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Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #67

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Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #67… “Desperate Measures” Part 1! The government’s hunt for mutants begins in earnest and their unconventional tactics will see the TMNT hounded like never before! No mutant is safe! If I had to describe TMNT #67 in one word it would be ‘vicious’. Not since the severe beating […]

Comic Book Review – Transformers: Till All Are One #7

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Ricky Church review Transformers: Till All Are One #7… As Windblade and her team fight their way through Elita-1’s Titan, Carcer, they face opposition at every turn to stop them from awakening the sleeping giant… and they soon find out why! Transformers: Till All Are One #7 was an exciting and action-packed instalment of the title. Even […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek New Visions: “Sam”

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: New Visions “Sam”… In our latest Photoplay from John Byrne we become entangled in the life of Kirk’s elder brother George Samuel “Sam” Kirk before his untimely death in Operation-Annihilate.  Sam’s often forgotten in the NuTrek universe, but he is there.  You can even see him in the opening of 2009’s […]

Comic Book Review – Optimus Prime #3

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Ricky Church reviews Optimus Prime #3… An uneasy peace between Optimus Prime and the newly arrived Junkions is threatened by Soundwave’s discovery within their massive ship… Optimus Prime #3 was another relatively quiet issue, but that still didn’t stop it from being a good one. It continued to build the tension between Optimus, Earth and […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek/Green Lantern: Stranger Worlds #2

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek/Green Lantern: Stranger Worlds #2… STRANGER WORLDS PART TWO! With their power rings running low and no power batteries left to recharge them, the surviving heroes of the Lantern Corps join with Starfleet in the ultimate battle with Sinestro and the resurgent Klingons… until the arrival of an unexpected visitor from the […]

Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #66

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Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #66… Alopex is alone, her psyche reeling from Kitsune’s mind control. With Raphael and Nobody searching for her, will Alopex be able to find her way back to the side of good? You can’t spend as long reading a series as I have without gaining favourites. Writers, artists, […]

Comic Book Review – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #6

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Chris Cooper reviews Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Universe #6… Behold the debut of the TMNT’s weirdest foe yet: Wyrm! When Michelangelo tries to help find a missing person in the sewers, he ends up discovering something he wished stayed in the dark! Last month I moaned about TMNT Universe being a victim of its own […]

Comic Book Review – The X-Files #10

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Tony Black reviews The X-Files #10… “Contrarians,” Part 1 (of 2): Mulder chances upon evidence that suggests the now-defunct Syndicate’s involvement in the Iran-Contra affair. Guest-starring the Cigarette Smoking Man and President Reagan! Given the powder keg that is United States politics, ‘Contrarians’ is, in time-honoured X-Files fashion, very appropriate right now. You can feel […]

Comic Book Review – Star Trek: Waypoint #3

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Villordsutch reviews Star Trek: Waypoint #3… Star Trek: Deep Space 9 and Star Trek: Voyager return to comics! In Castellucci’s, “Mother’s Walk,” major Kira confronts how she can perform a mandatory, ancient Bajoran pilgrimage when so many family members, needed for the rite, are dead. Who can she turn to? And in Scott’s “The Wildman […]

Justice League vs. Suicide Squad tops bestselling comic books of December 2016

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DC returned to the top of the comic book bestseller list in December 2016, with Justice League vs. Suicide Squad #1 the biggest selling title of the month ahead of Marvel’s own team battle crossover Inhumans vs. X-Men #1. Meanwhile, on the graphic novel front, IDW claimed top spot with its Love is Love anthology, […]