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This is basically a great installment. There's a plot twist. There's suspense. There's a cliffhanger. I don't like the cliffhanger part, since I now have to find wait weeks to find out what happens next. But it's good storytelling, that's for sure. Read More

This was hands-down the worst comic book I've ever read. And I have read some real stinkers, my friends. I mean, just, wow on a massive level that this went to print. Read More

This series just keeps getting better as it goes — and it's only on issue #3! What started out as a title that I had a passing interest in when I first heard about it (still haven't gotten issue #1, though), after two issues this has become a "must Read More

In very much the same vein as a short story/film, "The Waking Life of Angels" is a self-contained story about a woman who hasn't slept in about 9 days because of a nightmare that keeps looping in her mind. I very, very rarely ever feel this strongly Read More

This is the conclusion of this four-parter and I was pretty surprised how much I enjoyed it. I hadn't been that into the first three issues, but in one fell swoop I was back on this title's bandwagon. Now I'm eager to read volume 3. Assuming there's Read More

BOOM! Studios has been publishing new, in-canon Farscape comics for a while now, and they just sent us a brand new 10-page preview of their upcoming Scorpius #0. This new title, focusing on the villainous title character, is written by series creator Read More

So. This issue just had some weird setup stuff happening. Not weird in that it was a weird place to have a lull in action, but weird in that people are frakked up in the head. Dude. I have a feeling things are about to get even more crazy than they had Read More

The first series to come out of EA Comics, Army of Two takes place in between the first and second video games of the same name. Overall, it's an entertaining start to a new series. It doesn't happen very often with me anymore, but this was definitely a Read More

Max Damage is still set on the superhero path, despite the whinging of his underage sidekick Jailbait. He's got one cop helping him out, but soon discovers that doing the "right" thing is a lot harder than the good guys make it look. Read More

Reading this one-shot, I was reminded of how and why I almost bankrupted my parents as a pre-teen fan of the X-books: if you miss an issue or two of one of the ten billion X-titles, you will have no freaking clue what's going on when you finally do pick Read More

Unfortunately, NOLA doesn't live up to its potential. Although the series supplies readers with the elements necessary to create a compelling four-part comic series — protagonist, antagonist, struggle, and revenge — the third issue perpetuates the Read More

The Lost Island is only the latest in a long history of islands you really, really don't want to visit. Here's fair warning about ten of them. Read More