Dave's Rants Archive
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Last Updated 6/28/09
All reviews copyright 2007-2009 by Dave Van Domelen
This page holds an archive of my comic book reviews for
roughly the past year (or more...I've decided to stop erasing the older ones
and changed my filename conventions to make this less of a hassle). The
originals are posted to rec.arts.comics.reviews on Usenet newsgroups, and
some time between Wednesdays I throw in some minimal formatting and link the
file in here. Most of the time these will be spoiler-free "Capsules", but
once in a while I'll go whole-hog on a review.
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A listing of what I considered to be the best comics of the last few years,
these are all the titles that got a "Strongly Recommended" or better rating
in my reviews at the time, with all the biases that implies.
Current Month's Rants
Comics of note (Strongly recommended or better, usually) will be in
boldface, with an asterisk if they're Strongly Recommended. While
most of my reviews are spoiler-free capsules, the occasional full review will
be underlined. For non-comic or otherwise "not available at the comic
shop" stuff, there's the "Other Media" category, in purple text. Books I got after their theoretical release
week for whatever reason will be in italics.
- June 3, 2009: T-Minus: the Race to the
Moon, The Muppet Show #3 (of 4), Farscape Strange Detractors #3 (of 4),
Jersey Gods #5, Official Index to the Marvel Universe #6, New Mutants #2, The
Mighty Avengers #25, eXiles #3, The Amazing Spider-Man #596, Agents of Atlas
#6, Astro City the Dark Age Book Three #2 (of 4), Secret Six #10, PS238 #39,
Atomic Robo v3 #2 (of 5).
- June 10, 2009: Timestorm 2009-2099: Spider Man
One Shot, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z vol 1, Wolverine First
Class vol 1, Lockjaw and the Pet Avengers #2 (of 4), X-Factor #44, The
Amazing Spider-Man #597, REBELS #5, Booster Gold #21.
- June 17, 2009: Mysterius the Unfathomable #6, The
Brave and the Bold #24, Green Arrow vs. Black Canary #21, Transformers
Spotlight #23 (Cliffjumper), Gold Digger v3 #107, Invincible #63, The
Invincible Iron Man #14, Dark Reign Young Avengers #2 (of 5), All New Savage
She-Hulk #3 (of 4), Marvel Pets Handbook, Marvel Adventures Avengers #37, The
Mighty Avengers #26.
- June 24, 2009: Eureka Dormant Gene #3 (of 4),
Farscape D'Argo's Lament #3 (of 4), The Incredibles #3 (of 4), Transformers
All Hail Megatron #12, Justice League of America #34, Justice Society of
America #28, Thor #602, Avengers/Invaders #12 (of 12), Wolverine First Class
#16, X-Factor #45, Ms. Marvel #40, Avengers the Initiative #25, The Amazing
Spider-Man #598, The Incredible Hercules #130 *, Dynamo5 #22, Gold
Digger Tech Manual #4.
Rant Archives
This is where older Rants will go to keep the main page from getting
cluttered. Only the files from March 2007 onward will be here, but searching
Google Groups for Dave, Rant and the title of the comic you're interested in
will usually do pretty well, assuming I reviewed the book.
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