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Pandasaurus has announced a new 2 player set collection game District Noir is coming this summer. Preorders will start on May 19th with retail release planned for July 19th. District Noir was originally published in Japanese by Taikikennai Games in 2016 as Throne and Grail. It was then published in 2019 as Chocolate Factory by Nasza Księgarnia in Polish. The current art and theme was published last year in French by Spiral Éditions. When the time is right, gain control! At the head of the city’s largest criminal organizations, men and women fight to control territories and gain support by trying every means possible to grow their influence. Control of the District Noir, a central and highly contested area, remains the major issue that will make all the difference in dominating the city. There are two paths to victory: win over District Noir's various supports, or directly control the city’s three strategic locations. Before players can claim these, they must be played to the center
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Ratings for Comics Released 12-04-2013 Part 4 @DynamiteComics @DCComics @Marvel @BoomStudios @DarkHorseComics


Here are the ratings for comics released 12-04-2013; Part 4. Included are Dynamite Entertainment's Legends of Red Sonja #2, & Noir #2, Marvel's Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe #3, Marvel Knights: X-Men #2, & Secret Avengers #12, DC's The Phantom Stranger #14, Boom! Studios' Six-Gun Gorilla #6, and Dark Horse's The Star Wars #4. Let me know your opinion or if you have any questions and want to discuss anything just leave a comment.
See the Review Rating Overview page for more information on how I rate each comic


Legends of Red Sonja #2 - Legends of Red Sonja; The Undefeated; Double-Edged


The LEGENDS continue, in this 40th anniversary spectacular mini-series, featuring short stories by the best female writers of prose, games and comics, and a wraparound story by Sonja's series writer, Gail Simone! In this issue, a young girl's life is changed forever by a chance meeting with the She-devil, in a thrilling story by the best-selling TITAN of fantasy novels, TAMORA PIERCE, and an old rivalry is remembered in a powerful story by acclaimed dark fantasy romance author MELJEAN BROOK! And all the while, Red Sonja is pursued across the land by the deadly assassins, the GREY RIDERS! Don't miss this one-of-a-kind mini-series!

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 4
Art, Colors & Inking - 3
Layout & Flow - 5
Story - 5
Verdict - 4.3 (8.5/10) - (Buy Legends of Red Sonja) SAVE 10%


Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe #3 - Part Three


The worst threats that ever have/will face the Marvel Universe?

 The Hulkvengers? Kraven the Pheonix? WolfCap? Wolverine King of the Vampires? Cosmic Carnage?

 Sounds like a job for Longshot, right?

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 3
Art, Colors & Inking - 4
Layout & Flow - 5
Story - 4
Verdict - 4 (8/10) - (Buy Longshot Saves the Marvel Universe) SAVE 10%

Marvel Knights: X-Men #2 - Haunted, Part Two of Five


In a small cabin in the woods, The X-Men find a young mutant who is learning to control her powers... but she's not alone!

 Can our heroes possibly survive after they're ambushed by a horde of super-villains?

 Will Rogue, Wolverine, and Kitty save themselves and the young mutant they've found before her powers spiral out of control?

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 Cover & Solicit - 3
Art, Colors & Inking - 2
Layout & Flow - 4
Story - 4
Verdict - 3.3 (6.5/10) - (Buy Marvel Knights: X-Men) SAVE 10%

Noir #2


The Black Sparrow and Miss Fury are a team-up that makes Thelma & Louise look like a couple of girl scouts selling cookies. They've got wind of a long-hidden, secret Templar treasure, but they need the man with the clues to help them find it. That man just happens to be under police guard and unconscious in a Newport hospital, a Mowhawk Indian with a past. The ladies decide to break him out of the hospital, and they don't go about it gently.

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Cover & Solicit - 3
Art, Colors & Inking - 2
Layout & Flow - 4
Story - 4
Verdict - 3.3 (6.5/10) - (Buy Noir) SAVE 10%

The Phantom Stranger #14 - Forever Evil: Blight - Sins!


A FOREVER EVIL TIE-IN!
John Constantine, Swamp Thing and Nightmare Nurse have a plan for how to stop FOREVER EVIL—to destroy the embodiment of Evil Itself—and they intend to draft Phantom Stranger into their war. But the Stranger has no intention of joining the new Justice League Dark—until Constantine opens a door into the Stranger's past, revealing secrets that make him question everything he's ever believed about himself…

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 4
Art, Colors & Inking - 3
Layout & Flow - 4
Story - 4
Verdict - 3.7 (7.5/10) - (Buy The Phantom Stranger) SAVE 10%


Secret Avengers #12 - Mission 012: How To MA.I.M. A Mockingbird, Part One of Five



HOW TO MAIM A MOCKINGBIRD, Part One

 Can Mockingbird escape before the High Council of A.I.M. discovers her true identity?

 Maria Hill gets a mind-bending offer from a rogue A.I.M. operative. And you probably know him. It's REDACTED.

 Hawkeye, Black Widow and Fury plumb the "depths" of A.I.M.

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 3
Art, Colors & Inking - 3
Layout & Flow - 4
Story - 4
Verdict - 3.6 (7/10) - (Buy Secret Avengers) SAVE 10%

Six-Gun Gorilla #6 - Episode 6: Fill Your Hand


Blue has almost made it back to the BlisterGate in his mission to return the dying general's love-to his Earth-wife. The only problem? He'll have to cross a battlefield to get there, with both the Rebels and the BXF soldiers out to get him and no 6GG in sight.

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 4
Art, Colors & Inking - 3
Layout & Flow - 4
Story - 5
Verdict - 4.1 (8/10) - (Buy Six-Gun Gorilla) SAVE 10%

The Star Wars #4


General Skywalker and Jedi-in-training Annikin Starkiller have a deadly encounter with mounted Stormtroopers! An encounter with outlaws in a cantina leads to a meeting with smuggler Han Solo! And a Jedi makes the ultimate sacrifice to save one of Princess Leia’s younger brothers!

 Duel in the desert!

 Official eight-issue adaptation of George Lucas’s original rough-draft screenplay for Star Wars!

 THE CANTINA SCENE YOU DIDN’T SEE!

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 4
Art, Colors & Inking - 4
Layout & Flow - 5
Story - 5
Verdict - 4.6 (9/10) - (Buy The Star Wars) SAVE 10%

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