Review Search: Rod Reis
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Aquaman #2With a creepy villain and strong characterization, the new “Aquaman” series is off to a good start.
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October 26th, 2011 |
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Nightwing #2Nightwing goes for round two against his bladed attacker from last issue, and there’s some circus stuff here too.
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October 21st, 2011 |
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Justice League #2More Vic Stone! More Superman! More Batman! More Green Lantern! Oh yeah, Flash, too!
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October 19th, 2011 |
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Resurrection Man #2"Resurrection Man" is back from the dead and spryer than ever.
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October 15th, 2011 |
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Green Lantern: New Guardians #1"Green Lantern: New Guardians" might bore existing readers with its slow setup.
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September 28th, 2011 |
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Aquaman #1Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis begin their rehab of Aquaman, and so far so good.
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September 28th, 2011 |
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Nightwing #1Dick is back in his Nightwing costume, and the results are mostly boring.
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September 21st, 2011 |
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Red Lanterns #1The rage of the Red Lanterns gets unleashed in a story that may have been the root cause of Animal Man bleeding out from his eyes. Or not. At any rate, there’s a whole lot of red here.
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September 15th, 2011 |
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Resurrection Man #1"Resurrection Man" stays true to form, bringing itself back to life and with a new trick to boot.
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September 15th, 2011 |
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Green Lantern #1As Sinestro returns to the Green Lantern Corps, it looks like maybe the Sinestro Corps is going to have to consider a name change.
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September 14th, 2011 |
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Flashpoint #3More of the "New 52" characters pop up this issue, while forces are joined by Batman, Cyborg, and Flash. Proofreading issues aside, it's an enjoyable issue.
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July 6th, 2011 |
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Flashpoint: Frankenstein and the Creatures of the Unknown #1It's all back story, but it's a nice beginning.
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June 9th, 2011 |
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Flashpoint: Abin Sur – the Green Lantern #1“Earth is a primitive planet. Why was it chosen to shelter such an essential part of the universe?”
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June 1st, 2011 |
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Brightest Day #24“Alec Holland died in the swamp. And his memory was absorbed into the life web of the Earth called the Green.”
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April 27th, 2011 |
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Green Lantern Corps #59“I, uh. . . I thought Ganthet was dropping a hint when he said he’d placed all his hopes in me. Now I just hope I’m not totally useless.”
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April 20th, 2011 |
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Superman #710That's right, it's yet another previously untold tale of an early Superman and Batman team up. (Just how many of them are there?)
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April 13th, 2011 |
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JLA 80-Page Giant 2011 #1“I’ve done my share of bad things, but always under someone else’s influence. You’re not the one who decides whether I have to go to Hell or not.”
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April 12th, 2011 |
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Brightest Day #23Everything comes together in a mass of exposition.
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April 6th, 2011 |
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Green Lantern #64"War of the Green Lanterns" officially kicks off, and it's good if not great.
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March 23rd, 2011 |
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Brightest Day #22“Stein and I barely held our own against him alongside Superman, Captain Atom, and like thirty others. And that was back when I was the best Firestorm I could be.”
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March 16th, 2011 |
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Brightest Day #21“God, I . . . I think I’m standing in the ashes of my best friend. First Firestorm implodes aboard the Justice League satellite. Then I find Carter and Shiera vaporized.”
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March 2nd, 2011 |
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Brightest Day #20“Each one of us is caught between two worlds. Each one of us knows how hard it is to face that alone. Which is why we never will be. Never again.”
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February 16th, 2011 |
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Superman #708It's a Straczynski title crossover this month, sort of.
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February 9th, 2011 |
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Green Lantern #60Has “Green Lantern” gotten so big and wide scale that it’s lost its soul? And is Doug Mahnke the solution?
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December 19th, 2010 |
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Superman #705Straczynski tries to make a point about every-day heroes, but it gets lost in the melodrama.
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November 18th, 2010 |
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Superman #704Wilson's fill-in script is solid, but the art doesn't quite live up to the early promise.
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October 27th, 2010 |
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Untold Tales of Blackest Night #1Because you, the reader demanded more “Blackest Night,” here’s more “Blackest Night.” Or maybe DC just figured out we’d buy more “Blackest Night.”
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October 13th, 2010 |
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Justice League of America #49The massive crossover with the JSA is in the rear view mirror. Must be time for some quality female bonding.
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September 23rd, 2010 |
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Superman #702Superman’s walk across America continues on, with this issue bringing him to Detroit.
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August 15th, 2010 |
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Superman #701“Grounded” begins with Superman in Philadelphia, where he handles all sorts of problems including reminding us of the importance of obeying traffic laws.
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July 14th, 2010 |
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Superman #700This "Giant-Sized Anniversary Issue" may have plenty of pages, but I wouldn't say there's a whole lot to celebrate.
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June 28th, 2010 |
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Superman: War of the Supermen #4The story of the "War of the Supermen" started on May 1, and draws to a close twenty-five days later. That makes this a pretty good approximation of one hundred minutes, as far as publishing goes.
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May 26th, 2010 |
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War of the Supermen #1Superman against 100,000 people with the same powers? Tough odds.
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May 5th, 2010 |
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War of the Supermen (FCBD)As far as free comics go, this one is not bad, but DC set the bar awfully high with last year's "Blackest Night" #0. This is no "Blackest Night."
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May 1st, 2010 |
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Teen Titans #81It's time to stop getting tricked by the lure of "Teen Titans."
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April 4th, 2010 |
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Catwoman #83"Catwoman" suffers from formatting restrictions and uninked rushed-looking art, but still delivers on its premise.
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January 19th, 2010 |
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Blackest Night: JSA #1: "Blackest Night: JSA" continues to expand the saga of "Blackest Night" throughout the DC Universe. This series makes way too much sense, given how many potential Black Lanterns are in some way connected to the JSA.
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December 23rd, 2009 |
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Teen Titans #77J. T. Krul continues his exploration of the Black Lanterns that would rise around Titans Tower.
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November 25th, 2009 |
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Blackest Night: Titans #3"Blackest Night: Titans" ends here with a revelation of how to attack the Black Lanterns and a resolution that promises to bring many of these Titans to the main action.
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October 29th, 2009 |
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Superman: Blackest Night #3This sidebar of the "Blackest Night" saga wraps with the heroes being heroic and evil slinking off into the shadows. Of course it also points back to the main "Blackest Night" title.
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October 21st, 2009 |
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Teen Titans #75DC has decided the seventy-fifth issue of "Teen Titans" needs to be celebrated. Well, sort of. Beast Boy returns to this team, and another former "Teen Titan" also winds up back at the tower.
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October 1st, 2009 |
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Superman: Blackest Night #2Superman and Superboy keep trying to punch Black Lantern Earth-2 Superman into submission, but punching doesn't work so well against the Black Lanterns. The Earth-2 Superman is not the only Black Lantern they have to worry about, either.
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September 27th, 2009 |
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Blackest Night: Titans #1"Blackest Night" falls over Titans Tower. As with anything that falls over Titans Tower, this is going to get ugly, but in a good story kind of way.
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August 27th, 2009 |
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Blackest Night: Superman #1"Blackest Night: Superman" goes exactly where you'd expect, only at half the speed.
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August 19th, 2009 |
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Superman: World of New Krypton #6The S-shield numbering flips here, starting with a new #1, and changing to a red background. Appropriate considering "Codename: Patriot" involves a bit of military posturing.
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August 8th, 2009 |
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Justice League of America #35The Royal Flush Gang attack Las Vegas and the Justice League arrive to thwart them. Well, at least some of the Justice League.
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July 30th, 2009 |
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Action Comics #879Captain Atom joins the ranks of the second features in this issue featuring another installment about the Kryptonian sleeper agents.
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July 19th, 2009 |
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Justice League of America #34Dwayne McDuffie's run ends more with a whimper than a bang. Sure, there's a bang or two in this issue, but the overall package is spoiled by the events that led to this point.
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June 25th, 2009 |
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Green Lantern #42War is about to break out among the different colors of Lanterns. You'd almost think there was a big crossover storyline just around the bend. Oh, hang on...
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June 24th, 2009 |
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Teen Titans #70The "Teen Titans" have their roster hammered out, now the hammer's going to smack the team down into the middle of "Deathtrap".
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May 5th, 2009 |
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