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by Elisabeth@TFAW
I’m a little late with this week’s Graphic Content “book club” meeting, so let’s get right to it! We’re at Fables TPB Vol. 8: Wolves, which–I’m starting to sounds like a broken record–is my favorite Fables trade paperback so far! As usual: since this is a book club, we assume you’ve done the required reading, so SPOILERS ARE AHEAD!!!
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Wolverine Weapon X #3
Marvel Comics
Aaron, Garney & Keith
Wolverine, at the conclusion of the previous issue, was hunted in the jungle by twelve assassins made exactly like him. You’d expect a bloody issue with a lot of fighting and popping claws and snarky dialogue. Well, you’d be wrong. Instead, this issue shows off how Wolverine uses his brain a little bit and how the new army of assassins has leadership that knows how to work the political circuit. This goes on while a nosey reporter is on the verge of uncovering this whole mess. It’s a very good issue that relies on great writing instead of a ton of fighting.
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Muppet Robin Hood #2 of 4
Boom! Kids Comics
Beedle, Villavert Jr & Aum
The second installment of the Muppets acting out a variation of Robin Hood is hysterical. The comic has a lot of the vintage elements of the Robin Hood story and it covers a lot of ground, but it is the humor that makes the comic stand out. The comic has a couple of oddities to it and the characters don’t entirely feel like the regular characters as they are partially in roles and partially in their normal characterizations. The comic is fun and packed with entertainment and that’s really all that you can ask for.
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Green Lantern #42
DC Comics
Johns, Tan, Barrows, Glapion & Jose
The orange lantern is dealt with in this issue. This comic had such a mixture it was tough to be fully happy with it. For the most part, the comic simply has Hal Jordan against Larfleeze. Hal wants to stop Larfleeze from doing whatever evil he feels like doing while Larfleeze wants Hal’s blue ring. The comic adds in a little other plot elements here and there to set up as much as possible for the Blackest Night storyline coming up next month. It’s a good issue but it isn’t anything close to great.
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The Muppet Show #4 of 4
Boom! Kids Comics
Langridge
Roger Langridge wraps up his four issue look at the Muppet Show this week with a case study of Miss Piggy. As we’ve seen in the previous three issues, the character has a small plot built around them to showcase their personality mixed in with various Muppet Show skits which don’t always have to do with overall dilemma of the main character. This month’s effort is very good because the plot that is created for Piggy also manages to hook in plenty of the other characters giving the comic some depth. I also found the comic to have more subtle humor during the character’s interactions. I definitely enjoyed this comic a lot and it might be my favorite of the four.
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Skaar Son of Hulk #12
Marvel Comics
Pak, Lim, Buchemi & Adams
This issue pits green Hulk versus his son. Sure, you might expect the comic to be one big battle but you would be wrong. Instead what we have here is the merging, finally, of the various incarnations of the Hulk from the main Hulk series and the World War Hulk series. This comic actually makes huge strides in explaining a lot of the nagging Hulk questions for the last year and a half. The comic provides some small insight into Skaar as well, but this comic finally makes the Hulk an interesting character again. It’s been so long since I’ve read a coherent and relevant Hulk story I was thrown off my chair with this effort.
01:29:56 pm, by ComicList 
Categories: Dark Horse Comics, Reviews, Geek Goggle Reviews
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Star Wars Legacy #37
Dark Horse Comics
Ostrander, Duursema & Parsons
Star Wars Legacy kicks off a new arc this month which finds Cade Skywalker and crew on Tatooine. Generally, I find stories that constantly return to Tatoonie to be rather unimaginative and I usually find opening issues of an arc to be rather boring and filled with elements that are merely setting up future actions. However, this issue falls into neither one of those trappings and is a very good issue. At some point I will stop being surprised at how great this series is issue after issue.
Batman: Battle For The Cowl, issues 1-3, published by DC Comics, 40 pages, $3.99.
For those not “in the know” where the world of comics is concerned, DC comics has (seemingly) killed off Batman/Bruce Wayne. A new hero’s head is needed on which to hang the cowl, and that was (ostensibly) the point of DC Comics’ three issue miniseries, Batman: Battle For The Cowl. I wish I could say that the result lives up to the hype and promising premise.
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