I also have problems with it but rated it higher. Perhaps I want to like it. It’s not very modern, which is good and bad. There may also be something off in the flow of the writing and the art.
Dave rated Grommets #6 Jan 2, 2025
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Things go sideways in a hurry when the drunken and uninvited jocks decide they don't like the look of our misfit friends. Based on true stories that changed the lives of two damaged kids forever.
Dave rated Grommets #5 Jan 2, 2025
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Good times turn ugly when drunken jocks doing jock things harsh everyone's buzz with their brutal stupidity and test the strength and loyalty of weakened friendships.
Dave rated Grommets #4 Jan 2, 2025
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Rick's dad gives him adolescent world-ending news that causes a fight with Brian, leaving him feeling angry, alone, and unheard just as their movie night with friends and girls begins, but party-crashing high school animals BYOB and blow their plans to bits.
Dave rated Grommets #3 Jan 2, 2025
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A house party plan is hatched on a ditch day at the arcade when Rick and Brian take their shot at the girl of their dreams, but will Liberty Spike Mike's defiance of Nancy Reagan make their dreams go up in smoke?
Dave rated Grommets #2 Jan 2, 2025
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The Grommets' big day out! After some fine dining at the Bell, Rick and Brian meet up with the Jens to skate a parking garage. They'll face security guards, jock thugs, and wipeouts in a classic day of unsupervised danger, fun, and adventure in the lives of 80s suburban latchkey kids.
Dave rated Grommets #1 Jan 2, 2025
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MINISERIES PREMIERE
Two best-friend outcasts navigate the Sacramento suburbs of 1984, where they find a home in skateboard culture and punk rock. On one side of the coin, GROMMETS is an authentic look at 80s skate culture, a snapshot of the generation that turned skating into a worldwide phenomenon. On the other, it's a heartfelt coming-of-age ...
I want to like this book i really do, but it is just not working for me. I cant put my finger on it though.
I love the Jsa , maybe my Johns bias is effecting my opinion on the book
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THE INJUSTICE SOCIETY ATTACKS! After sacrificing his reincarnation for one last life with the woman he loves, Hell is the last place Hawkman wants to be right now! With his allies at the Tower of Fate under siege by the Injustice Society, can he escape Wotan's clutches--or is his goose truly cooked?
I also have problems with it but rated it higher. Perhaps I want to like it. It’s not very modern, which is good and bad. There may also be something off in the flow of the writing and the art.
Dave rated The Rocketfellers #2 Dec 18, 2024
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Wanted Dead or Alive: The Rocketfellers! Drone Bots scour the Ghost Machine Multiverse to track down the most dangerous fugitive family of the 25th-century! But the Rocketfellers remain hidden in Earth's distant past: the year 2024! For now, the family navigates its new environment by searching for the perfect Christmas tree in hopes of an explosio...
Dave rated Justice League Unlimited #1 Nov 27, 2024
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THE WATCHTOWER RISES! The Justice League is back and bigger than ever! In the wake of Absolute Power and the DC All In Special, Darkseid's death has triggered a massive power vacuum in the DCU, and Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman must unite like never before and expand the Justice League to encompass every hero championing the forces of good in ...
Dave rated Hornsby & Halo #1 Nov 27, 2024
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Series Premiere. It's Good vs. Evil vs. Puberty from the minds of Peter J. Tomasi (Batman and Robin, Super Sons) and Peter Snejbjerg (Starman, B.P.R.D.)! Keeping the cosmic peace isn't easy. But the opposing leaders of Heaven and Hell broker a deal that trades Zachary Halo, an angel child, to a demon family...
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StrangerDark reviewed The Rocketfellers #1 Nov 20, 2024
Ghost Machine is blowing me away, and Rocketfellers is no exception. Absolutely excited to see more from Peter Tomasi and Francis Manapul!
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Series Premiere. A new cosmic time-travel adventure from the minds of Peter J. Tomasi (Batman and Robin, Super Sons) and Francis Manapul (Flash, Clear)! In the picture-perfect 25th century, the Rocketfeller family, living a disconnected and emotionally distant existence, discover a terrible secret: in their...
Dave rated Batman & Robin: Year One #2 Nov 20, 2024
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Dick Grayson is struggling to adjust to his new life as Bruce Wayne's ward, with both Bruce's rules and Batman's training making his life difficult. But Dick is happy to remind Bruce that turnabout is fair play. Gotham's newest crime boss, the General, continues to vie with Two-Face for control--but could an alliance benefit both of them and spell ...
Dave reviewed The Rocketfellers #1 Nov 20, 2024
I’d go higher then a 10 if I could what a wonderful nook
Series Premiere. A new cosmic time-travel adventure from the minds of Peter J. Tomasi (Batman and Robin, Super Sons) and Francis Manapul (Flash, Clear)! In the picture-perfect 25th century, the Rocketfeller family, living a disconnected and emotionally distant existence, discover a terrible secret: in their...
Dave reviewed Batman & Robin: Year One #1 Oct 17, 2024
Loved this book
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REUNITING THE ACCLAIMED TEAM OF MARK WAID AND CHRIS SAMNEE! While Bruce Wayne adjusts to the realities of adopting orphan Dick Grayson, a mysterious new crime boss called the General has come to Gotham to claim the city by disrupting and destroying its other mobs. But what is his connection to Two-Face? Batman and his new sidekick, Robin, are out f...
Dave rated Action Comics #1070 Oct 11, 2024
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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...
Dave rated Batman and Robin #14 Oct 10, 2024
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Damian Wayne is the son of the Bat, grandson of the Demon, and Robin--but as he nears the age at which his father traveled the world, one question is on his mind: Who is Damian outside of the crusades his family has tasked him with fighting since birth? When he starts to look beyond his life of endless violence, a different way to help the world be...
Dave reviewed Absolute Batman #1 Oct 9, 2024
I tried to read it and made it to page 6 and just didn’t care to finish, I am going to try to read it again later . Might change my grade later. I just did not care to finish it
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BATMAN LEGEND SCOTT SNYDER AND ICONIC ARTIST NICK DRAGOTTA TRANSFORM THE DARK KNIGHT'S TALE FOR THE MODERN AGE! Without the mansion...without the money...without the butler...what's left is the Absolute Dark Knight!
Then don't rate it lmao it's not that hard. If you want to score it, you read the complete thing. It's one issue that barely takes time.
orbisstelassis reviewed Hyde Street #1 Oct 3, 2024
Reis is a very competent artist, but that "Killing Joke" reference midway through this is a cringeworthy bit of coat-tail-riding in a story that's already heavily reliant on Stephen King for tone/subject matter.
I swear, the day after Alan Moore dies, Geoff Johns is going to get caught in the act trying to dig up his grave.
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Series Premiere. A new epic era in character-centered horror begins as Ghost Machine launches Hyde Street, its newest ongoing series from creators Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis! In every city and town, off every country road and metropolis avenue, if you make a wrong turn... you might find yourself on Hyde Street. But be careful who you t...
Dave rated Hyde Street #1 Oct 2, 2024
Series Premiere. A new epic era in character-centered horror begins as Ghost Machine launches Hyde Street, its newest ongoing series from creators Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis! In every city and town, off every country road and metropolis avenue, if you make a wrong turn... you might find yourself on Hyde Street. But be careful who you t...
Dave rated Batman / Superman: World's Finest #30 Aug 21, 2024
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Get ready to see the Trinity—Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman —take part in their ?rst adventure as a trio!
Dave rated Redcoat #5 Aug 21, 2024
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Immortal mercenary Simon Pure is no Einstein. Lucky for him, Simon has the real one helping him. Except this Albert Einstein is 13 years old and still discovering the revolutionary genius he'll grow up to be. But, hey, that's still a lot smarter than Simon, who needs all the brain power he can get to defeat hooded cult called The Founding Fathers. ...
Dave rated Nightwing #117 Aug 21, 2024
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While Dick connects with the ghost of his past, “Nightwing” takes to the streets to defend his honor. But how can he be in two places at once? And what shocking revelation does Dick learn when confronted with the truth behind his parents’ deaths The “Heartless” saga continues in the penultimate chapter of this celebrated run!
Dave rated Uncanny X-Men #1 Aug 14, 2024
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PROFESSOR X...IS GONE!
A core group of essential X-Men rise FROM THE ASHES to face a world without a home - and without Professor X! All bonds among the mutant community seem to be slipping away, and ROGUE reluctantly finds herself as the hero designated to bring them back together...but a fearless, malignant power is out there hunting mutants...
Dave rated Redcoat #4 Jul 18, 2024
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A tale 126 years in the making! The clandestine cult of hooded figures called The Founding Fathers has finally caught up to the cocky-and eternally unlucky-mercenary Simon Pure. For the first time since their macabre ritual gave Simon immortality in 1776, we learn new secrets behind that moment and the magic that powered it! Also: can 13-year-old A...
Dave rated Batman / Superman: World's Finest #29 Jul 18, 2024
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The grand finale to Impossible is here, and it...well, it is as insane as you think it would be. First of all, we've got this big DOOM-MITE guy over here, check him out...he's about to eat Batman and Superman! What would that even taste like? Let's hope our heroes never let him find out, as the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight save the fifth dimens...
Dave rated Nightwing #116 Jul 18, 2024
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Everything Dick Grayson has built is crumbling around him. His life is spiraling out of control and Heartless is at the center of all of it. Now Nightwing must leave his city. Can he take back the power he's lost? Or will Bludhaven and its citizens be lost to Heartless forever?
Dave rated Sinister Sons #6 Jul 11, 2024
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The truth of SINSON's origin is at last revealed, as he and his best frenemy LOR-ZOD make their mad dash for the throne on the planet Korugar! It all ends here for the bad boys of comics, and if you thought these two deserved some sort of happy ending--think again!
Dave rated Justice Society of America #10 Jul 3, 2024
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THE HUNTRESS, HUNTED! Ruby's search for her father continues, and she'll stop at nothing to find him, even if it means killing the Huntress and destroying the Justice Society of America!
Dave rated Sinister Sons #4 Jun 7, 2024
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Will the Sinister Sons be digested by the great Space Whale?! Will the Sinister Sons defeat Spaceman Joe?! Will the Sinister Sons' duel against the Piratesites end in disaster?! Get ready this month for all the four-color adventures of Sinson and Lor-Zod as the boys try to be as bad as their dads!
Dave rated Sinister Sons #5 Jun 7, 2024
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AVAST, YE SWABS! The Sinister Sons continue their galactic melee on a mission to Korugar to confront Sinestro and prove once and for all that Sinson is the one true heir to the throne of fear and power in the galaxy. But to make it there, the boys will need to walk the plank in a battle for their lives against a ship of ruffian space pirates! Pull ...
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