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When reviewing a comic book, there are some specific aspects that must be surveyed. First, the reviewer has to explain the story and not assume that readers are familiar with the comic book. Second, the review must cover all aspects of the narrative. Third, the reviewer must criticize the quality of graphic elements and the effectiveness of the visual storytelling. Finally, the reviewer must evaluate if all parts of the comic book work well as a unit

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Review: The Black Hood #1 Feb 27, 2015 - 0:27 @DrkCircleComics brings the gritty realism of street level crime drama to back to mainstream comics.

DC Comics History: Robin Hood Feb 19, 2015 - 9:19 The earliest of a number of series DC released featuring Robin Hood, this serial ran in New Adventure Comics for a few months n 1938.

DC Comics History: Marty McCann, Champion of the Navy Feb 18, 2015 - 9:43 Marty McCann, Champion of the Navy was a short-lived series about a boxer, starting just as he leaves the service. His adventures take him to Hollywood, and he runs afoul of gangsters, but neither could keep his series going.

DC Comics History: Nadir, Master of Magic Feb 17, 2015 - 11:05 Nadir, Master of Magic was a short-lived series about one of DC earliest heroes, now fallen into obscurity.

DC Comics History: Larry Steele, Private Detective Feb 16, 2015 - 12:53 Larry Steele, Private Detective was a fairly run of the mill series about a young detective.

DC Comics History: Johnnie Law Feb 15, 2015 - 22:18 Johnnie Law was one the darker, grittier detective series from this era.

DC Comics History: Mr.Chang Feb 13, 2015 - 11:04 Mr. Chang was a short-lived series, very derivative of Charlie Chan. It was featured in only three issues of Detective Comics. Clearly stories featuring Asian villains were far more popular at this time than stories with Asian heroes.

DC Comics History: Slam Bradley Feb 12, 2015 - 8:04 Slam Bradley was the second of the two Siegel and Shuster series to debut in Detective Comics 1, and by far the most enduring of their pre-Superman creations. Slam was a hard boiled private detective, with a humourous sidekick, Shorty.

Review: Marvel Comics' Star Wars Darth Vader #1 Feb 11, 2015 - 23:09 @Marvel continues to make the best use of their Star Wars properties, launching a solo Darth Vader series. Does Gillen deliver though?

DC Comics History: Buck Marshall, Range Detective Feb 11, 2015 - 21:14 a western based detective series, Buck Marshall was a bit of a filler series in Detective. It usually ran on the pages that were not in full colour. Despite this, the stories are of fairly high quality for the time.

DC Comics History: Spy Feb 10, 2015 - 6:53 Spy is another early Siegel and Shuster series,and easily my favourite of their pre-Superman work. Although it deals with spies and espionage, it's a light-hearted romantic comedy strip for the most part.

DC Comics History: Bruce Nelson Feb 9, 2015 - 12:30 Although Bruce Nelson debuted in Detective Comics 1, it was as the hero of the serial Claws of the Dragon. When that reached its end, he simply became the star of another serial, Blood of the Lotus. After a few of these, he finally gained a series under hos own name, which ran for just a couple of months longer than my deadline for this era, so I will cover his entire series in this entry.

DC Comics History: Bret Lawton Feb 8, 2015 - 7:51 Bret Lawton was the briefest series to debut in Detective Comics 1, running for only two issues. Despite it's brevity, it managed some truly astounding continuity errors.

DC Comics History: Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise Feb 7, 2015 - 6:42 Cosmo, the Phantom of Disguise was the earliest of DC's many disguise-oriented heroes. Curiously, he uses it far less than one might expect, on the whole is a bit more in the style of Sherlock Holmes.

DC Comics History: Speed Saunders Feb 6, 2015 - 9:44 Speed Saunders held the lead spot in the first issue of Detective Comics, and would run for a long time in the book. He begins as part of the harbour patrol, but as his series progressed, would become a more general investigator.

DC Comics History: Monastery of the Blue God Feb 5, 2015 - 7:44 Monastery of the Blue God was an unfinished serial that ran in New Adventure Comics. Written by Major Malcolm-Wheeler Nicholson, the owner of the fledgling DC Comics, the series was cut short likely when he bolted the company.

DC Comics History: Detective Sergeant Carey Feb 4, 2015 - 7:37 Beginning under the title Detective Sergeant Carey of the Chinatown Squad, this long-running early series started off in the pages of New Adventure Comics as a "yellow peril" serial, but became a more typical detective strip after moving to More Fun Comics.

DC Comics History: Jungle Fever Feb 3, 2015 - 6:44 An extremely short-lived series, Jungle Fever managed in its brief duration to tell an overwrought and frantic story, with a good dollop of appalling racism.

DC Comics History: Mark Marson of the Interplanetary Police Feb 2, 2015 - 15:31 Mark Marson of the Interplanetary Police was a short-lived science fiction series, though it reads much more like a crime strip. The science-fiction elements never seem like anything more than window dressing.

DC Comics History: Thrilling True Stories Feb 1, 2015 - 7:15 Although this strip claimed to base its tales on actual events submitted by readers, I suspect this short-lived series consisted entirely of stories by the professional writer.

DC Comics History: The Bradley Boys Jan 31, 2015 - 8:14 The Bradley Boys are two brothers who get lost in the woods one day, and decide they enjoy living there. The series, which ran for just over a year, changed a bit during its run, moving from the forest to the circus.

DC Comics History: Blood Pearls Jan 30, 2015 - 7:33 Blood Pearls is a six chapter serial written by Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson, the owner of DC Comics at the time. It's better than some of his other tales, if only because of the entertainingly overwrought art and story.

DC Comics History: Pirate Gold Jan 29, 2015 - 8:41 Pirate Gold is another of those adventure serials that never manages to live up to the promise of its name. A pirate does appear, eventually, but the story is a mess of unexplained characters and implausible events.

DC Comics History: Pep Morgan Jan 28, 2015 - 9:39 Pep Morgan was a long-running series about an all-around athlete. It began, in the pages of More Fun Comics, as a sports based series, but as it moved to Action Comics Pep's stories became more adventure oriented.

DC Comics History: Radio Squad Jan 27, 2015 - 7:29 Another early Siegel and Shuster series, Radio Squad followed the adventures of two policemen who have a police radio in their car! Wow, the wonders of technology. While not as wild as Federal Men or Dr. Occult, Radio Squad nevertheless showed Siegel and Shuster to be far ahead of the creative curve.

DC Comics History: The Three Musketeers Jan 26, 2015 - 19:40 A very sanitized adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas classic, this suffers from some very weak art.

Ant-Man #1 Jan 23, 2015 - 10:52 The release of the first Ant-Man issue matched the release of the first official trailer by @Marvel

Green Lantern #38 Jan 22, 2015 - 10:29 The Guardians of the universe have asked Hal Jordan to step back and return to Earth

Review: Ivar, Timewalker #1 Jan 21, 2015 - 18:38 Fred Van Lente and Clayton Henry resurrect another of the Anni-Padda brothers and this time he's way cooler than before.

Fatherland comics review Jan 20, 2015 - 19:23 @wwnorton @LiverightPub present Fatherland, an original graphic novel from Nina Bunjevac, about the history of her family and the land of her father and mother.

Review: Conan and Red Sonja #1 (2015) Jan 12, 2015 - 17:04 @DarkHorseComics and @DynamiteComics have reunited the greatest Hyborian Age warriors for the first time in years.

Review: Ant-Man #1 (2015) Jan 11, 2015 - 21:36 If @Marvel keeps publishing titles like this new #Ant-Man then it just might deserve the title of not only biggest, but best publisher.

Punks: The Comic #3 review Dec 31, 2014 - 22:30 @JoshFialkov @KodyChamberlain @ImageComics present Punks: The Comic #3 and Sean Connery in a bizarre loincloth ensemble.

DC Comics History: Golden Dragon Dec 31, 2014 - 15:45 Golden Dragon, despite having some continuity issues, is by far the most enjoyable of the many adventure serials that ran in the pre-hero days of DC Comics.

Review: The Valiant #1 Dec 22, 2014 - 20:43 @ValiantComics finally delivers the Eternal Warrior story the character's fans have been craving since the return of the publisher itself.

DC Comics History: Steve Conrad Dec 20, 2014 - 9:44 Steve Conrad is an adventure series, set largely in the Pacific islands. It's not one of the better written serials, plots and characters are dropped with abandon, but it was one of the longer running strips from the era.

DC Comics History: She Dec 20, 2014 - 9:41 Adapted from the H. Rider Haggard novel of the same name, She is an adventure serial set in Africa, dealing with lost civilization and an immortal woman seeking her dead lover.

DC Comics History: Sandor and the Lost Civilization Dec 20, 2014 - 9:36 Sandor and the Lost Civilization would count Tarzan and the Jungle Book among its influences. The serialized adventures of a young white boy in India, raised by dogs, and his attempts to deal with the human world.

Incredible Change-Bots Two Point Something Something review Dec 17, 2014 - 18:53 @topshelfcomix presents Incredible Change-Bots Two Point Something Something, a collection of Jeffrey Brown's Incredible Change-Bot short comics and illustrations.

Wayward #5 review Dec 16, 2014 - 11:43 @jimzub @ImageComics @stekichikun present Wayward #5, in which Rori comes to realize that her mother has something to do with all this magical to-do.
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