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Deadpool #46 - Daniel Way + Salva Espin. Deadpool has it out with his evil twin. A few good jokes but the story is going a little long.

Fear Itself #7.3: Iron Man - Matt Fraction + Salvador Larroca. The best issue of the entire series, Fraction does a good job of getting into Tony Stark's head and his trouble as a man of science dealing with ( Read more... )

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Avenging Spider-Man #1 - Zeb Wells + Joe Madureira. I've missed Joe Mad's art, though I have to admit that it did look better in the preview pages I saw of the art before it was colored. Anyway, lots of high octane fun and Wells' writing is as witty as usual.

Fear Itself #7.2: Thor - Matt Fraction + Adam Kubert. Thor's funeral gets more ( Read more... )

I saw Captain America today and I found it to be pretty damn good. The film had a good balance of humor and drama. Also had an excellently impressive portrayal for Bucky, but I did feel cheated when it came to the Howling Commandos. They didn't even get introductions!

But most importantly it had at its core what I find most interesting about the ( Read more... )

I may end up hitting the size limit here because I've got a lot of Hauls here. Since this is primarily a list, a very, very, VERY long one, I'm putting it behind a cut. I have additional notes on some things, but I'm going to do separate larger entries on some of the most significant things.

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The best word I can think of to describe the Green Lantern film is "amateurish." It's not a horrible movie, certainly not worth the ire it's receiving, because, hell, it's not like it was directed by Uwe Boll.

The movie is overall poorly constructed. It's front loaded with exposition that should have been within the film and a teaser action scene ( Read more... )

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Chaos War: Chaos King one-shot - Brandon Montclare + Michael Wm. Kaluta. (I wrote about this when it first came out, because it's that good, so you might remember this write-up.) The welcome return of Kaluta's art to a full comic book. He's best known for his work on Starstruck and The Shadow, as well as a lengthy run on House of Mystery in ( Read more... )

Such a Thor week. Four different Thor comics, you'd think I like him a lot more than I actually do. It's also a week devoid of anything X-Men related which is just bizarre.

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Ant-Man & Wasp #1 of 3 - Tim Seeley. Hank Pym, the original Ant-Man now calling himself the Wasp, finds himself forced to work with the incorrigible Eric O'Grady, the ( Read more... )

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Carnage #1 of 5 - Zeb Wells + Clayton Crain. The 90s return as Spider-Man and Iron Man become involved in a "Maximum Carnage" revival. Crain's art is still annoyingly dark, even in scenes of full daylight.

Chaos War #2 of 5 - Greg Pak/Fred Van Lente + Khoi Pham. The human heroes have all been immobilized, so Hercules has to recruit some more ( Read more... )

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Incredible Hulks #614 - Greg Pak + Barry Kitson. The Hulks fight the Secret Avengers for the chance to be the first to confront Hiro-Kala and stop him from destroying the Earth. What's with Banner and his boys?
Back-up by Joshua Williamson + Mirco Pierfederici.

Iron Man By Design one-shot - Not a comic, but instead an art book with writes up ( Read more... )

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Chaos War #1 of 5 - Greg Pak/Fred Van Lente + Khoi Pham/Reilly Brown. Hercules must lead the heroes against the most unrelenting threat the universe has seen since, well, ever. Yes, Hercules. It's fantastic, and quickly takes unexpected turns.

Deadpool MAX #1 - David Lapham + Kyle Baker. An idea long past due. Baker is drawing again instead of ( Read more... )