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Deadpool Corps #4 - Victor Gischler + Rob Liefeld. This series is a bit of a mess, and when I say that I'm not talking about Liefeld's art. Even with a goal of “go stop that guy” for the arc, it still seems to wander fairly aimlessly. This title is teetering on the edge of being dropped, the main thing saving it being my love of the character ( Read more... )

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Deadpool Corps #2 of 5 - Victor Gischler + Rob Liefeld. I keep expecting this series to be even more madcap than it is, probably Gischler is just spread too thin doing this, DP: Merc With a Mouth, and the new X-Men series. That said, I guess I'll reveal here part of why I actually like Rob Liefeld - he reminds me of Jack Kirby. As opposed to ( Read more... )

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Cloak and Dagger one-shot - Stuart Moore + Mark Brooks. A very good C&D story that focuses firmly on the characters and their relationship. And though it doesn't deal with it, it doesn't shy away from the parallels to addiction inherent in their power interactions. If this was the beginning of a C&D series I'd be on top of it in an instant, ( Read more... )

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Dark Reign: The Hood #3 of 5 - Parker Robbins finally begins to realize that letting an evil ruler of another dimension use your body is not a great idea. Good writing by Jeff parker and art by Kyle Hotz. Thankfully very little of Norman Osborn.

Dark Reign: Young Avengers #3 of 5 - ( Read more... )

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Avengers: The Initiative #22 - Gage & Ramos. The Initiative's own Disassembled storyline continues with everyone in the camp dogpiling onto Ragnarok, aka the Thor clone from Civil War. Even the old New Warriors get in on the action.

Dark Reign Files - Lots of files, but not a lot of actually worthwhile information. Boo!

Doctor Doom and the ( Read more... )