I’ve been a suscriber for years and Entertainment Weekly’s latest issue is another one of their “Best Ever” extravaganzas.  Not only are they picking the best movies, books, music, TV shows, and plays of all time, but they’ve also got assorted “top ten” sidebars strewn throughout these lists in question.  They’ve always been a graphic-novel […]

As predicted, now that my expectations have been adjusted to where I’m not anticipating this series to be instant greatness on the level of “Y:  The Last Man” or “Ex Machina,” its charms are a lot more evident.  Chief amongst them is the way Brian Vaughan continues to expand the cast of the series with […]

Continuing on with Brian Wood’s work-for-hire endeavors we come to his take on Dark Horse’s “Conan” series which I’ve also been anticipating.  “Northlanders” was entertaining and even thought provoking at times, but it never really evolved into a must-read series as the stories being told there often felt like on-the-nose metaphors for our current world […]

The title is technically a misnomer as the “first” volume of Brian Wood’s run on this title was his contribution to the “Divided We Fall, United We Stand” crossover a few months back.  Though I’ve been hyped for his run ever since it was announced that he’d be taking over this title, that storyline turned […]

I met up with some friends last weekend.  One of them I hadn’t seen in a couple years and we caught up on some of the manga that had come out since we had last gotten together.  She was surprised to learn that “Blade of the Immortal” had wrapped up in Japan, and we all […]

This represents Greg Rucka’s swan song with the character (and with Marvel for the forseeable future) and I was all set to enjoy it. The third volume ended strongly and with the Avengers being brought in as antagonists, things looked like they were headed to the next level.  Unfortunately that turns out to be a […]

While I’m always up for a good science-fiction story, this title also had the benefit of Robert Kirkman’s seal of approval since it comes via the writer’s Skybound imprint at Image.  Unfortunately Kirkman’s endorsement was misapplied here as the first volume of “Clone” introduces us to Dr. Luke Taylor and his predicament in terms more […]

Crossover season continues and kicks into even higher gear this month as the “X-Men” get in on the action now.  “Battle Of The Atom” begins an event centered around the “All-New X-Men” and has that title’s premise coming full circle.  You knew that those X-Men from the past were going to have to go back […]

Picking up where the “Avengers vs. X-men” spinoff fight title left off is this new anthology series teaming up — wait for it — an Avenger and an X-man in adventures that are as wacky as they are random.  That’s the catch here as most of these stories have very little significance to them outside […]

We’ve got several new #1’s premiering this month: four ongoing titles and two one-shots. There’s one more if you count Howard Chaykin’s “Century West” graphic novel as one too. Speculators should take note that two of the ongoing titles are marked as “Gems of the Month” and are coming from established creators. I imagine that’s […]