After introducing us to Forever Carlyle and her world in the first volume, writer Greg Rucka starts digging further into it with this new collection.  We see her the rigorous training she underwent to become the Lazarus of Family Carlyle and how she employs those skills to avert a terrorist threat in the present day. […]

Unlike a lot of other publishers, Avatar doesn’t seem to place many restrictions on sexual or violent content in its titles.  I imagine that kind of freedom is how they get writers like Garth Ennis, Warren Ellis, David Lapham, Kieron Gillen, and Alan Moore to write comics for them.  “No limits” is an appealing thing […]

After the first volume I couldn’t wait to read the conclusion to Cap’s adventures in Dimension Z!  Now that I’ve read it… well… it’s not quite on the same level   Maybe if it hadn’t started off with a terminally silly scene where Arnim Zola’s tachyon kung-fu powerhouse daughter Jet Black monologues about how much she […]

In case you had any doubts that Hickman’s two “Avengers” titles were different sides to the same story, this volume will put them to rest.  So if you’ve been putting off reading “New Avengers” for some reason — and the monthly sales numbers tell me that there are a lot of you — then consider […]