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Gizmo

Name: Anthony Straus

Bio: I've always loved comics but didn't start buying consistently until 2008. I'm a Canadian stop-motion animator with experience on ParaNorman, The Boxtrolls, Robot Chicken Season 6 and the Robot Chicken DC Comics Special. My closest stint with comics professionally was when I posed the Robot Chicken puppets for the RC variant cover of Aquaman #12.


Reviews

Another landmark Transformers story. This title seriously needs more love. The story is consistently good and continues to develop with…

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Looks like I’m the only one still picking this up. Overall, I like the series. The first five issues are…

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Uber stood out this week among the other titles. Gillen has clearly done extensive research on the subject matter to…

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Gizmo's Recent Comments
April 25, 2013 10:51 am Krang is now as bad-ass as the Shredder :P
April 25, 2013 1:43 am Ya, Eastman's technique isn't as refined as most other artists but he brings so much heart to Turtles, I can't help but love his art. There are never nearly as many of the Eastman covers printed for the store shelves I notice though, which kind of sucks, I don't get my hands on one very often.
April 24, 2013 12:19 am The last issue was crazy! Looks like this one focuses on Drift in the aftermath? Can't wait!
April 24, 2013 12:14 am Nice to see a lot of people pulling this series. The story has consistently been awesome!
April 24, 2013 12:02 am Last issue, can't wait to see how this ends!
April 23, 2013 11:57 pm I added this to my pull file based on the amazing first issue, but none of the issues after have been nearly as engaging. Was the story just told better with Alex Ross on the interiors? I'm looking again at #5 and there are a lot of vary large panels. With so many characters in different places, I think my issue is that the story is just touching on what is happening and not reflecting or building story pace. I don't want to drop the series at this point with the end in site though... The other comics that got me to pay attention to Dynamite were the beginning arcs on the Kevin Smith titles, Green Hornet and Bionic Man.
April 23, 2013 11:29 pm What was the point of this issue? Just a little, self-contained story, but it isn't told well and serves no real purpose, unless that is in the ongoing Witchblade? I have Witchblade on my pull list so this was automatically pulled for me by my lcs, yet I'm still waiting for the delivery of the previous 3 issues of the ongoing Witchblade comics to my distributor. Is anyone having the same issue from Top Cow?
April 23, 2013 11:20 pm Slight improvement since I dropped this after Death of the Family. It helps that this is set in a larger story context, so at least the actions seem like they contribute to a larger story (but we'll see how that pans out in JLA). The art is good; JLA is on-model.
April 23, 2013 11:05 am I actually ended up identifying with Jeffro the robot in the backup story for the short 6 pages we knew him, which I think is pretty impressive. It looks like IDW is going to keep to their long-spanning storyline in this titles as they have with others, which I like, but I'm still not sure how much more money I want to poor into it. This issue shows some improvement, so hopefully this trend continues.
April 12, 2013 12:42 am I'm getting tired of the rehashed "you killed Xavier" - "not my fault, Pheonix made me do it" argument. Honestly, there is 7 pages of it here, 9 if you count 60's Cyclops whining about it. Its was already getting old, now its turning to overkill. I understand the characters would still be arguing about it, but please, at least trim it down.