maybe comic book standards got lower
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Marry a science fiction writer, become science fiction! That's the law of Greenwich Village in the late 1950s, home of poets, artists, musicians, writers, their put-upon partners-and the extraterrestrial spores that are secretly taking them over! Novelist/comics writer Alisa Kwitney (The Sandman Presents) mixes science fiction with family me...
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OverlordOfAllThings reviewed Uncanny X-Men #8 Jan 15, 2025
This issue was so incredibly disappointing. The end of the Raid story arc was a terrible travesty that didn't have to be, but yet this entire issue sacrifices character for the sake of plot. The two teams have to be put at odds, and so that happens regardless of the events going on around them, and barely anyone besides Scott and Rogue say anything despite their own stakes in the events that are t more
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HUNTED BY THE PACK, PART ONE! The Outliers, still finding their place in the mutant world, are hunted by a lethal new set of foes: A bloodthirsty, relentless and unstoppable pack of stealth Sentinels! Cut off from their mentors and allies, with no knowledge of who built or aimed these deadly drones, four untrained mutants are on the run and complet...
If you play this comic backwards, it says "It's fun to get really woke!"
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"I've seen what you're building, Prodigy. And I don't think you have any idea how dangerous it is. Ms. Marvel trusts you, but you're helping her perpetuate a lie. Sophie trusts you, but you're absolving her of her crimes. Wolverine trusts you, but you're asking her to indulge her violence. Anole trusts you, but he's the only one of you holding to t...
Kreniigh reviewed The Spectacular Spider-Men #11 Jan 7, 2025
"Moira was always a mutant with reality-resetting powers" was part of a really great story, so it largely gets a pass for not fitting very well with decades of continuity. "Tiny faeries rule Central Park" is not. They're not interesting and they don't fit at all.
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ELEMENTARY debuted last issue and continues on her hero journey alongside BOTH SPIDER-MEN! But that journey is going to be rocky with TWO ELECTROS and...is that a giant Lizard? Uh-oh.
Rated T
Kreniigh reviewed Freddie The Fix #1 Jan 1, 2025
I'd read this if it were ongoing.
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A twisted horror tale from Garth Ennis (the legendary creator of The Boys and Preacher) and Mike Perkins (Bat-man: First Knight, Swamp Thing)! Hollywood After Dark-werewolves, vampires, zombies, aliens, bogeymen, predators, and... things. They all have their kinks, and they all get in deep shit. They all ca...
Kreniigh added Metamorpho: The Element Man (2024) to their pull list Jan 1, 2025
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To know him is to love him--that fab freak who can change himself into any element in the human body! He's the one and only Rex Mason, alias Metamorpho... but can even he win out against Cy.C.L.O.P.S., the hairy eyeball of crime that gazes from the top of the pop charts to the lowest depths of evil--and even into the far-off, far-out Ra-Realm? To f...
Kreniigh added The City Beneath Her Feet (2024) to their pull list Dec 28, 2024
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A bloody love letter to New York City, The City Beneath Her Feet is an action/thriller love story for a new generation by lauded creators James Tynion IV (Spectregraph, Something is Killing the Children) and Elsa Charretier (Room Service, Love Everlasting).
Jasper Jayne was the girl of Zara's dreams, but their brief relationship came and went i...
Kreniigh rated X-Factor #5 Dec 16, 2024
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DEATH COMES FOR X-FACTOR!
• The mercenaries called X-Term besiege the team's headquarters!
• With mutant-human relations on the brink, X-Factor will have to choose a side...
• And one member of the team won't survive!
RATED T+
Kreniigh rated Avengers #21 Dec 13, 2024
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AVENGERS VS. X-MEN!
Jed MacKay pits his Avengers against his X-Men in a story that sows the seeds for some major future developments! Captain Marvel and Cyclops square off! Scarlet Witch and Magneto finally confront their history! And Storm's loyalties are put to the test...
Rated T+
Kreniigh reviewed Titans #17 Nov 22, 2024
BAYTOR!!!
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THE TITANS ROSTER GROWS! It's a new day in the DCU, and the future is bright! Why, then, are the Titans looking backward, reliving their most horrific and traumatic moments, again and again, stuck in an endless loop? And who's the temporal tyrant behind this time-bending torment? Here's a hint: Time will tell.
Kreniigh rated Barstow #1 Nov 22, 2024
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At the center of the Mojave Desert, at the crossroads between hell and gone, lies Barstow. Agent Miranda Diaz is in this godforsaken land on the trail of a missing agent. He's a man she's never met, and yet her name was the only clue he left behind. Something dark... something demonic... lurks beneath this oddball town, but can Miranda unravel the ...
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?
Positive reviews pretty much guarantee that they continue to receive issues for free. Consistent criticism if you're a smaller reviewer or don't work for an actual company/site means you might get cut off. I also think that daspidaboy is right. The overall quality has dipped across the board from the big two. While there are still standouts that actually deserve 9s and 10s, objectively, there should really be more middle of the road scores. Not everything needs an 8 or even a 7.
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...
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