Grant Morrison was a huge influence on My Chemical Romance frontman/”Umbrella Academy” writer Gerard Way.  So it’s probably not too surprising that Way has decided to put his own spin on Morrison’s groundbreaking “Doom Patrol” run as the inaugural title for his Young Animal imprint.  It also means there’s a lot of hero worship for […]

The first story in this volume contains something I never thought I’d see:  Good art from Felipe Andrade.  In his work on other titles like “Ultimate X-Men” and “Siege:  Battleworld” he usually took “stylistic exaggeration” to mean that he had the freedom to deliver characters that looked like twisted, misshapen lumps of their usual selves. […]

The title of this volume refers to the group of people who have had their lives ruined by the collateral damage from that no-good Batman and his vigilante antics.  What’s their plan for revenge?  Why to become supervillains themselves and cause some collateral damage of their own as they work to take down Batman, and […]

In what was likely an attempt to keep the sales magic of “Fables” going for the increasingly moribund Vertigo imprint, writers Lilah (formerly Matthew) Sturges and Dave Justus have delivered unto us “Everafter.”  I realize that description makes it sound like a cynical cash-in, but Sturges has a long history writing other “Fables” projects both […]

After fifteen volumes, and roughly two and a half years since the start of this title’s publication in English, we were finally going to learn Koro-sensei’s origin with vol. 16.  So yes, I was pretty excited to finally read this volume.  Having read it… I wouldn’t classify my disappointment as “crushing” but I was expecting […]

Hard as it may be to believe now, but there was a time when I actually enjoyed reading Mark Millar’s work.  With regards to his superhero work at Marvel, he had a real knack for coming up with high-concept storylines that got to the heart of the characters he was writing.  Such was the case […]

Forget the previous “Batman” series to bear this title.  This time around “All-Star” is the victory lap for Scott Snyder after he, along with Greg Capullo, delivered some of the best “Batman” stories in recent memory with their run on the “New 52” incarnation of the title.  While that series worked because it managed to […]

He’s one of the best and most prolific writers of superhero comics, but not everything he puts out is a home run.  Take Champions vol. 1:  Change the World as an example.  Subsequent to the events of “Civil War II” along with a general disappointment at how adult superheroes tackle their job, Kamala “Ms. Marvel” […]

While the release schedule for DC’s once-celebrated Vertigo imprint continue to thin out with each passing month, it’s still in better shape than Marvel’s was-almost-kinda-sorta-a-contender creator-owned imprint Icon.  It launched with the first issue of the second volume of “Powers” by Bendis and Oeming and in that moment it looked like the imprint could be […]