maybe comic book standards got lower
Kreniigh reviewed Amazing Spider-Man #61 Nov 19, 2024
I haven't been looking forward to this story... It feels gimmicky, like the title came first and the story was built around it. It's always weird when the tone of a super-hero comic changes into realistic and lethal consequences when it's always been about beating the odds and cheating death (I'm thinking about the pre-Krakoa Rosenberg run on X-Men here). It's different if it's the ground rules, l more
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THE 8 DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN BEGIN!
The world has changed, Dcotor Doom is Sorcerer Supreme, but he has no plans to spend his time like his predecessor... Each year, Doctor Strange would use every ounce of his power and experience to save the world from an evil god and his scions. This year, Doom is delegating this task to... SPIDER-MAN?! Th...
Frank61 reviewed Amazing Spider-Man #61 Nov 15, 2024
It's average...nothing more to add.
Why though do 'critics' give it marks of 9.5 or laughably 10? The 'Death of Gwen Stacy' is a 9.5, how can a critic give this the same? Please, explain and let me understand the logic.
THE 8 DEATHS OF SPIDER-MAN BEGIN!
The world has changed, Dcotor Doom is Sorcerer Supreme, but he has no plans to spend his time like his predecessor... Each year, Doctor Strange would use every ounce of his power and experience to save the world from an evil god and his scions. This year, Doom is delegating this task to... SPIDER-MAN?! Th...
I have always wondered this. Is this issue as good as Watchmen? As good as the best issue of Sandman? If not, how can it have the same score as those?
Kreniigh added One For Sorrow (2024) to their pull list Nov 12, 2024
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JAMIE McKELVIE IS BACK WITH HIS FIRST SOLO CREATOR-OWNED PROJECT IN OVER A DECADE!
London, 1900. The capital hums with the energy of the new era, but something darker lurks beneath the surface. A monstrous figure stalks the city's criminal underworld at night, leaving a trail of bloody corpses in its wake. Rumors about the mysterious kille...
Kreniigh rated X-Factor #4 Nov 9, 2024
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BENEATH THE SURFACE!
Havok and the team race to recover the crew of a subterranean expedition beneath Death Valley! But who or what is waiting beneath the desert sands? And what does all of this have to do with Cecilia Reyes?!
Rated T+
Kreniigh added The Power Fantasy (2024) to their pull list Nov 9, 2024
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Series Premiere. "Superpowered." You have certain preconceptions. They're incorrect. Here, that word has a specific technical definition. Namely, "any individual with the destructive capacity of the nuclear arsenal of the USA." There are six such people on Earth. The planet's survival relies on them never coming into conflict. Come dance to ...
"But the world doesn't wait for us to ask before it inflicts horrors upon us. All we can do is spite it by surviving or die. What will it be, Cyclops?"
Sure did pick a day to drop that line.
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MARVEL TWO-IN-ONE VARIANT COVER BY ROGÊ ANT NIO The Iron Night!
What does the town of Merle, Alaska owe the X-Men? Where did the defunct Sentinel looming over the town come from? And more importantly, what was it after?
Rated T+
Kreniigh rated X-Force #5 Nov 8, 2024
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A DEATH ON THE TEAM?!
Attacked from all sides, with a team member's DEATH in the offing, and struggling to accomplish their mission, X-Force fights to seal the latest and worst Fracture Node threatening the Earth. Can X-Force pull through, or will they fracture and doom the world? The most surprising X-book of the season is just heating u...
Kreniigh reviewed Something is Killing the Children #39 Nov 8, 2024
"...terrifying journey into a gruesome challenge that will take a miracle to escape." LOL these solicits
Ahead of the landmark 40th issue of Something is Killing the Children, get ready for the final issue of the character-defining Year Zero arc with another nightmarish standalone adventure!
As Erica takes on a vital mission in a remote and isolated town, witness her terrifying journey into a gruesome challenge that will take a miracle to esc...
Kreniigh added GhostBox (2024) to their pull list Nov 7, 2024
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Chloe and Jan come into an unexpected inheritance, and it couldn’t come at a better time for Chloe. Desperate for cash, she advertises her late uncle’s possessions online, and gets a very motivated buyer. But who is Anton Messer? And what is his real interest in the ghostbox?
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Criminology. reviewed Captain America #14 Oct 31, 2024
While my excitement for this arc is definitely the highest it's been in this run so far, it's still full of weirdness. The way Straczynski writes cap, especially speaking here is so absent of any tack. I get making cap more vulnerable and relatable, that he has some issues on his own, especially some of those in some ways were fundamental to the character(not all). But the way they are expressed i more
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THE NEW WARRIORS THREE!
J. Michael Straczynski revisits THOR and SPIDER-MAN! Still reeling from recent events at the Front Door Cabaret, Captain America needs friends now more than ever. But Spidey and Thor have problems of their own, and so the impromptu Warriors Three set out on an adventure that will either draw them closer together or...
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While the X-Men attempt to unravel the globe-spanning conspiracy arrayed against them, Temper and Magik work to investigate one closer to home. Merle, Alaska, holds more secrets than just the ones kept within the Factory, and the two mutants must leave the safety of their headquarters and hit the streets for answers.
Rated T+
"Wowsie!" - Chthon
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OLD MAN VENOM'S TIME QUEST CONTINUES!
Old man Dylan Brock's adventure through time to bring an end to the Venom War takes him to one of the darkest places - the realm of Chthon! Can even Doctor Strange help him when confronted with the ultimate temptation of evil?
Rated T+
Kreniigh reviewed Amazing Spider-Man #59 Oct 12, 2024
It's like Spider-Man gave Tombstone a bad coupon.
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The mano a mano fight that started last issue is so huge it took over the cover to here! Come see John Romita Jr. do what he does best with the most brutal fight in Spider-Man history - SPIDEY VS. TOMBSTONE!
Rated T
Kreniigh rated X-Force #4 Oct 12, 2024
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MAN-THING STRIKES AS THE NEXUS OF ALL REALITIES IS AT STAKE!
The Nexus of All Realities is in danger - meaning if X-FORCE can't seal this Fracture Node, they've got more to worry about than just one ol' Earth! What extradimensional forces stand ready to take down FORGE's team? And the Nexus' guardian, the MAN-THING - is he friend or foe? ...
Kreniigh reviewed Action Comics #1070 Oct 11, 2024
Why is Mon-El on the cover?
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THE ACTION COMICS WEEKLY STARTS HERE WITH SUPERMAN SUPERSTARS MARK WAID, CLAYTON HENRY, MARIKO TAMAKI, AND SKYLAR PATRIDGE! An otherworldly horror, tearing its way through Metropolis, has emerged from the Phantom Zone. Something's wrong in the Zone--something terrible--and Superman must enter alone to find out what! From the pages of Absolute Power...
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EARTHS MIGHTIEST MUTANT, NOW HEADLINING HER OWN SOLO SERIES!
Ororo Munroe has lived many lives. She's been a thief, a goddess, an X-Man, a queen and now an Avenger! She is the most prominent, most respected and most powerful mutant on the world stage; and in that role, she intends to be a force for positive change! First up: A major meltd...
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While the X-Men engage the social-media sociopath Upstarts, Kid Omega and Psylocke dive deep into the mind of a troubled mutant. Silence: Psychic Rescue in Progress! But Quentin Quire has never been good at keeping his mouth shut...
Rated T+
Kreniigh reviewed Phases of the Moon Knight #2 Oct 7, 2024
As a reader of the Moench/Sienkiewicz run of Moon Knight when it first came out, I really appreciated the effort put into the first story here, and as a Stokoe fan, I really liked the second.
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The saga of the MOON KNIGHT spins on, as JED MACKAY, writer of the smash-hit MOON KNIGHT and VENGEANCE OF THE MOON KNIGHT series revisits vintage Marc Spector, with a period piece about peril and punching! THEN: DECLAN SHALVEY returns to the pages of MOON KNIGHT, only this time he's sets his sights on the future! Introducing an ALL-NEW Fist of Khon...
Kreniigh rated The White Trees #1 Oct 2, 2024
MINISERIES PREMIERE! Acclaimed Daredevil writer CHIP ZDARSKY teams up with superstar Runaways artists KRIS ANKA and MATT WILSON for this spectacular OVERSIZED TWO-ISSUE MINISERIES! In the fantastical world of Blacksand, peace was hard-won, and three unbending warriors carry the scars to prove it. Now, almost twenty years later, their children are m...
Kreniigh added Wolverine (2024) to their pull list Sep 13, 2024
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THE LEGEND BEGINS ANEW IN THE ADAMANTIUM-TOUGH NEW ONGOING SERIES! There's a killer in the woods - and as WOLVERINE's attempt at piece is shattered, an OLD ENEMY will re-emerge as a NEW VILLAIN rises who will bring LOGAN to the brink of his berserker rage. But NIGHTCRAWLER knows his old friend is capable of doing what's right, and before long, Loga...
Kreniigh reviewed Avengers Assemble #1 Sep 13, 2024
Think of all the Julie Power fans they missed by excluding her from the cover.
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RETURN TO AVENGERS MANSION!
When vampires attacked, a ragtag group of volunteer Avengers changed the tide of battle. And in the aftermath, Captain America has formed the Avengers Emergency Response Squad! Steve's handpicked team of veterans and newcomers live and train in Avengers Mansion, and when Captain America sounds the mission horn,...
Kreniigh rated Loving Ohio OGN Sep 11, 2024
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After the mysterious suicide of their friend, Sloane, Elliott, Cameron, and Ana are just trying to get through the rest of high school. They live in Loving, Ohio-a town built around The Chorus, a new age cult with members firmly planted in positions of power and influence throughout the community. Through their grief a series of murders throw these...
Kreniigh added Hello Darkness (2024) to their pull list Sep 6, 2024
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Horror fans rejoice in cadaverous delight, because Hello Darkness is a brand new monthly anthology series featuring what BOOM! Studios is known for - the best in modern Horror, Fantasy, and Mystery, not to mention the darkest stories yet from an all-star cast of creators!
With a spine-tingling lineup of industry legends including Garth Enn...
Kreniigh reviewed Marvel Zombies: Dawn of Decay #1 Sep 6, 2024
Maybe it's OK on its own, but with hordes of vampires in Blood Hunt and hordes of zombiotes in Venom War, I'm past the point of exhaustion with infection-spreading hordes.
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A NEW ZOMBIE VIRUS IS UNLEASHED... AND GROOT IS PATIENT ZERO!
Groot feels bad - not only because Rocket's latest scheme put them firmly in the crosshairs of the Avengers, but also he's just plain sick! Sap-dripping nose and all. Things go from bad to apocalyptic, however, after an ill-timed sneeze in Captain America's face has unforeseeab...
Kreniigh reviewed W0rldtr33 #11 Aug 21, 2024
Looking at the user reviews for this series so far, I wonder if it reads best as a collected story. Reading it all in one go, I can see how it felt slow as individual issues, but I did really enjoy it.
End of Story Arc. Agent Silk's determination brought her face-to-face with PH34R in a confrontation that may cost Silk her sanity-if not her life. But PH34R isn't acting alone. As the second arc of the smash-hit sci-fi/horror series reaches its harrowing climax, the architect behind the Undernet's return steps out of the shadows.
Kreniigh rated Beneath OGN Aug 16, 2024
Deputy Sheriff Jess Delgado is tasked with transporting the sole survivor of a mysterious attack along the Texas-Mexico border to CoreCivil, a for-profit immigration detention center closing down due to wide-spread protests. Housing only a handful remaining detainees and manned by a skeleton crew of disgruntled guards, the detention center becomes ...
Kreniigh reviewed Spider-Society #1 Aug 16, 2024
Somewhere maybe there is a universe where I'd be interested in this ever-expanding line of alternate Spider-Men, but it's not this one.
Al Ewing's "Venom Horse" backup strip in last week's Venom War seems to be a sneaky criticism of the phenomenon of proliferating alternates: "...pure simulacrum, with no reference to reality at all. At this stage, signs merely reflect other signs. Anyw more
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Every Spider-Character you love! (and some you haven't met yet!) May the first meeting of the Spider-Society commence! That's right, every Spider-Character you love (and some you haven't met yet) all show up in the same room for the most crazy meeting the Multiverse has ever seen. That's right, every Spider-Person will be in the same room for the m...
Kreniigh rated Amazing Spider-Man #55 Aug 16, 2024
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The last arc nearly killed Spider-Man (others weren't so lucky). Peter hopes to take a breath but gets a new challenge to face in this, the 949th legacy issue of AMAZING SPIDER-MAN! This is the last domino to fall as we head into our next big centennial!
Rated T
Kreniigh reviewed Jonny Quest #1 Aug 16, 2024
"My dad’s lab was like a pharmacological candy store, so I started real young. Next thing I know, I’m blowing lines of voodoo powder off the back of a monkey’s paw I bought in Calcutta. Now I’m all out of wishes."
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YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN... OR CAN YOU?
Get ready to climb aboard the Sea Quest and embark for adventure once more! Legendary boy explorer JONNY QUEST is back, along with his intrepid scientist dad Dr. Benton Quest, bodyguard "Race" Bannon, adopted brother Hadji, and all the rest of the beloved cast from the classic animated series!
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