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BATMAN EARTH ONE by Craig
July 10, 2012, 8:30 am
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Hot off the heals from the success of last year’s Superman Earth One, DC released its next original graphic novel this week featuring the new beginnings of Batman. With Geoff Johns and Gary Frank on board as a writer and artist respectively, this book gives off a whiff of quality – even the hardback cover contains three different textures on it  – but are the contents up to scratch? Both Craig and Gary review…

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AQUAMAN #6 by Linsay @softlyspokenlas
March 6, 2012, 5:01 pm
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On the subject of everyone’s favourite heir to Atlantis, I feel mightily conflicted. After enjoying the first two or three issues, mainly due to the excellently timed self deprecating humour, I found myself feeling frustrated at the pace the book was moving along at and therefore dropped the title. I’m crazy for Bendis’ Ultimate Spidey so I’m comfortable with heavily decompressed story telling and I have enjoyed books by Johns before. This leads me to wonder, is the problem with Aquaman or with me? Continue reading



AQUAMAN #1 by Linsay @softlyspokenlas
October 4, 2011, 1:50 pm
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Hands up who likes Aquaman? Calm down ‘AquamanShrine’, everyone knows you LOVE Aquaman. Anyone else? Anybody? C’mon somebody? No? Really?

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GREEN LANTERN NEW GUARDIANS #1 by Craig
October 3, 2011, 10:18 pm
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New Guardians makes up the 4th and final Green Lantern title of the DC new 52, introducing us to the last of the human GLs, Kyle Rayner, as well as keeping alive the many colours of the lantern rainbow that have popped up in recent times.

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RED LANTERNS #1 by G-Man

The 2nd of the Lanterns titles to appear in DC’s New 52 is Red Lanterns. Originally created by Geoff Johns and Ethan Van Sciver back in 2007, they’ve appeared frequently in some of the recent Lantern Corps big event Continue reading



GREEN LANTERN #1 by G-Man
September 15, 2011, 1:32 am
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Now Geoff Johns has been writing some amazing stuff in Green Lantern recently – with Blackest Night, Brightest Day and more recently War of the Green Lanterns being the “BIG” events for the GL Corps.  He continues his run with the DC New 52 release of Green Lantern.

WARNING: some spoilers.

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JUSTICE LEAGUE #1 by G-Man
September 5, 2011, 12:43 pm
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So the new 52 has finally arrived! Justice League #1 has hit the shops, and sold out almost instantaneously! To kick off our new blog, here’s some reviews from each member of the team… some minor spoilers:

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