3.0
Team-Up Review: ‘Thunderbolts #1’
Jamil Scalese: Following the six month Secret Wars gauntlet we faced in 2015 there was only one thing that could awaken the “Jhawn” Marvel Reviewing Machine -- Thunderbolts, the greatest of all...
3.0
Power Man & Iron Fist #1 Review: A Mark Raffalo Joint
Mark: The question at the heart of this comic, Power Man & Iron Fist #1, is “are the Heroes for Hire back together?” While that’s left up in the air, there’s no doubt that the force of Mark...
4.5
Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #9’ Spectacularly Sparks a Multiverse
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 (and Namor’s approval, which may count for almost as much)...
3.5
Team-Up Review: In ‘Secret Wars #8’ the Marvel Abyss Stares Back
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 Wars they are brashly pumping out their All-New All-Different...
2.5
Team-Up Review: Secret Wars #7 Shambles Along Like the Living Dead
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 technically been over for eight months. Shawn, that's about...
4.5
Team-Up Review: An Uprising is Imminent in ‘Secret Wars #6’
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 blood of Marvel storytelling, generally, all those troubling...
3.5
Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #5’ is Bomb. Bomb. Bomb.
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 an issue of Secret Wars. Delays are no rare thing in comics...
3.5
Team-Up Review: A Rivalry is Renewed in ‘Secret Wars #4’ and It’s Going to Burn the World Down
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 bearded old bitter arch-enemy since childhood, the apparently...
4.0
Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #3’ is a Text-Heavy Delight
Jamil Scalese: The common, and sometimes fair, complaint of modern Marvel comics is also a telltale sign of decompression: characters standing around and talking. Wouldn’t you have it, that’s all that...
4.5
Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #2’ Carves Up the Marvel Multiverse and Serves Up a Narrative Feast
(Jonathan Hickman; Esad Ribic; Ive Svorcina; Marvel) Shawn Hill: The regular cover is a problem of Too Many Thors, and that’s an accurate reflection of the contents. It’s also a key to understanding...
Team-Up Review: Andy Poyiadgi’s ‘Lost Property’
JASON SACKS: Keith, to some extent life is all about taking things on and then letting them go. A favorite activity to do with an uncle, a favorite pair of shoes, a letter opener that was once convenient, even...
4.0
Team-Up Review: ‘Secret Wars #1’ Kills All of Your Favorite Characters in Entertaining Fashion
Secret Wars #1 (Jonathan Hickman; Esad Ribic; Ive Svorcina; Marvel) Jamil Scalese: Well, it was a good run. The Marvel Universe is dead. The Ultimate Universe is dead. For about 75 years these...
Team-Up Review: ‘Golemchick’
Keith Silva: To borrow from those two rock-and-roll sages David St. Hubbins and Nigel Tufnel: “it’s such a fine line between charm, and uh … inadequacy … yeah.” With Golemchik William Exley follows...
Crisis #3 First Timers’ Review: This is Our Crisis
Ray Sonne: Reading this series only gets harder and harder with each issue. Oy vey. Crisis of Infinite Earths #3 opens with a veiled confession to readers that Marv Wolfman knows what’s going on in...
Team-Up Review: ‘Rage of Ultron’ Lets Readers Rage With the Machine
(Rick Remender, Jerome Opena, Pepe Larraz; Dean White; Marvel Comics) Jamil Scalese: As the days wane in April the movie event of the season steadily approaches. Everyone has been gearing up for Avengers...