Posts Tagged ‘x-force’

Secret Six #1, Secret Invasion, and Other Face-Rocking Comics

This entry is part 5 of 5 in the series New Comics Haul

Looks like I’m on a one-post-per-three-weeks schedule with these reviews. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing, and I don’t want to spend a whole paragraph on figuring it out. So let’s get right on to the reviews.

Secret Six #1: I enjoyed The Six’s guest appearance in Birds of Prey so much back when Gail Simone was still writing that series, I decided to check out their first ever ongoing. It’s now on my pull list. I guess I just got to have a Gail Simone book in there at all times (I dropped Wonder Woman because it just wasn’t working out for me).

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Uncanny X-Men #500, Secret Invasion, Justice Society of America Annual #1, and Other Face-Rocking Comics

This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series New Comics Haul

Before we get into the reviews, here’s a short message from Dr. Doom:

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Thank you, Mr. Emperor of Twitter. Now, on to the reviews!

Uncanny X-Men #500 – I had great expectations for this issue, and that probably explains why I’m disappointed. Maybe there was just too much going on and it felt like an extra-sized preview book. Maybe it’s the distracting art. I don’t know. Don’t get me wrong, I love Terry Dodson’s art and I don’t hate Greg Land’s “lightbox style”, but they just don’t mix, is all I’m saying.

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