Weekly Write-Up 2/8/12

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Secret Avenger #22

   This marks the start of Rick Reminders run on Secret Avengers. Lately Reminder has been the go to guy for black ops book in the Marvel U, like Venom and Uncanny X-force. I found this issue's story to be ok not a one in a million issue but not bad. However where the story lacked the art made up for it. After this issue Hardman became my favorite artist.

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PICK OF THE WEEK

Batman and Robin #6

    The origin of Nobody continues as we find out what lead to Wayne and Nobody becoming enemies. In the second half of this issue we see Robin reveal his true plans of getting close to Nobody only to then turn on him. The story and art in this issue is a good blend with Batman and Robin developing a new standard for their book.

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Wolverine and the X-men #5

        Apparently ruling a school full of mutants is very expensive and now that Angel is no longer has control over his company the school is having a cash flow problem. So whats Wolvie to do? Go gambling with Kid Omega of course! Meanwhile Kitty Pride is not pregnant! She simply has a bunch of brood hatchlings inside her. All in all the issue is pretty standard this week, a good issue but nothing that blew me out of the water.

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Comic Book Write-up 1/11/12

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Amazing Spider-man #677

    Peter Parker is alone and looking for some love, who better to get with then Black Cat? Of course the Cat is up to no good in this issue. She is arrested and conected to the a robbery at Horizon Labs. Pete looking to get in Black Cat's good side joins up with Daredevil to find the missing tech. Overall this is a good issue with good art. I'm glad to see Mark Waid handle Spider-man so well after having spent the majority of his last year writing Daredevil. I look forward to the conclussion next week in Daredevil #8.

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Wolverine And The X-men #4

        The effects of the Dark Angel Saga reach the Jean Grey School. In this issue the school is introduced to two new members, Angel and Genesis. For those of you who don't know Angel has recently lost his memory of everything he was after the life seed was injected into him to erase Archangel from his system. Genesis is the clone of the kid Apocalypse that Famtonex killed in the fourth issue of X-force. The best part of this is is a page featuring one of the possible futures that Dehlok sees where Genesis assumes the form of Apocalypse. Its for this page that makes Wolverine and the X-men #4 the best issue this week.

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ISSUE OF THE WEEK! 

Wolverine #300

    Everyone has been raving about Jason Aaron's run on Wolverine so I decided to start with issue 300 which was advertised as a great jumping on point. I have no idea who anyone is in this comic but I still had a great time reading it. In the story Wolverine has taken a trip to the clan-war-torn country of Japan, Tokyo to be exact. Even though I don't know the Characters their are still some notable ones such as Sabertooth and The Sliver Samurai. I look forward to reading the rest of Jason Aaron's Final Arc.

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Brilliant #2

               I am a big fan of Bendis and Bagley so I though Brilliant would be Mind-blowing. Bagley hasn't failed since the art is pretty good but the story is so Meh. I feel this series has a lot of potential that hasn't been realized yet. 

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Batman and Robin #4

   Peter Tomasi once again proves that his Batman And Robin is going to be better than Grant Morrison's. The issue focuses on Ducard's origin. His father was basically a man-hunter/assassin. The father falls in love with the mother, they have Ducard. Turns out the mother was hired by a terrorist cell to kill the father. When Ducard found out he killed his mother. After that the father found out he took Ducard under his wing and trained him. 

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Comic Book Write-Up 12/14/12 Light Week

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Avenger X-Sanction #1

          I wasn't super looking forward to Avengers X-Sanction, Jeph Loeb's(the writer) work recently has been quite awful. But I love Cable, he is definitively one of my top ten favorite X-men. But unfortunately this book was awful! It didn't even fully explain not only how Cable surived but also how the hell he traveled through time. I also found the whole "I only have x amount of hours to finish my mission" both overused and cliche. Will I continue on this book? Yes, why? Because it's supposed to lead into the whole Avengers VS. X-Men event, and that is something that I'm looking forward to.

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Batman and Robin #4

     Let's be honest Batman and Robin will never be as good as it was when Grant Morrision wrote it, but I feel that this recent arc has brought Batman and Robin back to one of the books I look forward to. The new villain/anti-hero Nobody has finally attacked Bruce and Damian directly and has caused their relationship to become more strained then ever. My favorite part in this issue is when Alfred is talking to Bruce and tells him how Damian has finally had that moment where he realized just how human Bruce is. I wonder how Nobody mentoring Robin will go, will Robin cross the line that Bruce has put in place?

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Green Lantern #4

        Meh. Meh is the exact feeling I've had for the New Green Lantern series, it's been neither good nor bad. I kinda liked the whole Sinestro going back to Korugar to see that his corp has enslaved his people. But what was up with that ending? I was hoping that the fellow prisoners would help Hal and Sinestro, but instead they attack him. What the hell?

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Uncanny X-Force #18

    I love Rick Remeder's work. Between X-Force and Venom his stuff has been amazing, which is why I've been looking forward to the final issue of the Dark Angel Saga. And trust me it does not disappoint. My favorite part of the issue was when Angel lives out his live in a dream, similar to Inception. I definitively look forward to reading how this event effects the team.

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Action Comics #4

              So far Action Comics has been a great title. Morrison has gotten me into a character that I found highly overrated. In this issue we see an alien virus infect machines throughout the Metropolis, including John Corben. They attack Supes and when it looks like they might beat him Steel shows up and knocks-out Corben. The issue gets really fuzzy after that because you don't quite know what happened. It seems like Metropolis was extracted from the earth and is now part of an alien collection, but I'm not one hundred percent sure. That is the only part of the book I didn't like. However I loved the Steel back-up at the end of the book. I like how he is kinda short and scrawny compared to the old Steel. But all and all I liked the book and look forward to the explanation of what happened to Metropolis.
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