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Secret Avengers 17 – Ellis, Walker. Not so good. Not Walker’s fault.

8. October 2011

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Secret Avengers #17 By Warren Ellis and Kev Walker Marvel I looked at Secret Avengers 16 for a few reasons ….. because it was in the middle of the new DC 52 and I felt guilty, because it looked like a standalone series with short, self-contained, relatively continuity free stories, because it had a great [...]

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Super Animal Adventure Squad – younger readers comedy from the DFC

7. October 2011

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Super Animal Adventure Squad By James Turner The DFC Library The concept’s simple in Super Animal Adventure Squad – take five very inept super-agents; Agent K, Bearbot, Irwin, Rex, and Beesley and throw them into an adventure they’ll solve despite themselves, as they blunder through it all, through accident and mishap, and lots and lots of comedy. [...]

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The Etherington Brothers bring their Baggage to the DFC Library

6. October 2011

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Baggage By Robin and Lorenzo Etherington The DFC Library Baggage is the first original graphic novel from the DFC library (everything else so far has been collected from the pages of the DFC Comic) and also the first DFC Library title to repeat a creative team, as the Etherington Brothers’ was published in September 2010. I enjoyed [...]

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A brilliant tale of witches, frogs, giant snails and Hemlock……….

5. October 2011

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Hemlock Issues 1 & 2 By Josceline  Fenton I’d seen Josceline Fenton’s Hemlock comic at various conventions, but never seemed to get round to picking up a copy. Stupid, stupid me. So I eventually first saw her work in the latest issue of Paper Science where her strip really, really impressed: “Fenton’s single pager is [...]

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DC The New 52 – this is the end….. till tomorrow

4. October 2011

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All-Star Western #1 By Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Moritat Another Vertigo style book finds a home at the new DC, and a very good book it is. It’s a bit of a team-up, with Jonah Hex washing up in Gotham of the 1880s, a man out of place in the urban jungle, working alongside [...]

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Aquaman…. my review gets eclipsed by Ty Templeton

4. October 2011

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Aquaman #1 By Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis Now, I’ve written about Aquaman before. I wasn’t very nice about him. And it seems I’m one of those people Geoff Johns is talking to in Aquaman #1. Because this isn’t so much a first issue as a series of moments and a big bit of Geoff [...]

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The Sun Sword … very likely my last Thorgal

4. October 2011

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Thorgal Volume 10 – The Sun Sword By Jean Van Hamme and Grzegorz Rosinski Cinebook Oh I do swing too and fro with my enjoyment of Thorgal; Van Hamme and Rosinski’s legendary sword and sorcery saga. Here’s my first take on it – Volumes 1-6: So Thorgal was enjoyable enough, indeed it was a lot [...]

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Tantalize – Kieren’s Story

3. October 2011

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Tantalize – Kieren’s Story By Cynthia Leitich Smith and illustrated by Ming Doyle Candlewick / Walker “As a hybrid werewolf, Kieren is destined to join an urban Wolf pack and learn to master his shift. Soon he’ll leave everything behind: home, school, his family, and Quincie, his human best friend … who’s beginning to be [...]

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Marvel Guilt reviews…. Ultimate Spider-Man #2

2. October 2011

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As the DC New 52 rolls to a stop for this first month, I get another pang of guilt that I’m leaving poor old Marvel out of the picture….. luckily they happen to have a load of great reboot comics of their own…. the Marvel Ultimate Universe I really enjoyed the first set last month [...]

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DC The New 52 – a Dark Knight and another ex-Robin…

2. October 2011

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Teen Titans #1 By Scott Lobdell and Brett Booth First glance, this played into every bad feeling I had about this new DC thing – the reach of Image extending through the company, and all the exaggerated, ridiculous imagery that entails. Brett Booth’s art in those first few pages seemed to prove it as well, [...]

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Guilty Marvel reviewing again…. Daredevil #4

2. October 2011

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Right in the middle of looking at the whole DC New 52 thing I had a stupid pang of guilt about doing too much DC and not enough Marvel. Like I said, stupid. So on top of the 52 DC new number 1s I had a quick look at Marvel to see what was available. [...]

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Propaganda’s Best Of September…..

2. October 2011

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Time for the monthly roundup of the best of what I reviewed last month. Although it has been a weird, weird month…. DC have practically destroyed me with their 52 new number 1s, and to top it all I decided to balance it out with a few Marvel reviews. My head is all over the [...]

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DC The New 52…. a Hawkman, two Nuclear Men, and a big, dumb and so much fun Blackhawk action adventure

1. October 2011

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Blackhawks #1 By Mike Costa, Graham Nolan and Ken Lashley I’m doing this set of reviews in the wrong order, just so I can open with something nice to say. It goes downhill after this. Right at the bottom you’ll find a review of Firestorm. That was a big, dumb, stupid, comic where everything was [...]

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Gingerbread Girl – whimsical, frothy, fun… but lacking that extra pinch of darkness..

30. September 2011

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Gingerbread Girl By Paul Tobin and Colleen Coover Top Shelf First off – a quick note on that cover. Tim Leong’s design skills really make the book stand out on the shelf, and the clever reversal of the images on the book’s back cover very graphically mirror what we’re about to read inside. Now mental [...]

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DC The New 52…. The Flash & New Guardians…. two ring tales….

30. September 2011

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Flash #1 By Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato First of all, I really like that cover, it does a damn fine job of throwing me right into the book. Manapul’s an artist turned writer, and it shows straight off, there’s a little scene setting…. Barry and date at a tech symposium party, little chat… nothing [...]

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