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Volume 16, Issue 5

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Roy Thomas, Gene Colan, and Walt Simonson share their thoughts on The Avengers, Captain America and Thor…

Brandon Borzelli's Geek Goggle Reviews

Captain America Reborn #6 of 6
Marvel Comics
Brubaker, Hitch & Guice

Steve Rogers returns in this mini series finale. This is not a surprise because Steve Rogers has been in multiple Marvel titles since the beginning of December. What is surprising is how this issue plays out resolving the Ed Brubaker epic about the conspiracy, assassination and fallout from the Death of Captain America storyline that has been building for some three plus years. This issue is an okay story with some hokey elements and decent action, but doesn't come close to providing a fitting end to an otherwise amazing saga. To be blunt, this issue is among the worst, for various reasons, in the Brubaker run on Captain America.

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Suspended Animation Review

Essential Man-Thing Volume 1, published by Marvel Publishing, Inc., 544 pages, $16.99.

Chalk up another reason to favor the Marvel Essentials line: Man-Thing. Never a big fan of Marvel's denizen of the swamps in my 30+ years as a comics reader, I've formed the opinion that it's because I never read more than an appearance here or there. Having 32 consecutive stories in a row, beginning with Man-Thing's origin, changes the landscape, a bit. Now, after all these years, I tip my hat to the creators of such compelling fare.

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Check out this new collection of Iron Man 2 action figures, including all the new armors, and Whiplash!

Would Miss Piggy be an Orange Lantern or a Violet Lantern? Would Starfire have made a better Violet Lantern than Wonder Woman? ROBOT 6's Sean T. Collins looks around the internet at various Lantern picks by fans.

Media Release -- VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry's most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, has announced their list of DVD titles scheduled for release in March 2010. This includes the final box set release of HONEY AND CLOVER, the next installments of the POK?MON ELEMENTS series, as well as the latest episodic releases of the popular BLEACH and NARUTO SHIPPUDEN series. Also releasing is the live action feature film – HISASHI TENMYOUYA: SAMURAI NOUVEAU from VIZ Pictures. VIZ Media DVD titles are distributed (in English) in the U.S and Mexico by Warner Home Video and in Canada by Allegro.

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Brandon Borzelli's Geek Goggle Reviews

Green Lantern #50
DC Comics
Johns, Mahnke & Alamy

The war of light sees plenty of action in this anniversary issue for the main Green Lantern title as Hal Jordan turns from Green Lantern to Parallax in order to combat the Spectre. The comic contains some fun dialogue among some of the new corps and has a decent little side story to the whole Blackest Night climax that this event should be reaching by now. The issue is definitely a fun read even if it seems to be cramming so much into one issue.

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CSBG has debuted a new feature exploring the forgotten popular culture that influenced comic book history. This week, learn who Hugh Herbert is, and how he influenced characters as varied as Daffy Duck, Etta Candy and others.

Speaking briefly about The First Avenger: Captain America, Johnston gives some insight into his directorial "instincts."