Welcome to the all-new, all-awesome Unleash the Fanboy’s Weekly Comic Reviews, I’m your host, Daniel Alvarez. You’ll be seeing more than just Image now, lots of diversity in the coming weeks. Why don’t we begin?
Alpha Girl #3
Jeff Roenning gives readers a tale that’s engaging even if it is flawed. The dialogue in this issue offers jokes that yield some laughs but they ultimately deliver character interaction that feels a bit stiff. The story manages to feel like a fun little romp in a zombie apocalypse, even as it offers no real rhyme or reason behind these characters, their world or their actions therein.
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3/5
Dancer #2
You know what I like about Dancer? It feels ‘contained.’ What I mean is that it doesn’t feel like the world is at stake, or even a city. It’s a simple story-driven tale with an espionage backdrop. There’s no universal danger or big threat, it’s just about a middle-aged Interpol agent trying to figure out a mystery. We don’t get much of those these days. The latest entry in this mini-series continues to impress with some plot developments that make you want to read the next issue right away. Only minor thing is that the plot twist from the previous issue turns out to be a little generic, but it doesn’t affect the issue. You’d be a little insane if you haven’t been reading this series.
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5/5
Invincible #91
Just to be clear, this is the first issue of Invincible I’ve ever read. While I have some general knowledge of the series (ya gotta love Wikipedia), I don’t know what’s happening currently, so I’m judging this issue by itself. While this issue definitely wasn’t intended as a jumping on point, it still worked pretty well for me. Sure, I don’t know who Monster Girl and Robot are (they’re the main focus of this issue), likewise Bulletproof and the Flaxans, but their various predicaments still resonated with me. Robert Kirkman‘s writing offered a good mix of humor and seriousness, especially in the issue’s earlier scenes involving the Squidmen.
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4/5
Planetoid #1
Planetoid #1 is a mixed bag. Its nothing entirely new, and it covers old ground, but it does it well. For all its faults, I can’t help but slightly love it. As the first in a series, however, its hard to get a good read on the title as a whole. It looks fantastic, and the plot is developed well enough, but time will tell if its a success.
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4/5
Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist
Flash Gordon has always been an action packed fantastical adventure, and its good to see this continues with Flash Gordon: Zeitgeist #5. Unfortuantely, there are some elements that belong in other, more modern comics. Flash Gordon should be about the fantastical land of Mongo, not Earth. In short, its an excellent read for someone who is already a fan. New readers, however, won’t find any starting off points. The title does its best to introduce the characters, but there’s so many it feels more like studying than reading.
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3/5
Warlord of Mars #3
Not having read Edgar Rice Burroughs‘ Barsoom series, I can’t say how closely Arvid Nelson’s story adheres to the original, but it does closely match the tone of Burroughs’ other famous series, the Tarzan books. While Burroughs’ contributions to science fiction were significant, one could never accuse them of being too high-minded. The same can be said for Dynamite’s adaptation. But we’re not reading Warlord of Mars for big ideas and nuanced characters, are we? No, we’re reading it for other big things.
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3/5
Witchblade / Red Sonja #4
Doug Wagner has come up with a logical way to makes this unconventional tale work. By allowing these two characters to only slightly interact with each other and denying fans the image of them fighting side by side, the story has been grounded in a plausible reality. The only detriment to the script is that the dialogue at times feels a bit flat as the voices of our heroes can be a bit unnatural or uneven.
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3.5/5
White Devil #1
This is an exceptionally hard title to review, not least because of its content, but because of its nature as a self published, online comic. There’s a real sense of mundane life that sets up the story. This is then shattered when the plot moves into its more shocking elements. With suggestive touches of horror, cultism and various religious undertones, you could easily compare the nature of this title to something from Stephen King. Its blunt, but in a good way. Its not bowing to anyone, delivering the story it wants to tell. Its so different from typical published comics. That’s both its main appeal and its biggest drawback, so you might have to go ahead and read it to find out more.
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3.5/5
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