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Monday, March 31, 2014

The Flash Vol 3 Gorilla Warfare Trade Review

The Flash Volume 3 Gorilla Warfare HC
By Francis Manapul & Brian Buccellato
#13-19 $25
We already reviewed this trade for our February Trade of The Month podcast. Even though we already reviewed it I thought I would do a full written review for you all since it turns out that we never picked up or read the last two issues that this volume consists of.

First off I have to mention that considering this trade is a volume 3 that it may not be the best time to jump on the Flash unless you've read the previous editions. For one there's not much of an introduction to the character of Barry Allen or his powers as Flash. This title is very episodic so you'll be missing a lot if you haven't read the other volumes or the issues they are made up from. If you have though the reward is exponential. The groundwork has been laid brilliantly for this book to pull off the climax that it has to deliver and resolve things that had been brewing since the first volume.

Now for the story. If you don't want it spoiled for you this is when you should skip to the end. Most of the story is about Gorilla Grodd making his triumphant return now more ferocious, powerful, and faster than ever. As one of Flash's most fierce adversaries, Grodd, arrives in Central City with an army of super intelligent apes backing him to rectify his plan to completely take the speed force for himself. If you thought Grodd was bad on his own then you should see him as he's found a way for him and his army to tap into the speed force. With a speed force fueled gorilla army taking over Central City the Flash’s Rogues are forced to team up with him to try to stop this invasion. When something this cataclysmic happens in a book other hero's are called to aid or it is never addressed why they didn't but in this case Manapul & Buccellato give a great explanation. Barry is forced to learn how to fully tap into the speed force in order to defeat the king of the apes. The last part of the book addresses that some of the people that were trapped inside the speed force now have some residual effects and sets up for the next volume featuring Flash’s evil counterpart.
A big part of the story telling especially with this title has been the very smooth, beautiful, strong, intense, cinematic, and brilliant art. I have never seen art so magnificent and genius in comics before reading the NEW52 Flash book. The panel design, structure, lay outs, and spreads are the most unique, smart, gorgeous, and creative I have ever seen in comics. The introduction splash pages are sensational, vivid, impressive, intelligent, incomparable visages of art. I could talk about the art all day. There's not enough complimentary words in the dictionary for the art in this title. It's easy on the eyes and easily the best there is out there. Few and far between have done story telling in such a way with all of its beauty and pure magnificence. You could easily ignore the text and get the story just by the visuals and honestly it’s easy getting caught up in them.


That being said there's no doubt you should go out and get this as soon as possible. I assure you there’s nothing out there like it right now. This title reads brilliantly in trade. The only downside is that it's obviously knee deep in one hell of a crisis from a setup that has been a long time coming all the way from the first volume when Iris disappeared. They could have easily ended this volume after the resolution with Grodd but they whet your appetite for the next story arc instead. Those last two stories may not be drawn by Manapul & Buccellato but they're good in their own right and it means to send a different message as does one other time during the Grodd invasion. I’m not one for artist change ups in the middle of a story or arc but when it's a thematic change that is meant to change the tone then I'm all for it as I was after realizing that is exactly what they did. The creative team is a juggernaut of genius story telling and beautiful art. Don’t miss it because you will regret it. The whole time I wasn’t picking this title up in issues I was missing it and now I’m glad to have it back and in even better form.
Verdict: STRONG BUY


You can pick up these comics at Age Of Comics or
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

Weekly Comic List, April 2nd, 2014

This is a list of most (usually all) of the comics this week.



 1 FOR $1 ITTY BITTY HELLBOY #1
(W) Art Baltazar, Franco (A/CA) Art Baltazar
 ANGEL AND FAITH SEASON 10 #1
(W) Victor Gischler (A) Will Conrad (CA) Scott Fischer
3.50
 BAD BLOOD #4 (OF 5)
(W) Jonathan Maberry (A/CA) Tyler Crook
3.99
 EDGAR ALLAN POES PREMATURE BURIAL ONE SHOT
(W/A/CA) Richard Corben
3.99
 GRINDHOUSE DOORS OPEN AT MIDNIGHT #7 (OF 8)
(W) Alex De Campi (A) Gary Erskine (CA) Francesco Fancavilla
3.99

 JUICE SQUEEZERS #4 (OF 4)
(W/A/CA) David Lapham
3.99
 LOBSTER JOHNSON GET LOBSTER #3 (OF 5)
(W) John Arcudi, Mike Mignola (A/CA) Tonci Zonjic
3.99
 TERMINATOR SALVATION FINAL BATTLE #5 (OF 12)
(W) J. Michael Straczynski (A/CA) Pete Woods
3.99
VEIL #2 (OF 5)
(W) Greg Rucka (A/CA) Toni Fejzula
3.50



 ACTION COMICS #30 (DOOMED)
(W) Greg Pak (A/CA) Aaron Kuder
2.99
 AQUAMAN AND THE OTHERS #1
(W) Dan Jurgens (A) Lan Medina, Edgar Tadeo (CA) Ivan Reis, Joe Prado
2.99
BATWING #30
(W) Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti (A) Eduardo Pansica (CA) Cameron Cooke
2.99
DETECTIVE COMICS #30
(W) Brian Buccellato, Francis Manapul (A/CA) Francis Manapul
3.99
 EARTH 2 #22
(W) Tom Taylor (A) Nicola Scott, Trevor Scott (CA) Andy Kubert
2.99
 FAIREST #25
(W) Marc Andreyko (A) Shawn McManus (CA) Adam Hughes
2.99
 GREEN ARROW #30
(W) Jeff Lemire (A/CA) Andrea Sorrentino
2.99
 GREEN LANTERN #30
(W) Robert Venditti (A/CA) Billy Tan
2.99
 LOONEY TUNES #218
(W) Marv Wolfman (A/CA) Walter Carzon, Horacio Ottolini
2.99
 MOVEMENT #11
(W) Gail Simone (A) Freddie E. Williams (CA) Raymund Bermudez
2.99
 STORMWATCH #30
(W) Sterling Gates (A/CA) Jeremy P. Roberts
2.99
 SWAMP THING #30
(W) Charles Soule (A/CA) Jesus Saiz
2.99
 TRILLIUM #8 (OF 8)
(W/A/CA) Jeff Lemire
2.99
 TRINITY OF SIN THE PHANTOM STRANGER #18
(W) J. M. DeMatteis (A) Fernando Blanco (CA) Guillem March
2.99
VAMPIRE DIARIES #4
(W) Sean Williams, Heather Nuhfer (A) Xermanico & Various (CA) Alan Quah, Jason Gorder
3.99



 GATE WAY #4 OF(4)
(W) Joe Halpin Sr (A/CA) Moyano Juanfrancisco
3.99
 GI JOE SPECIAL MISSIONS #13
(W) Chuck Dixon (A) Paul Gulacy (CA) Paul Gulacy, Will Rosado
3.99
 JUDGE DREDD MEGA CITY TWO #3 (OF 5)
(W) Douglas Wolk (A/CA) Ulises Farinas
3.99
 MONSTER & MADMAN #2 OF(3)
(W) Steve Niles (A/CA) Damien Worm
2.99
 ROGUE TROOPER #2
(W) Brian Ruckley (A) Alberto Ponticelli (CA) Glenn Fabry
3.99
SINISTER DEXTER #5 OF(7)
(W) Dan Abnett (A) Andy Clarke (CA) Antonio Fuso
3.99



 68 RULE OF WAR #1 (OF 4)
(W) Mark Kidwell (A) Jeff Zornow (CA) Nat Jones
3.99
 APOCALYPSE AL #3 (OF 4)
(W) J. Michael Straczynski (A/CA) Sid Kotian
2.99
 ARTIFACTS #36
(W) Dan Wickline (A/CA) -ROM-
3.99
 BLACK SCIENCE #5
(W) Rick Remender (A/CA) Matteo Scalera, Dean White
3.50
 ELEPHANTMEN #55
(W) Richard Starkings (A) Axel Medellin (CA) Boo Cook
3.99
 FIELD #1 (OF 4)
(W) Ed Brisson (A/CA) Simon Roy
3.50
 INVINCIBLE UNIVERSE #12
(W) Phil Hester (A/CA) Todd Nauck
2.99
 PRETTY DEADLY #5
(W) Kelly Sue DeConnick (A/CA) Emma Rios
3.50
 REVIVAL #19
(W) Tim Seeley (A) Mike Norton (CA) Jenny Frison
2.99
 SECRET #7
(W) Jonathan Hickman (A/CA) Ryan Bodenheim
3.50
 SHOTGUN WEDDING #1 (OF 4)
(W) William Harms (A/CA) Edward Pun
3.99
SIDEKICK #6 
(W) J. Michael Straczynski (A/CA) Tom Mandrake
2.99
STARLIGHT #2
(W) Mark Millar (A) Goran Parlov (CA) Bill Sienkiewicz
2.99



BLACK WIDOW #5
(W) Nathan Edmondson (A/CA) Phil Noto
3.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA #19
(W) Rick Remender (A/CA) Nic Klein
3.99
CAPTAIN AMERICA WINTER SOLDIER #1 DIRECTORS CUT
(W) Ed Brubaker (A/CA) Steve Epting
4.99
DEADPOOL VS CARNAGE #1 (OF 4)
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Salva Espin (CA) Glenn Fabry
3.99
INHUMAN #1
(W) Charles Soule (A/CA) Joe Madureira
3.99
LOKI AGENT OF ASGARD #3 ANMN
(W) Al Ewing (A) Lee Garbett (CA) Jenny Frison
2.99
MAGNETO #2 ANMN
(W) Cullen Bunn (A) Gabriel Hernandez Walta (CA) Chris Samnee
3.99
MARVELS GUARDIANS OF GALAXY PRELUDE #1 (OF 2)
(W) Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning (A) Wellington Alves (CA) TBD
2.99
MOON KNIGHT #2 ANMN
(W) Warren Ellis (A/CA) Declan Shalvey
3.99
NEW WARRIORS #3 ANMN
(W) Christopher Yost (A) Marcus To (CA) Ramon K. Perez
3.99
PUNISHER #4
(W) Nathan Edmondson (A/CA) Mitch Gerads
3.99
SHE-HULK #3 ANMN
(W) Charles Soule (A) Javier Pulido (CA) Kevin Wada
2.99
ULTIMATE SPIDER-MAN #200
(W) Brian Michael Bendis (A) Various (CA) David Marquez
4.99
WHAT IF AGE OF ULTRON #1 (OF 5)
(W) Joe Keatinge (A) Raffaele Ienco (CA) Chris Stevens
3.99



ADVENTURE TIME FLIP SIDE #4 (OF 6)
Publisher: BOOM ENTERTAINMENT
(W) Paul Tobin, Colleen Coover (A) Wook Jin Clark (CA) Colleen Coover, Courtney Bernard
3.99
ARCHER & ARMSTRONG #19
 Publisher: VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
(W) Fred Van Lente (A) Pere Perez (CA) Jorge Molina
3.99
 ASH & THE ARMY OF DARKNESS #5
Publisher: DYNAMIC FORCES
(W) Steve Niles (A) Dennis Calero (CA) Lucio Parrillo
3.99
 BAR MAID #4 OF(5)
Publisher: ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
(W) Patrick Shand (A) Jacob Bear (CA) Billy Tucci
3.50
 BETTY & VERONICA DOUBLE DIGEST #222
Publisher: ARCHIE COMIC PUBLICATIONS
(W) Angelo DeCesare (A) Barry Grossman & Various (CA) Bob Smith, Jeff Shultz
3.99
 CALIBAN #1
Publisher: AVATAR PRESS INC
(W) Garth Ennis (A/CA) Facundo Percio
3.99
 CROSSED BADLANDS #51
Publisher: AVATAR PRESS INC
(W) Garth Ennis (A/CA) Christian Zanier
3.99
 DEAD LETTERS #1
Publisher: BOOM ENTERTAINMENT
(W) Christopher Sebela (A/CA) Chris Visions
3.99
FINAL PLAGUE #5 (OF 5)
Publisher: ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
(W) J. D. Arnold (A) Tony Guaraldi-Brown (CA) Tony Guaraldi-Brown, John Williams
2.99 
 GARFIELD #24
Publisher: BOOM ENTERTAINMENT
(W) Mark Evanier, Scott Nickel (A) Andy Hirsch, Miranda Yeo (CA) Andy Hirsch
3.99
 GFT GRIMM FAIRY TALES #96
Publisher: ZENESCOPE ENTERTAINMENT INC
(W) Raven Gregory (A) Antonio Bifulco (CA) Emilio Laiso
2.99
 GOD IS DEAD #10
Publisher: AVATAR PRESS INC
(W) Mike Costa (A) German Erramouspe (CA) Jacen Burrows
3.99
GOLD DIGGER #209
Publisher: ANTARCTIC PRESS
(W/A/CA) Fred Perry
 MARK WAID GREEN HORNET #11
Publisher: DYNAMIC FORCES
(W) Mark Waid (A) Ronilson Frere (CA) Paolo Rivera
3.99
 QUANTUM & WOODY #9
Publisher: VALIANT ENTERTAINMENT LLC
(W) James Asmus (A) Kano (CA) Tom Raney
3.99
 RACHEL RISING #24
Publisher: ABSTRACT STUDIOS
(W/A/CA) Terry Moore
3.99
 RED SONJA #8
Publisher: DYNAMIC FORCES
(W) Gail Simone (A) Walter Geovani (CA) Jenny Frison
3.99
 RED SONJA AND CUB ONE SHOT
Publisher: DYNAMIC FORCES
(W) Jim Zub (A) Jonathan Lau (CA) Jeffrey Chamba Cruz
4.99
 REVELATIONS #4 (OF 6)
Publisher: BOOM ENTERTAINMENT
(W) Paul Jenkins (A/CA) Humberto Ramos
3.99
 SHADOW YEAR ONE #8 (OF 10)
Publisher: DYNAMIC FORCES
(W) Matt Wagner (A) Wilfredo Torres (CA) Matt Wagner
3.99
 SHAHRAZAD #4
Publisher: BIG DOG INK
(W) Kari Castor, Kim Hutchinson (A) Mike Krome (CA) Mike Krome, J. Scott Campbell
3.50
 SKYWARD #6
Publisher: ACTION LAB ENTERTAINMENT
(W/A) Jeremy Dale (CA) Jeremy Dale & Various
2.99
 SUICIDE RISK #12
Publisher: BOOM ENTERTAINMENT
3.99
 TAO LITTLE SAMURAI GN #1
Publisher: LERNER PUBLISHING GROUP
(W) Laurent Richard (A/CA) Nicolas Ryser
6.95
TUROK DINOSAUR HUNTER #3
Publisher: DYNAMIC FORCES
(W) Greg Pak (A) Mirko Colak, Cory Smith (CA) Bart Sears
3.99

You can pick up these comics at Age Of ComicsKaboom Test Labs, or