The Unsettling State of Jupiter’s Legacy

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Jupiter’s Legacy #1 Review In the wake of the great depression, a group of friends under the direction of Sheldon Sampson sail to an uncharted island where they mysteriously gain super powers. Their super hero bloodline continues through generations, but some believe, just because one’s born with powers, does not obligate one to use them. [...]


Morbius Midnight Son

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Morbius #1 Review “Midnight Son” So… Marvel NOW! and it’s infinite wisdom gave the living vampire, Morbius his own book, despite how you feel about it. And despite the preview in The Amazing Spider-Man #699.1, they decided to recap his sob story again in this issue. Morbius leaves his superhero filled city in search of [...]


Django Unchained from Vertigo.

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Django Unchained #1 Review Quentin Tarantino’s Django film doesn’t actually come out until this Christmas, but for the comic book masses and those who want to intake everything Tarantino, Christmas has come early. Django Unchained #1 from Vertigo Comics hit store shelves today, and according to the foreword from Tarantino himself, this comic is the [...]


Welcome to Murder World

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Avengers Arena #1 Review “Worse Things” Teenage super heroes have teenage super hero sized problems these days. Stripped from the Avangers Academy, impressionable young teens must murder all of their peers in order to survive a madman’s psychotic fantasy. Avengers Arena is supposed to be the Marvel version of Battle Royale meets Hunger Games. Fortunately, [...]


Wanted: Cable and X-Force

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Cable and X-Force #1 Review “Wanted” This week Marvel NOW! brings you an X-Force book, and to not get it confused with January’s Uncanny X-Force, they added Cable to the title. Pretty sneaky them guys there. If you’ve been reading Marvel at all, you know there was some kind of battle royale between the Avengers [...]


Avengers Wake the World

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Avengers #1 Review “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” “Avengers World” “Wake the World” Have you ever felt like you just have to try? You don’t want to fail, but you know deep down you have no choice but to fail. The Avengers are “Earth’s Mightiest Heroes” and they’re going against a power much greater than anything they’ve [...]


Marvel NOW!’s FF #1 is Not a New Fantastic Four…Technically

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FF #1 Review “Parts of a Hole” Contrary to my popular belief, FF is not a new Fantastic Four from Marvel NOW!. It’s in fact Reed’s school for brilliant minds called the Future Foundation, not to be confused with Jean Grey School of Higher Learning. If you read the latest Fantastic Four #1, you’d know [...]


The Amazing Spider-Man Blu-Ray Review

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Admittedly, when I saw this movie in the theater last summer I wasn’t that thrilled. Maybe I was still bummed that I wouldn’t get to see John Malkovich as The Vulture (come on, you know that would have been, for lack of a better word, “amazing”) or maybe I was bummed that I was seeing what ended up [...]


Captain America Saves Babies NOW!

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Captain America #1 Review “Saga of Dimension Z” Marvel NOW! has been mixing it up throughout the Marvel Universe, super heroes teams not only getting new members, but also getting new creative teams as well. Well, Captain America is taking it one step further, he’s changing his dimension. In a strange turn of events involving [...]


Daredevil’s End of Days

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Daredevil: End of Days #1 Review Arguable the most anticipated Daredevil book of the year, Daredevil: End of Days is finally here. All the talk and all the hype has culminated to this very moment, where we may very well witness the death of the man without fear. This review is very much “spoiler free” [...]