole story was meant for nothing in the continuity (if there is such a thi...
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Norman for World's peace keeper? 0
Unfortunately this arc story felt just like a filler to the big event that is AvX and instead of pitching something that would help build the event, Bendis decided to recycle some ideas (Civil War, Dark Reign and Siege) and deal with some unfinished business, that is "What will the world do with Norman Osborn?" - I believe that the construction of this arc story failed in execution, especially in the matter of how Norman Osborn sold his idea as a substitute to the old order: since when Hydra are...
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Norman against the USA 0
I have great respect for Brian Michael Bendis, mostly because of the incredible work he did in the Ultimate Spider-Man (the original series) and his revamp on the Avengers (talking about Disassembled and the New Avengers volume 1), but his resurrection of Norman Osborn as a major threat, though important as a conclusion to the whole Dark Reign and Siege arc stories, failed in execution, mostly because, in my opinion, lacked of original and creative concepts: putting together A.I.M, the Hand, Hyd...
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Stay out of my way 0
It's interesting how Rucka is holding things up, knitting the story alltogether, hinting things to come (The Omega Effect), but the best thing about this new volume is the fact that Rucka captured the whole Castle going after all the bad guys in an urban war gorilla style, a feeling that was a little lost amidst all that happened with this character in the last 3 to 5 years, becoming a Frankenstein and all, so this whole get back to basis is an incredible pitch. The art of this issue is provided...
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Robots Utopia 0
The ingredients are: Rick Remender (w), Gabriel Hardman (a) and the Secret Avengers (Marvel's secretiest of all teams)The recepy is: A change of leadership + great interaction between characters (especially Beast) + new characters (talking about Captain Britain and Venom) + fresh concepts from old ideas (great use of Pym's tech to create a headquarter for the team, also amazing how Rick figured a way to put Father again in a plot)The top: Brilliant art from Gabriel Hardman, such a talented artis...
1 out of 1 found this review helpful.
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