Books by Nick Spencer
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review 1: This rating is hovering around 2.5 stars, mostly because I liked it a bit more than the last volume. This one fills in some more back story on several characters, and I quite liked Irina's chapter, even if it was a bit absurd that a small girl could take on and kill five adult pr...
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review 1: You'd think after the first one, that well, things couldn't get any weirder than what these guys are going through. Well volume 2 there's more of that and backstory, which is helpful to understand these group of characters. Art is fine as usual. Wonder how they'll escape from thi...
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review 1: -shrugs-look at this point i could summarize the series to you? but my description would be something like 'kids get taken to school of horrors, lots of gore and time travel ensues. biblical references all over; four volumes in and still not clear whether there's purpose or signi...
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review 1: I think we all secretly want our own Heisenburg moment. Which is why Boomerang is my new favorite superhero. Well, I guess he's not very super. And not really a hero either. But whatever he is, he's my favorite. I actually saw a Boomerang action figure the other day at Walmart. I...
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review 1: Tackling the question, "Is someone the sum of their actions?" If you choose to do evil, are you evil, or is there a hope of redemption? Violent, arresting and thought provoking. Thought dead, mass murderer and cult figurehead Madder Red is now "cured" and determined to help the c...
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review 1: Hmm. This is still fairly interesting but the writer needs to start clearing up some of the mysteries already by the next volume. If they just keep on piling mystery after mystery then I'm likely to get too confused and probably just give up soon. The Jun/Hisao storyline in parti...
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review 1: This starts out OK - feeling original - but then quickly devolves to a tedious conflagration of retread repeat stories from old X-Men books, plus kinda boring and repetitive exposition.The religious sermons and proselytising are nothing new - we've heard it all before (multiple t...
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review 1: I can't quite put my finger on why I lost interest in this so quickly. The characters are just a bit too cliche, the tropes are just a bit too predictable, the drama a bit too forced and the intrigue... well, there wasn't enough of an emotional connection to make me interested in...
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review 1: I had to give this five stars because I kept reading and reading this even though there are a couple of issues.This "LOST of comics" has long cranked up the WTF level to 11, but now 11 seems to only be the lowest level and things are just going a tad too crazy and wild. I've long...
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review 1: I love libraries. I love libraries because I love to read, but don't love to buy books. That cost money and where do you put them all? I was very grateful then when this past April the local library took my request to purchase this book. I immediately placed a hold on it and the ...
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review 1: The idea behind the series has some definite promise. Hawkeye and Black Widow have been tapped to go on SHIELD missions so deeply classified that they themselves can't be allowed to remember what they did afterward. They've both been fit with memory implants that will erase more ...
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review 1: Aw, too bad. I was really looking forward to reading MORNING GLORIES after seeing the gorgeous covers on the comic racks, plus Nick Spencer has a good reputation. Unfortunately the premise just feels tired and overused, and the main characters are your typical high school stereot...
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review 1: I liked it fine, but never really clicked with the story. It seemed like we were going somewhere, but when I look at where I started and where I ended up, I realize that I learned very little about the institution, the glories, the faculty, or the reason for the story. Everythi...
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review 1: Decent single-issue stories providing some backstories for the new kids (the "Truants", sheesh). However, still none of the big-picture questions get answered and none of the big-picture issues get resolved. We're already up to volume 7 and most of the mysteries raised in the fir...