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Last of the Wolves 1
Without exaggeration, this is probably the best comic that I have read this year, and closes off a miniseries that is one of the best that I have ever read. Nothing less than the word perfect should describe this issue as Mowgli finally comes face to face with those that killed Mother Wolf. The different layers which make up Mowgli make it one of the more in-depth characters that I have seen developed over a 5 part miniseries. Here she shows the sides of compassionate mother equally alongside...
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On this ship 0
I might start by saying that although I have some design problems with Dejah's costume that I do love the one cover of this issue (there are two covers) where she is standing with sword on the body of the ape. Compared to the previous two issues though, the story here ends on a much lower note than what got it here. Dejah finishes with the Apes relatively quickly but then decides that she must figure out what to do about how she got here. This is tied to the more drama-like aspects of the fir...
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In these halls 0
Having already read the entire series, I can say that it is clear that this would serve as a far better climax than what happens in the fourth issue. With Dejah the only survivor now against the White Apes in their own city, she is forced to turn herself from a victim into a survivor. What is notable about this is that she does this not all at once, but bit by bit as she progresses to drag herself up, sneak around and finally take charge of a situation which she is not sure to prevail in but o...
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Did you plan that? 0
As the series made the quick transition from drama to action/horror at the end of the last issue, this story becomes one of adrenaline and not of thinking. As a result most of the dialogue takes the form of imperatives - "go there!" "do this!" - in order to drive along the desperate aspect of the heroines (though as the story progresses it gets closer and closer to just heroine). The tense aspect of this story is well presented here, so much so that I think in the right conditions that this co...
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In such a hurry 0
I should start by saying that I have read the entire miniseries already, so I know the overall strengths and weaknesses therein in this series. The main one as is shown here is the connection to the history of Mars. Over the course of my exposure to John Carter and his stories I have a kind of ambivalence to the fact that it involves a group of people that live on Mars. The concept is purely fantasy, but I feel like over the course of all the John Carter stories that Mars has become a place t...
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House of El 0
Over the course of the entire series thus far, I think that this issue stands out as one of the best. There is not a whole lot of action in this story, but that actually is what makes it that much better, as for the first time in the series the writer takes a step back and looks at the characters. The story here is a familiar one to readers of the Superman related titles as it mostly just incorporates in the usual story of the explosion of Krypton. This offers a bit more developments along th...
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Klutz of a fool 0
I am not sure how to rate this. As an example of the golden age it is almost a painstakingly perfect example of what to expect from the era at times, but in so doing, it is also inadvertently funny at many times as well. The three stories are all not very well conceived and really by today's standards would even be considered fairly racist and sexist. In truth I hunted down this issue for one reason and one reason only, and that is that this is one of Marilyn Monroe's few comic book appearanc...
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With your fists?! 0
At its most regular Danger Girl is a fun concept with some witty dialogue and some endearing characters, but when it ramp up its characters into action mode, then it takes on a new life of its own. So when the Danger Girl team meets the G.I. Joe team what should one expect except a bunch of action? Granted that this is just the setup issue to the end of the short miniseries, but it does everything and more than what you could expect of it. The best part was likely in the middle with the assem...
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Victims find themselves in danger, heroes put themselves there 0
This is the first time that I have ever read an issue with Amethyst in it, and as a Zero Month origin issue it is therefore probably a good place to start. I am familiar enough with the background of the character, but even with that limited exposure I still feel like this update was pretty good. After all I am pretty sure that the first series didn't jump right into such heavy issues from the beginning such as rape and bullying. Perhaps this is just being used to establish the main character...
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You were special 0
Not to say that I didn't enjoy the series thus far, but if this is to be the new direction for this series, then things are looking very positive here. As opposed to the cosmic adventures of the previous issues, this issue slows down and looks more at the characters than the action. I think that series such as this one work best when running parallel to the main developments in the Green Lantern continuity as opposed to being sort of off on their own. Something is brewing though with the Guar...
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Nearly in my grasp 1
In light of some of the developments happening elsewhere in the Zero Month of the new 52, I was kind of hopeful for a story here which might shed some light on the backgrounds of characters in the new 52, but this one didn't exactly deliver on that. instead this is not really an origin issue, nor does it really answer any questions. Some parts of it are an homage to the golden age (it was fun to see Diana as Wonder Girl) but it seemed as though at times it might have channeled a bit too much o...
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Big, bad and shiny 0
This final issue of the series is coincidentally the best but also leaves a lot of unanswered questions (as it leads into another miniseries. The bizarre new friendship between Salome and Julie is explored here as it seems as though forces all along were dragging them to Wonderland. When they finally arrive there they find the Red Knight there waiting for them. This contains one of the better parts of the series, and really one of the better part of the entire comic medium, as the character d...
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Find a way 0
Although the tone is slightly different here, the series really doesn't drop off at all in its momentum. The sense of horror mixed with craziness is lost a little bit, as it resorts a little to cliche in the relationship between Violet and Calie, but if it lack a little in this sense, it makes up for it with the interesting plot developments. It is all caused because Violet begs to be allowed to attend school like a normal person of her age, and Calie relents in order to try to give her daught...
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We start here, we start now 0
The tagline in the solicit for this series is that its "the series everywhere Zenescope fan has been waiting for" and really, that is not much of an exaggeration. The stories around the Liddle family have been consistently among the best for company as a whole and are among my personal favourites as are the characters. To be fair though I was skeptical when I heard about this. Zenescope seems best at delivering stories based in miniseries format, and not so much necessarily in ongoing format....
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Whose idea this was 0
The Revolver series ends here as expected with a new recruit to the team, but along the way a few more interesting things happen. As the team races to track down the medallion at an auction house in London they are back up against some similar predicaments as before (this is similar in a lot of ways to the Switzerland setting from the original series.) The ensuing car chase is lot of fun but it is more so the wrap up which does well for the team and its members. If there can be seen to be one...
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Sheer danger 0
For the first time this series the story here doesn't really incorporate in any homages to Indiana Jones, but in terms of the action and adventure, it doesn't really need to. It resorts to the old standby, a shootout on a train, and although this is a cliche it does so in a pretty entertaining way and one which is original enough. As the action unfolds there are the expected plot twists and true to the penultimate moment of Danger Girl stories, the villain gets away only for Valerie to track h...
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So you said 0
The previous issue had somewhat of an homage to Indiana Jones with the boat chase through Venice as in the Last Crusade. This issue has even more homages as both the ending and the beginning of the Temple of Doom are referenced. As opposed to the previous, there is not a lot more to say here though. It basically follows on the exact same format as usual for all the Danger Girl comics, with the exception here that a lot more of the character's backgrounds are shown. This is generally a good t...
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In position this time 0
This is the first issue of what is a four part series, but true to style the Danger Girl team (and the creators) are in no hurry to get the started on their mission. The issue starts off with the team in Venice as they are trying to infiltrate a wedding to recover a lost ring and the usual hijinks unfold between Sydney, Johnny and Abbey. This was a pretty fun part (paying homage to some Indiana Jones I think) but the real source of intrigue behind this series comes later as the team meet Vero...
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Fresh Waters 0
This issue gets even weirder than the last as the Jane Austen-like family decides to flee wherever they were before with Tigress (it is implied that it was not Earth) and to go to a different planet. After crash landing they are put into a survival like mode where they have to deal with local wildlife in the jungle. Luckily they have Tigress with them who is better suited to dealing with the threats of the jungle and surviving there. Soon though they find that they are not alone in the jungle...
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Seen this before 0
This is bar none one of the weirdest science fiction stories that I have ever read. In the previous issue Tigress managed to escape from her planet and got sent "home" to Earth by her dying android companion. Here though when she gets to Earth she finds it in a seemingly post apocalyptic state but one which seems pulled out of a Jane Austen novel. She is forced to fit into this anachronistic family that may or may not be one of a few families left on the planet (it is ambiguous with the radiu...
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Most Beautiful Girl 0
Would I dare give a perfect rating to any comic in the Archie/Riverdale setting? I probably never thought that I would, but this issue really was quite good. On the surface there is the usual teenage hijinks as Sabrina's cat Salem casts a spell which revereses the gender of everyone in the town. Some typical thing unfold, and even some expected gender complaints (Archina complaining that women's shoes are uncomfortable.) Underneath it all though there is an interesting look at gender roles. ...
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The barest suggestion of a trail 0
I actually liked this issue more than the first one, even when there was not really much new material. What was good about it was two aspects of the sci-fi genre which are often neglected, and that is the human-robot interaction and friendship as well as the prison planet idea. It is not like this was masterful, but the way that both were used was clever as Tigress first befriends a robot and then gets thrown into a labour camp. In the first issue I liked the first story for its dialogue and ...
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Don't call me baby, you idiot 0
this is not the usual kind of comic that I pick up, though I somewhat like the genre or at least the concept behind the genre of an abstract space story. I am not sure if I liked all the parts as some were a bit too immature for me (mostly that a healthy dose of eveything has to do with sex) but as far as an independent issue goes this isn't that bad. The first story deals with a group of ne'er-do-well spacefarers that happen on a small planet and just want to debauche it. They come across a ...
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Best Friends 0
I don't usually review this title though I do read it regularly. The reason is mostly because of its format. As anyone that has read a serialized Archie comic knows, these issues are mostly non-continuous and one story could easily depict the characters acting in one way while the next takes a different approach altogether. So in that sense there is not always much reason to review these as they contain generally a lot of stories most no longer than a few pages long. I am an Archie fan, tho...
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Didn't need to know 0
There are kind of two stories here, the bigger picture story as it relates to the DC Universe and then the smaller story as it relates to The Phantom Stranger specifically. In this sense this kind of served the same purpose as the recent Justice League International Annual, dropping a few hints of importance in an otherwise basic story. In relation to the annual though this issue doesn't quite have as much of interest except that we kind of find out who Pandora is finally. The rest of the sto...
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Just got distracted 0
This series is almost always fun, and always has somewhat of a horror element to it, but as we see here the story can moderate a fair amount between different extremes. The series started off being fairly focused on Samantha Darren, at least by proxy, but it has generally gravitated away from that model. Here the model is a straight up homage to the haunted house genre, working in a bit of the modern reality television ghost hunting. The end result is probably not as good as some of the other...
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Have to see this through 0
This series started off with such an interesting concept between a young woman trapped in a coma trying to find her way out and the mystery of how she got there. I felt that the intervening two issues did not hold the same punch as the first one did as they resorted more to cliche and avoided somewhat both the fantastical context as well as the gritty nature. This issue though seems to have captured back most of what was in that first issue and instead of letting it stay stagnant chooses to ...
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Kingdoms of Sand 0
This issue has maybe the same problems as the previous issue, only highlighted all the more by the presence of some more superheroics. Of course they aren't really superheroics, but after being captured at the end of the previous issue Frank simply proceeds to escape from where he is being detained and more so to make it into an action sequence. By comparison earlier in the series the character would have been first shot and killed outside, and then if her were not killed he likely would have sn...
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Bring back the beat 0
I think after such a long period thinking it is the end, that this is in fact the end of what made this series so special. In lieu of the regular cast of survivors, the focus switches 180 degrees here with a look at one of Frank Castle's experiences in Vietnam. I suppose as far as the series goes there are still a couple of aspects here, namely that of camaraderie but on the whole this is much more of an issue glorifying war and missing the harrowing reality of the beginning of the series, inste...
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Through the dead zone 0
This three part story arc comes to a close here, but without really a conclusion that seems realistic. After Dove and Gail get married, Dove get stuck behind enemy lines after his helicopter crashes. He pushes on because of his love for his new wife (granted their wedding is not official) but he is horrified to find out what has happened once he manage to fight his way back to safety. The entire story is a nice one, it makes one believe that there is more to war than just killing and that love c...
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Down to ground 0
After the lead-in from the previous issue, this issue does not offer much more in terms of the overall tone of this unofficial story arc. The uncertain ending of the last issue is wrapped up pretty quickly here and instead focuses more on the increasing psychological breakdown of the main character, the pilot Eli Dove. His feelings for Gail are now starting cloud his judgment, and more so the pressure of having her nearby makes the war all the more real to him. It is still a decent enough story,...
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Donut dolly 0
With the return of the regular writer to the series, it doesn't really pick up in terms of the recent quality of stories. Instead of being very memorable these more capture the smaller moments of war, and while they remind the reader that war is not fun, the message doesn't hit home as hard as usual. This story deals with a warrant officer who thinks he has found the love of his life after picking her up in his helicopter. She is a "donut dolly" (I had to look up what that is) that is flying to ...
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A fistful of dollars 0
Once again with the regular series writer absent here, the writing duties fall to Chuck Dixon. In the first couple of issues that he wrote he managed to pull together some salient stories to do with the horrors of war. It seems here though that his streak has run dry. To his credit, he does deserve some recognition for what he can accomplish in terms of research as this issue provides a lot of military detail to the reader. Really though that is not what this series is about, and while this real...
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Changing Lives 0
Starting out to read this issue, I got the impression from the cover that this has been done before, with the issue of drugs coming up once again. In reality though, this issue surprised me with the ingenuity that it used with this concept, not really focusing on drugs at all except in passing. It really focuses more on the character on the front cover, a man simply know as Trader who finds whatever surplus he can and then sells it or trades it. As it turns out this has some unforeseen effects w...
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Level playing field 0
The series here switches back to its regular writer, but surprisingly drops off a little since the previous issue with the guest writer. There is kind of a interesting duality to this story, like some other recent stories it deals with heroes, though this one looks at heroes in the context of what we assume from them against what they can actually do. In this case it is a football star that has enlisted and others in the platoon assume he is a brave soldier, though this is far from the truth. he...
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In the eyes 0
It has been a while since I have reviewed one of these, and it is easy to forget how good this series can be. Here the story is being told by someone else than the usual (Doug Murray) as Chuck Dixon steps into the writer role. I don't know as much about Dixon's personal life, so i am not sure if he served any time in combat, but I asumed he hadn't so heading into this issue I thought maybe it would be a bit of a drop-off from the otherwise excellent stories thus far. In reality though Dixon has ...
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Your name is princess? 0
After a decent start to the first story arc after the two year long mess in Myst, I had high enough hopes for the series to turn itself around here. If this issue is any indication though it still has a long way to go. The prison setting I find is one which goes one of two ways, either serving as the basis for some deep stories, or one which resorts to cliches. There are some good things here, like the inmate that Sela saves or her version of what the warden represents, but mostly this is jus...
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Couldn't find much else 0
In terms of hard hitting story arcs, this one is not really it. The series thus far has hit some real highs as it deals with an in-depth look at some contemporary topics while also providing the horror element. This aspect is missing from this series and this story arc at the moment as the team prepares for another ghost hunt, this time against an infamous witch in a small town. With only so much of the horror genre to draw upon, it is understandable that eventually the series does get to suc...
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Ends on a bang 0
I had been reading this series for a while but dropped it mostly out of frustration after most of the female members got removed in one fell swoop by the explosion at the UN. The resulting mess was like a pastiche of international characters and was not that engaging for me. I do have a bizarre fascination with final issues though, I like reading them even if I haven't been reading the series itself because I like to see how the writers handle the challenge of wrapping up what they thought to ...
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Outside the box 1
I come to this issue by way of a recommendation of a friend (who just so happened to be working on the book). Although it is outside of my usual purview, I figured I would have a look. The format of the book is kind of like the old anthology based stories from the the silver age of comics, where there is some continuity sometimes from one story to the next, but often the stories more so stand by themselves. In this choice of format obviously sometimes some stories will be better than others, ...
2 out of 2 found this review helpful.
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