Comic Book Reviews: Ultimate Avengers, Dark Avengers, Thunderbots, Iron Man

New comic book impressions for my friends:                                                                                                        Ultimate Avengers #2- Another solid issue from this re-launch.  History of Cap’s son, from inception to transformation into the Red Skull.  The stepping stones...

X-men Utopia Review

I’ll qualify this by saying that I own every X-men comic book from #129, the beginning of the Dark Phoenix Saga, to the present.  I like to think that i am an expert on the X-men.  I am geek-certified.  That being said, let’s get to it. I remember the good old days.  The days when there was a single team.  A coherent team.  Though the members changed over the years, the book always focused on a...

Comic Book Reviews and Impressions- September 5

Okay, peoples, here we go.  Some of this is recent, some a couple of months old, but all is quality: Fables #86 and 87-  first issues after the Great Fables crossover.  #86 was a one-shot featuring the Dark Man.  I’ll admit, I was disappointed.  First of, too much text.  Way to much.  And this is from someone who reads books like fish drink water.  I felt the book got bogged down by too much...

Comic Reviews- August 28

Finsihed up two story arcs tonight. Enjoy. Dark X-men: The Beginning.  Three issue limited series describing how and why the Dark X-men were gathered.  Nine short stories, three in each issue.  $3.99 a book.  I’ll be honest up front- not worth the twelve bucks.  When i was done, i said to myself “I scrounged around in someone’s mouth for an hour to buy this?”  The stories were hit or...

Dark Reign- A Quick Evaluation

I was inspired earlier today by a Twitter post to explore Marvel’s latest “crossover”, Dark Reign. Now, this is not your ordinary crossover because it is not focused on a single event, as World War Hulk or Civil War or Secret Invasion.  While these events did have ramifications on the Marvel Universe, they were singel events set within the framework of the Marvel Universe. Dark Reign IS the Marvel...