Monthly Archives: September 2008

Black Panther 39

September 30 08

Doesn’t Black Panther get hot wearing his outfit all the time? Aaron’s Skrull scenes are solid. The rest is too Star Wars.

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Spider-Man: With Great Power 5

September 29 08

Harris is absent–and missed. Lapham’s racing through the story here. He ends it a tad cheap, but all right.

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Spider-Man: With Great Power 4

September 29 08

Lapham gets back on track–even if there is almost too much story. Tony Harris draws the Thing and it rocks.

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Spider-Man: With Great Power 3

September 29 08

Lapham hits a lull. Issue’s fine, but blah. Maybe it’s canon catching up with him or his change in narrator.

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Spider-Man: With Great Power 2

September 29 08

Lapham maintains his unique, likable humanization of unlikable outcast Peter Parker. Approach fits too well.

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Spider-Man: With Great Power 1

September 29 08

Peter Parker as the teen sociopath–straight out of Stray Bullets–it works. It engages, makes a connection.

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Sub-Mariner: The Depths 1

September 29 08

A pleasant surprise. Art matches the retro-futurism, continuity-free setting. Wish something had happened though.

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Criminal 1

September 28 08

It’s got to be the best of the series (to date), the kind of story Brubaker should have used to open the first volume. Splendid.

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Batgirl 2

September 28 08

Story’s better than the first issue but the art isn’t. Beechen doesn’t have a good grasp of the character. At best, melodramatic.

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Batgirl 1

September 28 08

Barely enough story for an issue. Medicore art and Nightwing having the big scene doesn’t help. I’m very disappointed in Beechen.

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Freedom Formula 1

September 28 08

Surprisingly okay Mad Max and Rollerball mix. Not original but it is still effectively told. The superior art is welcome.

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Immortal Iron Fist 16

September 26 08

Fraction doesn’t just end his run solidly (even Aja’s back for it), he makes me want to keep going with the new team.

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Immortal Iron Fist 15

September 26 08

Okay(ish) flashback to an ancient Iron Fist. Fraction should tell a fable but does not, putting the issue in trouble.

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Legends of the Dark Knight 30

September 25 08

Wagner’s writing falls apart as his art–he recycles the same layouts issue to issue–becomes tiresome. Blah.

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Legends of the Dark Knight 29

September 25 08

Some fine scenes–not many with Batman. Wagner has an tenuous grasp on the character, he’s better with Bruce.

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Immortal Iron Fist 14

September 25 08

Awesome finish, even if it is mostly flash; the narrative’s a tad shallow. The art’s okay–Gaudiano inks; I miss Aja.

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Immortal Iron Fist 13

September 25 08

Filler with bad art–real cheap, bad art from Zonjic–but some funny Luke Cage dialogue. The art hurts it bad though.

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Immortal Iron Fist: Orson Randall and the Green Mist of Death

September 24 08

Fraction’s writing is like a Marvel Alan Moore. Positively wonderful to read.

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Legends of the Dark Knight 28

September 24 08

Better writing than I had expected and some creative layouts from Wagner. Still, it starts and finishes weak.

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Station 1

September 24 08

Questionable art (deformed heads) but Stokes’s writing is compelling. She even waits until the last few pages to reveal the hook.

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