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Pick Your Pickle and Prepare for Puns: Pickleball's Board Game Just Launched. A fast, fun, irreverent board game that celebrates the joy of Pickleball. Fans of silly puns, pickles, and fast-paced games alike have a new game to add to their list of must-haves: HotShot Pickleball. This delightful card-drawing board game is quick to learn and gives a surprising amount of opportunity to lightly strategize as you race to the ball and attempt to hit it back over the net to your opponent. The debut release from indie studio Midnight Trading Co., HotShot Pickleball was made while game designer Robert Gelb was recovering from an Achilles injury sustained, ironically, by playing Pickleball. For those who haven’t heard of pickleball, it's the fastest-growing sport in the world, with over 32 million players last year. HotShot Pickleball is a lively, family-friendly game that combines the fun of the sport with a cast of quirky, pickle-themed characters like Stew Cumber, Kim Chee, and Corni...
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Double Quick Ratings: @IDWPublishing's Vitriol, GI Joe, Transformers, TMNT, Colonized, Half Past Danger



Here's another double dose of Quick Ratings for IDW Publishing's; Vitriol the Hunter #5, G.I. Joe Special Missions #4 & 5, The Transformers: Monstrosity #10, The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #19, The Colonized #4, Half Past Danger #3, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series #4. If you have any questions about my rating or want to discuss anything just leave me a comment.
See the Review Rating Overview page for more information on how I rate each comic


Vitriol the Hunter #5


What does a pill-popping masochist do when his only friend is set to become fodder in a vampire chow down? If he's Vitriol, he takes the bull by the horns-or in this case the fangs-and trudges his broken body to her rescue. If only it were that easy...

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Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 3/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.4 - (Vitriol the Hunter #5) SAVE 25%


G.I. Joe Special Missions #4 - Crush Depth, Part 4; Conclusion


CRUSH DEPTH concludes! The handpicked G.I. JOE team takes on a hazardous mid-ocean assault in the middle of a violent tropical storm system. Aboard the ship skippered by the BARONESS, a mutiny threatens to wrest control of COBRA's booty. And dropping right into the middle of this perfect storm is a unit of SERPENTOR's fanatical Coil assassins. Will the Special Missions team play both sides against the middle or be caught in a deadly vice of intrigue?

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 Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.6 - (Buy G.I. Joe Special Missions #4) SAVE 10%

The Transformers: Monstrosity #10 - Chapter 10: The Illusion of Control


12 CHAPTER DIGITAL EXCLUSIVE SERIES! ANNIHILATION! TRYPTICON devastates CYBERTRON! OPTIMUS PRIME stages a desperate last-ditch race for victory—but when the smoke clears, will the exiled MEGATRON reign supreme?

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Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 5/5
Story 5/5
Verdict 4.3 - (Buy The Transformers: Monstrosity #4) SAVE 10%

The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #19 - Dark Cybertron Prelude; Homecoming


THE DEATH OF A WORLD! Gorlam Prime-the entrance to the so-called DEAD UNIVERSE-holds many secrets... and now ORION PAX-the 'bot who was once OPTIMUS PRIME-pries it's secrets loose. But will it be too late for CYBERTRON?

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Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 5/5
Story 5/5
Verdict 4.3 - (Buy The Transformers: Robots in Disguise #19) SAVE 10%

The Colonized #4 - Part IV: Disease No-Control


The zombies have run amok in Carbon Falls, there's a runaway train loaded for bear with dirty bombs, and not even unpredictable alien technology looks to be enough to stave off both of these weapons and creatures of mass destruction as our story of zombies vs. aliens concludes here!

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Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.6 - (Buy The Colonized #4) SAVE 20%


G.I. Joe Special Missions #5 - Operation Deadfall, Part 1; Dreadnoks Return


The DREADNOKS return! When a COBRA satellite drops form spacer to crash in the Australian outback, Scarlett and the Special Missions team enter the race to retrieve it. They face not only the near-impossible challenge of finding the space debris in millions of square miles of barren and dangerous wastelands. The murderous, marauding, motorcycle maniacs who call themselves the Dreadnoks are in the neighborhood and led by Zartan!

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 Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 4 - (Buy G.I. Joe Special Missions #5) SAVE 25%

Half Past Danger #3 - Chapter Three: Something Wicked This Way Comes


As the team prepare for an all-out assault on the Nazi base, friendships are formed and secrets revealed. It's four operatives against an entire company of S.S., led by the formidable Oberleutnant Toht. And then of course there are the scores of unleashed dinosaurs.

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Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.7 - (Buy Half Past Danger #3) SAVE 10%

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series #4 - Alopex


Alopex, the first mutant of the Foot Clan, has quickly become one of Shredder's most useful agents. However, when she sets out to learn more about her past, she discovers a devastating truth that could have her questioning everything she knows about the Foot Clan!

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Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.7 - (Buy Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Villains Micro-Series #4) SAVE 20%

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