Category: Comic Books

Review – Transformers: Till All Are One

Picking up where Windblade left off, Till All Are One continues the story of post-war Cybertron, where peace hasn’t been everything everyone’s hoped for (and a little meddling in the background isn’t helping matters.) A recap and some spoilers in the review after the jump.

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Review – Wonder Woman: Rebirth #1

I remember believing that “wonder” meant “awe.” That the name they gave me spoke of admiration. Perhaps it did, once. But the story keeps changing. I’ve been curious about Wonder Woman: Rebirth #1 ever since it was announced: Diana has had a tough time reaching the same status as the rest of the DC Trinity, and I’m

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Review: Batman Rebirth #1

Changes may be coming up for the Bat Family, but this issue’s story is a call back to simpler times: recruit a teammate, fight a bad guy, set the scene for a new chapter in a familiar story. Click the jump for a (spoilery) review of Batman Rebirth #1.

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Andrew Plein

DC Rebirth #1: Hope vs Despair 

It’s finally over: the long and at times painful New 52 is no more. We now find DC doing a much needed Rebirth. Now for me the term Rebirth is very special. While I preferred DC to Marvel in the past, I wasn’t a hardcore reader. It wasn’t until a chance encounter with Geoff Johns –

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Review – Transformers More Than Meets the Eye 53

The Dying of the Light part 4! Twilight’s last gleaming! The end is nigh. No chance of escape. No last-minute reprieve. But nothing loosens the tongue like imminent death, and the crew of the Lost Light use their final hours to say what—until now—was unsayable. Is this the end? No, this isn’t the end. Not

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Review: Marvel’s Captain America – Civil War Prelude

The new Captain America movie is doing really well, and I’ll most likely go to see it in a week or so, once the initial crush dies down a little. While I wait, I decided to check out Marvel’s new graphic novel Captain America – Civil War Prelude, collecting all four issues of the Civil War

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

RIP Darwyn Cooke: a look at The Twilight Children

I’d already planned on reviewing The Twilight Children this week since the collected volume is now in stores, but the review has turned into a eulogy too: the illustrator Darwyn Cooke passed away this past Saturday of lung cancer at the age of 53. Anything I say about it now is going to seem a little

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Comic Books
llyzabeth

Review – Love: The Lion

The third in a series of “wildlife graphic novels” hits stores this June, click the jump for the book trailer and a review of the often perplexing, but still pretty gorgeous, Love: The Lion.

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Review: The Last Dragon by Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay

Two hundred years ago, humans drove the dragons from the islands of May. Now, the last of the dragons rises to wreak havoc anew—with only a healer’s daughter and a kite-flying would-be hero standing in its way. See below for a review of Jane Yolen and Rebecca Guay’s graphic novel The Last Dragon.

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