J. Rabbit reviewed DC vs. Vampires #1 Oct 29, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Good
Writing: Outstanding
Story: Great
Layout: Good
Color: Great
Lettering: Great
This is a what-if series. What if vampires took over the DC world...and the beginning is more horrific than I had hoped. Tynion expertly twists expectations and surprises the reader. Excellent beginning.
Edit: Upon reading other reviews...I did NOT pick up an more
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The Justice League has long protected Earth from all manner of foreign and alien invaders over the years, always keeping a vigilant eye to the skies for the next threat. But what if the threat was already walking the Earth…hiding in plain sight…watching…waiting for their moment to strike… In the tradition of DCeased comes a terrifying new s...
J. Rabbit reviewed House of Slaughter #1 Oct 28, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Good
Writing: Great
Story: Good
Layout: Good
Color: Good
Lettering: Good
Discover the inner workings of the House of Slaughter in this new horror series exploring the secret history of the Order that forged Erica Slaughter into the monster hunter she is today.
You know Aaron Slaughter as Erica's handler and rival. But before he donned the black mask, Aaron was a teenager training within the House of Slaughter. ...
J. Rabbit reviewed Red Sonja #2 Oct 10, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Okay
Writing: Great
Story: Great
Layout: Good
Color: Okay
Lettering: Okay
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MOTHER, PART TWO. Sonja struggles to recover from injuries, relying on SITHA to help her. Their bond grows, as they travel from city to hamlet, and as Sonja discovers more about Sitha's past, the more dangerous their path becomes...
The ongoing adventures continue, from MIRKA ANDOLFO (Sweet Paprika) and GIUSEPPE CAFARO (Sacred Six)!
J. Rabbit reviewed Red Sonja #1 Oct 6, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Great
Writing: Good
Story: Great
Layout: Good
Color: Good
Lettering: Meh
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MOTHER, PART ONE. Industry icon MIRKA ANDOLFO presents an all-new vision for the She-Devil With A Sword, in a thrilling new ongoing series! Our story begins in a village on fire, set by members of the dreaded Three-Eyed Shezem. When Red Sonja arrives, the only survivor of the flame is a lively child with curious white tattoos. The child will become...
J. Rabbit reviewed Green Lantern Annual: 2021 Sep 30, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Better than Good
Writing: Better than Good
Story: Great
Layout: Good
Color: Good
Lettering: Good
This book has some subtle but very well-done symbolism that gives the Yellow Lanterns a deeper, more meaningful, and nuanced angle to work with. I hope to see more of Cruz wearing the Yellow.
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Once an agoraphobic scared to even leave her room, Jessica Cruz overcame her fear to become a Green Lantern and face the darkest and deadliest threats in the universe. But now, Jessica’s gone from overcoming fear to using it as a weapon. When Yellow Lanterns attacked the Green Lantern Sector House she took refuge in when the Central Power battery...
J. Rabbit reviewed Echolands #1 Sep 19, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Good
Writing: Good
Story: Great
Layout: Outstanding
Color: Outstanding
Lettering: Great
This mash-up fantasy/sci-fi world of magic, robots, and fast food has enormous potential. The artwork in this book is sometimes gorgeous and awe-inspiring and sometimes overwhelming. Can't wait to see more, though!
A MAJOR IMAGE COMICS 2021 EVENT.
The story of Earth's last war starts with Hope's sticky fingers...
The multiple award winning BATWOMAN team JH Williams III (Promethea, The Sandman: Overture, Batman) and W. Haden Blackman (Star Wars, Elektra) reunite for an all-new ongoing series! They're joined once again by colorist supreme ...
J. Rabbit reviewed Suicide Squad: Get Joker! #1 Aug 7, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Great
Writing: Great
Story: Great
Layout: Good
Color: Great
Lettering: Good
This is what I would expect from a Black Label book. Real danger, real dialogue, and real characters. I'm hooked.
Critically acclaimed and bestselling author Brian Azzarello (Batman: Damned) and Eisner Award-winning art legend Alex Maleev (Batman: No Man’s Land) collaborate for the first time in this three-issue, Suicide Squad series pitting Red Hood, Harley Quinn, Firefly, and more of DC’s most villainous criminals against The Joker. When Task Force X’s...
J. Rabbit reviewed Batman: Secret Files: Huntress #1 Aug 7, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Good
Writing: Meh
Story: Meh
Layout: Great
Color: Great
Lettering: Good
This is NOT a Huntress one-shot. It really has nothing to do with Huntress. It's a Batman story with Huntress co-starring in her own book. Sure, she gets all the screen-time in this side story but the main story starts and continues in Detective Comics. If you do NOT read this, y more
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Huntress returns in an all-new one-shot adventure! Gotham’s Violet Vengeance lived through a lot in the last few weeks...including her brain being invaded by a violent parasite bent on sending her on a deadly slugfest bender. Not fun, amiright? Well, Helena Bertinelli is no one to mess with-and when the villainous Vile’s parasite gives her the ...
J. Rabbit reviewed Checkmate #1 Jul 7, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Meh
Writing: Meh
Story: Meh
Layout: Great
Color: Good
Lettering: Good
There are gaping holes in the story that are glossed over perhaps for brevity but appear as laziness. This notion is supported by terrible dialog and a dull plot twist.
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From the award-winning creative team behind last year’s Event Leviathan comes the next surprising chapter in DC Comics’ deadliest saga. Leviathan has agents and acolytes all over the world, but what is the secret behind its power? The planet’s last, best hope to infiltrate Leviathan may be this motley collection of spymasters, now teamed up t...
J. Rabbit added Something is Killing the Children to their pull list May 28, 2021
* GLAAD Award-winning writer James Tynion IV (Memetic, Batman: Detective Comics) teams with artist Werther Dell'Edera (Briggs Land) for an all-new limited series about staring into the abyss to find your worst fears staring back.
* When the children of Archer's Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but...
Pencil/Ink: Good
Writing: Great
Story: Outstanding
Layout: Good
Color: Good
Lettering: Great
Smooth read and an excellent beginning. Good balance of dark and light-hearted. Loved the "Junkyard Joe" strip on the back. What's the dog's name?!
Industry heavyweights GEOFF JOHNS (Superman, Green Lantern, Batman: Three Jokers) and GARY FRANK (Superman, Supergirl, The Incredible Hulk) of DC's DOOMSDAY CLOCK reteam for what will be one of the most anticipated new series of 2021 in the forthcoming GEIGER. This mind blowing new series will take local comic shops by storm in April from Image Com...
J. Rabbit reviewed Beasts of Burden: Occupied Territory #1 Apr 11, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Outstanding
Writing: Outstanding
Story: Great
Layout: Great
Color: Great
Lettering: Great
Don't skim over the panels that are without dialog. Let the artwork tell the story. This is an outstanding first issue that builds on the lore of the Wise Dogs society.
The eight-time Eisner Award- winning comic book series blending fantasy and humor returns in a historical adventure blending Japanese and Western occult!
An elder member of the occult-battling pack of Wise Dogs recalls a harrowing mission-in U.S-occupied Japan after World War II, a mysterious curse creates an army of crawling, disembodied heads...
J. Rabbit reviewed Star Wars: Bounty Hunters #1 Apr 6, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Great
Writing: Good
Story: Good
Layout: Great
Color: Good
Lettering: Great
NEVER BETRAY A BOUNTY HUNTER - ESPECIALLY IF IT'S BOBA FETT!
Years ago, VALANCE and fellow bounty hunters BOSSK and BOBA FETT took on a mission that went sideways in a bad way after Valance's mentor, NAKANO LASH, violently betrayed them. Valance's team barely escaped with their lives. He never thought he'd face his old mentor ever again...until...
J. Rabbit reviewed Stray Dogs #2 Apr 6, 2021
Pencil/Ink: Good
Writing: Great
Story: Great
Layout: Good
Color: Great
Lettering: Good
The artwork is growing on me. The cuteness of the artwork offsets the creepiness of the story in an interesting mix. Love the dogs! Lots of character.
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Something doesn't smell right! None of the dogs know what happens behind that door at the end of the hallway. All they know is there's a punishment for sniffing around it. What secrets are hidden in the Master's Forbidden Room?
J. Rabbit reviewed Future State: Green Lantern #1 Mar 24, 2021
This is an anthology of 3 stories about John Stewart, Jessica Cruz, and Guy Gardner. I would give the stories a 3.0, 7.5, and 6.5 respectively. The artwork in the first is straight up flawed while Guy's art was okay but not very compelling. Jessica's story may be recycled a bit but the writing was fun as well as the writing for Gardner. The writing for Stewart was, at best, an unfinished rough more
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Assigned to map and contact new lifeforms past the 3,600 known sectors of space protected by the Green Lantern Corps, John Stewart and an elite team of Lanterns are trapped behind enemy lines and fighting for their lives when the Central Power Battery goes dark and leaves the entire corps defenseless. Meanwhile, across the cosmos, Green Lantern Jes...
J. Rabbit reviewed Batman: Urban Legends #1 Mar 20, 2021
There are 4 stories here that I would rate 10, 10, 9, and 7.5 in whatever order you choose. Overall, an excellent book with some outstanding writing.
Overall...
Story: Good to Outstanding
Writing: Good to Outstanding
Pencil/Ink: Good to Great
Layout: Good
Color: Good to Great
Lettering: Good to Great
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Batman may be the biggest name in Gotham City, but there are lots of other heroes-and villains-who will get a turn to shine in Batman: Urban Legends, a brand-new monthly series tying into the biggest events in Gotham City. The series begins with these can’t-miss tales:
• Superstar writer Chip Zdarsky enters the world of Gotham City with...
J. Rabbit reviewed Gotham City Monsters #1 Mar 14, 2021
Story: Good
Writing: Meh
Pencil/Ink: Good
Layout: Good
Color: Good
Lettering: Good
Leviathan has dismantled S.H.A.D.E.-and that means Frankenstein is once again a free agent! Now he can set his sights on his former mentor, Melmoth, the one evil that got away. With bad things happening all across the Multiverse, this may be Frankenstein's last shot at setting things right. Of course, Melmoth has his own agenda, and it's going to t...
J. Rabbit reviewed Man-Bat #2 Mar 13, 2021
Story: Good
Writing: Bad
Pencil/Ink: Good
Layout: Good
Color: Good
Lettering: Meh
There's a good story in here somewhere but it gets glossed over for awkward, unnatural dialog. Interrupting the action to show us two pages of something happening somewhere else was confusing and served little or no purpose.
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Man-Bat is on the run from the law following a horrific night of blood and mayhem on the streets of Gotham. But the police aren’t what Kirk Langstrom’s monstrous alter ego should worry about...it’s Task Force X, better known as the Suicide Squad. To undo the damage he caused, Man-Bat must seek out a cure for the innocents he has injured, all ...
J. Rabbit reviewed Nocterra #1 Mar 13, 2021
Story: Great
Writing: Good
Pencil/Ink: Good
Layout: Good
Color: Great
Lettering: Good
Excellent beginning. I love the ferryman concept. Add 2 cups boogeyman horror, 1 teaspoon of mystery, a pinch of salt and I'm hooked.
"FULL THROTTLE DARK," Part One-Ten years after the world is plunged into an everlasting night that turns all living creatures into monstrous shades, the only way to survive is to stay close to artificial light. Enter Valentina "Val" Riggs, a skilled ferryman who transports people and goods along deadly unlit roads with her heavily illuminated eight...
* Discover the next blockbuster action franchise from the iconic KEANU REEVES in his Must Read comic book writing debut alongside New York Times best-selling co-writer Matt Kindt (Folklords, Bang!) and acclaimed artist Alessandro Vitti (Marvel's Secret Warriors) in a brutally violent new series about one immortal warrior's fight through the ages.
"FULL THROTTLE DARK," Part One-Ten years after the world is plunged into an everlasting night that turns all living creatures into monstrous shades, the only way to survive is to stay close to artificial light. Enter Valentina "Val" Riggs, a skilled ferryman who transports people and goods along deadly unlit roads with her heavily illuminated eight...
J. Rabbit added Green Lantern (2018) to their pull list Mar 13, 2021
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Superstar writer Grant Morrison (Batman, All-Star Superman) returns to DC alongside red-hot artist Liam Sharp (The Brave AND the Bold, Wonder Woman) to launch a new, ongoing series: THE GREEN LANTERN!
In this debut issue, when Earth's space cop, Hal Jordan, encounters an alien hiding in plain sight, it sets off a chain of events that rocks the...
Story: Good
Writing: Outstanding
Pencil/Ink: Outstanding
Layout: Good
Color: Great
Lettering: Great
The artwork is superb at contributing to the story and characterization. This book could stand alone with no lettering at all and still weave a good tale. The writing only makes this book better by telling two or three stories at the same time more
* Discover the next blockbuster action franchise from the iconic KEANU REEVES in his Must Read comic book writing debut alongside New York Times best-selling co-writer Matt Kindt (Folklords, Bang!) and acclaimed artist Alessandro Vitti (Marvel's Secret Warriors) in a brutally violent new series about one immortal warrior's fight through the ages.
J. Rabbit rated Endless Winter: Justice League #2 Feb 24, 2021
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“Endless Winter” chapter nine! This is it-the final chapter in the five-week, nine-issue Justice League crossover! With the Frost King’s origin revealed, the Justice League must battle the mistakes of the past as well as the global freeze that now threatens the entire population. This issue is snow-packed with characters and action as Superma...
J. Rabbit rated Endless Winter: Teen Titans #1 Feb 24, 2021
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“Endless Winter” chapter six! Crush, Roundhouse, Kid Flash, and Red Arrow embark on a bonding exercise with new partners from the original New Teen Titans: Donna Troy and Beast Boy? Everyone’s limits will be tested as they brave the challenges of holiday shopping in Manhattan! And then, the city is buried in snow! When they discover a teen wh...
J. Rabbit rated Endless Winter: Justice League #1 Feb 24, 2021
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“Endless Winter” chapter one! The crossover event of the season begins here! The Justice League encounters an extinction-level global storm brewing at the former site of the Fortress of Solitude. Enter the Frost King, a monster mad with power with an army at his command! What devastating mystery lies in his past? And how does he tied to Queen H...
J. Rabbit rated Batman/Catwoman #3 Feb 24, 2021
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It’s been The Joker all along, you see.
Selina Kyle knows this. Early in her career as Catwoman, he was there to mess things up for her. Same with later, when she and Batman were finally getting together...for the third time, but still. That time stuck. No thanks to The Joker. Or to Phantasm, who now has her sights set on Catwoman because...
J. Rabbit rated Batman/Catwoman #2 Feb 24, 2021
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Phantasm has come to Gotham City! Andrea Beaumont, the one-time love of Bruce Wayne, is looking for her lost child, and she’s pretty sure The Joker is involved. So, who better to have as an ally than Batman? And what better way to get to Batman than through Catwoman? It’s a knotted history for this costumed quartet, spanning past, present, and ...
J. Rabbit rated Batman/Catwoman #1 Feb 24, 2021
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At last, Tom King returns to the rocky, romantic saga of Batman and Catwoman with his Heroes in Crisis collaborator, superstar artist Clay Mann!
Echoing plot points from King’s epic Batman run, this sweeping tale is told across three timelines: the past, when the Bat and the Cat first fell in love; the present, where their union is threat...
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