Review Search: Simon Bowland
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The Boys: Highland Laddie #4Not the smutty gross out you think it might be, this title shows one of the best relationships in comics, and its slow implosion.
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November 18th, 2010 |
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Chaos War: Thor #1“Fine. The god-thing’s eyes were bright with suffering and death, spite and loathing and in that moment what it loathed more than anything was the hammer-wielding warrior who dared oppose it.”
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November 12th, 2010 |
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Ant-Man & the Wasp #1“Fine. Then I guess this is a job for Ant-Man and the Wasp.”
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November 11th, 2010 |
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Chaos War #3Did we say five issues? We really only meant four. Or maybe not.
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November 7th, 2010 |
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The Boys #48Everyone is getting their ducks in a row, except for Black Noir. He’s just busy being awesome.
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November 5th, 2010 |
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The Boys: Highland Laddie #3Hughie talks, a lot, and something is emitted from Auntie Mary in the toilet, but the ending looks to finally ramp up the relevance of this tie-in title.
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October 23rd, 2010 |
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Chaos War #2“Wow. You really are Supergod.”
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October 22nd, 2010 |
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The Last Phantom #2Violence is fun! Violence is great! Violence is everything! “The Last Phantom” #2 is awful!
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October 19th, 2010 |
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Incredible Hulks #614The Hulk and his team of gamma-irradiated friends team up to infiltrate Cape Canaveral.
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October 18th, 2010 |
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Chaos War #1“He was the whole universe before the beginning of everything and he longs to return to that condition.” So speaks Hercules. And people listen. After they get done snickering.
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October 8th, 2010 |
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Lone Ranger #24Cavendish and the Lone Ranger come face-to-face (or fist-to-face) and Tonto goes home.
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October 7th, 2010 |
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The Boys #47The moment that readers of “The Boys” have feared finally arrives. Hughie and Annie have the conversation that will break your heart.
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October 6th, 2010 |
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The Boys: Highland Laddie #2Hughie spills his guts, but this tale just feels generic in so many ways.
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September 17th, 2010 |
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Robocop #6Nothing like a dose of “Robocop” to help modern-day metro-Detroiters realize things really aren’t that bad.
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August 25th, 2010 |
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The Boys: Highland Laddie #1Hughie leaves the Boys and goes to his hometown in Scotland, but it isn’t as great as he hoped it would be.
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August 19th, 2010 |
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The Last Phantom #1Garish, ugly, and bad-looking. Did I mention that this comic doesn’t have strong visuals?
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August 18th, 2010 |
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The Incredible Hulk #611The penultimate chapter of “World War Hulks” delivers some smashing action that is big, loud, and green.
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August 15th, 2010 |
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The Boys #44“Believe” begins, but this issue is mostly fall-out from “The Innocents” with strong character work by Garth Ennis and a great debut for Russ Braun on the book.
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July 7th, 2010 |
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The Boys #43Hughie puts himself in harm’s way and pays the price, while Mother’s Milk discovers what Butcher is up to.
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June 20th, 2010 |
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Expendables #1An action-adventure tale featuring a bunch of cardboard cutout characters leaves a lot to be desired. Maybe the movie will be more intriguing.
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May 22nd, 2010 |
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Green Hornet #3Someone dies! Too bad it’s the obvious choice and the issue isn’t that good.
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April 28th, 2010 |
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Queen Sonja #6Jackson Hebert is a heck of an artist, and you get what you'd expect from a Sonja story: metal bikinis, action, intrigue.
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April 23rd, 2010 |
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Kato Origins #1Kato is drawn into the murder of a Korean man in Chinatown and must hide the secret that he’s actually Japanese, not Korean.
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April 21st, 2010 |
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The Green Hornet: Year One #2The Green Hornet and Kato stop a gun shipment while we get a window into who they were before putting on the masks.
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April 14th, 2010 |
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World War Hulks #1As anthology comics go, "World War Hulks" is all right so long as you aren't expecting too much.
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April 8th, 2010 |
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Marvel Zombies 5 #1Can they keep the over-ripe Marvel Zombies franchise fresh? Yes, they can.
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April 6th, 2010 |
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Black Terror #9In this densely-packed issue, things are not what they seem, and the Black Terror gets a frightening present.
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March 28th, 2010 |
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Green Hornet: Year One #1The origin of the Green Hornet and Kato, as told by Wagner and Campbell.
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March 21st, 2010 |
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The Incredible Hulk #608When is a conclusion not a conclusion? When it's really just the first half of another story, unfortunately.
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March 20th, 2010 |
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Battlefields: The Firefly and His Majesty #4The beginning of a new story, a sequel to “The Tankies” has a small German unit fighting in the dying days of the war with a superior tank.
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March 18th, 2010 |
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Hercules: Fall of an Avenger #1I blame everyone who didn't buy "The Incredible Hercules" for its cancellation and this resulting mini-series.
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March 17th, 2010 |
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The Complete Alice in Wonderland #3With Disney's new "Alice in Wonderland" film hitting theaters this past weekend, now's a good time to reinvestigate the classic tale told through new means. Just don't be late.
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March 9th, 2010 |
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Fall of the Hulks: Red Hulk #2Red Hulk and Thundra go over their shared and convoluted history.
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March 1st, 2010 |
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Green Hornet #1While the foundation from the movie script shows, this first issue is more than just set-up. It's a classic "Open on Action" comic story.
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February 28th, 2010 |
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Buck Rogers #9Wilma Deering's in trouble, and this series has some fun with it.
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February 26th, 2010 |
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Spider-Man 1602 #5While there aren’t many surprises, there is plenty of fun, action, and adventure to mark the end of this series.
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February 18th, 2010 |
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The Incredible Hulk #607"Fall of the Hulks" continues at breakneck speed. Lots of guest stars too.
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February 16th, 2010 |
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Red Sonja: Wrath of the Gods #1Sonja fighting another female sword wielder. What more could you want in a "Red Sonja" comic?
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February 9th, 2010 |
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The Lone Ranger #20A sparse issue, but a good one, as the story builds in intensity.
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February 7th, 2010 |
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Robocop #1This comic book sequel to the Verhoeven film reaches at that connection, but not much else.
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January 30th, 2010 |
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Incredible Hulk #606"Fall of the Hulks" continues to rage on, with much smashing.
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January 20th, 2010 |
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Conan: The Weight of the Crown #1A disappointing effort that focus too much on laborious narration and not enough on Conan killing people.
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January 14th, 2010 |
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The Incredible Hercules #139"Incredible Hercules" this month is little more than two teams meeting and fighting, but it's an awfully entertaining fight.
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December 26th, 2009 |
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Battlefields: Happy Valley #1The latest installment of Ennis' series focuses on the colorful crew of a Vickers Wellington bomber -–also dubbed "the Wimpy" after Popeye's friend, J. Wellington Wimpy.
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December 25th, 2009 |
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The Complete Alice in Wonderland #1"Curiouser and curiouser," as Dynamite continues to explore the stories from other media that many a modern comic book reader grew up with. In this case, "Alice in Wonderland."
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December 17th, 2009 |
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The Boys #37The origin of the Frenchman... prepare to laugh, mes amis.
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December 7th, 2009 |
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Fall of the Hulks: Alpha #1The story of how the Leader and his gang of “intelligencia” came to be -- and how it dissolved.
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December 4th, 2009 |
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Incredible Hercules #138"MAMATHOOOOOM!" With some of the best onomatopoeia in comics today, the thunder rolls across the heavenly pages of "Incredible Hercules".
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November 24th, 2009 |
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly #5A great conclusion that is original and also alludes to the films numerous times.
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November 17th, 2009 |
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Assault on New Olympus #1Marvel's other big story begins right here. While "Dark Reign" thunders on, a story with great characters and lasting repercussions is brewing right here. All that plus a full day's supply of "Agents of Atlas."
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November 8th, 2009 |
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