2019 Summer Comics Binge

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“One Piece” Volume 8

By | Jul 30, 2019 | Reviews

Ahoy, mateys! For this year’s Summer Comics Binge, I’ll be tackling a huge gap in my manga library; the gargantuan “One Piece,” written and illustrated by Eiichiro Oda. Over the next few weeks I’ll be journaling my way through the first 100 chapters, making up the East Blue Saga. This week we’re at our halfway […]

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“X-Factor” #229-236

By | Jul 29, 2019 | Columns

Another week, another dupe. These “X-Factor” stories were short, but sweet. That especially goes for ‘They Keep Killing Madrox,’ a relentless story that never eases off the throttle. The followup, ‘Together Again For the First Time’ isn’t as exciting, but you can feel the series getting ready for an epic endgame of apocalyptic proportions. The […]

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“Countdown” #45-39

By | Jul 29, 2019 | Reviews

Well, it didn’t take too long for “Countdown” to get bad. As I’ve mentioned before, I’m trying to avoid an issue-by-issue breakdown of the series, because I don’t want “He wrote a million words about Countdown” on my tombstone, but issue #44 of “Countdown” deserves a special mention. It certainly isn’t the first bad issue […]

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“New Warriors”: Teenage Rebellion

By | Jul 28, 2019 | Reviews

Fabian Nicieza has been memorialized as one of the better X-Architects of the troublesome 1990s period of Marvel’s X-Men. His eye for snappy dialogue and high stakes soap opera led to some super fun comics, and he’s continued to work in the industry to this day to reasonable acclaim. Before all that, however, he kicked […]

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“Doctor Who: The Eleventh Doctor” #12 and #13

By | Jul 27, 2019 | Reviews

An old foe makes its first appearance in the Doctor Who comic series as the team jumps between eras to find the elusive Entity. Written by Rob Williams Illustrated by Warren Pleece Colored by Hi-Fi Lettered by Richard Starkings and Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt A thrilling TARDIS chase through the atmosphere – after no ordinary comet! Tracking […]

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“Moon Knight” #7

By | Jul 26, 2019 | Reviews

In recent years, Moon Knight has been a recurring character at Marvel Comics, with different iterations of the character being frequent but short-lived. The most recent run of the series, by Max Bemis and Jacen Burrows, ended last October and the title has yet to be relaunched. For the next 12 weeks, in this summer […]

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Wizard #56 – Amalgam Rises

By | Jul 25, 2019 | Reviews

Multiversity’s retro-reviews of “Wizard: The Guide to Comics” rolls on. Let’s look back at the top news stories from April 1996 and judge them as harshly as we can! A Bold Move, Likely a Bad Move Every Fall, “Wizard” ran a contest where readers submitted pictures of themselves dressed as comic characters for Halloween. In […]

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