Author Archives: Shawn Warner

Review: Edge of Spider-Verse #5

This series, designed to introduce us to some of the many and varied other inhabitants of the Spider-Verse has been one of the biggest and most pleasant surprises to come out of The House of Ideas this year. The main … Continue reading

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Review: Original Sin #5

Jason Aaron steps on the brakes, slowing the brisk pace of his revelation filled narrative in this current issue that trades dynamic character interaction and up-tempo timing for meticulously detailed exposition and historic flashbacks – all in the cause of … Continue reading

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Review: Rocket Raccoon #1

Skottie Young and Jean-Francois Beaulieu could have gone for an obvious cash grab when given the opportunity to work on a Rocket Raccoon solo series. It’s a character that many see as the next Deadpool or Harley Quinn in terms … Continue reading

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Deadpool #19 – Duggan / Posehn / Shalvey / Bellaire

The final chapter of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly hits like a sledge hammer to the chest delivered by Thor Odinson himself. It’s relentless, not only in the rapid fire pacing employed by co-writers Gerry Duggan and Brian … Continue reading

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Jupiter’s Legacy #3 – Millar and Quitely

The long wait between issues two and three of Jupiter’s Legacy have paid off in a big way. Mark Millar has upped the brutality in this current issue while Frank Quitely contributes another off the chart visual performance. Even with … Continue reading

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Review: The Walking Dead #112 – Kirkman, Adlard and Rathburn

The Walking Dead is unique in so many ways, but one of the most singular to the title is that there are truly no story arcs as defined by most other comic books. Instead what you have is one long … Continue reading

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Jupiter’s Legacy #2 – Millar and Quitely

Even super-heroes are not immune to dysfunction in the family. Mark Millar explores the depths of that dysfunction in his new series, Jupiter’s Legacy. Utopian is the patriarch of a family of super-beings –  to call them super-heroes would imply … Continue reading

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Review: Age of Ultron #10 – Disappointment x 2

Something a little different with this review, with both Shawn and Sean throwing their hats in the ring to have a loser look… Shawn’s take After ten issues of anticipation and hope for a mind blowing climax that would forever … Continue reading

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Review: Batman #21 – Snyder and Capullo

Batman perhaps more than any other comic book character has had his origin examined and scrutinized, most notably by Frank Miller in his masterfully written Year One. So when Zero Year was announced I was cautiously optimistic. The fact that … Continue reading

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Review: Iron Man #11 – Gillen and Eaglesham

Kieron Gillen is re-building Iron Man and he is using alien technology to do so. Well that’s not entirely true, but he is re-tooling the origin story as told to Stark by the alien robot 451. And what a story … Continue reading

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