“Thor:  The Dark World” had its virtues, but its plot certain wasn’t amongst them.  A bunch of incoherent gibberish about the evil plans of the Dark Elves that didn’t give Christopher Eccleston anything to work with as their leader, Malekith, it actively worked against my enjoyment of the film.  As these things go, Malekith was […]

For all of the fantastic stylistic tricks and uses of the form that creator Matt Kindt employs with this volume, its content can be summed up rather succinctly.  That said, this is the volume where everything goes wrong for our protagonists.  Now working with Harry Lyme and his crew again, as well as calling the […]

The thinking here is that whatever plans Cornell had for Wolverine’s death were subject to a fair degree of re-writing after the “Death of Wolverine” miniseries was announced.  It was speculated that after Marvel offered retailers a special incentive for the final issue of his current ongoing series, promising a big event in the process, […]

First it was “Young Avengers.”  Then came the announcement of this title.  At first, all those titles meant to me was that we were going to have to wait that much longer for the promised third volume of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s “Phonogram.”  Yet, “Young Avengers” turned out to be a very clever and […]