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Comic Reviews 5/25/16 – Welcome Back + Marvel, Steve Rogers: Captain America #1

Noah Waldman

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Welcome Back #8

In its (second) final issue, Welcome Back reminds us that, beneath all the reincarnating and endless war, it’s a story about star-crossed lovers. And more than that, this issue seems to preach the power of love to help people rise above and break a cycle of violence.

So how do Mali and Tessa end up stopping the endless Sequel war while captive in Tessa’s mom’s heavily guarded fortress, and seemingly every other Sequel still hunting them?

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Comic Book Reviews 4/20/16

Noah Waldman

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Martian Manhunter #11
As Mars and Earth pass the 11th hour before their collision, the various parts of J’onn must embrace their Martian sides to save the inhabitants of both planets.
As Pearl says early in this issue, things in this story have blown past the boundaries of human concepts, and the remaining human parts of Martian Manhunter have to start thinking like Martians. Pearl has to give up her human form in order to take over a mecha-city of human refugees, while Daryl has to remember how to shape-shift in order to defeat Ma’alefa’ak.
At this point in the story things are really beginning to drag, and it really sucks all the tension out of things. However, I do appreciate all the David Bowie references in this issue.


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