Books by Rick Remender
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review 1: okay, i guess, but not spectacular. both the circular writing and the illustrations make it difficult to differentiate between the characters. and nobody in the story is likable or even interesting, so it was difficult to make the effort to differentiate them. especially since th...
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review 1: I liked this for the most part. Remender has a good characterisation for each individual character. He's good at giving each one their own time and something to do. I thought an Avengers book with Captain America in were he's not in charge of the team would be weird, but it's not...
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review 1: This is a dark, violent, occasionally downright gory comic -- and I mean that in the best way. Deadpool and Fantomex are two of my favorite characters, yet they're pretty different and have an interesting dynamic, so I love this particular team-up.The X-Force team is generally ve...
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review 1: Despite the negative reviews, I really liked this story. I am a big House of M fan and have wanted to see Wanda brought into continuity for a long time. The blend of X-Men and Avengers is a good plan considering Wanda always was a mutant Avenger. Pietro could've made an appearan...
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review 1: Grant McKay, former member of The Anarchistic Order of Scientists, has finally done the impossible: He has deciphered Black Science and punched through the barriers of reality. His invention, the pillar, allows him and his fellow "Dimensionauts" to leap between worlds at will, ta...
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review 1: A very entertaining read! Deadly Class follows our protagonist, Marcus, a bitter teenager who has a terrible past involving his parents and who lives on the streets. He gets recruited by a "league of assassins" I want to say, who extend an offer for him to join their assassin hig...
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review 1: A ballsy move to pull Captain America out from his normal action/spy milieu into a sci-fi dystopia pays off in that Remender offers an outstanding and ideal take on Captain America: a man of tenacity and conviction (to poorly encapsulate how well Remender writes him), as well as ...
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review 1: Although quite decompressed, this volume does a great job of providing great character moments for a variety of characters. Simultaneously, it tells a truly epic story, made the moreso by the very shocking issue #14.Unfortunately, it starts to go off the track in the later issues...
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review 1: Fear Agent has had a very vocal and incredibly loyal fanbase for years now, because it does what only a few books have been able to do -- The Sandman, Sin City, Black Hole, Eightball, Hellboy, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Walking Dead, Saga -- give the reader the story ...
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review 1: WARNING: This graphic novel contains some SERIOUS violence, sexual situations, drugs and foul language. NOT a young adult read.I've really been looking forward to reading this graphic novel since I ordered it on Amazon a few weeks ago. The cover is absolutely fantastic, and I hav...
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review 1: I'll admit that the story in this volume was engaging enough that I finished it. The Apocalypse twins are definitely pretty interesting. However, I started reading this series because I thought it'd be a good point to try and read a little Avengers, especially mixed in with some ...
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review 1: Clearly dependent on earlier stories for background and with no introduction, this volume nevertheless proves reasonably accessible to first-timers who pick it up as any long time X-Men fan already knows the major players, their motivations, methods etc. and the enemies they're f...
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review 1: Finished this last weekend and was pleasantly surprised. The story is the basic travelling between dimensions with a darker twist. The world that the team travel to were great and weird. The story moved along well and i was interesting in were it was going. There were also a few ...
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review 1: Warped and weird, sick and twisted, the best ways to make Arnim Zola scary again. Bouncing back and forth between the troubled upbringing of Steve Rogers to the current mindbending situation that confronts him in Dimension Z, this story feels like an extended wind-up before the p...
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review 1: Apart from each comic seems a different tale yet all joined at the hip one way or the other, this is almost like reading something British, it's darkly humorous although it's quite a morbid tale.The symbiot is now used for military gain, it's host, Spidey's number 1 fan, Flash Th...
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review 1: And now to continue my Rick Remender bias, I really try to find errors in Remender's books. I often read his titles several times to scrutinize his writing but damn does he know how to write and there are several writers that should take note. This is how comics are supposed to b...
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review 1: Fear Agent manages to be both an Epic Space Opera and an intimate story of a man and his grief at the same time.Rick Remender deftly switches between fighting aliens, to battling demons in a way that is not at all childish or cliche. As others have noted, the packaging is beautif...
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review 1: This is a good volume. Steve steps back and hands over the reigns to Hawkeye who is always fun. I'd love to watch him in just about anything.Beast is a wordy character that I really love when he's written well. He's hit or miss here. Hank Pym isn't quite neurotic enough, but stil...
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review 1: Collects Captain America (2012) issues #11-15Captain America is back from Dimension Z, and this story deals with his reacclimation to Earth. I was happy to see that Jet Black has joined Cap's cast, but her current costume doesn't make sense anymore. She needs to change into Ear...
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review 1: I found out about Rick Remender through an iFanboy podcast. In the interview he talked about "The Last Days of American Crime." The premise of the book was interesting enough that I bough the first issue immediately. First, every page of art work blew me away. Greg Tuccini is bri...
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review 1: The AvX tie-in is only tangential to the main storyline. I'm guessing since I haven't read the main storyline, but I understood everything so I don't think it was a major tie-in. That said, I wasn't overly impressed with the story itself.The second storyline continues the Crown a...
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review 1: If I were reading no other Avengers title, I would think this is an epic pay-off to several acres of lackluster set-up. I like that the focus is really tight, character-wise, and that the characters at the center are usually at the margins. Leaving that aside, these characters ar...
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review 1: Nothing original. Orphan boy, gets admitted to a secret boarding school, everyone hates him, there are cliques, then there is this special girls.. Yada-yada-yada.I'm not even saying it's Harry Potter with Assassins instead of magic. It's just what we have seen 9000 times in books...