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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #508

Uncanny X-Men Annual #1 — Writer: Ed Brisson;  Art: Carlos Gomez;  Colors: Guru-eFX Guardians of the Galaxy #1 (Legacy #151) — Writer: Donny Cates;  Art: Geoff Shaw;  Colors: Marte Gracia War Is Hell #1 — Creators: Howard Chaykin and Edgar Delgado;  Phillip Kennedy Johnson, Alberto Alburquerque and Andres Mossa Crypt of Shadows #1 — Writer: Al Ewing;  Art: Garry Brown, Stephen Green and Djibril Morissette-Phan;  Colors: Chris O’Halloran The Immortal Hulk #12 (Legacy #729) — Writer: Al Ewing;  Pencils: Joe Bennett;  Inks: Ruy Jose;  Flashback art: Eric Nguyen;  Colors: Paul Mounts Uncanny X-Men Annual is a Cyclops-centric story explaining how … Continue reading

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Phil’s Reviews: Stuff I Bought #452

X-Men: Grand Design #1 (of 6) — Creator: Ed Piskor X-Men: Grand Design, a cool, addictive surprise, comes from Marvel’s hiring Ed Piskor, creator of the Hip Hop Family Tree comic, to tackle an even more tangled history: The X-Men. The result is six forty-page issues, using aged paper and lurid colors to present a mashup of 1940s science-fiction-comic style and underground art (he’s worked with Harvey Pekar and Jay Lynch), to remix and retell the group’s history, using as source material the first 300 issues of Uncanny X-Men. Mind you, it’s not as simple as starting with the story in X-Men #1; no, … Continue reading

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