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The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
Maybe it’s just a matter of personal taste, but The Flash #1, written by Francis Manapul and Brian Buccellato, leaves me feeling underwhelmed. The story is wholesome and fun, with humor and a healthy dose of blurry, orange action sequences. The plot here is intriguing, if a little predictable, and the art is really good, so why am I not singing “Zip a dee do dah?” (Get it? Zip?)
The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
I expect more from Geoff Johns. Given the weight his name carries in the comic book sniffer world, I figure this is justified. He’s the man who gave us Sinestro Corps, the Black Lanterns, and the White Lanterns! He’s seen as the mastermind behind DC Comics and the reboot, and he used to be Richard Donner’s assistant for heaven’s sake! His comics should be good! Damn good! So far, Johns’ contributions to the DCnU have left me wanting more, but I will say that his script in Aquaman #1 is enjoyable, funny, and well supported by the wonderful art of Ivan Reis!
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The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
By Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti (Back to Brooklyn with Garth Ennis), this book is roughly twice as long as any other DC #1 I’ve read. It also has a good amount of fresh material, with some pretty obvious references to the current DCU.
The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
Teen Titans #1 was not what I expected. Now, I hope the sniffers out there can forgive me, but my only exposure to the Teen Titans had been through the TV show. This wasn’t what I got. First of all, Teen Titans has been the beneficiary of a proper reboot.
Andrew Chambliss is really earning his stripes in the comic book Whedonverse. The former Dollhouse writer is currently scribing both Dollhouse: Epitaphs and Buffy: Season 9 and succeeding in bold fashion! With Dollhouse: Epitaphs #3, Chambliss turns in another solid chapter to the post-apocalyptic Dollhouse mythos and takes us even deeper into the twisted and tormented psyche of the original damaged doll, Alpha.
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Do you like a good haunted hayride or haunted house? Do you love scary movies? Is Alice Cooper your own personal Jesus? If at least two of these three things are true, then you’ll probably have an amazing time at Universal’s Halloween Horror Nights, which opened for 2011 this past weekend. For years now, every autumn Universal has turned its theme park into one big haunted house adventure, within which you will find six giant haunted mazes, a terror tram, an entire city block overrun with zombies, deranged clowns roaming around wielding everything from little, creepy noise makers to roaring chainsaws, and what seems to be a yearly tradition: a variety show called Bill and Ted’s Excellent Halloween Adventure. It’s a shocking, scary, and unbelievably fun, full-immersion Halloween experience!
I’ll come right out with it: if you care about good writing in games and you’re one of the few that seems to know that the Warhammer 40K universe did space marines and chainsaw weapons first, Space Marine deserves serious consideration. The rich Warhammer 40,000 (that’d be 40,000 A.D.) dystopia—a mix of Starship Troopers, the Cthulhu mythos, and George Orwell’s 1984, complete with a Big Brother equivalent—and its titular marines brought to bear in the story of a strategic industrial planet that’s under siege by marauding space Orks. You read that correctly. There’s also a space Sauron, but that comes later and really, really shouldn’t be a spoiler if you’ve read any of the advertising (or know anything about the 40K setting).
Season 4 of The Clone Wars is back in full force. Finally! The premiere consisted of 2 episodes of a 3-part arc. And, while I was a little concerned about the episodes taking place underwater, I was relieved to see that these episodes really delivered. Even though it had Gungans...
"Water War" and "Gungan Attack"
¨When Destiny Calls, The Chosen Have No Choice¨
The opening ¨fortune cookie¨ kinda made me laugh. When silly fish people are in trouble, the Jedi have no choice but to help. Never catch a break. But, in all seriousness, I have to say I was a little surprised that they decided to start the episode with the image of a Mon Calamari corpse floating in the water. Murder? In the first 5 seconds of the show? OK, I’m in.
The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
When the DC reboot was first announced, we knew there would be at least some epic fails of gigantic proportion. Hell, it was expected. Well, I’ve just witnessed a major crash and burn with Scott Lobdell’s The Red Hood and the Outlaws #1. I don’t mean to be particularly harsh to either Lobdell or artist Kenneth Rocafort, but, in all honesty, this is the kind of piece that makes new readers never pick up a comic book again.
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The DC reboot is upon us, comic book sniffers! Welcome to the new DC universe! In an effort to help bring new readers into the world of comics, the Fanboy Comics staff has decided to review at least five new #1 issues each week of September, DC’s reboot launch month.
Wonder Woman. Yes, I have a hopeless, helpless crush on this fictional character. I also, after reading 100 Bullets, have a man crush on Brian Azzarello. So, put those two together and I’m completely at maximum crushable capacity. What could go wrong?! (He says as he picks up Wonder Woman Issue #1 by Brian Azzarello and Cliff Chiang...)