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Review: Red Skull: Incarnate #2 (Marvel)

August 3, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Greg Pak
Artist: Mirko Colak
Colorist: Matthew Wilson
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Production: Clayton Cowles
Cover Art: David Aja
Editor: Alejandro Arbona, Tom Brevoort
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Date: October 2011
Cover Price: $2.99

As the German economy stabilizes in the mid-1920’s, after the Great War, it’s citizens are trying to get their lives and finances back in order. During this time there are two rival political factions that exist in the country – The Nazi Party and The Red Front. The Red Front are a Communist organization while the Nazis espouse a Nationalist and Fascist ideal; both are at ideological loggerheads and often clash in the streets.

After the events of the previous issue, Johann Schmidt is fending for himself in the streets when he comes across a group of young thugs led by a boy named Bormann who ‘runs’ that particular street. After their confrontation, Johann escapes and encounters a Jewish family. Lying about his past, they take him in as a guest; this impresses Bormann enough to make him a part of his gang.

Review: The Red Wing #1 (Image)

August 2, 2011August 2, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Jonathan Hickman
Artist: Nick Pitarra
Colors: Rachelle Rosenberg
Cover: Nick Pitarra, Rachelle Rosenberg
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Date: July 2011
Cover Price: $3.50

Title: “Learning To Fly”

In the 23rd century, humanity is fighting a new kind of battle. This battle is not only fought with hi-tech weaponry and vessels, but across time itself. A Temporal Attack Craft can engage an enemy anywhere and anywhen!

The Red Wing are the cadets who command the TAC and fight back the enemy wherever they can. All of The Red Wing carry temporal beacons so that they can be located in case they crash in a different time. The beacon also shields the cadet from the ravages of time, which will ensure their swift death. There is one major caveat – if their beacon runs out of power or the power cell is damaged, the shield disappears.

Review: Skullkickers #9 (Image)

July 31, 2011July 27, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Story: Jim Zubkavich
Art: Edwin Huang
Colors: Misty Coats
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Date: July 2011
Cover Price: $2.99

Title: Five Funerals & a Bucket of Blood – part three

Website: Skullkickers.com

Skullkickers is a book about two traveling mercenaries, a big bald guy and a short bearded dwarf, looking to make an honest living by getting paid for killing things – or people – they’re not very discerning. Things don’t often go as planned when it comes to these two, actually things never go as planned. Shorty and Baldy, as they’re affectionately known, tend to make a simple situation quite complicated and usually deadly.

In Five Funerals & a Bucket of Blood, the duo are wrongly set up as murderers by a group of faeries who have a beef with Urbia, the Capital city. Baldy and Shorty meet up with a den of thieves and their leader Pankey – who Baldy unsuccessfully tries to kill. This leads to a fight to the death with a horned ape in a battle pit inside the thieves’ den. As we see right at the start of this issue, the ape didn’t fare too well against Baldy.

Review: Daredevil #1 (Marvel)

July 21, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Mark Waid
Penciller: Paolo Rivera, Marcos Martin
Inker: Joe Rivera, Marcos Martin
Colors: Javier Rodriguez, Muntsa Vicente
Letters: Joe Caramagna
Editor: Ellie Pyle, Stephen Wacker
Cover: Paolo Rivera
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Date: September 2011
Cover Price: $3.99

Title: “Here Comes… Daredevil” / A Bonus Tale

In this latest Daredevil relaunch, Mark Waid and Paolo Rivera take over as the creative team on the title and, right from the start, they’re taking Matt Murdock in a different direction. There’s a distinct change, both in art style and writing, from recent incarnations of Daredevil.

The tone in “Here Comes… Daredevil” has lost the overwhelming gloom that has been, for the most part, prevalent in a lot of Daredevil stories since Frank Miller first threw grit, death, loss, and despair in Matt Murdock’s face. Mark Waid comes in and lightens up the character and gives him actual hope for the future instead of having life firmly planting it’s boot-heel on his head once again.

Review: The Intrepids #5 (Image)

July 17, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer, co-creator: Kurtis J. Wiebe
Illustrator, co-creator: Scott Kowalchuk
Cover, designer: Scott Kowalchuk
Colorist: Donna Gregory
Letterer: Ariana Maher
Script Editor: Brittany Matter
Publisher: Image Comics
Cover Date: July 2011
Cover Price: $2.99

Title: “Carbon Calamari”

In The Intrepids #5, Crystal, Doyle, Rose, and Chester finally come face to face with Dr. Koi and things don’t quite go as planned. After Chester attacks Dr. Koi, the team battles a giant robotic squid designed to protect him from harm. Afterwards, Dr. Koi reveals the truth about Dante’s ‘experiments’ and how they relate to the creation of the Intrepids. And then it gets even more interesting!

Review: Red Skull: Incarnate #1 (Marvel)

July 15, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Greg Pak
Artist: Mirko Colak
Colorist: Matthew Wilson
Letters: Clayton Cowles
Production: Clayton Cowles
Cover: David Aja
Editor: Alejandro Arbona, Tom Brevoort
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Date: September 2011
Cover Price: $2.99

Red Skull: Incarnate #1 first grabs you with it’s strikingly terrifying cover, and continues with a raw intensity that pulls no punches.

Saying that David Aja’s cover art is striking is putting it mildly. You can feel the intense hate and evil jumping right out of the Eastern European war propaganda style cover to this book. Although it’s stylistically different from the interior artwork by Mirko Colak, it fits the issue very well.

Review: Iron Age #1 (Marvel)

July 6, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Christos N. Cage, Rob Williams
Art: Lee Weeks (p), Tom Palmer (i), Ben Oliver
Colors: Matt Hollingsworth, Veronica Gandini
Letters: Jared K. Fletcher
Cover: Lee Weeks, Dan Brown, Joe Jusko
Editor: Thomas Brennan
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Price: $4.99
Cover Date: August 2011

Story Title: A Little Help From My Friends / Panic On The Streets Of London

The Iron Age #1 starts a three issue mini series that has Tony Stark travelling back through time to save the world in the future. He needs to gather pieces of Doctor Doom’s Time Platform in order to return to the future – to save the destruction of the world by the Dark Phoenix.

This double sized issue is broken down into 2 full length stylistically different (both in the narrative and art), yet related stories.

Review: The Mighty Thor #2 (Marvel)

June 28, 2011June 27, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Matt Fraction
Pencils: Oliver Coipel
Inks: Mark Morales
Colors: Laura Martin
Letters: Joe Sabino
Cover: Oliver Coipel, Mark Morales, Laura Martin
Editor: Charlie Beckerman, Ralph Macchio
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Date: July 2011
Cover Price: $3.99

Title: The Galactus Seed 2: Neighbors

Upon arrival on Earth, The Silver Surfer goes around warning the inhabitants of Broxton, OK that Galactus is coming and that they should remove themselves from the area as quickly as possible. Galactus isn’t coming for the people or Broxton, he’s coming for Asgard – specifically for what’s contained in Asgard.

Last issue, Thor, Lady Sif, and Loki found the seed of The World Tree and brought it to Odin, but not before Thor was injured. Now Thor is training the Brigade of the Realms, which is made up of rag-tag Asgardians and the young Loki, teaching them to fight to protect Asgard. That doesn’t go so well at first. They are up against a stone colossus but are ineffective against it, so it’s up to Thor and Lady Sif to save the day. Thor has his mind elsewhere as he ponders his injury that doesn’t seem to be getting any better.

Review: Wolverine #10 (Marvel)

June 18, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Jason Aaron
Pencils: Renato Guedes
Inks: Jose Wilson Magalhaes
Colors: Matthew Wilson
Letterer: Cory Petit
Designer: Jared K. Fletcher
Editor: Jody Leheup, Jeanine Schaefer, Nick Lowe
Cover: Jae Lee, June Chung
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover Date: August 2011
Cover Price: $3.99

Having fought Mystique in Wolverine #9, Wolverine learns the location of the Red Right Hand’s headquarters and goes after them in ‘Wolverine’s Revenge! Part 1.’ Wolverine arrives at the secret location in Mexico and is greeted by Cannonfoot, and they fight throughout the issue.

Review: Green Wake #3 (Image)

June 16, 2011 by The Comic Book Critic

Writer: Kurtis Wiebe
Art: Riley Rossmo
Letters: Kelly Tindall
Editor: Jade Dodge
Publisher: Image / Shadowline
Cover Date: June 2011
Cover Price: $3.50

Green Wake #3 continues the surreal story of a mysterious place where everyone harbors a deeply buried secret. Morley, Krieger, and Carl are still on the trail of Ariel, Carl’s girlfriend, who has been on a murderous path through the Green Wake. They need to find her before she kills again; But what will they do when, and if, they find her?