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Weekly Comic Book Review, is an American blog
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 founded by Jason Montes featuring various comic book reviews.

The blog is valuable to comic book fans, providing current and upcoming comic book reviews so readers can get a critics perspective before deciding to purchase. WCBR is also important to comic book authors who receive feedback on their work from both reviewers and its readers who discuss comics on the site just like any other literary work. Reviews from WCBR are often reprinted or referred to as authoritative and thoughtful reviews.

Young Liars
Young Liars (comics)
Young Liars is a comic book series created by David Lapham. It was published by DC Comics as a part of that company's Vertigo imprint. The first issue was released in March 2008....

used a review written by WCBR to promote issue #4, quoting and crediting them on the front page of their comic as follows, "not a panel of line of dialogue that's meaningless or wasted." The comic reviews by WCBR were also cited on the backs of issues 2, 3, and 5 of Kick Ass.

In the late-90's, founder Montes worked as a journalist for IGN and PlayStation: The Official Magazine
PlayStation: The Official Magazine
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. In 1998 Montes began to work for a web consulting firm, and hoped to work in film animation. Montes started Weekly Comic Book Review with his first post on January 17 of 2008 posting under the name deamentia. In the following months, Montes began recruiting members of the comic community to write for his blog. His life came to a tragic end in January 2009 and the blog lost soon its domain. According to Weekly Comic Book Review, their domain expired and was purchased by a domain reseller who demanded a high fee to get the site back. On April 20, 2009 the magazine received an anonymous donation and was able to buy back their domain.
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