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Latest Review: The Great Ten #1

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Review by BlueThunderArmy
Thursday November 5, 2009 09:00:06 am
156
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Written by Tony Bedard; Art by Scott McDaniel and Andy Owens; Cover by Stanley "Artgerm" Lau
Two years too late, and a botch-job to boot. When the Great Ten first appeared in 52, there was so much promise for the team of Chinese superheroes. But what we get is a formulaic superhero story starring one-dimensional characters set in a paternalistic-Western version of China. There are, as there ought to be, conflicts centering around China's brutal suppression of dissent, and there are, as there should be, heroes who protest this treatment and others who support it. But the nature of their...
 

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