Thursday, May 31, 2012

EXCLUSIVE! Chad Nevett's Comic Book Mini-Reviews and Star Ratings for the Week of May 30, 2012

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Yesterday was the day of many, many trades -- after last week when I bought three trades at the shop ( Knightfall: Knightquest , Uncanny X-F...
Sunday, May 27, 2012

Riding the Gravy Train 08 (Avengers #26 and Secret Avengers #27)

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When Avengers vs. X-Men ends, I plan to look through all of the comics related to it and try to put them in a decent reading order like I d...
Friday, May 25, 2012

Some Brief Thoughts on Avengers (The Movie)

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Last Friday, I saw The Avengers with my girlfriend and we both enjoyed it. Her more than I (although, in some ways less, too...). I think s...
Thursday, May 24, 2012

EXCLUSIVE! Chad Nevett's Comic Book Mini-Reviews and Star Ratings for the Week of May 23, 2012

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Below this post are some brief thoughts on the final issue of Irredeemable . Over at Spandexless, I wrote "1000 or so words on Deadende...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The End is the Beginning is the End: Irredeemable #37

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[ I don't normally do this, but seeing as how this is the day that this issue comes out: spoilers of Irredeemable #37 ahead. Seriously....
Friday, May 18, 2012

Riding the Gravy Train 07 (Avengers vs. X-Men #4, AVX: VS #2, Uncanny X-Men #12, and Avengers Academy #30)

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I normally buy my comics on Wednesdays after work, briefly stopping on the way to the gym where my girlfriend teaches a class and where I si...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

EXCLUSIVE! Chad Nevett's Comic Book Mini-Reviews and Star Ratings for the Week of May 16, 2012

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For weird reasons that I don't want to go into, I didn't get comics until today. When I arrived at the shop and was handed the conte...
Saturday, May 12, 2012

Riding the Gravy Train 06 (New Avengers #26, Wolverine and the X-Men #10, and X-Men: Legacy #266)

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Last week, Captain America and the Avengers seemed forced into the role of facists to make them less heroic and to make the X-Men easier to ...
Thursday, May 10, 2012

EXCLUSIVE! Chad Nevett's Comic Book Mini-Reviews and Star Ratings for the Week of May 9, 2012

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Another week, another shortage at the shop. After some sort of problem (I heard it was a truck accident?) with Diamond meant Fury MAX #1 (a...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Riding the Gravy Train 05 (Avengers vs. X-Men #3 and Avengers Academy #29)

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Chapter Three, In which the thematic replay of Civil War is made even more obvious... There's a leaning in recent weeks to shift from...

EXCLUSIVE! Chad Nevett's Comic Book Mini-Reviews and Star Ratings for the Week of May 2, 2012

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The tragedy of the day is my shop not getting any copies of Fury MAX #1. They ordered them, but they never arrived. Drat. Action Comics ...
Monday, April 30, 2012

Direct Message 02: Sleeper Part Two

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[ Alec Berry and I have finally returned for another discussion in our Direct Message series. This time, we're discussing Sleeper by E...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Riding the Gravy Train 04 (AVX: VS #1, Uncanny X-Men #11, New Avengers #25, and Secret Avengers #26)

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The most capable and consistent method of telling a story through violence right now is professional wrestling. Action movies have their mom...

EXCLUSIVE! Chad Nevett's Comic Book Mini-Reviews and Star Ratings for the Week of April 25, 2012

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No work today, so I actually managed to hit the shop just after it opened at noon. That means almost immediate reactions to the (non- Avenge...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Riding the Gravy Train 03 (Avengers vs. X-Men #2, Avengers #25, and Wolverine and the X-Men #9)

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One of the first things I noticed about Avengers vs. X-Men #2 is how the opening scene doesn't match up with what we saw last week in N...