Why would you read a Wonder Woman book and not expect that feminist messaging would be present?
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Avengers: Twilight #5 May 9, 2024
I honestly loved this issue. It's just so well written and the art is incredible.
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America and democracy are under attack! Can THE AVENGERS of tomorrow save a country from itself, as their greatest enemy dismantles everything CAPTAIN AMERICA holds dear? It's a battle decades in the making, and no one is safe!
Rated T+
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Avengers #14 May 9, 2024
With a whole new team, this book takes on a very different vibe than the first 14 issues. It's good, but different. I think MacKay has a great voice for Steve Rogers in particular.
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BLOOD HUNT TIE-IN! NEW TEAM LINEUP DEBUTS!
With the current Avengers tied up and under siege during BLOOD HUNT, Captain Marvel calls for aid - and who better to assemble a new team of Avengers than Steve Rogers? Captain America gathers the forces of Quicksilver, Hawkeye, Hercules and Hazmat to take on the hordes of vampires attacking all over ...
fzanca reviewed Amazons Attack #6 Mar 29, 2024
This was a very disappointing ending to a decent story. I was hoping it wouldn't lean heavily into feminism, but my hopes fell on the universe's deaf ears. We start with revisionist history of female gods teaching men everything they know. "But man was furious that woman possessed such knowledge at all." An actual line from the issue. Wait, I just puked a little in my mouth. The villain gives her more
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BACK TO THE BEGINNING! The Amazons revisit their roots only to discover a dangerous stone in their history left unturned. What lies in the ruins our heroes find themselves lost in? Will they discover the real culprit behind the attacks and save their people? Find out in this epic finale where the forces of harmony and discord clash!
Greg Rucka on what draws him to Wonder Woman: "I actually think what got me past the first hurdle was that I turned to the feminism inherent in the character. I said, 'She’s a fundamentally political character.' This is one of the things that differentiates her enormously. Diana is created with a social and political agenda — not to sell books. She comes on the scene and she arrives saying, 'You’re doing it wrong. You’ve living wrong. There is a better way to do this.'"
George Perez labeled himself as a feminist: "But they had to get the book published, or else they would lose the rights to Wonder Woman. I saw that, and at that point John Byrne was on Superman, Frank Miller had just done Dark Knight and was going to be doing Batman: Year One with David Mazzucchelli and I just, there was just part of me — the inner feminist in me — who was really bothered that she was just kind of being thrown out."
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Animal Pound #3 May 9, 2024
King uses this issue to set up his Trump allegory in Piggy. It works very well. If you're an American who's been tuned into politics, everything in this issue should be familiar. From the regressions of rights and the divided nature of the pound's residents, to the dogs calling themselves Stormers. Remember who *stormed* the Capitol on January 6th. Even the hushed and quiet excitement at the elect more
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As freedom and democracy flourish, the animals work together to set up a steady stream of donations for the pound, and all seems well for a time.
However, tensions build as the fairness of the current system is called into question, and when Piggy the dog decides to run for election, he does something unthinkable that shocks all of the ani...
Amazing Psycamorean dropped Amazons Attack (2023) from their pull list May 9, 2024
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AMAZON WARRIORS FIGHT FOR A WORLD THAT'S MADE THEM OUTLAWS! After the shocking events in Wonder Woman, the Amazons are now fighting for a world that no longer wants them! Led by their fearless Queen Nubia, a ragtag group of Amazons featuring Wonder Girl and Faruka II frantically searches for answers as their existence and way of life are threatened...
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Amazons Attack #6 May 9, 2024
A solid ending to a miniseries that I wish would've had more of an impact. It doesn't really have much of a purpose besides adding more commentary on a status quo that Tom King doesn't fully take advantage of in his Wonder Woman run. The commentary is good but you wonder if it's worth a six issue miniseries where things more or less end where they started, status quo wise.
BACK TO THE BEGINNING! The Amazons revisit their roots only to discover a dangerous stone in their history left unturned. What lies in the ruins our heroes find themselves lost in? Will they discover the real culprit behind the attacks and save their people? Find out in this epic finale where the forces of harmony and discord clash!
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Aliens: What If...? #2 May 9, 2024
This is better than the first issue. I think it's still written in too goofy a tone for the story it wants to tell. Hopefully it continues to get better from here.
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WHAT IF...CARTER BURKE HAD LIVED?
Thirty-five years after the disaster on Hadleys Hope, company man Carter Burke is eeking out a cursed existence on a backwater asteroid. With his once-promising career in the toilet, Burke's only remaining purpose in life is to care for his daughter, Brie. She hates him, probably for being a horrible person. A...
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed X-Men: Forever #3 May 9, 2024
This issue is weaker than the rest, mostly due to the art feeling a bit unfinished. This is essentially a wrap up on what Si Spurrier was doing with his various series. This issue in particular really feels like they had written most of FoHoX/RoPoX and then realized that there were storylines that didn't really conclude, and they needed to fix that.
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NOW... War in Krakoa!
A hunt in the White Hot Room! And a heartwarming family reunion (by which we mean "possibly involving setting fire to someone's heart with a flamethrower"). Spinning out from RISE OF THE POWERS OF X and IMMORTAL X-MEN comes a must-read for the conclusion of the Krakoan Age!
Rated T+
Amazing Psycamorean rated Wolverine: Madripoor Knights #3 May 9, 2024
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CAPTAIN AMERICA must secure a deadly weapon in Madripoor with the help of WOLVERINE and BLACK WIDOW, and before it hits the auction block, our titanic trio takes a different tactic - subterfuge! But can even the highly trained Black Widow outmaneuver the PRINCE of Madripoor and the HAND before the weapon is unleashed? And what - or WHO - will cause...
Amazing Psycamorean rated Wolverine: Madripoor Knights #2 May 9, 2024
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MELEE IN MADRIPOOR AS ROUGHOUSE AND BLOODSCREAM RETURN! WOLVERINE, CAPTAIN AMERICA and BLACK WIDOW delve deeper into the mystery of the missing weapon in Madripoor and come face-to-face with Logan's old enemies, ROUGHOUSE and BLOODSCREAM! If Bloodscream gets his hands on any of these heroes, neither a mutant nor a Super-Soldier will make it through...
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Wolverine: Madripoor Knights #1 May 9, 2024
Color me surprised that I enjoyed this more than I thought I would. Claremont has his tropes and his weirdness that cannot be denied, however his writing is mired in his insistence to overwrite and to base his stories in very specific continuity that, even for someone as big into comics as I am, can bog things down. This was mostly clean though. You don't need to read Uncanny X-Men #268 to enjoy t more
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Return to the island-nation of Madripoor as X-Men legend Chris Claremont takes the helm of an all-new WOLVERINE tale teaming Logan with his long-standing friends CAPTAIN AMERICA and the BLACK WIDOW! Picking up in the window of the all-time classic UNCANNY X-MEN #268, thrill to a brand-new adventure! When a secret weapon brings Captain America to Ma...
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Amazing Spider-Man #49 May 8, 2024
This is a good issue, with baffling editorial decisions behind it. Wells does his best with what he can do in the space of one issue. One of the best things about Wells' run is how he writes Peter's empathy and that comes out in spades in this issue. JRJR's art isn't terrible but there's a fine line between awkward and dynamic, and Romita keeps falling into awkward in this book.
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A BLOOD HUNT TIE-IN!
Vampires are running rampant through New York City and while the Avengers are caught in the middle, someone has to take care of the citizens of the Big Apple. That person? Yep, Spider-Man. But if only it were that simple. Things never are and this issue leads directly into Spider-Man's larger role in BLOOD HUNT!
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The alternative is to make 49 something else, avoiding Blood Hunt entirely and saving it all for the miniseries.
Agreed, I feel like previous Chasm story could've been a three-parter from 47 to 49 and then this would've been part of it's own mini-series from Wells.
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Wolverine #49 May 8, 2024
I liked the way this issue ties up the character beats from the Sabretooth miniseries that this story arc spun out from. Having Sabretooth essentially learn nothing is quite on brand for him. As for the plot, it's kind of meandering. Glad it's wrapping up.
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ARMOR UP FOR THE PENULTIMATE PART OF SABRETOOTH WAR!
WOLVERINE is powerless - but not defenseless. FORGE made LOGAN one last invention, and with the lives of the X-MEN and all mutants on the line, it's time to unleash the ultimate weapon! COLLECTORS' NOTE: Featuring the full debut of the Adamantium Armor!
Rated T+
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Weapon X-Men #3 May 8, 2024
The shift in this issue works really well. It takes what could be a very run of the mill story and gives it an interesting angle. Jane Howlett, while obviously not the most creative, is probably my favorite character in this miniseries.
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THE WOLVERINES TAKE ON A CLASSIC VILLAIN!
Onslaught's moved on to another world - and on this one, Selene's got her life-draining talons sunk in deep, with the help of some unexpected allies! Will the Wolverines side with one evil against the other? And how is a figure from Jane Howlett's past involved in all this? With her loyalty tested, one...
Amazing Psycamorean rated Weapon X-Men #2 May 8, 2024
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ONE HAPPY WOLVERINE!
Across almost every universe in existence, Wolverine is driven by pain, by the sins of his past and his future. But ione world - the very one that Onslaught has targeted next for annihilation - has a Wolverine unlike any other. A Wolverine...who got what he wanted. And for the Logan from Earth-X? That news just might be th...
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Weapon X-Men #1 May 8, 2024
The Original X-Men one-shot did not excite me for this miniseries. And yeah, I'm not surprised it's just sort of middling.
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A MULTIVERSE OF LOGANS BANDS TOGETHER! In Original X-Men, you saw the Phoenix recruit the young X-Men to fix yet another time-displaced disaster. But now the threat is deadlier than ever...and it's time to call in the X-Men's big gun. He's the best there is at what he does, in every universe does it in...and this job is too big for just one of him....
fzanca reviewed Wolverine: Madripoor Knights #1 Feb 16, 2024
I liked a great deal about this issue, but the standout was the interraction between the characters. Can someone explain to me how Natasha is as old as Wolverine and Cap. I don't get that one. The action scenes are decent and Wolverine screwing with Cap the entire time was great. I'm going to continue this series. I didn't have hight hopes from Claremont's writing, but I was pleastantly surprised. more
Return to the island-nation of Madripoor as X-Men legend Chris Claremont takes the helm of an all-new WOLVERINE tale teaming Logan with his long-standing friends CAPTAIN AMERICA and the BLACK WIDOW! Picking up in the window of the all-time classic UNCANNY X-MEN #268, thrill to a brand-new adventure! When a secret weapon brings Captain America to Ma...
Black Widow received the Red Room's version of the Super Soldier Serum as an infant which, among other things, reduced her aging.
Amazing Psycamorean dropped Cable (2024) from their pull list May 8, 2024
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THE FUTURE MUST NOT COME TO PASS!
All the signs are here: The Neocracy is coming - and with it comes not only the end of mutantkind, but all of the humankind as well! As if rescuing Young Nate from the ongoing threat of Orchis weren't enough, can Cable root out this growing threat and decimate it before the Neocracy has a chance to take hold. B...
Amazing Psycamorean dropped X-Force (2019) from their pull list May 8, 2024
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THE HIGH PRICE OF A NEW DAWN!
X-Force is the CIA of the mutant world-one half intelligence branch, one half special ops. Beast, Jean Grey and Sage on one side, Wolverine, Kid Omega and Domino on the other. In a perfect world, there would be no need for an X-Force. We're not there...yet.
Rated T+
Amazing Psycamorean dropped Immortal X-Men (2022) from their pull list May 8, 2024
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IN THE QUIET COUNCIL, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM!
The Quiet Council rules the Krakoan age, for better... or worse. Now, shaken by INFERNO and X LIVES / X DEATHS OF WOLVERINE they strive to hold together, no matter how much they want to tear each other apart. Writer Kieron Gillen (UNCANNY X-MEN, ETERNALS, The Wicked + The Divine, Die) retur...
Amazing Psycamorean dropped X-Men: Red (2022) from their pull list May 8, 2024
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WHO CAN SAVE THE RED PLANET?
The mutants of Arakko spent millennia scarred by war - but on what was once called Mars, they're learning to live in peace. STORM knows the red planet needs something greater than a queen. But ABIGAIL BRAND has other plans, along with an unstable VULCAN on her side and CABLE keeping his own secrets. Welcome to X-MEN...
Amazing Psycamorean dropped Storm (2023) from their pull list May 8, 2024
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STORM FACES THE BLOWBACK OF HER POWERS!
ORORO MUNROE, A.K.A. STORM, has been a thief, a goddess and a leader of the X-MEN - and she's just getting started! With her mutant ability to control the weather bolstered by her top-notch fighting skills, she's a formidable opponent like no other (as CALLISTO of the MORLOCKS can attest)! But when an el...
Amazing Psycamorean dropped Deadpool (2022) from their pull list May 8, 2024
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MARVEL'S TOP MERC IS BACK IN BUSINESS!
We all know Wade Wilson is one of the top mercenary/assassins in the Marvel Universe, even if he is simultaneously the most annoying one... but he's pushing to make that recognition official as he auditions for the elite group known as the Atelier. Now, he has 48 hours to kill one of the world's most famo...
Amazing Psycamorean dropped Immoral X-Men (2023) from their pull list May 8, 2024
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They said the mutants were humanity's future. It's 10 years later and they were proven to be right. The X-Men exist in a world that adores and respects them...so why are they sworn to crush it?! But while they do, Emma can take a few minutes out to crush Mister Sinister.
Rated T+
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed FCBD 2024: Ultimate Universe / Spider-Man #1 May 8, 2024
The Amazing Spider-Man story sets up an interesting wrinkle in the ongoing story unfolding in that title. I assumed that the Sinister Six was the one attacking Oscorp's servers, but maybe not? If it is, though, that changes the whole dynamic of the set up of this upcoming Going Green storyline. Also, this issue seems to almost confirm what has been hinted at before, that some part of the Goblin is more
Just weeks ahead of Amazing Spider-Man #50, get the first taste of the return of the Goblin! Plus, prepare for the next evolutionary step of the Ultimate Universe as a powerful new hero debuts! But it doesn't end there! Oh no, there are some surprises up our sleeve on this one!
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Rating: Teen
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed FCBD 2024: Marvel's Voices #1 May 8, 2024
I read the new story with Spider-Man India, and it was fine. I'm sure if given more space, it could've been better. But you know, anthologies are always sort of hampered by their page count.
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed FCBD 2024: Blood Hunt / X-Men #1 May 8, 2024
The Blood Hunt story is a lot of fun. MacKay is clearly having a good time, and so am I.
The X-Men story really bolstered my hopes for the post-Krakoan era. Simone manages to near immediately tap back into the social commentary that was effectively lost during the Krakoan era, and while the villain set up doesn't wow me, I forgot how much I missed effective X-Men social commentary.
Time once again for a shot of all-new Marvel goodness, absolutely free! First, witness the overture to this summer's major crossover event starring the Avengers - Blood Hunt! And then get a glimpse of the future of mutantkind as Jubilee learns that you cannot go home again!
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Rating: Teen
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed Alien: Black, White & Blood #3 May 8, 2024
Utopia kind of loses itself in this installment. There was a lot of commentary on hierarchical structures that now seems gone.
Gear in the Machine is an unfortunately tiring story we've seen play out multiple times in these comics. It's like the first idea any writer has when approaching this franchise, and I'll be happy to never see it again.
Lucky is a very cute story. I li more
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THE STAR-STUDDED KILLFEST CONTINUES!
In "Utopia," Collin Kelly, Jackson Lanzing and Michael Dowling take you through the collapse of a civilization that believed it could overcome the worst of human nature to live in permanent peace. But in the war against the Xenomorphs overtaking their home, the citizens of the ship Forward find themselves b...
Amazing Psycamorean reviewed FCBD 2024: Absolute Power Special Edition #1 May 8, 2024
I'm not sold on this event yet. Mark Waid's script is perfunctory at best here. It seems like a means to an end rather than a story that Waid genuinely wants to be telling. I'm not engaging with it at all. I read this and the Blood Hunt FCBD issue pretty much back to back, and the difference in tone was palpable. These are both events with a morose sort of vibe to them, but one manages to be fun a more
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Throughout the Dawn of DC, Amanda Waller's combination of pure ruthlessness and dangerous alliances has placed her on the precipice of fulfilling her pledge-the elimination of all metahuman abilities planetwide. This summer, her plans take a major step forward with Absolute Power, ...
Bi1lyPilgrim reviewed Vengeance of the Moon Knight #5 May 2, 2024
How many issues are we going to have characters sitting on a therapists couch. I find it boring. I’m new to moon knight and these first 5 issues have done nothing to keep me interested in reading this.
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A BLOOD HUNT TIE-IN - CRY FOR THE MOON!
For the new and vengeful Moon Knight, taking Marc Spector's name isn't enough - as he now turns his sights (AND FISTS) on everything Marc held dear in life!
Rated T+
This series was literally advertised as a continuation of MacKay's 30-issue run on the character. I'm not going to act like I like that they did a new Issue 1, because I don't. However, it's not like Marvel said this would be a completely fresh starting point. It was more described as a new chapter of phase. Either way, that series I and Psycamorean is definitely recommended. Not only will it make this series better for you, as Psycamorean said, but it's also just great reading regardless.
Well I'm actually telling you that you would understand the series better if you started with where the run started. So while you shouldn't have to do that, you're going to have to if you want to understand the series. It's a great run, I think you'd like it.
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