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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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Massive Quick Ratings: @Marvel Part 1



I'm still a little behind so I'm clearing out my backlog, so here's a massive overdose of today's Quick Ratings for Marvel's; Secret Avengers #6, Superior Spider-Man #13, Ultimate Comics Ultimates #27, Young Avengers #7, A+X #10, Avengers #16, Avengers Assemble #17, Cable and X-Force #11, Deadpool #13, Fantastic Four #10, FF #9, Morbius: The Living Vampire #7, Nova #6, Savage Wolverine #7, Superior Carnage #1, and Thanos Rising #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


Secret Avengers #6 - Iliad, Part 1


"Iliad" Part ONE


S.H.I.E.L.D. take the fight to AIM's door, with deadly repercussions.


The Secret Avengers are outgunned and trapped in enemy territory!

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 3/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.4 - (Buy Secret Avengers #6) SAVE 10%


Superior Spider-Man #13 - No Escape Part Three: The Slayers & The Slain


Part Three of "No Escape"!


Superior Spider-Man teams up with the Lizard!


Mayor Jameson demands that Spider-Man KILL the Spider-Slayer!


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Rating


 Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 4 - (Buy Superior Spider-Man #13) SAVE 10%

Ultimate Comics Ultimates #27 - Disassembled Part 3; New World Order


ULTIMATES DISASSEMBLED BEGINS!!!

 The Hunt for the final stone puts the life of an Ultimate at risk!

 As Reed gets his first glimpse of Ultimate Kang's true motivations.

 For the world to live, an Ultimate MUST die. And he's really not happy about that.

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 Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 4 - (Buy Ultimate Comics Ultimates #27) SAVE 10%

Young Avengers #7 - The Breakfast Meet


Three months have passed for the Young Avengers. What have they been up to? Fun stuff, I'll bet. The sort of "stuff" that makes an excellent super hero comic. THIS IS TRUTH WITH A CAPITAL EVERYTHING.

 A very important breakfast. A new Young Avenger. A selection of emotions.

 Oh - I bet you thought we forgot about those Skrulls from issue 1. We haven't.

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Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 2/5
Story 3/5
Verdict 2.9 - (Pre-Order Young Avengers TPB Vol. 02 Alternative Culture) SAVE 20%

A+X #10 - Black Widow + Fantomex; Scarlet Witch + Domino


BLACK WIDOW and FANTOMEX find themselves on opposite sides of the law in Russia!


SCARLET WITCH and DOMINO try their luck together!

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 Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 4 - (Buy A+X #10) SAVE 10%


Avengers #16 - To The End; Prelude to Infinity


"THE TWO WORLDS SOLUTION"


Prelude to INFINITY: Part Three.


The battle between the Avengers and Mad Earth heats up.


Whatever happened to Ex Nihilo and Abyss, and for that matter, Starbrand and Nightmask as well?


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 Cover & Solicit 2/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 5/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.9 - (Buy Avengers Prem HC Vol. 03 Infinity Prelude) SAVE 10%

Avengers Assemble #17 - The Enemy Within Part Four of Five


Part 4 of 5 of THE ENEMY WITHIN

 With the world quite literally ripping apart at the seams, and the Avengers scattered...how much longer can Captain Marvel fend off the madness of the Magnitron...?

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 Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 5/5
Verdict 4.3 - (Buy Avengers Assemble #17) SAVE 10%

Cable and X-Force #11


As tensions rise between X-Force and the Uncanny Avengers, Cable's precognitive visions grow increasingly relentless.

 X-Force must race against the clock to stop each terrible vision from coming true - but what will happen if they fail?

 In the world of X-Force, a minute can mean the difference between life and death.

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 3/5
Verdict 3.4 - (Buy Cable X-Force #11) SAVE 10%

Deadpool #13 - Deadpool, Power Man and Iron Fist
Another "lost" Deadpool issue...this one from the '70s!

 Deadpool hits the streets with Power Man & Iron Fist!

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 3/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 3.6 - (Pre-Order Deadpool TPB Vol. 3 Good Bad And Ugly) SAVE 20%

Fantastic Four #10 - Self-Evident Truths!


Ben Franklin was a Skrull!

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 2/5
Verdict 3 - (Buy Fantastic Four #10) SAVE 10%

FF #9 - Last Splash


What happens? POOL PARTY.

 Who do they fight? POOL PARTY.

 What do we get? POOL PARTY.

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Cover & Solicit 2/5
Art, Colors & Inking 2/5
Layout & Flow 2/5
Story 2/5
Verdict 2 - (Buy FF #9) SAVE 10%

Morbius: The Living Vampire #7 - Cure Everything, Part Two


Morbius can't get away from... Superior Spider-Month!

 "Cure Everything," Part Two

 With Morbius and Spider-Man making a tentative truce, Morbius gets closer to finding the cure... and closer to getting caught!

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 2/5
Art, Colors & Inking 2/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 3/5
Verdict 2.7 - (Pre-Order Morbius Living Vampire TPB Man Called Morbius) SAVE 20%

Nova #6 - Chapter Six: Home Field


Now that we've seen his origin, there's only one thing standing between Nova and being an Avenger...

 He needs to ask his mom.

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 4/5
Art, Colors & Inking 5/5
Layout & Flow 5/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 4.4 - (Buy Nova #6) SAVE 10%

Savage Wolverine #7


Wolverine slices!

 Elektra dices!

 What more could you want in a comic?

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 5/5
Art, Colors & Inking 5/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 4/5
Verdict 4.4 - (Buy Savage Wolverine #7) SAVE 10%

Superior Carnage #1


Superior Spider-Month gets sinister with the return of Carnage!

 Locked away in an asylum, it looks like Carnage is gone for good-but his fellow inmates have other plans....

 Will they successfully wake the monster?

 Or will this hideous experiment create the most powerful, dangerous, maniacal Carnage yet... a Superior Carnage?

 KEVIN SHINICK (Avenging Spider-Man, Robot Chicken) and STEPHEN SEGOVIA (Extreme X-men, Thor) come together to create a story so grotesquely gratifying you wont be able to look away!

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 5/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 5/5
Verdict 4.6 - (Pre-Order Superior Carnage TPB) SAVE 20%

Thanos Rising #4


Thanos kills a lot of people.

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Rating


Cover & Solicit 3/5
Art, Colors & Inking 4/5
Layout & Flow 4/5
Story 5/5
Verdict 4.3 - (Buy Thanos Rising TPB) SAVE 10%

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