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5 (48) 4 (120) 3 (70) 2 (32) 1 (15) 3.6 starsAverage score of 279 user reviews
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Legendary Story Arch 3
I know the Legends Story Arch has it's share of dissenters who didn't like it. This always surprised me because I always thought it was similar to the X-Men story and the Civil War story arches that were so popular. In all three stories you have a large group of the world's populace who are becoming disenchanted and even afraid of what Superhero's represent. In this story Darkseid is behind the smear campaign. He uses his people strategically to destroy what people be...
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Good Book Corny Ending 0
We get the conclusion to the Question, Blue Beetle team-up story in this book. The story was fast paced and good but the ending was a little corny. Not bad but the response just didn't fit the scene. To tell you just what happened would ruin the book so for the first time I really I'm a little concerned about giving a spoiler. If you really want to know read the plot description on the page. Now I remember being intrigued with this series the first time I read it and even now I find my...
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A New Guy In Town 0
This is Guy at his peak. Guy has been reformed in Green Lantern Corps: Recharge but that was before he became Warrior and sucked hard. Guy was the coolest here. He sports his Eisenhower jacket with the G symbol, blue jeans and white gloves. The only draw back to the new costume is the cowboy boots but they are better than the moon boots he use to wear. Guy even has a permanent scar that he got from getting Sinestro's ring. Unfortunately it stay after the Warrior thing. A sca...
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Classic Clerks 2
The Cartoon This comic was almost perfect. I actually feel guilty and too picky for giving it only four and a have stars. There is one plot point involving keys landing that is a concept a little hard to accept but this book is classic clerks. If this was filmed during the movie it would have fit right in. The art is perfect the characters are true to the film and we even get to see Alyssa Jones who is another great Kevin Smith character. I loved this book so much I just went ba...
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Perfect 0
This is what comics are suppose to be. This comic would make a great start to a film. The main character is cool, interesting and unique. The two main secondary characters are equally interesting but don't take away form the star. The story has action, mystery, love, and comedy. The art is just about perfect. What am I saying it is perfect. There is nothing in this book that is bad. I love it and have read this mini-series several times. I even bought a second copy of all the books so I...
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Move over New Gods. 1
If you are a fan of the original stories of the new gods you will love this book. I would even say it is a better story in a similar style. The story does have a major draw back however as the ending is a cliff hanger with no chance of a conclution unles fans write in. It don't appear enough peopl wrote in becaue There dosen't seem to be a conclution and even if there was there is little chance of me finding out where it is now. I know the character make a comeback in later comics but the ...
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Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was. 0
This series is not my favorite I get all confused when a story mixes religions like the New Gods and the Gods of Olympus and try to make the story work. The whole series has more or less dealt with this and it doesn't flow well or make a lot of sense. The book is not bad and I like the unique art style. I really love the last few pages when we see a couple of the retired Young Justice Heroes. Wonder Girl was at her best when she was with this team. Now that she is more bland and p...
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Just above average. 0
This comic is the first appearance and origin of the DC hero Steel. Now known as Commander Steel. The whole story takes place in 1939 and it seems disjointed somehow. The Book was written in 1978 and I'm reading it in 2010 so maybe you can get an idea of what I mean. Things just don't seem to fit. Steel's super-abilities seem odd as well. He has all these powers that helped him but he doesn't use this knowledge to help others. he just keeps it a secret. The science they are claim coul...
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Half-a-Star 0
Half-a-Star that is the lowest score I could give. I got this book for about forty cents at a comic convention and I over paid. It was lierally painful to read this book. I mean that my head hurts and the more I read the more my head hurt. This comic is full of really lame parades and puns. Characters like producer Stirngpull Schmaltzberg and movies titles like Rider's of the last Buick II made me throwup in my mouth a little. On top of that the whole book is narrated by Albert Einstein an...
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How can you not love this. 0
Again let's get this out of the way. I love this hero and these books. It does come off as a little Blaxploitation but let's not loose sight of what we have here. This book is a self-titled comic featuring a Black Superhero at a time when it was unheard off. Black Lightning is a college educated Olympic level athlete who comes back to the slums of Metropolis to do good and later becomes the Black Lightning. This Issue continues with a more in depth origin of Black Lightning an...
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Black in Black 1
I love the issue and this hero. Now is does come off as a little Blaxploitation but let's not loose sight of what we have here. This book is a self-titled comic featuring a Black Superhero at a time when it was unheard off. Black Lightning is a college educated Olympic level athlete who comes back to the slums of Metropolis to do good for the community he came from. He then suffers a loss when he sees a young man who reminds him of himself killed by a gang of drug dealers. This sets him o...
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Odd Cover, Good Book 0
This is a reprint page for page of the Original Charlton Comic as such i posted the same review here as I did the original. The only difference really is the art is a little different as it is processed differently. Personal I'd rather have the original but I'll take the Modern Book over nothing. As in the other two E-man stories the comic is two thirds an E-Man story and the last third is another story. This time it is about a boy named Travis who is orphaned at an earl...
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Ten Times Better 0
This is a reprint page for page of the Original Charlton Comic as such i posted the same review here as I did the original. The only difference really is the art is a little different as it is processed differently. Personal I'd rather have the original but I'll take the Modern Book over nothing. After reading the first E-Man comic I got sick it was so bad but in issue two everything has turned around. I finally get the joke. E-man is a lot like Plastic Man if Plastic Man was a lot...
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Auful Book. 0
This is a reprint page for page of the Original Charlton Comic as such i posted the same review here as I did the original. The only difference really is the art is a little different as it is processed differently. Personal I'd rather have the original but I'll take the Modern Book over nothing. I don't know what it is about E-man that I find interesting. His superhero name, origin, and costume is some of the lamest work I've ever seen. Yet I keep finding his books and reading them. I...
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Odd cover, Good Book 0
As in the other two E-man stories the comic is two thirds an E-Man story and the last third is another story. This time it is about a boy named Travis who is orphaned at an early age and with the help of a machine robot grows up to be a time traveler like his parents. This particular story is as dry as toast and in no way makes you interested in the character. It is a quick and simple origin story. Kind of like a quick synopsis of the character. There is a brief situation at the end ...
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Ten Times Better 0
After reading the first E-Man comic I got sick it was so bad but in issue two everything has turned around. I finally get the joke. E-man is a lot like Plastic Man if Plastic Man was a lot cooler. He is a very lighthearted hero with a comic side to his stories. In this issue he faces the Entropy Twins and for the record they are lovers and their last name is never revealed. E-man in a particular dark side for the character leaves the duo in a fate worse than death. It is a really neat sto...
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Awful. Awful. Let me look again. Yep, awful. 0
I don't know what it is about E-man that I find interesting. His superhero name, origin, and costume is some of the lamest work I've ever seen. Yet I keep finding his books and reading them. In a way it is his badness that makes me keep finding and reading his book. Kind of like a bad movie becomes a cult classic. The only thing I think is charming about E-Man comics is the character Nova Cane. I can not tell if this book is suppose to be a spoof, comical or serious book. I can even put m...
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Face It. 0
Another very good Blue Beetle Book. The Question and Blue Beetle make a great team and in this and the previous book the story is just as much about the Question as it is the Blue Beetle. Question even has his own place of employment and boss who appear in these issues. The Art of course is great and the charters well developed. There is also plenty of teasers that have been going on now since issue one. It is an incredible tease. At this point you start to hope the the payoff will be wort...
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The Blue Beetle Question 0
The Transformation The Blue Beetle and the Question are a classic team up. Both Characters started out in Charlton and are great together. They really could have done a lot more together so, this is a real treat. This story is really setting up the next two comics so there is a lot of exposition. Especially when it comes to the Question. When I first read this book years ago I had no idea who the Question was and it was this and the next two comics that really made me a fan. Sure it is...
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Time Flies 0
I've read this book several times and read it again for this review. When these books came out they were great and I fell in love with the character of the Blue Beetle right from the beginning. To me he was a cooler Spider-man and he was in the DC Universe. There are so many supporting characters that Blue Beetle really become a true Blue Hero. Instead of a Lois Lane he has Melody Case. Instead of Jimmy Olsen he Has Angela Revere. He is not alone in his world. The only weakness is ...
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Mad World 0
Sure this is an early Blue Beetle comic and he hasn't quite come into his own but there is a lot going for this book. Farley Fleeter and his Madmen attack K.O.R.D. industries. The Madmen were some of the villains from the Charlton days and it is nice to see how well they can be utilized. This book also really starts defining the Blue Beetle universe. A lot of time went into developing these characters that are friends coworkers and antagonists to the Blue Beetle. He has a large universe ...
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Full of holes 5
This book was not that great. It was very lackluster. The story seemed trite and cliche. First Batgirl is trying to give up her superhero life for weak reasons but she is trouble by nightmares of a villain known as Cormorant. Cormorant is a hit-man who dresses like a World War I (WWI) American Solider. Batgirl finds the body of General Scar's son in her own library with Cormorant's WWI hat at the crime scene. She take this as evidence that he is the killer but at the same time a kille...
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Blagh. 0
There only one thing of note in this book and that is the new Aquaman costume seen on the cover. Other than that is is just an uneventful book. Not particularly exciting or bad. I gave it two and a half stars. Aquaman is distracted by Ocean Master (Orm) as his land on home is destroyed. The whole battle is just odd and not quite right. First Mera scolds him like he is goofing around with Orm instead of preventing the destruction of the town. Like, Aquaman could just ignore him. Then ...
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Giffen and DeMatteis are not Gods? 2
No, Giffen and DeMatteis are not Gods? This is a disappointment to me because I pretty much believed they were. But not even the great Giffen and DeMatteis could polish the turd that in known as the Millennium story arch. Look I think Millennium is the worse giant cross-over I ever read in DC Comic so if you like Millennium you may not agree with me. First of all only four JLI members are even in the book and only one plays a large roll. That is not always a bad thing. There just...
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The Stinky Millennium 1
Look this is a millennium book how good can it be? As it stands this is a real funny book and well done as just about all the book in this series are. The only thing is that pesky Millennium story arch. The team of Giffen and DeMatteis are great and they tackle the boring Millennium story arch and make it fun. This is a really good book and the art is unique in the expressions of the characters. I gave this book four and a half stars and would recommend it even though it is part of a lar...
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Best Ever 1
This is one of my favorite comics of all time. It is funny but not action packed at all. Now, I wouldn't want every comic that way but this is just awesome and gave many heroes depth of character. That is one of the best things about books like this. A cookie cutter hero is dull but with the character development like this I can really become attached to who the heroes are. The art is not my favorite style but it is good. Especially when it come to the expressions on the character's face...
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A Strait Laced Guy 0
I can 't stand Hal Jordan as a superhero. He always seemed way to smug and holier-than-thou for a guy who goes to prison for injuring a man while driving under the influence and getting posses by Parallax. I know not his fault. Yeah right. Anyway all that said this is a real good book and I gave it four stars. Hal is actually charming and is put in some awkward spots. He even makes a crack about the the United States judicial system. There is also a strait laced pre-Green Lantern Guy...
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That is right a Booster review. 0
Hey I love Booster but this book is not the best. It is a little above average but lacks a little in story. Booster a a character is still getting his feat wet. He uses cool powers that he doesn't seem to use anymore for what ever reason. I thought that was pretty cool and the are is the best. I can not get enough of Dan Jurgens art. He is not overly artistic. His images are heroic and realistic. His work is just about perfect. The cover of this book is awesome as well. Way better th...
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Boosteriffic 0
This is the first appearance of Booster Gold ever. It is really cool to read these books and see the evolution of the character. Like Booster wearing cape or Booster use of the language. He is a little more dorky than usual. All this said the core of the Booster's character has stayed the same. The art in the book is awesome and Dan Jur gens is the one of the greatest. The down sides are as with most first issue comics the story is a little awkward and there are many hints of stories ...
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Incendiary 1
I loved this book. It is the second part to the story but the story and conclusion in this book is great. The villain in this book is not a murderous rampaging sociopath/psychopath villain who kills just for the love of it. As are the cliches in comics of today. Firefist the villain is a tortured individual with with a traumatized past that sets him on his path as a criminal. He is much more like classic Batman villains such as Two-face and Mr. Freeze. I like a villai...
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Not Bad, not good, but not bad 0
This comic is a tribute comic to Julius Schwartz. It has two stories that are pretty basic to the cover and really have no impact on the DC Universe. The stories are not real interesting and seem to try to hard to make a touching or sentimental story. The stories are very silver age in style. This book is in no way a "must have" If you are a big Julius Schwartz fan than you may want it or if you really like tribute covers but that is all this book has to offer. I gave it 3.5 stars because...
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Dead on Arrival 0
For a Deadshot comic made in 1988 this is pretty good. It is hard to make a comic of a villain enjoyable but this one works so far. Deadshot does execute a man he doesn't know who may be an undercover law enforcer, but he doesn't care. This was the only part of the book I didn't like. He has no way of knowing if the man was a law enforcer or not and it is established that even if he did it wouldn't matter. I'm not a fan of these kinds of scenes and the fact that he wasn't a law enforcer aft...
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Guilty?!? 2
I loved this book! It was just about perfect. The plot deals with a wrongly convicted man who is persecuted by the law, the public, his family and a vengeful Vigilante. This completely destroys his life. Vigilante beats the man without mercy only to find out that he is actually innocent of all crimes. This puts Vigilante in a situation were he has to decide if he is going to be the Vigilante anymore. this book is great because Vigilante is Judge, Jury and Executioner. It is great to show...
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Vigilante the Punisher 0
What Brand you Smoke? The Vigilante #1 is a great book however it is difficult to tell you why. The book is the origin of the vigilante and a case that he take on six moths into his "superhero" career. He has a similar origin as the Punisher as well as a black costume and he is more than willing to kill the evil doers. The difference are shadowy but they are there none the less. Vigilante is driven, motivated but not tortured or brooding. He is vary particular in the cases he investigate...
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Holy Exposition Batman 0
This issue has nothing to do with Batman but the exposition is monotonous. Most of these characters are new to DC at this time and there are a lot so they can't do a single thing without explaining it. For example Phantom Lady says " Hope you don't mind sir but, guns make me nervous. In fact, almost as nervous as you're going to be when my Black-Light Ray makes you as blind as the proverbial bat." Exposition is fun in comic but it is too much in this book. The characters have a real "golde...
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I got a cavity. 5
This book is the best if you are a girl between the ages of 5 and seven. There are five female heroes among them are Wonder Woman , Dolphin and Ice who all wear sparkly uniforms and tu-tus Dolphin rides a flying white horse named Cloudancer and Wonder Woman rides a flying pink unicorn. They are very concerned about their magical jewels and live in floating magical palace. The nemesis is a woman known as Purrsia who rides on a flying purple panther named Pantera. The story is very perdictable...
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Girl Power 0
This is the issue when the girls begin to work with young Justice. Young justice had been an all male roster until now. the girls are fun and sweet while the guys are fun and impulsive. Wonder-girl also meets Superboy for the first time and she has a crush on him before she even meets him but Superboy has no interest. there is a lot of first meetings in this issue. Arrowette meets everyone but Impulse for the first time. Wonder girl also never met most if not all of the team and none of th...
4 out of 4 found this review helpful. -
Blue Beetle and Question Team-up 0
Being a big Blue Beetle (Ted Kord) and Question fan I love reading about their adventures before they were in DC Comics. This issue was particularly cool because of the vary rare team-up. I belive this is the first issue where both hero's teamed up together. All that being said this issue was rather dull. It dealt with an apparent old nemisis of the Blue Beetle called the Enigma. Enigma wants revenge on the Blue Beetle for putting him in prison and whips up and overly elaborate trap to catc...
3 out of 3 found this review helpful. -
Dumb, or maybe I missed something. 16
Why would Superman Prime even go to earth. Why not just go to the sun. He would most likely escape detection and be better off to fight. Also ripping off Risk's other arm is really stupid. I hate comics that just pillage kill and maim to show a threat. Then later we make it all better by letting them come back somehow. I'm not against a tragic story not even against the death or maiming of a character for a good story but this did not help the plot. Ohh he ripped off Risk's other arm now I know ...
0 out of 2 found this review helpful.
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