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Review: Superman Special #1

By Damien Becton

I went into Superman Special #1 with high expectations - and perhaps, upon reflection, my expectations might have been too high. With people like current Superman creative team, Patrick Gleason and Peter J. Tomasi, attached along with the likes of Kaare Andrews and Bryan Hitch, I firmly believed that I would be in for a genuinely good time. I was half-correct. This book is a delight to look at, but not much else.

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Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #82

By Damien Becton

There is definitely a lot of work that goes into making a comic book - not even an entire run, just a single issue. Sometimes there is the concern of having “too many cooks in the kitchen” for effective storytelling to take place. As I read the opening pages of the book and saw the credits, I had initial concerns of “too many cooks in the kitchen” when I noticed long series of names TMNT had attached to it. Tom Waltz and Kevin Eastman and Bob Curnow and Dave Wachter and Ronda Pattison was a mouthful. However, I’m glad to say that I was proven wrong with TMNT #82. Eastman and Waltz have been writing these characters for a long time, and it shows.