Category Archives: Marvel Comics

Omega the Unknown 1

October 11 08

Dalrymple’s work is wonderfully emotive and moody; the writing’s tone and pacing are accomplished. A great first issue.

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Uncanny X-Men 495

October 11 08

Underwhelming but genially solid. It feels familiar and comfortable. Choi’s art occasionally reveals lapses of attention.

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X-Factor: The Quick and the Dead

October 11 08

Pure functional storytelling–Quicksilver gets his powers back to allow future appearances. Lame but okay.

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X-Factor 32

October 11 08

David sets the comic up for a nice in-series reset then fouls it with a bad close. He also makes it clear the book needs Layla.

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X-Factor 31

October 11 08

Maybe I just don’t like Raimondi anymore. Some bumps but a fine action issue, the best David’s written for the series probably.

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X-Factor 30

October 10 08

Terrible art (it’s impossible to follow the action) and poor writing. David never manages to write it as a standard team comic.

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X-Factor 29

October 10 08

A badly paced action issue masquerading as a talking heads one. This De Landro guy’s art sucks, particularly for a Marvel book.

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X-Factor 28

October 10 08

The series standard–lots of character, lots of talk–is very welcome but Raimondi’s art is off. Way too photo-referenced here.

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Black Panther 41

October 1 08

A solid if unbelievable close, with Aaron using lots of smoke and mirrors to pull off the twist. The bookends are too pat.

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Black Panther 40

October 1 08

Aaron’s writing does suggest he’d write the book well–without the crossover–and the art’s a fine fit. But it’s mediocre.

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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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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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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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