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Teen Titans season 2 Teen Titans is one of those shows that progressed in quality with each season, hardly fluctuating at all. The show started out rather kid-oriented but became darker and more complex with each passing season (though season 5 was mostly one big fangasm). Season 2 is one of the better seasons and also one of the most memorable, as it adapts possibly the most famous storyline from the New Teen Titans comic book series by Marv Wolfman and George Perez. Season 2 roughly adapts “the Judas Contract”, but as you ...


Considering the last story arc was so heavy, they decided to take a break from the angst and violence with this issue and give a few happy endings to some noteworthy people. In "Comings and Goings", Sonic and Tails head to the Zone to find a Chaos Emerald towake King Acorn from his coma.  Following that, Tails' uncle Merlin uses the Emerald to rescue Tails' parents from Argentum, the alien planet they'd been stranded on.  In the back-up story, the whimsicle "the Island of Lost Badniks", Sonic dsicovers one of the original Dr. Robotnik's secret islands where his Badniks would go ...


Ninja Scroll #4

"Autumn Leaves".  An excellent one-shot story, though it takes a few too many cues from the Ninja Scroll film. Jubei happens across a woman working with the Tokugawa samurai.  They are trying to deliver a mysterious box to the Hoji Mountain temple when they are attakced by ninja.  Jubei saves the woman, only to learn that she is dying of a mysterious ailment, and agrees to help her complete her final mission. The woman, Kaede, bears a few too many similarities with Kagero, the kunoichi from the Ninja Scroll film.  Still, what saves this story is Kelley Puckett's perfect portrayal of Jubei.  ...


Spawn #163

So the conclusion to the most epic arc of the entire Spawn run has come to pass.  Was the climax everything I had hoped for?  Yes and no, I'm afraid. My one greatest fear was that the effects of Armageddon would be fixed with "the Big Reset Button".  Sadly, yes, that partially is the case.  However, enough of the effects of Armageddon have remained to make things truly different.  The last pages also leave several naggign questions as to the future of this book (if there is any). "Armageddon" has been the most ambitious storyline in the entire series and, honestly, more ...


"Unstoppable part 1".  Finally, everything is really coming together.  All that stuff about Colossus and the Breakworld mentioned way back in the first arc of the series is at long last coming to fruition.  We finally get to see the Breakworld-itself and get an idea of the trouble it's in. Basically, the X-Men and their enemies, Ord and Danger, have been "kidnapped" by S.W.O.R.D. (an off-shoot of S.H.I.E.L.D.) and are being taken to the Breakworld.  Colossus is supposedly destined to destroy the Breakworld, and their ruthless military forces are willing to destroy Earth if anything bad happens.  Then everything explodes. More of ...


Justice #9

Jeez, I forgot I was even reading this book.  Well, the story is moving along at a snail's pace, thanks mostly to it being a 12 issue miniseries set at a "bi-monthly" release schedule.  I can hardly remember what has happened. Anyhow, "Ultimate Challenge of the Superfriends" still looks just as pretty as ever thanks to Alex Ross' artwork.  The story is a bit convuluted; I found myself having to reread expositional inner-monologues over and over and figure out what the heck they're talking about.  I'm sure, once completed, the book will read much more coherently. As for the story, Brainiac has taken control ...


Action Comics #845

"Last Son part 2".  This story is coming along quite well.  Richard Donner, Geoff Johns and artist Adam Kubert know how to craft an exceedingly cinematic story.  It feels like you're watching a movie. So Superman wants to adopt the mysterious Kryptonian boy, though Lois is having reservations.  Lex Luthor sends Bizarro to go kidnap the kid.  Bizarro has been incarcerated for a year, retrained by Luthor to be more brutal and psychotic.  Bizarro and Superman tussle, putting the boy's life in danger. I like this newer, meaner Bizarro.  Wacky Bizarro was fun for a while, but this evil version is what ...


Action Comics #844

So Richard Donner, the director of the original Superman theatrical film, has teamed up with Geoff Johns, one of DC's star writers, to craft this Superman story.  I have to say, only one issue in and its already pretty amazing. A spacecraft falls out of the sky and into Metropolis.  Superman catches it, of course, but discovers a unique cargo inside: a human-looking boy.  Tests at the Metropolis Metahuman Research Facility prove the boy to be Kryptonian in origin.  Superman isn't sure what to do; if he lets the government keep him, they could abuse his vast powers for their own ...


The "robots in disguise" angle is still being maintained in this title.  The Decepticons' methods are very..."unusual", at least in regards for the Decepticons.  Instead of just hijacking power plants or hydro electric dams and causing general mayhem and panic, they're maniulating Earth's heated war zones and upsetting international balances.  They're using "fake" humans to infiltrate the military as well as their own troops in disguise as fighter jets to frame America.  Very sneaky and un-Decepticon-like. The humans have been down-played so far.  Verity and Jimmy hardly have any lines at all.  We'll see how long that lasts.  There's a spotlight ...


Just fantastic.  I first came to appreciate Sixshot after watching the Japanese-exclusive Transformers: Headmasters television series.  Sixshot was portrayed as a "ninja" of sorts, whose loyalty was only truly to himself.  He fought for the Decepticons, but often wondered why.  His power, also, was nearly unmatched.  I was thoroughly pleased to see that writer Simon Furman imported so many of those attributes into this comic.  Sixshot never received much story-time in America; hardly any, infact.  He was only glimpsed in both the original Marvel comic and the Dreamwave comics, and he got maybe 10 seconds of screen time in one episode ...


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