Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Forged vol. 3:  The Abaddon Strike There are collected editions of series where I’ve put their first issues in this spot when they were originally solicited.  There’s also a new collected edition of a series whose first volume I did a podcast on with John.  So why am I giving the Above-the-Board […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Scalped Omnibus vol. 1 Dashiell “Dash” Bad Horse left his reservation years ago to escape the dead-end life he thought it represented.  Now he’s back to show everyone there what he’s learned in the intervening years.  There’s more to his story as he reconnects with old friends, enemies, exes and throws in with […]

From the far reaches of space, where they confronted some very angry sentient alien life, to the court of the Eternal Empress, the Forged team known as Scimitar-3 made quite the jump at the end of vol. 1.  Fortunately their capricious Empress is happy to get the chance to see one of the combat units […]

Cleo, Katie, Lux, Wade, and Will are living in the aftermath of a horrifying incident that happened on their local beach a year ago.  That was when some strange creatures emerged and abducted a lot of humans, including Cleo’s little brother Jakey.  She has yet to get over this, and all of her friends are […]

Vol. 1 of this series definitely had the feel of “This Is The Story I Had To Tell You Before I Could Tell You This One,” with its closing moments implying that things were finally going to get started here.  With regular human Lauren Thomas  having entered into a Golden Contract to have her boundless […]

Vol. 2 of “Hellblazer With the Serial Numbers Filed Off” finds its protagonist Ellie “Bloody ‘El” Hawthorne still dealing with all of the demons gifted as coins to bastards around London by one Theo Bolger.  He’s still trying to use these demons to remake the world, as he would like it to be, but his […]

Writer Tom Taylor has proved his superhero high-concept bonafides with his work on the “DCeased” series of miniseries and now he’s back with another maxiseries for the publisher.  This time the big idea is “What If the DC Universe, But in a Medieval Fantasy Setting.”  Which is how we get the Kingdom of El, ruled […]

Todd Parker has grown up with his grandfather constantly telling him about the story of Inoki Village.  Where there was a prophecy of an outsider with snow-colored skin who would lead them into the light… but actually got everyone killed instead.  It’s a story he knows by heart, and never thinks will have any greater […]

If you’re like me and you enjoyed “The Warworld Saga,” this is the follow up to that as we find out what happens when (wait for it…) Kal-El returns to Earth.  First on his agenda is making sure that the inhabitants of Warworld are now safe as they orbit the Earth as well as from […]

This comic comes with a cover price of $25. It’s not worth paying $25 to read. That’s partly because it’s only 152 pages. It’s mostly true because it’s just kind of “okay” in terms of quality. However, if you’re like me and you’re a fan of Bendis who also found it in a half-off bin […]