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“Kieron Gillen is doing in “Generation Hope” what I’ve been waiting for someone to do with a mutant book for a long time now, which is to find the reality of what it would be like to be a mutant, especially as a teenager. It’s certainly been addressed before (Kitty Pryde) here and there, over the years, and some books have tackled it well, but in a different way than what Gillen is doing. (“Generation X” springs to mind.) But what Gillen did in this single issue of “Generation Hope” is inspired and a long time coming for this current generation…”

Read the rest of my CBR Review of Generation Hope #9 here.

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Also, as usual with books I didn’t like, I’m not broadcasting this so loudly, but I also reviewed Flashpoint: Deadman and the Flying Graysons #2, which you can read here if you’re so inclined.

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Easy win for this week from Stephanie Hans.  Stephanie Hans has been doing awesome things with the Journey Into Mystery covers, but one for issue #625 is my favorite one yet.  Her use of color here is just inspired.  Though I usually prefer to put up the final cover, complete with titles etc., as I generally consider that “part of the cover” for good or ill, I’m putting up the “preview cover” as I can’t bear to show it with that hideous (and massive) “Fear Itself” banner.

Look at the gorgeousness!!!

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A new episode of 3 Chicks Review Comics is up on CSBG.

In this episode we review three comics, talk about the Womanthology project, give a shout out to an awesome female writer of comics, and Maddy sings the entire Mr. Burns song “See My Vest” from The Simpsons!  Check it out!

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“Ozma of Oz” #8 wraps up yet another beautiful and successful Oz mini-series adaptation by Eric Shanower and Skottie Young…”

Read the rest of my CBR Review of Ozma of Oz #8 here.

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“The X-Team, currently a bizarre mix of Professor Xavier, Magneto, Rogue, Gambit, Legion, and Frenzy continues to hunt down Legion’s escaped personas which are wreaking havoc wherever they go. Our heroes spend most of their time fighting Chain, a persona that can turn everyone he touches into a duplicate of himself, and who has turned a large part of London into himself by the time the X-Men arrive. Also on the loose is Susan in Sunshine, who is dispatched with clever somewhat mean-spirited tactics by Frenzy. The X-Men defeat both personas and Legion is able to re-absorb them with relative ease — although anyone actually at ease with that whole “digital watch that holds powerful personas in check” is insane — but Styx remains on the loose and may in fact be hunting the X-Men…”

Read the rest of my CBR Review of X-Men Legacy #251 here.

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““Secret Avengers” #14 bounces back in time between the life of Brunhilde and the origin of Valkyrie, to one of the many battlefields of “Fear Itself,” as a handful of soldiers march behind Valkyrie to their likely deaths. The story begins with a pair of soldiers avoiding preparing for a battle related to “Fear Itself” and then draws comparisons between their day and Brunhilde’s journey from princess to Odin’s Valkyrie…”

Read the rest of my CBR Review of Secret Avengers #14 here. 

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Valkyrie = Motherfuckingbadass.

This panel from Scot Eaton and Secret Avengers #14

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“Uncanny X-Men” is a solid and pretty book, and there’s nothing especially wrong with it. However it’s also not anything you’ll think about a half hour after you’ve finished reading it. This means that it’s better than a whole lot of comics out there, but certainly not living up to its potential with the current creative team..”

You can read the rest of my CBR Review of Uncanny X-Men #538 here.

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Check out my CBR Review of X-Men #12 here.

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No surprise here…because I love this grouchy fucking chicken!

She should be my mascot.

From Skottie Young’s Ozma of Oz #7:

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