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Batman vol. 5: The Rules of Engagement

When two super-characters decide to tie the knot, the one thing you can expect to come from that decision is drama.  Even if the two characters involved have no superpowers to speak of. So with Batman and Catwoman set to get married in two volumes’ time they’ve got to get their houses in order.  Actually, […]

Murcielago vol. 6

The previous volume teased this one as promising the most “taboo” content yet.  Given how this series has played out so far, that came off as much of a threat as a promise.  While it’s hard to say whether or not this is the envelope-pushing-est volume of the series to date, following one that focused […]

Dastardly & Muttley

Maybe I should just stop bothering with Garth Ennis’ comedic works.  “Sixpack & Dogwelder” was awful, “Jimmy’s Bastards” best bits didn’t involve comedy, and now “Dastardly & Muttley” looks to have been hamstrung by its association with DC’s “Hanna-Barbera Universe.”  I may be being a bit generous with that assessment because there are parts of […]

Amazing Spider-Man: Venom Inc.

There’s one great moment in this crossover between “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Venom” where the villain Maniac gets his hands on a symbiote and starts spreading it around to build his own criminal empire.  It comes after Spider-Man is captured by him at one point and winds up getting mind-controlled by a bit of symbiote to […]

Punisher: The Platoon

No one writes “Punisher” better than Garth Ennis.  His initial run with Steve Dillon brought the character back to basics and showed that he could work in dark comedy situations just as well as straight up action scenarios.  Then the MAX run followed and the shift to a mature readers format allowed Ennis to take […]

Battle Angel Alita: Mars Chronicle vol. 2

Well, that was quick. The first volume of Alita’s latest series had me expecting that it’d be a while before we caught up to her present-day post-”Last Order” exploits.  Vol. 2 of “Mars Chronicle” starts out by immediately going “nope” to my expectations and starts off with Alita and Erica meeting at the site of […]

All-Star Batman vol. 3: The First Ally

With this, Scott Snyder’s “Batman” victory lap comes to a close.  The first two volumes were pretty enjoyable even if they weren’t swinging for the fences in the way that the writer’s work with Greg Capullo on the main series did.  For this third volume, Snyder teams with his “American Vampire” partner Rafael Albuquerque for […]

Uber vol. 6

If you’ve been following this series in trade paperback form like I have then there’s no denying that “Uber” has returned to a time where its subject matter does it no favors.  Kieron Gillen and confirmed regular artist Daniel Gete’s story of how the Nazis discovered the technology to make supermen and turned the tide […]