It’s been said that the only thing keeping nuclear war from breaking out is that The People In Charge just don’t want it to.  If it breaks out and wrecks everything then what happens to cat videos on YouTube?  Buying an awesome car, tricking it out, and then racing it down a neighborhood street in […]

Diana’s career in the Absolute Universe got off to a hell of a start in vol. 1 when she defeated the monster known as the Tetracide and saved her mother Circe from Hades’ clutches.  She also knows that something is deeply wrong in the world of man and is not going to stop until it’s […]

Private Otis Fallows didn’t have to think.  All he had to do was follow the orders from General McCoy, head of the Gaines Army Base in Southern Nevada.  The General was overseeing a nuclear test and ordered his men to investigate the fallout from it.  When they did, that’s when the people closest to it […]

Marco Mancini was free of the Shrouded College when he helped Sebastian and Maia in their struggle against the Poor Man.  That help cost him his life and left his wife, Violetta, a widow.  Even if it was working with his friends that got him killed, Violetta knows that it was all due to the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DNX #1 (of 5) Marvel is sure going event-crazy in their recent solicitations.  What with “Avengers:  Armageddon” and “Queen in Black” having kicked off in the June solicits and this kicking off here.  Of the three, this is the one I’m most interested in because you can draw a clear line to it […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DC/Marvel:  The Cosmic Kiss Caper and Other Stories As if it could be anything else this month.   I was worried for a minute that we’d have to wait for another omnibus-style collection of DC/Marvel stories; but, thankfully both publishers aren’t doing that and we’re getting collections of their sides of these crossovers […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Wrestle Heist Wrestling promoters suck.  The one in this story sucks even more because his actions have led to multiple wrestlers getting crippled and having to quit their chosen profession.  So it’s not a hard decision for them to try and get their revenge by robbing the promoter blind during the biggest show […]

Kal-El of Krypton is trying to do what’s best for the planet that he now calls home, but its inhabitants haven’t made it easy for him.  Chief among them is the president of the Lazarus Corporation:  Ra’s Al Ghul.  Publicly, he’s your average self-involved billionaire businessman.  Privately, he’s several centuries old, having revived himself multiple […]

Miles Morales came from the first Ultimate Universe, but he and his family have acclimated pretty well to the regular (616) Marvel Universe.  The Maker came from there too, which is why he offered this Spider-Man the chance, in the form of a blank card, to come to the new universe he was making.  While […]