4.5 Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #9’ Spectacularly Sparks a Multiverse Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill January 26, 2016 Big Two, Marvel Comics, Team-Up Review Shawn Hill: The epic scale is back, if in some rather familiar formats. It’s God War, Lord Doom vs. the Black Panther with an Infinity Gauntlet...
3.0 Secret Wars #9: Good, But Unsatisfying Bill Janzen January 13, 2016 Big Two, Big Two Reviews, Marvel Comics It’s finally here, Secret Wars #9! Let’s start off by being clear: I’m holding this issue to a high standard. This is the final issue of a...
3.5 Team-Up Review: In ‘Secret Wars #8’ the Marvel Abyss Stares Back Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill December 16, 2015 Big Two, Marvel Comics, Team-Up Review Jamil Scalese: The corporate comics machine amazes me. Even though the finale of Secret Wars has been pushed well past the premiere of the new Star...
2.5 Team-Up Review: Secret Wars #7 Shambles Along Like the Living Dead Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill November 19, 2015 Big Two, Marvel Comics, Team-Up Review Jamil Scalese: The final days of Dr. Doom’s reign are upon us ... Well, unless you've read any All-New All-Different Marvel titles, then it's...
The Full Run: Hickman’s ‘Avengers’ #24.NOW/#1 Chris Wunderlich October 19, 2015 Columns, Marvel Comics, The Full Run *of course, huge spoilers ahead* Avengers 24.NOW/#1 Written by Jonathan Hickman Art by Esad Ribic, Mike Deodato, Butch Guice and...
4.5 Team-Up Review: An Uprising is Imminent in ‘Secret Wars #6’ Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill October 14, 2015 Big Two, Marvel Comics, Reviews, Team-Up Review Shawn Hill: As I’ve said before, I don’t always get Hickman. His vision is so broad, sometimes I feel the wee little human stories (the life’s...
3.5 Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #5’ is Bomb. Bomb. Bomb. Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill August 19, 2015 Reviews, Team-Up Review Jamil Scalese: As the summer languishes we’ve been mired in a war so secret it forgot it was happening. The whole month of July elapsed without...
3.5 Team-Up Review: A Rivalry is Renewed in ‘Secret Wars #4’ and It’s Going to Burn the World Down Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill July 7, 2015 Reviews, Team-Up Review Shawn Hill: Well, apparently all it takes to bring down your literal kingdom and godhood if you’re Lord Victor Von Doom? The mere sight of one...
4.0 Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #3’ is a Text-Heavy Delight Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill June 9, 2015 Reviews, Team-Up Review Jamil Scalese: The common, and sometimes fair, complaint of modern Marvel comics is also a telltale sign of decompression: characters standing around...
4.5 Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #2’ Carves Up the Marvel Multiverse and Serves Up a Narrative Feast Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill May 18, 2015 Reviews, Team-Up Review (Jonathan Hickman; Esad Ribic; Ive Svorcina; Marvel) Shawn Hill: The regular cover is a problem of Too Many Thors, and that’s an accurate...
4.0 Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #1’ Kills All of Your Favorite Characters in Entertaining Fashion Jamil Scalese, Shawn Hill May 12, 2015 Reviews, Team-Up Review Secret Wars #1 (Jonathan Hickman; Esad Ribic; Ive Svorcina; Marvel) Jamil Scalese: Well, it was a good run. The Marvel Universe is dead. The...
Sunday Slugfest: Secret Wars #1 Esko, Jackie Henley, Lance Paul, Ryan Scott May 10, 2015 Reviews, Slugfest It’s the biggest Marvel Comics event since last week! Well, OK, fine. Secret Wars 2.0 (or is this now 3.0?) is easily the biggest Marvel event...
4.5 Story Arc Review: Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #1-4: "The Republic is Burning" Rafael Gaitan March 30, 2012 Reviews Jonathan Hickman would be a hell of a hustler if he wasn't in comics. Hickman is an indie darling turned Marvel Architect (whatever...
4.0 Uncanny X-Force #18 Jamil Scalese December 16, 2011 Reviews By now, all of you know that Uncanny X-Force is one of the best mutant books currently published and maybe one the better ongoing titles in...
3.5 Ultimate Comics: The Ultimates #3 Chris Kiser October 28, 2011 Reviews I was quite the vocal fan of Hickman and Ribic's The Ultimates #1, a fantastic book that still stands out in my mind as one of the best...