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Review: Is’nana: The Were-Spider vol. 1

By Dustin Cabeal

Is’nana is a weird story. There were parts of it that were very enjoyable and made me want to read more and other parts that could have easily made me put the issue down. It’s rough around the edges and a lot longer than it needs to be. The main story works and is interesting on its own, but everything after that was hard to follow and worse, made me forget what it was that I was reading.

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Review: Parent/Guardian

By Dustin Cabeal

There was an eerie feeling that I had read or seen this story before, but for the life of me, I can’t place it. To give myself a piece of mind I settled on the potential fact that it could just be wearing its influences on its sleeve.

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Review: Atlantis: The Last Survivor #1

By Dustin Cabeal

Atlantis: The Last Survivor is proof that great art can elevate the most average of stories. I know that’s a bit of a slam, but there are a lot of problems with Atlantis’ story. The first being that there’s only a vague impression of what the story is about after reading it. It doesn’t even reveal much of the story until the final pages in which it rushes to a cliffhanger. Until then it spent a lot of time being vague, rushing to through character development and trying to be clever.

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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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