This latest installment in writer Ed Brubaker’s run on the series has a premise which demonstrates the right way to use old continuity in a story.  And when I say “old continuity,” I mean a plot point from before I was born.  It’s a pretty famous one, though:  When current Captain America James “Bucky” Barnes […]

“DV8:  Neighborhood Threat” has the distinction of being one of the few Warren Ellis written comics that I wouldn’t even recommend to his completists.  That is, unless you want to see what it’s like when he can’t even muster up the energy to entertain himself and trades on shock value that won’t faze anyone familiar […]

King Radical, a motorcycle that used to be a unicorn, a monster who runs a chain of supermarkets, an ancient cult of tennis-playing South Americans, dolphins with guns, hamburgers made from Babe the Blue Ox, frost giants attacking McNinja’s hometown, and the awesome power of Frosty the Snow Monster!  There’s so much crazy stuff going […]

It turns out that all of the good buzz I’d heard about “X-Men:  First Class” before I saw it was entirely justified.  The film did a fantastic job in telling its own story of Charles Xavier, Erik Lehnsherr and the origins of the “X-Men” themselves.  It didn’t stick very close to how these events have […]

“DMZ” is nearing the end of its run as the series is set to conclude with issue #72.  By my calculations, this means that we’ll have at least two more collected editions to go before you can read the entire thing in paperback.  While it hasn’t reached the rarefied heights of other Vertigo titles like […]