What’s the best way to get me to pick up a title in single issue form?  Don’t collect the issues in a trade paperback.  That way I’ll have no alternative but to buy the title in its first-run form.  Unless the title was mediocre, that is.  Such is the fate that awaits DC’s “The Green […]

If you’ll recall, I was quite bitter about where writer Jeff Lemire left Buddy Baker in the wake of the “Rotworld” crossover.  I felt that the climax of the story had broken the fundamental appeal of the character as the “family man” superhero and that any kind of “journey back to the status quo” was […]

I don’t know if co-writers Robert Kirkman and Andy Diggle realized that master thief Conrad Paulson’s son Augustus was the biggest drag on the proceedings of the last volume, but it sure reads like they’re trying to make amends for it here.  After an opening where cartel ringleader Lola tells Conrad that he wants ten […]

After twelve volumes of sometimes wildly varying quality, Matt Fraction has ceded control of Tony Stark to a writer who has yet to disappoint me with anything that he has written:  Kieron Gillen.  With that in mind, I came into his first volume of “Iron Man” fully expecting to be quite entertained even though Greg […]

There’s not a whole lot to say about this, save for the fact that it was exactly what I was expecting and just as good as that too.  Rick raises his army, pulls up to Negan’s pad and unleashes hell — in the form of an army of zombies.  From there, the conflict evolves with […]

If there’s one thing to take away from “Infinity,” it’s that if you’re going to tell the story of an epic war you really need the space in order to do it.  Hickman had eighteen issues to work with, some of which were extra-sized, and the story benefitted immensely from having room to breathe.  In […]

Last night we got our first major superhero guest star as Lady Sif teamed up with the Agents to track down the villainous Lorelei.  This was the most entertained I’ve been by the show since the pilot.  Though the story wasn’t anything special — Lorelei seeks to raise an army to take over Midgard, brings […]

This is a series that I want to like.  Unfortunately the premise of “FBP” is at odds with the blue-collar, honest government employees fighting the good fight procedural that it makes itself out to be.  The idea is that our world is now experiencing localized failures of physics and the U.S. government has created a […]

Back in December for my “Image Previews Picks” for March, I mentioned that they were putting out a number of comics relating to David Lapham’s long-running, long-dormant-until-now crime comic “Stray Bullets.”  They consisted of a concluding issue (#41) for the ongoing series, the first part of a new eight-issue miniseries called “Killers,” and the one […]

I can only speak for myself, but when Ed Brubaker finished his run on “Captain America” I was glad to see the end of it.  It was a run that had started off quite strongly before steadily losing steam a little over halfway through when it seemed that the writer thought it would be more […]