Week-In-Review : Daredevil #15 + Saga #5 + X-O Manowar #3

Welcome back fellow comic-addicts! It's been too long a gap and we're happy once again to bring back our weekly reviews! No wasting of your time here, let's just dive straight into some of this past week's releases and remember, more tomorrow!

Daredevil #15 (Marvel)

Story : Mark Waid

Art : Chris Samnee

(Reviewed by Anupam Sarkar)

In the previous issue, while trying to escape Latveria , Daredevil started to lose his senses one by one (thanks to Dr. Doom) and was finally captured by Dr. Doom's 'subjects'.

One of the best things that I love about Waid's take on Daredevil is the amount of characterization he puts into the character. For instance, in this issue, Matt Murdock realizes that he's starting to lose his senses. He can't feel, see or hear a damn thing. He's weak and so are his senses. Still, he tries to escape Latveria again to call Avengers for help. But, he get's shot and is captured.
You turn the next page, and suddenly Iron Man jumps in outta the blue. The issue ends with Iron Man rescuing Daredevil and giving a good hint to keep the readers waiting for the next issue.
This issue is not as good as its predecessors . Though, Waid's writing is flawless and he experiments with Murdock's senses, the issue is not very engaging compared to the previous ones. But keeping the con's aside, there are very few writers who are consistent with each every issue, and Mark Waid is one of them. Even his 'bad' issues are better compared to the other comics in the market.

Week In Review: '68 Scars #1 / New Avengers #24 / Rich Johnston's Iron Muslim #1 / Saga #2 / Secret #1

'68 Scars #1 (Image Comics)

Story : Mark Kidwell

Art : Nat Jones

(Reviewed by Anubhav DasGupta)

I didn’t know what the hell ’68 Scars was before I read the comic. Turns out it’s about Zombies in the year 1968, at the height of the Vietnam war.

It starts out horribly with an unfunny, politically incorrect gag. It somewhat improves afterwards.

There are three stories in this comic. Two take place in Vietnam during the height of the war, and one concerning two Chinese immigrants takes place in Chinatown, New York. All of these aren’t very good, merely passable, and one of them is absolutely awful.

Each panel is cluttered with a lot of dialogue, none of which is particularly good, with most of them falling into the category of “it gets the job done”. The art is just okay. It surely would have benefited from a better inking and colouring job. While the inking is somewhat passable, the colouring is just horrendous. Everything looks dull and bland. It tries to be gritty by borrowing the colour palette of every Vietnam movie ever, but fails miserably in that aspect. In my opinion, it would have fared better if it were a black and white comic.

Week-In-Review: Adventure Time #2 / Conan The Barbarian #2 / Saga #1 / X-23#21

Adventure Time #2 (BOOM! Studios)

Story: Ryan North + Lucy Knisley and Zac Gorman (backup stories)

Art: Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb

(Review by: Rijul Raut)

Hoo boy. Let me start off by saying that Adventure Time is one of my favourites of all cartoon TV shows, nay, of all TV shows. Its mixture of bizarre action, surreal humour and the best friends anywhere, ever, makes me watch this show for hours and hours. So when I heard that it was getting a tie-in comic, I was ecstatic. I had extremely high expectations of this comic, and boy, does it deliver. Some pressing issues prevented me from reading the first issue, and so I must bring before you a review of Adventure Time #2.

The main story continues on from the first issue, with the Lich having captured Finn, Jake, Dessert Princess and Ice King inside a mysterious bag. Marceline, Bubblegum Princess and Lumpy Space Princess (boy, this comic has a LOT of royalty. Marceline's a vampire queen) are also caught during the events of this comic, and the plot deals with them trying to find their way out. There are tiny, three-panel mini-comics on the bottom of some pages, and they are hilarious. My favourite moment has to be the Ice King's pet penguin Gunter reading Ice King-penned fan-fiction.