Like the previous volume
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The Color of Vengeance continues the saga of the Heresy Within shortly after those events unfold. Thanquil and Jezzet are absent from this story which focuses on the Black Thorn and some of the other members of the old crew.

There are some new characters thrown into the mix. Anders is the most complete of these. He's got several secrets and it is clear as the story progresses that we won't see them all. Next is Pern Suzku, the body guard extraordinaire who struggles with his assignment. How can he uphold the honor of his clan while working for a man he despises? Finally there is Bruce Lee, well known icon of many old martial arts films, a man who can face 20 or more opponents and come away without a scratch. Only his name in this book is Jacob Lee and he is the character with whom I have the most difficulty.

Without getting all spoilery, I don't see a purpose for his story line. All he does is kill a bunch of folks. In fact he leaves precisely one person unharmed form the large number of people with whom he interacts. He added nothing to the plot that I could see.

Like the previous volume, there were some typos, the most jarring of which is on page 192 where the man who was being tortured

  said not a word apart from the curses he threw around the room at anyone and everyone, even Pern, who had hose nothing and wanted nothing to do with the entire situation.

I presume the author meant done rather than hose. The over 100 uses of truth was or truth be told get tiring after the first fifty or so, and I found the archaic use of span as a tense of spin to be out of place in the book.

However, despite the things that I didn't enjoy, the story itself is fun to read. I liked seeing the whatever happened to so-and-so appearances through out the book and the references to the events of the first book that showed these things did not happen in a vacuum.

This book is a quick reading, anti-heroic(?) fantasy that will still please fans of Joe Abercrombie and Mark Lawrence.
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While I did enjoy this volume, the ones prior really set the bar high. The art and detail seemed to be lacking just a bit compared to its predecessors.

It's still worth a buy if you are a fan.
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Not as good as volume 1, but much better than volume 2.
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This volume starts off back when the plague started. We get to read Dr James Thackers journal as he embarks on a journey to Alaska to find his future brother-in-law who has gone missing. There are constant warnings and yet, he pursues even with the breakout. Answers are revealed and it wasn't AT ALL what I was expecting and to be honest Im not sure how I feel about it. Aside from the story, we have a new artist doing this piece, Matt Kindt, and I wasn't a huge fan of the artwork. I don't think it ruined it, but I didn't love it either.

A jump back into current day with Gus and Jepperd. Things in their group are rough and emotions are running high. I feel like this volume didn't have as much momentum as the others and I was slightly disappointed. Im still curious to see how this all comes together and get some more answers.
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After reading Volume 4, I was intrigued by its surprise ending with the League in shambles. With the team at its lowest, I had to know what came next for our heroes. Sadly, Volume 5 doesn't dive right in, we get to know the enemy a bit and learn about their world and motivation. Outside of Cybrog, the Justice League are absent for their own title and in there place is a group called the Metal Men. Nevertheless, this Volume sets up what should be an amazing confrontation in Volume 6, the same confrontation I was hoping for when I read through this volume was pushed back and what we received felt like filler. As it stands, not much was resolved and the world is still in the same dire situation it was left in during the events of Volume 4 with the League down 3-0 facing elimination.
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Wasn't what I expected but still funny. Some material from previous volume.
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I own volumes 1-6 in this series. This volume begins to repeat tracks released on previous cds in the series. OK if you don't own the other recordings in this series. Not such a good deal if you already own these tracks. The music, however is quite lovely and well recorded.
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Pretty good advanced moves in this volume--good follow-up to the first volume.  The instruction is pretty good; however, in addition to the advanced moves, I would've like to see additional mid-level moves to supplement the first volume.
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I have five of the previous Web Design Index volumes and one thing I really like is the consistency through them all. I know what the format is going to be, it's easy to thumb through if you're in a browsing mood yet also easy to zero in on a specific industry or color or scheme. This one, #9, wasn't as impressive at the last two volumes, but on a par with the overall collection. Maybe it's because even on the web, so many sites are so similar. That was the same feeling I got with this one. I'll still use it for inspiration, though, because it's so simple to use. I don't have to click, click, click to all the sites; I can just browse the book.
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Wolverine heads to Japan.  Logan is on the trail of Lady Deathstrike after the events of the previous book.  There he encounters the Silent Order, an organization he dealt with in his past, our possible future.  This follows the format of previous volumes with the story flashing back into Logan's past as he deals with the present.  I liked this.  It didn't have as much baggage as some of the previous stories.  Because they were new characters, it felt fresh to me.
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In this volume, we mainly see Naoto as she follows Heine and Badou in an attempt to gather information about the person that killed her family and almost killed her. With the three of them together, the story is more focused, but it's not exactly linear. I wouldn't say it was confusing, but there are some odd random jumps back in the story. It can be a little jarring at times.

While the story progresses well in this volume, I felt that the art and action weren't as impressive as the previous two. To me the action scenes in Volume 0 and 1 were nothing short of art, very clear and unique. They felt a little messy in this volume. Still beautifully done in comparison to most series, just not up to the level I'd gotten used to in the other volumes.

All in all, still a great read. I'm looking forward to the next release!
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Interesting fun fact filled read. Typical for the series, if you liked previous volumes this is just as entertaining.
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I was very pleased when I heard that this volume was coming up, and that it would pick up where the Legion of Super-Heroes Archives finished. So after pre-ordering it a few months back, I started a re-read of those 12 Archives - which was quite an enjoyable task - so that I would be at the same stage as this new volume came out.

I was also looking forward to this new volume, as it co-incides with when I was 16/17, and thus has fond memories attached to when I first read some of these stories - plus there were a couple of stories I had never read! So, yes, I did enjoy this read and it goes on the shelf next to the LSH Archives. And, yes, I do hope that they continue to produce more volumes!

First, I did notice that this new volume was not of the same quality (as in paper, binding, reproduction) as the Archives had been, or at least so it seemed to me. Perhaps this makes it a little cheaper, so it isn't really a complaint, more of an observation. Though I am puzzled why they just didn't continue with the Archives??? This new volume, being volume 1 doesn't make a great deal of sense as it isn't really the start of a new era, and in fact some of the sub-plots from the last Archive are still being continued.

However it is a good collection of stories - and I hope those who are new to the Legion have means of reading the stories that came before.

I am also glad that they didn't go the way the Golden Age Omnibuses seem to be going as they now enter into material not covered in Archives. Not only are they quite expensive, but I have to purchase an Omnibus that has over 50% material I already own in Archives if I want to continue those collections :(
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If you liked the prior books in this series you will like this one too. The story does not deviate from the prior formula, decent characters, decent story, all in all worth reading but not stellar.
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Most of the arrangements in the Popular Perfomer Series are full and interesting without being overly complex. This volume is no exeption although I would put it at the more advanced end, playing technique wise, in the PP Series. As with other PP volumes this one is also a bit thin. At least another 1/2 dozen tunes would fill these volumes out nicely and would motivate me to upgrade their reviews to five stars.
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good follow on release. helps to have read the earlier releases
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I got into DMZ relatively recently, so I've barreled through the entire series up to when Vol. 9 had just been released.  I'll give you a bit of my own opinion of the series so you can ground your reading of my review and whether or not my opinion is close to yours: I really enjoyed volumes 1-8, though I was a little alarmed at how they handled the (current?) end of Matty's relationship with Parco's regime (and Matty's own feelings about it), but I'm open to seeing how this all works in Brian Wood's vision for the characters.

Vol. 9 (M.I.A.) brought Matty back to square one in a way that wasn't terrible, but I felt its overall quality was dependent on how Wood decided to develop the story --it was an incomplete transition: if what came afterward was bad, then the transition in Vol. 9 was more forced than a wise move, if it was good than it was a great idea, etc.  So I was looking forward to Vol. 10, especially knowing now that Wood plans to wrap up the series in the foreseeable future.

Well, what we get in Vol. 10, Collective Punishment, is a quick read of some decent enough stories, but nothing really develops --in fact we're left with a number of open questions about several characters (which isn't a bad thing, but the entire volume felt like a set-up for much more interesting material later).  I couldn't help but wish that there had been more development of the main plot.  Instead, where we are at the end of Vol. 10 feels only slightly, very slightly, further along than where we were at the end of Vol. 9.  Thus, like Vol. 9, Vol. 10 feels like its quality is going to depend, in hindsight, on how the story after it develops because this arc is very intertwined.  I've got to say I never had this feeling after reading a volume as I did after finishing the first eight volumes.

Sigh...so the wait continues until Vol. 11.