Reaper74 reviewed Tales to Astonish #79 Jan 31, 2025
Namers story is ok. I’m not a big Sub Mariner fan but the story is passable if a little to dues ex Machina on beating Puppet Master. The Hulk story is slam bang action against Hercules.
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Battle after battle! Will the Hulk's intense showdown with Dr. Konrad Zaxon weaken him enough to take him out of the ring with Hercules?
Reaper74 reviewed Strange Tales #143 Jan 30, 2025
Both tales are standard Stan Lee Marvel stories by this time. They are fun reads but nothing great or new. You can tell Stan was getting stretched a little thin by now.
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Will Nick Fury suffer the fool as a mind slave of Mentallo? Not if Dum Dum Dugan can help it! S.H.I.E.L.D. plans a counterattack against two psychic foes. Doc Strange leaves his physical body behind...and ends up losing it!
Reaper74 reviewed Avengers #27 Jan 29, 2025
Fun fast paced issue with the fight to Attuma finished up. Nothing great but there’s plenty of action and corner dialogue to keep you interested.
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The Avengers' showdown with Attuma comes to a head! But why did the Beetle infiltrate Avengers Mansion to keep Hawkeye from reading a secret message? And what does it all have to do with the Wasp?
Typical Stan Lee stuff going on here with Thor feeling pity for himself but as he heads back to Asgard he becomes dogged again to save Odin. The big part of this book is What is Ragnarok. That short is slam bang and also the basis for the MCU best Thor movie.
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Seidring has been unleashed upon Asgard, casting doom over divine and mortal being alike. Will the son of Odin rise to defeat this latest menace? The Odin Power may be strong with Seidring, but the Mighty Thunderer has clout all his own!
Reaper74 reviewed All-Star Comics #11 Jan 29, 2025
Fun read but most of the stories are similar so by the end the book tends to drag just a bit. Wonder Woman’s and Star Man have the best stories in this.
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The Justice Society of America joins the fight for freedom!
Reaper74 reviewed Zatanna: Bring Down The House #2 Jan 25, 2025
So far the story has entertained me but it sits on a precipice that is tethering to go good or bad. The next issue needs to get there to move a major step forward. I like the ideas here but I don’t really dig Zatanna’s feel here just yet.
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Magician on trial! Despite Zatanna’s willful determination to avoid Real Magic at all costs, a terrifying showdown with the interdimensional demon that interrupted her stage show reveals that she might not have run as far from the world of sorcery as she once hoped. Now a mysterious group of magic casters emerges from the shadows to accuse her of...
Reaper74 reviewed Showcase #19 Jan 25, 2025
The first story is fun in the most unusual way. It’s simple but has a charm to its outlandish plot that you can’t help but keep reading. Adam is a bland character that does have fantastic adventures so this one keeps up that for sure. The puzzle to the predicament is well thought out and how Adam solves it is simple but very effective. The second story is B~level sci fi fun. Again the action i more
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In Calcutta, India, Adam Strange, along with a number of explorers, are on hand to witness an ancient rope trick. When one of the locals explains that it's a trick, and nobody can disappear at the end of the rope, Adam Strange offers to prove him wrong!
Reaper74 reviewed Strange Tales #141 Jan 6, 2024
Both stories are solid and well paced. Both have good cliffhangers to keep you wanting to come back.
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S.H.I.E.L.D.’s battle with Hydra comes to a head, leading to the death of a key player. Plus, what is Operation Brain Blast? S.H.I.E.L.D. delves into the realm of the supernatural with a new ESP division. Will Fury become the first unwilling subject? Doctor Strange reaches an agreement with Dormammu. Clea is banished to a much darker dimension.
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Knight Errant - Deluge #1 Jan 6, 2024
First Kerra is just not an interesting character. The storyline is pretty bad. The art is at least decent.
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Knight Errant - Aflame #5 Jan 6, 2024
Well at least it ended on a good note I guess. Just not a good series.
Reaper74 reviewed Superman #6 Dec 29, 2023
Decent enough issue. Superman acts a little out of character here to get to the prison. I felt he would have taken a more measured response. He’s not an idiot he’s supposed to be a Boy Scout.
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NEW STORY ARC STARTS HERE! FIRST APPEARANCE OF A NEW SUPERMAN VILLAIN! THE CHAINED PART ONE! Following the shocking cliffhanger of Superman #5 and the events of Knight Terrors, Superman has learned that Lex Luthor kept a prisoner beneath Stryker's Island for decades. Who are they and why did Lex lock them up? Can Superman unlock the secrets of the ...
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Knight Errant - Aflame #3 Dec 29, 2023
Still not digging the main character. Really makes Jedi seem so stupid.
Reaper74 reviewed Tales of Suspense #74 Dec 29, 2023
Overall bonkers book. Caps adventure ends in a really fast manner that comes somewhat out of left field. Enjoyable arc that was was just entertaining enough to get over the sheer ridiculousness of it all. Iron Man adventure is sci Fi fun with some good Jeckll Hyde moments.
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When Iron Man is left for dead by the Black Knight, he calls upon Pepper Potts to come to his rescue.
Reaper74 reviewed Speed Force #1 Dec 14, 2023
I like the lead characters and the central story while vague so far does shape up to hook you. My issue is the manga style art. Not a fan of it at all. Avery looks just horrible in this. Some of the action is rather non
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Wallace West and Avery Ho: the young speedsters have been Teen Titans, Justice Leaguers, and above all, members of the Flash Family. As they become aware of mysterious changes happening to the Speed Force, they race to Keystone City, where they encounter old friends, new threats, and a chance to forge their own paths. Spinning out of the pages of T...
Reaper74 reviewed Outsiders #1 Dec 14, 2023
Ho hum start. Nothing really lept off the page and the dialogue was a little off kilter. Drummer seems somewhat interesting but I’ll give another issue before I close the book on this.
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Never the End. A universe of secrets is about to come to light. Batman protects Gotham City from evil. Batman Inc. protects the rest of the known world. But what of the unknown world? What of the ancient evils in hidden tombs and forgotten tragedies from a magic-and-mad-sciencefueled super-heroic century? Using his fortune, Luke Fox launches a new ...
Reaper74 reviewed Justice Society of America #4 Dec 4, 2023
Fun fast read. For a lot happening the story never slows down but it also has to many plot points so it doesn’t all jibe with itself. A tall order is in for this to pay off. Overall though I want to see what is next.
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Helena's journey through time continues! Each new time period gives her one more piece of the puzzle, but is Degaton too far ahead in his quest to eradicate the JSA to be stopped? Is this truly the end of the Justice Society?
Reaper74 reviewed Action Comics #1055 Dec 2, 2023
Main story was really good with solid action. Jurgens story was also very well done. Steel’s story had its moments. Looks like that one is picking up. Overall good solid read.
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Superman's true enemy has been revealed: the Cyborg Superman, Hank Henshaw! Everything the Super-Family has built stands on a knife's edge, and Superman and Metallo become the unlikeliest of allies as they hunt for Metallo's missing sister. Can they prevent the inevitable devolution of Metallo's mind and body long enough to save his sister from Hen...
I really don’t know how I feel about this book. At times it’s fun at other times it’s word salad. The gist of the plot seems interesting but getting there felt like I was walking through a swamp. Overall I’m intrigued but I don’t know how long I can take the Psuedo nerd talk.
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WALLY WEST RACES TOWARD THE FUTURE WITH ALL-STAR NEW CREATIVE TEAM SI SPURRIER AND MIKE DEODATO JR.! Wally West has never been quicker, more fulfilled, more heroic. His loving family is around him. And yet something is off. Very off. His evolving understanding of his powers has opened Wally to new avenues of sci-fi adventure and attuned his senses ...
Reaper74 reviewed Action Comics #67 Nov 22, 2023
Entertaining war time yarn staring Supes. Some of it quite absurd but in the best way to make you giggle.
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Reaper74 reviewed Alpha Flight #1 Nov 21, 2023
Glad Alpha is back. Nice setup and though the beginning is somewhat headscratcher knowing the characters past it does end nicely.
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SAVING CANADA... FROM THE MUTANT MENACE?! GUARDIAN, PUCK, SNOWBIRD and SHAMAN return, as a terrestrial ALPHA FLIGHT bursts onto the scene! But what schism will pit these heroes against their former teammates AURORA, NORTHSTAR and NEMESIS, as well as Aurora's beau, FANG? The FALL OF X has changed the game, and will Alpha Flight soar to new heights-o...
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Knight Errant - Aflame #2 Nov 21, 2023
Not that bad a book. The characters are a little more fleshed out but the lead Jedi is still to headstrong. I would have liked a better more mature chess like approach with the character.
Reaper74 reviewed Avengers #25 Nov 16, 2023
Yeah Dooms plan is not that good considering he’s supposed to be smart. Also the Avengers forget Doom rules Lateria. It’s pretty shoddy to get the plot going. Though once the confrontation starts it is all pretty entertaining. Not the best but fun nothing less.
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Fooled into visiting Latveria by a spurious letter from their aunt, Quicksilver, the Scarlet Witch, and the rest of the Avengers are jailed, left at the whims of the country's iron-fisted (and faced) ruler: Doctor Doom!
Reaper74 reviewed Flash #800 Nov 8, 2023
Nice annual with some great short stories. Adam’s story is the standout but Waids impulse story is up there too.
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Written by Jeremy Adams, Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, Geoff Johns, and Simon Spurrier Art by Fernando Pasarin & Oclair Albert, Todd Nauck, Carmine Di Giandomenico, Scott Kolins, and Mike Deodato Jr. An oversize anniversary issue concludes writer Jeremy Adams's acclaimed tenure, with special guests Mark Waid, Joshua Williamson, and Geoff Johns join...
Reaper74 reviewed Amazing Spider-Man #34 Nov 6, 2023
Avg Spidy book. Decent enough action with Kraven.
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Enter Kraven the Hunter! Kraven has isolated himself in the wilderness to brew and plot revenge against Spider-Man. When Kraven returns to New York to hunt down his prey, Spider-Man is caught unawares.
Well I guess when you need to you just make up new rules for the Xenos. I mean breathing in space I guess even though the very first Aluen literally blew it out into space. I guess they just figured since it was fried it would have lived otherwise. Ok. I think the worst thing about the book is the dialogue. Man is it bad.
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SOMETHING WICKED IS COMING THEIR WAY... The USCSS Boreas has been infiltrated! A chest-burster is wreaking havoc on base, leaving a trail of gore and eviscerated bodies in its wake. With their numbers dwindling, will the Weyland-Yutani security team be able to track the alien down before it becomes something even more deadly? And even if they do, h...
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Knight Errant - Aflame #1 Oct 5, 2023
So so start. The ending picked up but why are all new Jedi so headstrong and brash. It’s a stereotype that really drives me insane. It’s as if Jedi training really does suck. Luke was that way because he was untrained and Yoda was able to contain that by Return.
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - Spiral #5 Oct 5, 2023
Whoa boy that was a painful end to a pointless series. This is a prime example of not creating a series with someone to root for. It’s just bad people doing bad things to each other and not learning a darn thing. It really makes the Sith look rather idiotic.
Lord Dreypa’s Leviathans continue their destruction of the lost tribe of Sith, searching in vain for an ancient, well-hidden Jedi starship. Beating Dreypa to the ship, a Sith rebel finds himself on the cusp of attaining his dreams—destruction of the tribe and discovery of a way to reach the galaxy. But there could be something that would cause ...
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - Spiral #2 Oct 3, 2023
Just don’t care much for the characters.
Having set sail on a prisoner vessel to uncharted territories, a rebel and a stowaway princess find themselves in a losing battle with their crewmates against a society of strange self-proclaimed exiles. When they are taken in by the exiles, new opportunities for power within the civilization pique their interest. The rebel recklessly takes the fir...
Reaper74 rated Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - Spiral #3 Oct 3, 2023
The release of Sith Lord Baron Dreypa has quickened a Sith rebel’s hope of overturning the ruling order of a lost Sith tribe—just not as he’d hoped, with himself in charge . . . But at least Dreypa’s attack on the home of the princess has brought deliverance to the slums of the Sith tribe! Imprisoned, the princess struggles to escape, hopin...
Reaper74 reviewed Star Wars: Lost Tribe of the Sith - Spiral #4 Oct 3, 2023
Overall decent page turner
A Sith princess returns to her kingdom as ancient Lord Dreypa’s awakened army of Leviathans wreaks havoc and destruction across the lost tribe of the Sith, searching for the one thing that can again open Dreypa’s power to the entire galaxy! Running out of options to save the tribe she wants to rule, the princess takes a chance that places all h...
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