Kalaoui's Profile

Joined: Oct 13, 2016

Recent Activity

Kalaoui reviewed 20th Century Men #1 May 28, 2025
7.5

This series has enough to make me interested from the alternate history beats to familiar wartime dynamics all illustrated with amazing art by Morian but Camp has this spread out over too many angles and I'm not sure what is going on or where we're going?

20th Century Men #1

By: Deniz Camp, S. Morian
Released: Aug 17, 2022

EXTRA-LENGTH FIRST ISSUE!  

At the end of the 20th century, superheroes, geniuses, madmen, and activists rush towards WWIII! A Soviet "iron" hero, a superpowered American president, an insane cyborg soldier, an Afghan woman hellbent on building a better life for her people-these strange yet familiar beings collide in a story that...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed The Power Fantasy #5 May 28, 2025
8.5

Artistically beautiful from Caspar Wijngaard. Kieron Gillen does enough to make this pyramid stuff stick but it's a bunch of arseholes that I just don't care about.

The Power Fantasy #5

By: Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard
Released: Dec 18, 2024

End of Story Arc. They call aging punk Jacky Magus a sellout, just because he's betrayed his principles. Jacky Magus rolls his eyes. Oh, you sweet naive things. He hasn't even begun to sell out yet. As the first arc of The Power Fantasy ends, we discover exactly what what the world's worth.

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui rated The Power Fantasy #4 May 28, 2025
8.5

The Power Fantasy #4

By: Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard
Released: Nov 20, 2024

Masumi's latest art exhibit opens tonight. Tokyo is petrified. Will any critic dare say what they think and risk unleashing her wrath? Meanwhile, Etienne discovers the dangers of long-haul flights when you've just murdered a world leader.

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed The Power Fantasy #3 May 23, 2025
8.5

This is the issue we should have started with but we're here finally and we have some good development of Valentina juxtaposing her to Etienne and all the other characters. Caspar Wijngaard is phenomenal and his choices of frames and colors are fantastic.

The Power Fantasy #3

By: Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard
Released: Oct 23, 2024

On July 16, 1945 the world changed forever. Santa Valentina was born. There was also the Trinity test, but that's not as important. As the world hangs in the balance, we explore the life and times of the girl who fell... skipped... to Earth. Also: check out that cow!

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed The Power Fantasy #2 May 23, 2025
8.0

How to save the world by not using your powers except when you do. It makes you think but I'm hoping for more here from Guillen. Caspar Wijngaard is very good and his art delivers the calm and intense very well.

The Power Fantasy #2

By: Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard
Released: Sep 18, 2024

There are six people who can save the world. They save the world every day they don't use their powers. Yesterday, one used their gift. The world is still here. Have we been lucky, or has the fuse to end us all been lit?

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed The Power Fantasy #1 May 23, 2025
8.0

Interesting and good looking but what's really going on?

The Power Fantasy #1

By: Kieron Gillen, Caspar Wijngaard
Released: Aug 7, 2024

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 ...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Fantastic Four #28 May 21, 2025
8.0

A nice sidequest/setup for an event that I'm not sure I'll follow but Ryan North does his twists and turns nicely but I wish the art was better. No offense but it was a bit rough.

Fantastic Four #28

By: Ryan North, Steven Cummings
Released: Jan 22, 2025

PROLOGUE TO ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM!
•  It's been months since Doctor Doom became Sorcerer Supreme - and disappeared. Reed Richards, the smartest man on the planet, has spent that time trying to find a way to understand magic, so he can find and stop Doom...and he's failed.
•  But when Sue suggests there is another man who holds both a...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Fantastic Four #27 May 21, 2025
8.0

Props to Ryan North for using Slott's addition of N'Kalla here. Nice story that could have been better with better art.

Fantastic Four #27

By: Ryan North, Steven Cummings
Released: Dec 18, 2024

• When N'Kalla - Skrull and adopted daughter of Ben Grimm and Alicia Masters - sees her brother Jo-Venn get in trouble at school and be sent to the principal's office, she does the sisterly thing... which is, of course, to shape-shift into a double of their father Ben to get him out of it!
•  And when her cousin Valeria gets in trouble, ...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui rated Fantastic Four #26 May 21, 2025
7.5

Fantastic Four #26

By: Ryan North, Ivan Fiorelli
Released: Oct 9, 2024

The World's Smartest Man (Reed Richards, universally acknowledged) and the World's Hottest Man (Johnny Storm, self-proclaimed) are home alone. Their only job is to make sure nothing untoward happens to the farmhouse while everyone else is away. But when Reed develops a magic detector that goes haywire when pointed at a specific spot in their baseme...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Fantastic Four #25 May 21, 2025
8.0

Aside from the weird alien romance angle I believe the story was a great dilemma to have the F4 go up against. Ryan North is a good here but sometimes he goes into weird and bit creepy area. Carlos Gomez is always tight and makes it all look fantastic!

Fantastic Four #25

By: Ryan North, Carlos E. Gomez
Released: Sep 11, 2024

When an excursion to Latveria magically sends the Fantastic Four to an alien world, they have to work just to survive - and to make their way back to Earth! But that won't be easy on a world so unlike our own and with an alien civilization hundreds of years behind where we are...and it's not made any easier when JOHNNY STORM hooks up with one of th...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui added Avengers (2023) to their pull list May 16, 2025

Avengers (2023)

JED MACKAY AND STORMBREAKER C.F. VILLA TAKE THE REINS OF EARTH'S MIGHTIEST HEROES!
The Star. The Icon. The Witch. The Construct. The God. The Engineer. The King. The world is ever in peril, and a new team of Avengers mobilizes to meet any dangers that dare threaten the planet. But when TERMINUS attacks, a new and insidious danger rears its head...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Fantastic Four #24 May 16, 2025
9.0

It's what the FF are about: fun adventures with questions of dual hopelessness and hopefulness for the future. Ryan keeps the sciency mumbo jumbo going at hyper speed while Carlos Gomez delivers some of his best art colored nicely by Jesus Aburtov.

Fantastic Four #24

By: Ryan North, Carlos E. Gomez
Released: Aug 28, 2024

Earth is being invaded by subatomic particles from the other side of the universe - but what terrible secret do they hold inside? As Mr. Fantastic discovers the horrifying truth, he finds out something worse: There're some things in the universe that even he and his family's powers can't stop! And when everyone in the Baxter Building is close to be...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Fantastic Four #23 May 16, 2025
8.5

Enjoyable F4 issue with questionable pseudo-science from Ryan North but very fun and gets you interested. Carlos Gomez on art is very sharp and makes the F4 look good.

Fantastic Four #23

By: Ryan North, Carlos E. Gomez
Released: Aug 14, 2024

The world is recovering from Blood Hunt, and Johnny and Sue take Jo and Nicki to NYC for a bit of a break... ...but when a cosmic incident from outer space threatens forty percent of the planet, the whole team is forced to meet in New York and get to the bottom of what's really going on! The Fantastic Four will need teamwork, cleverness and an old ...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui added One World Under Doom (2025) to their pull list May 13, 2025

One World Under Doom (2025)

ONE WORLD UNDER DOOM!

Six months ago, Doctor Victor Von Doom became Sorcerer Supreme - then disappeared behind Latveria's closed borders. For most, there's enough going on in the world that Doom's absence is not a priority, and some time without him feels like a blessing. Only a few recognize it for what it truly was...the calm before the...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui added All-New Venom (2024) to their pull list May 13, 2025

All-New Venom (2024)

WHO IS THE ALL-NEW VENOM?

The smiling, swashbuckling spider-hero New York loves to hate to love is back - and more fun-loving than ever! That's right, it's... Wait, it's VENOM?! An all-new host is taking the symbiote in a whole new direction - but who? It could be the Journalist...the Terrorist...the Sidekick... or even the Mayor... We're...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Geiger #6 May 9, 2025
8.0

Gary Frank is what I'm here for because the story is nice but the art is what makes it worth gazing at. Those animals were flawless!!

Geiger #6

By: Geoff Johns, Gary Frank
Released: Sep 11, 2024

A shocking epilogue! In the wake of their devastating encounter with the Electrician, Tariq Geiger must come to grips with the lethal consequences-especially with what happened with his two-headed wolf, Barney. You won't want to miss this extraordinary spotlight on Geiger's best friend.

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Geiger #5 May 9, 2025
8.5

Finally this is trying to deliver something other than marching on and on in nuclear wastelands beating bad guys like an 80s movie with a guy who's hard to care for. Still these beats from Geoff Johns have been laid before but Gary Frank just destroys on art you can't help but enjoy it.

Geiger #5

By: Geoff Johns, Gary Frank
Released: Aug 14, 2024

This is it! The first four issues of this new series have all pointed toward this final battle between Geiger and The Electrician! But it might be a quick one: The Electrician's clever trap hits Geiger's greatest weakness, and his friends are helpless to halt it. Also: the final fate of Barney, the two-headed mutant wolf!

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Geiger #4 May 7, 2025
8.5

Heading somewhere that might get me to be 100% in but not there yet. I didn't need the action scenes but it still welcomed addition and I like the way Gary Frank puts his 110% into it. I really want Junkyard Joe to be tied in well here and make me care but we'll see.

Geiger #4

By: Geoff Johns, Gary Frank
Released: Jul 10, 2024

The clock ticks down for Tariq Geiger! The scheming Electrician kidnapped Geiger's best friend. The problem? Standing between Geiger and the Electrician is the largest horde of deformed mutant Organ People he's ever encountered. The solution? Launch a desperate assault through them, hoping the masses don't completely overwhelm him. Can the Nuclear ...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Geiger #3 May 7, 2025
8.0

Heading in the right direction but still lacks the punch to bring my full investment. Geoff Johns is good on the small moments but he needs better stringed bigger moments. Still I'll read anything Gary Frank illustrates.

Geiger #3

By: Geoff Johns, Gary Frank
Released: Jun 12, 2024

Tariq Geiger surrounds himself with some dangerous friends. His two-headed wolf Barney bears the trauma of the fateful night that Geiger found him. And he and Geiger's surprising new companion try to atone for a life of unfettered violence and brutality. But even between the three of them, they are no match for the many threats in pursuit. Plus, th...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Geiger #2 May 7, 2025
7.5

It's not bad but nothing gripping from Geoff Johns but man the art from Gary Frank is perfect!

Geiger #2

By: Geoff Johns, Gary Frank
Released: May 8, 2024

The Unnamed Saga Continues! Tariq Geiger, his two-headed wolf Barney, and their surprising newfound companion begin their quest along the radioactive roads of the former United States to find a cure for the Glowing Man's nuclear-powered condition. But in order to obtain the information they need, Geiger's crew must first help a local sheriff catch ...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Geiger #1 May 7, 2025
8.0

Decent start with great art but nothing special.

Geiger #1

By: Geoff Johns, Gary Frank
Released: Apr 3, 2024

SERIES PREMIERE
IT ALL STARTS HERE!
The critically acclaimed team of storytellers GEOFF JOHNS and GARY FRANK return to the nuclear wasteland of GEIGER for an ALL-NEW ONGOING series starring the violent and unpredictable GLOWING MAN! Leaving his home behind, Tariq Geiger now walks the radioactive roads of the former United States with his ...

+ LikeComment
9.0

One the most fun and enjoyable series I read in years. Fraction just delivers on the nonsense of Jimmy Olsen's DC shenanigans and he also gave me the best Batman in forever. Steve Lieber is the perfect art partner for this craziness and he does some nice work in this last issue. Props to Nathan Fairbairn on colors keeping it tight with the sun downs and those faces and shades were nice too.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #12

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Jul 15, 2020

Whoa-is that what I think it is? If I’m reading this solicitation text correctly, we made it to issue #12! Mazel tov! Party time! If you see Matt and Steve at the next convention, go buy them a drink because I have no idea how we made it this far! No, wait, I do-it’s all thanks to you guys! In this final issue, with the Daily Planet on the rope...

+ LikeComment
9.0

Fraction had a nice plan for Jimmy Olsen that got sidetracked in hilarious shenanigans but this here put it together nicely and Lieber ups his game on art.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #11

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Jun 24, 2020

Hey, look-it's issue 11 of a 12-issue series, so it's the perfect jumping-on point for new readers! Mysteries get solved, criminals are revealed, and a secret ally emerges from the shadows. Want more? There are robots, aliens, and The Daily Planet faces a threat to its existence at the same moment the actual planet faces the same! Now's the time to...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #10 Apr 30, 2025
8.5

Fraction has to start to bring it all together and it's good to see but the shenanigans have lost some of their charm wrapped in nonsense. Still enjoyable and Lieber is great as always.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #10

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: May 20, 2020

Jimmy continues his world tour, risking his life for more of your sweet retweets,  likes, and faves! Plus, the mastermind behind Jimmy's assassination is revealed... and the insidious secret he's willing to kill for will upend everything everywhere forever, assuming by "everything" you mean "everything in the pages of just this comic." Al...

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #9 Apr 30, 2025
8.5

It's still good but the way this starts to run out of fuel is a knock on it because of how well crafted the previous issues were but we come down to try to finally get somewhere and it suffers a bit.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #9

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Mar 18, 2020

Jimmy and Jix are on the run, pursued by an intergalactic death force that wants to break up their marriage by any means necessary. If they succeed in offing Jimmy, their prince regent plans to marry Jix and unite their warring empires...but Jimmy Olsen's still busy trying to solve his own murder! (Or rather, his decoy corpse's murder.) It's a typi...

+ LikeComment
8.5

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #8

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Feb 19, 2020

Ooh ooh, aah, aah-Jimmy see, Jimmy do! Jix and Jimmy go back to Gorilla City, where they had a one-night marriage-stand. (Don't believe it? Go reread Superman: Leviathan Rising #1!) Jimmy's sister Janie and Doc Mantel get to Gorilla City to warn Jimmy about what Doc saw in the future, only to find it's the attack of the 50-foot Jimmy!

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #7 Apr 30, 2025
9.0

Pure fun shenanigans from Matt Fraction with Lieber flexing with so many styles switching that work so well.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #7

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Jan 15, 2020

The doctor will see you now, Jimmy...and you, Jimmy, and you, and you, annnd you, too, Jimmy! How can there be five different Jimmy's, and how will our Jimmy handle keep the other four Jimmy's together without bursting into smithereens? Well, to answer that, Jimmy will first have to us about your mother. And what about your brother Jamie and sister...

+ LikeComment
9.0

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #6

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Dec 18, 2019

Meanwhile, in Gotham City, the great Olsen/Batman prank war rages on. An old favorite returns to make heads or tails of just what the heck has been going on. Jimmy does some funny Fraction stuff. Batman is there, too, doing some Lieber stuff. Lex Luthor's kicking around. It's a whole thing.

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #5 Apr 25, 2025
9.5

The best issue yet. It just delivers laughs and insane scenarios. Batman has never been this hilarious. Fraction's nonsense scenarios are put on paper beautifully by Lieber and nice colors from Fairbairn.
Shoutout to the best Joker: Phillie Phanatic in the background although Gritty should've been there.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #5

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Nov 20, 2019

Jingles sell, Batman smells,
A prank war goes astray,
A Batmobile lost a wheel (literally),
'Cause Jimmy stole it from the valet!

+ LikeComment
Kalaoui reviewed Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #4 Apr 25, 2025
9.0

This is pure fun craziness from Fraction. Timmy is my favorite youtuber now. Steve Liber delivers nonstop perfect art. This is on par with Nick Spencer's The Superior Foes of Spider-Man. Let's hope it endures and ends just as well.

Superman's Pal Jimmy Olsen #4

By: Matt Fraction, Steve Lieber
Released: Oct 16, 2019

Whassup, nerds? It's yer favorite irresponsible blogger, Timmy Olsen! In this month's episode of "Timmy's Bros," someone requested we get Batman to crack who moidered that Daily Planet photo-hack, Jimmy Olsen. Like how many wheels does a guy have to steal off the Batmobile to get a Bat-dude's attention around here?

+ LikeComment

Reviews for the Week of...

June

4th

May

April

More