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AICN Comics Q & @ with HACK/SLASH director Todd Lincoln! Reviews of CONNOR HAWKE! GEORGE PEREZ STORYTELLER! & More!
Published on Wednesday, January 10, 2007 - 8:27am

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GEORGE PÉREZ - STORYTELLER: THE FIRST 30 YEARS (Nov 2006)

GEORGE PÉREZ: STORYTELLER
Reviewer: Prof. Challenger

A couple of years ago on a Christmas episode of the Howard Stern radio show, one of Howard's cronies gave Howard the massive hardcover DC ENCYCLOPEDIA because of Howard's love of comics. Howard then proceeded to chainsaw the book in half because, as he put it, he loves comics but absolutely hates books about comics!

Now, see, I'm completely the opposite. I LOOOVVVVEEE books about comics and I'm in the realm of the severely disenchanted as to most monthlies at this stage o' the game. So, it's no surprise that finally getting my grubby little fingers on the hardcover GEORGE PÉREZ: STORYTELLER meant I was going to really dig it.

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SENTINELS: VOLUME FOUR
It's a rare thing when a series ends with as satisfying conclusion as SENTINELS does. More often than not, when a finite series makes its final curtain call, whether it be on television or in the pages of comics books, I will find myself extremely disappointed. It happened most recently with the Sci-Fi mini-series THE LOST ROOM. Six hours of my life invested in a great mini-series which just ended up fizzling out by the end. Oh, well.

I can be grateful, however, that the same thing did not happen with SENTINELS: VOLUME FOUR. I have to say that when I got my hands on this book I was a bit afraid to read it. See, I discovered SENTINELS several years ago at the San Diego Comic-Con and I've loved every page that I've read since I picked up the first book. Yes, it's taken ages for each volume to come out but it's been worth it. Great storytelling takes time and SENTINELS is great storytelling.

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