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Cover to Uncanny Avengers #1

Review: Uncanny Avengers #1

A brain surgery is one way to start a reboot.  At least, that’s how Rick Remender and John Cassaday open ​Uncanny Avengers​, the image of Scott Summers as Phoenix shown in the eye of a patient–who turns out to ...
by Andrew Taylor
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Non-Humans #1

Review: Non-Humans #1

There’s a moment, more than halfway into ​Non-Humans #1​, where a kid named Todd (the son of the protagonist, Aimes) meets with his girlfriend to show her their new baby. The girlfriend is a mannequin taken to calling...
by Andrew Taylor
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How I Spent My Summer Invasion #1

Review: How I Spent My Summer Invasion #1

As far as indie comics go, ​the expanded release How I Spent My Summer Invasion​ (from publisher We Comics) really tests the limits of what it means to be precious and cutesy.  Child protagonists, the ‘wacky’ c...
by Andrew Taylor
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Detective Comics #13 cover

Review: Detective Comics #13

DC’s New 52 reboot has reaffirmed the power that visual storytelling has in comic books.  Sadly, they didn’t do this by putting artists with distinctive styles or remarkable craftsmanship on their titles.  For the...
by Andrew Taylor
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Wolverine and the X-Men #17 Cover

Review: Wolverine and the X-Men #17

There’s sort of a sub-movement within the “Big Two” right now, fixated on self-referential spoofing of all the goofier aspects of the cape comic.  Lots of big, weird moments featuring takes on characters or c...
by Andrew Taylor
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Godzilla: The Half-Century War #2 cover

Review – Godzilla: The Half-Century War #2

While ​Half-Century War​’s first issue made a few flirty advances towards those kind of Vietnam War themes that are James Stokoe’s fascination (despite taking place well before the war), part two gets down to bu...
by Andrew Taylor
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Deathstroke #0

Review: Deathstroke #0

So, we come to this:  the conclusion to Rob Liefeld’s run on ​Deathstroke​, ending with a gimmick.  A fitting capstone to his casual, one could say accidental, subversion of superhero comic books.  As in ​Savage ...
by Andrew Taylor
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Cover to Fatima #4

Review – Fatima: The Blood Spinners #4

From start to finish, ​Fatima: The Blood Spinners from Dark Horse Comics​ has been one of those miniseries that’s so much more than what it’s premise implies.  It’s hard to say that about most comics, es...
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Catwoman #0 - New 52 'Zero Month'

Review: Catwoman #0

There were two bits of news that made me more than hopeful the current ​Catwoman ​series would start to turn around starting with the whole “Zero Month” thing.  First off was Judd Winick bowing out after twelve...
by Andrew Taylor
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Youngblood #74

Review: Youngblood #74

In one of the most unexpected comebacks in the history of comics, Rob Liefeld’s old Image imprint Extreme Studios has been putting out some of the better comic books this year.  Mostly, this has been done with the revolu...
by Andrew Taylor
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The Ride: Southern Gothic #1

Review – The Ride: Southern Gothic #1

There is something undeniably cool about an anthology focused on murder, sex, and cars.  It’s a very American set of themes, particularly the last third of that equation:  the car’s the symbol of freedom in the ol...
by Andrew Taylor
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Big Hero 6: Brave New Heroes

Review – Big Hero 6: Brave New Heroes

Reprinting the 2008 ​Big Hero 6​ mini-series from Chris Claremont and David Nakayama, about Marvel’s Japanese superhero team, did not do it any favors.  Too sloppy, too repetitive, and embarrassingly inconsistent in ...
by Andrew Taylor
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Phantom Stranger #0

Review: Phantom Stranger #0

So, Phantom Stranger is Judas Iscariot.  Oh, and, uh, spoiler alert.  Whoops, did I do that too late?  My sense of timing is always off on these things.  Best not to dwell on it, it’s time to soldier on, since I’...
by Andrew Taylor
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The Infernal Man-Thing #3

Review: Infernal Man-Thing #3

Calling the final issue of ​Infernal Man-Thing ​”bleak” doesn’t quite do justice to just how soul-crushing it really is.  As a post-script to Steve Gerber‘s classic 70′s run with the swamp mon...
by Andrew Taylor
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