Welcome back to another edition of our comic book reviews round-up! For this edition of the comic book reviews round-up we are looking at Amazing Spider-Man #63, Green Lantern #18, Laura Kinney: Wolverine #1, Phoenix #6, Storm #3, Transformers #15, and Ultimate Universe #1. Find out how these turned out with our comic book reviews round-up for December 11th.
AMAZING SPIDER-MAN #63
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Justina Ireland
Artist: Gleb Melnikov
Colorist: Marcio Menyz
Letterer: Joe Caramagna
Amazing Spider-Man #63 is the first time in a long time Peter Parker sounded like an adult. There wasn’t a simple reliance on the “Parker Luck” aspect. Rather, Justina Ireland approaches “The 8 Deaths of Spider-Man” from the human level of what it means for anyone to go through a cycle of death and revival. The toll that takes on Peter Parker makes this story much more fascinating as the human aspect elevates the Mystic Spider-Man vs Eight Scions of Cyttorak story. This was by far the best Spider-Man and Black Cat’s dynamic has been written in a long time.
Overall Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10
GREEN LANTERN #18
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Jeremy Adams
Artist: Xermanico
Colorist: Romulo Fajardo Jr.
Letterer: Dave Sharpe
Green Lantern #18 is a spectacular end to an epic story and the beginning of a new age for the Green Lantern franchise. It is truly amazing seeing how Jeremy Adams and Xermanico accomplish such heights as every single page of Green Lantern #18 feels like a big event. It is massive credit to how Thaaros transformation into Dark Star went to establish him as such a big time threat. Everything that has been built throughout this run had a payoff, creating a sense as a reader your being reward for following the Green Lantern titles these last few years. Now we are left in a spot to be even more excited for the unknown future that has been created for the Green Lantern franchise after the conclusion of this epic.
Overall Rating: 9.5 Night Girls out of 10
LAURA KINNEY: WOLVERINE #1
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Erica Schultz
Artist: Giada Belviso
Colorist: Rachelle Rosenberg
Letterer: Cory Petit
Laura Kinney: Wolverine #1 is a comic book to have as an example for how to kick off a new series. Erica Schultz and Giada Belviso pack the first issue with everything you need to know about Laura Kinney while telling a complete story. Taking a one-shot approach creates welcoming feeling to this new Wolverine series. Which given the post-Krakoa Era state of the X-Men is certainly needed as Laura is part of the NYX X-Men team. While that does lead to its own complications the foundation set is solid enough to build a lot of cool, new stories for Laura as Wolverine.
Overall Rating: 7.5 Night Girls out of 10
PHOENIX #6
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Stephanie Phillips
Artist: Marco Renna
Colorist: David Curiel
Letterer: Cory Petit
With each passing issue of this Phoenix the greater sense of escalation there is. Phoenix #6 continues that trend as Stephanie Phillips and Marco Renna go all in with Thanos as the main antagonist. In the process they make sure to treat Thanos as the big universal threat he should be. What Thanos does with having the universe turned against Jean Grey made this war between them deeply personal. How that gets turned into a story that has a large cosmic scale, especially with the other Marvel cosmic characters involved, build greater excitement for where things will go next.
Overall Rating: 8.5 Night Girls out of 10
STORM #3
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Murewa Ayodele
Artist: Lucas Werneck
Colorist: Alex Guimaraes
Letterer: Travis Lanham
Storm #3 showcases the chemistry with Ororo and her X-Men teammates is like non other she has. The interactions she has with Rogue and Wolverine while she spends a week without her powers is as engaging as any big action sequence. Though on the Wolverine side of things there is action mix in to further develop their relationship to a point that’s been teased for quite some time. It is a relationship that hopefully is explored in the future as Murewa Ayodele did too much to just be a short fling. The only thing that throws things off is how the story transitions into the One World Under Doom event that felt forced in.
Overall Rating: 7.5 Night Girls out of 10
TRANSFORMERS #15
CREATIVE TEAM
Writer: Daniel Warren Johnson
Artist: Jorge Corona
Colorist: Sara Stern
Letterer: Rus Wooton
Transformers #15 delivers a start that exemplifies how to use all the momentum a series has to create even greater excitement for the future. From beginning to end this comic book delivers an experience that leaves the Autobots and Decepticons in spots where anything can happen on both sides. Creating such unpredictability just leaves you wanting to stand up and clap for what Daniel Johnson and Jorge Corona accomplish. Click here to read full review.
Overall Rating: 9.5 Night Girls out of 10
ULTIMATE UNIVERSE #1
CREATIVE TEAM
Writers: Deniz Camp and Chris Condon
Artists: Jonas Scharf and Alessandro Cappuccio
Colorists: Mattia Iacono and Bryan Valenza
Letterer: Travis Lanham
Ultimate Universe #1 takes a tragic story to provide The Maker’s Council even greater heat as we get into the second year of Earth-6160. The way Nick Fury goes from villainous spy to tragic anti-hero is something that Deniz Camp and Jonas Scharf is incredible to experience. How the Ultimate Universe takes classic Nick Fury traits and gives them dark twists further elevated The Maker’s Council as an evil force we don’t know if the heroes can stop. The Ultimate Wolverine back-up story that followed also nicely teased the character’s upcoming series.
Overall Rating: 9 Night Girls out of 10
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