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Review: A&A: The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong #12

By Jonathan Edwards

A couple of years back, the digital comic book distributor Comixology had a special promotion, where a bundle of about 26 first issues was completely free for the day. I was lucky enough to notice the email from them before it was too late and got the books. Included was Archer & Armstrong #1 from the 2012 ongoing series. I'd never her of the original series, so that was my first experience with the eponymous characters. As far as I recall, it was a pretty enjoyable read, and I intended to pick up a trade at some point. And then, I never actually went and did that. So when I found out that Valiant was doing A&A: The Adventures of Archer and Armstrong, I opted to pick up the first issue as soon as it came out. About a year later, here's the last issue.

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Review: Batman #16

By Daniel Vlasaty

Let me first say that I wasn’t sure if I wanted to review Batman this month. As you know, if you read my review of Batman #15, I was not a fan of that issue. I didn’t like it, but I do feel like I might have been needlessly hard on it in my review. But this issue is the first issue in a new arc (called I Am Bane) so I figured I’d give it a shot.

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Review: One-Punch Man vol. 11

By Dustin Cabeal

I had quite a few problems with the tenth volume of One-Punch Man, and some of that is echoed in this volume. There is a lot of improvement even if there’s still too much of a dependency on “Bonus” stories to keep the thickness of the volume consistent.

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Review: Lost Girls #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Lost Girls follows three women that live in a jungle environment populated by dinosaurs. It’s not clear if these stories are taking place in the same shared world or even the same timeline. For all intent and purposes, it comes across as three stories about three different women of the jungle. That’s how it comes across at least; there is a “Next Time” box that seems to imply that our three women will team up in the next issue… which is not where I want to get that information from.

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Review: Snow Day

By Dustin Cabeal

Snow Day is one of those stories that you can love, but at the same time acknowledge its flaws. Its flaws don’t make it bad, but rather they just point out how familiar the story is.

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Review: The Spirit: The Corpse Makers #1

By Chris Tresson

This week I’m going to be reviewing The Spirit: The Corpse Maker #1 which is wrtten and drawn by Fransceso Francavilla for Dynamite entertainment. Having read the previous Spirit series from Dynamite (written by Matt Wagner with art by Dan Schkade)and I quite enjoyed it, so I was quite happy to see that they were putting out another another Spirit series. I was happy at first, and then I saw Francesco Francavilla’s name attached to it, decided I was completely in and here we are. This is my review of the first issue.

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Review: The Escort #1

By Dustin Cabeal

The Escort seems to be capitalizing on a trend that’s already fading… powerful women with bows and arrows. The title also feels a bit misleading in that the average comic reader isn’t going to think of the main character as someone who escorts people, but as someone who “escorts” people. I raised an eyebrow wondering what exactly I had been sent for review.

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Review: Seekers into the Mystery

By Laramie Martinez

Last week I was able to get a hold of a copy of Seekers into the Mystery. Written by J. M. Dematteis and drawn by various artists, the book seemed to be the natural follow-up to Dematteis’ Moonshadow which I had read earlier this month. It is another one of his “big question” stories, following a struggling screenwriter named Lucas Hart living in Los Angeles as he tries to cope with the memories of his traumatic childhood.

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Review: Australi #1

By Dustin Cabeal

When I read the email that the creators sent with this issue, I’ll admit that I didn’t find it interesting and that made it difficult to sit down and give it a fair chance. I started it and quit it a few times, but then one day for whatever reason I stuck with it… I kicked myself for not giving it a chance sooner because I found exactly the type of indie comics I enjoy reading.

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Review: Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern #1

By Jonathan Edwards

Seeing this... thing listed among the week's releases gave me an immediate flashback to last month and all the mediocrity that was Justice League/Power Rangers #1. Except, there's a key distinction between these books that I noticed pretty quickly. While both are crossovers bearing both companies' names, DC is technically the publisher for JL/PR, while it's Boom! for PotA/GL (this is reflected in the construction of their titles, with the publisher's properties being listed first respectively). My first thought was something along the lines of "oh god, there's another one." This was followed quickly by me wondering who got the shorter end of the stick. Had the deal(s) somehow screwed DC while simultaneously landing Boom! a good book? After all, Green Lantern and Planet of the Apes is a far stranger crossover than Power Rangers and the Justice League. However, perhaps that meant there was a much better reason for it to be happening. With that thought in mind, I went ahead and signed up to review Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern #1. And guess what? It's garbage.

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Review: A Rapper's Words #1-2

By Dustin Cabeal

As a practice, I don't like to bunch issues together for review, but there are instances in which I simply don't have anything different to say about the issues. I would be copying and paste my review twice which just seems tacky to me. I've seen it done, but I personally don't like it. I mention this because my thoughts and feelings on these two issues are the same so hence, one review.