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  • Wonder Girl 1

    I believe this is a one-off, and I am mystified how it got sold to DC. Perhaps they just wanted to put out a Wonder Girl one-shot (has she been hugely popular in the Titans or something?), and the fact that no one had any ideas didn’t deter them. I just can’t see any reason for this comic to exist.

  • Castle Waiting II

    A beautifully-drawn, gently funny, and thoroughly, fiercely feminist fable of identity and community.

  • Casanova: Gula 1

    This reprinted series, trailing new work, strikes me as a bit of a mixed bag. It’s insanely full of ideas, but I don’t think very many of them are Fraction’s.

  • Starman/Congorilla 1

    If you have a comic starring a blue alien superhero who also happens to be a bit of a slut, a giant, talking gorilla and Rex the Wonder Dog, then you expect it to be entertaining and a bit surreal. You expect in fact, something like a Grant Morrison comic. This isn’t quite what you get.

  • Avengers: The Children’s Crusade – Search for the Scarlet Witch 1

    Bloody hell that’s an unwieldy title! The first two parts are the series title; the latter part is because this is a collection of the first three issues, still in comic book format, at $5, which is only a dollar more than each one individually – I like this format, which is new to me. Good encouragement to catch up on a series.

  • Who Is Jake Ellis? 1

    This was the comic nominated for me to buy and review this week – I think it’s the first Image comic I have ever bought.

  • Ultimate Captain America 1

    This seemed a good randomish pick this week: I like most of the Ultimate line, and Aaron seems to be building a reputation, so I’d meant to try him. He confuses the hell out of me, to be honest.

  • Doorways 2

    This just doesn’t cut it for me. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong with the writing, it’s well thought out and the dialogue is okay, but it doesn’t blow me away. The whole ‘other-dimensional shtick’ has been done a million times before and needs to be a hundred times better to grab my attention.

  • Hilarious Consequences

    A Jeffrey Brownesque autobiographical comic with little technical skill but likeable humour.

  • X-23 4

    I know nothing about X-23, beyond the fact that her name suggests yet another one of the interminable X-Men spin-offs. A quick Google of her name reveals she’s a Wolverine clone. How unoriginal, and how unpromising.

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