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More Human Than Human

X-23: Innocence Lost by Craig Kyle, Christopher Yost

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I’ve been on a late oughts X-Force kick, lately. That run has been my comic book introduction to X-23, aka Laura. (If you’ve seen the movie Logan, Laura is the lil’ Wolverine. That was my first encounter with the character.) The Laura character is terrifying and hilarious in X-Force. She’s so efficiently brutal that you always wonder whether she’s a judgment call away from hacking into pieces a character you like. Kind of weird vibe for a teammate. She’s funny in the way Guardians of the Galaxy’s Drax is funny – a deadly fish out of water. The character is […]

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10/14/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:62 |

I feel a little lost here, but I still like it

World of Wakanda: Issues 1-6 by Roxane Gay, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Yona Harvey

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Living in a pretty small, remote town, we make certain to take the kids (yeah…the kids) to a comic book store whenever we are in a bigger city. I walked in to one this winter, and all packaged up just like they knew I was coming, there were the six issues in the limited run World of Wakanda comic series. It hit all the right buttons: Black Panther, so hot right now! Roxane Gay and Yona Harvey, interesting feminist thinker and poet, first two black women to write for Marvel! Female artists, I like it! Dora Milaje focused, representation is […]

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4/28/2018 | 's CBR10 Review No:7 |

Lunella! No!

Secret Warriors Vol. 1: Secret Empire by Matthew Rosenberg, Javier Garron

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My comic book reading is pretty scattershot. I have read zero of the Secret War series. I heard about it when Captain America was revealed to be a Hydra agent. I have no idea what’s going on in the main series. I did stumble across Secret Warriors, and thought I’d read it since it has a couple of my favorites, Ms. Marvel and Lunella and Devil Dinosaur. Joining them are other Inhumans – Daisy, also known as Quake, Inferno, and Karnak. Secret Empire bounces around in time for each character before, during and after the invasion. A Secret Empire calls for […]

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11/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:110 |

Thanks, Rainbow. I can always count on you.

Runaways: Pride & Joy and Runaways: Teenage Wasteland by Brian K. Vaughan, Adrian Alphona

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When I heard that Cannonball favorite Rainbow Rowell was joining the Marvel team, I was certainly intrigued. I’m not a huge Marvel fangirl, but I had faith that Rainbow wouldn’t sign on to a project that wasn’t worthy of her. So, at her urging, I went to the library to pick up the first two volumes of the original Runaways, written by the always great Brian K. Vaughan. And, of course, Rainbow was right. I was immediately taken in and wanted more.* Here’s a quick overview of what happens in the first two volumes: A group of six kids are […]

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8/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:50 |

Nope, not for me.

Black Panther: A Nation Under Our Feet, Book 1 by Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I wanted to like this, so so much. But I had so many problems with it, and ultimately didn’t enjoy myself while reading. Like a lot of people (non-comics nerds mostly), I was introduced to Black Panther and T’Challa in Captain America: Civil War. His appearance in that movie was great (one of the highlights of an already fun movie), and it left me excited for his solo movie. And then of course Ta-Nehisi Coates signs up as a writer for the comics, and that’s an unholy soup of curiosity right there. But this did not work for me. Firstly, […]

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8/22/2017 's CBR9 Review No:55 |

SNIKT

Wolverine by Chris Claremont, Frank Miller

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This is one of the comics that makes me love comics. Wolverine is a collection of Wolverine’s first solo series. It was written and illustrated by comic titans Chris Claremont (Days of Future Past) and Frank Miller (The Dark Knight Returns, Daredevil). The writing is terse and largely comprised of Wolverine’s stream of thought. The art is simple yet moody. As Claremont explains in the introduction, the book elevates Wolverine from an animalistic berserker to a complete and compelling character.  While I love Hugh Jackman as much as the next nerd, this Wolverine would be more likely played by someone […]

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6/30/2017 's CBR9 Review No:20 |

After Watching Logan This Weekend…Perfect Balm for All Those Feelings

All-New Wolverine (2015-) #1 by Tom Taylor

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If you haven’t watched the movie Logan yet, look away! The character we follow in this All New Wolverine issue is Laura. We get to see her as she steps up to be the new Wolverine, while still being mentored by our Logan (who is now gone). In this first issue, we see that Laura has doubts about who she is and what she is doing. She feels like a monster and just a killing machine. When she gets knocked out, she apparently gets some sense knocked back into her. We get to see Laura in action and also I […]

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3/6/2017 's CBR9 Review No:81 |

Great for Kamala, not so great for Carol.

Ms. Marvel, Vol. 6: Civil War II by G. Willow Wilson

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I will admit I was prepared to dislike this. I read a couple of reviews that gave the plot away, and it made me angry and nervous (more on this below). I shouldn’t have *really* worried. As she did with that whole Secret Wars mess, G. Willow Wilson manages to write an event tie-in story (in this case, Civil War II) but still keep it readable for people like myself who aren’t planning on reading the rest of it, and to simultaneously keep the story focused tightly on Kamala. This still felt like Kamala’s story, a personal struggle as opposed […]

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2/1/2017 's CBR9 Review No:11 |


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