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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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Ratings for Comics Released 12-11-2013 Part 5 @DCComics @IDWPublishing @DynamiteComics @Marvel @ValiantComics @ImageComics


Here are the ratings for comics released 12-11-2013; Part 5. Included are DC Comics Suicide Squad #26, IDW Publishing's Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #8, Dynamite Entertainment's Uncanny, Marvel Comics Uncanny X-Men #15, Wolverine #12, & Wolverine & the X-Men #39, Valiant Entertainment's Unity #3, and Image Comics The Walking Dead #118. 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


Suicide Squad #26 - Aloha!


A FOREVER EVIL tie-in! With a murderous King Shark on her tail, Amanda Waller must go deeper into the depths of Belle Reve to free a mysterious prisoner so dangerous that only she knows of his existence! Meanwhile, it’s a battle royal between the Squad’s two Gotham City psychos: Harley Quinn and James Gordon, Jr.!

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Rating


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


Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters #8


THE FIGHT FOR CYBERTRON! GRIMLOCK and his DINOBOTS meet up with old allies and try to stop the new threat to the planet. But as things get heated, the outcome becomes uncertain. A new beginning... or the end of the DINOBOTS?

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 4
Art, Colors & Inking - 3
Layout & Flow - 4
Story - 4
Verdict - 3.7 (7.5/10) - (Buy Transformers Prime: Beast Hunters) SAVE 10%

Uncanny #5 - Season of Hungry Ghosts Part Five


Weaver discovers he's just a tiny cog in a big machine as he unlocks the secrets of Maggie's past and Deacon Styles' true agenda. But what does it have to do with the shadowy organization known only as Cadre, and what is their connection to the world of the Specials?

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Rating


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

Unity #3 - Unity: Part 3


Enter: Livewire!

 On an airtight team of stone-cold soldiers, Amanda McKee is the one variable in the equation that equals absolute kill. Now, as the last woman standing against the unstoppable force known as X-O Manowar, the Harbinger Foundation’s most seasoned technopath has just added one new item to her resume – newest bearer of the X-O Manowar armor and the finger behind the trigger of the universe’s most powerful weapon. Watch out world…this means trouble.

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Rating


Cover & Solicit - 4
Art, Colors & Inking - 4
Layout & Flow - 4
Story - 4
Verdict - 4 (8/10) - (Buy Unity) SAVE 10%

Uncanny X-Men #15


INHUMANITY TIE-IN!

 The ladies of the UNCANNY X-MEN go out on the town and find themselves face-to-face with the effects of INHUMANITY.

 Wait, is that Kitty Pryde with the UNCANNY X-MEN?!?!

 Rising star KRIS ANKA (covers of UNCANNY X-FORCE, ALL-NEW X-MEN SPECIAL) comes in as guest artist for this special issue!

 Note: 015.INH is only included on the cover, the numbering per the indicia is #15 and no other issue #15's have been solicited.

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 3
Art, Colors & Inking - 4
Layout & Flow - 5
Story - 4
Verdict - 4 (8/10) - (Buy Uncanny X-Men) SAVE 10%


The Walking Dead #118 - All Out War Chapter 4 of 12



ALL OUT WAR CONTINUES!

 Maggie takes a stand as Rick’s new plan comes together.

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 3
Art, Colors & Inking - 3
Layout & Flow - 5
Story - 5
Verdict - 4.1 (8/10) - (Buy The Walking Dead) SAVE 10%

Wolverine #12 - Killable Part 5 of 6


The penultimate chapter of KILLABLE, the storyline that will change Wolverine as we know him forever!

 Wolverine is confronted with the mastermind behind the bounty on his head.

 Meanwhile, the virus is in its final stages of a hostile takeover of the human race!

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Rating


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

Wolverine & the X-Men #39


The effects of BATTLE OF THE ATOM continue to be felt!

 WOLVERINE AND CYCLOPS VS. SENTINELS!

 What does this have to do with SHIELD?

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Rating


 Cover & Solicit - 4
Art, Colors & Inking - 5
Layout & Flow - 5
Story - 5
Verdict - 4.9 (10/10) - (Buy Wolverine and the X-Men) SAVE 10%

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