Amazon was running a “Buy Two, Get One Free” sale a couple weeks back, and this was among the titles that I picked up while it was running.  I know that means I’ve arrived at this particular party over three years late — and as the series has undergone its latest relaunch — but writer […]

Though it sat on my shelf for a while, but “Bloodborne” wound up being the first “Souls-like” game that I finished.  While it can be a very engaging game to play, if you’re willing to commit what it asks of you, “Bloodborne” absolutely isn’t something that you play for its story.  What narrative it has […]

Killian is your average twentysomething layabout in Dublin, playing videogames in between doing jobs for the local mob.  What kind of jobs you ask?  The kind that usually involve disappearing a corpse into the local wetlands.  His partner on these jobs is an older, swearier gent named Keano, who has just come by with the […]

I thought that the first volume of Donny Cates and Lisandro Estherren’s Texas vampire family drama was alright.  The second one was too, though it didn’t do much to push the series off of my, “I’ll buy it at a deep discount,” list.  Vol. 3, however, is where this title has finally clicked for me.  […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: DRACULA, MOTHERF**CKER! It’s a 72-page original graphic novel that’s retailing for $17.  How did it manage to get the top spot for this round of solicitations — even though it’s also advance-solicited for October?  Well, it’s coming from writer Alex De Campi, who has shown she can deliver quality pulp with “Grindhouse” and […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: X of Swords:  Creation #1 Event season never stops at Marvel Comics these days.  What we’ve got here, however, is a gen-u-ine throwback here.  Not only is this strictly an “X-Men” event, but it’s the kind of inter-title crossover that used to be a staple of the line.  The last one of these […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation Octopath Traveller:  The Complete Guide Yes, I know this isn’t a comic.  It doesn’t even fully qualify as an artbook as the solicitation text and subtitle reveal that it’s also part strategy guide as well.  So what’s it doing here?  For one, it’s an extraordinarily slow September in these solicitations as Dark Horse […]

Well, I can’t call these “Previews Picks” anymore… Above-the-Board Recommendation: Superman’s Pal Jimmy Olsen:  Who Killed Jimmy Olsen? I think Matt Fraction is a very uneven writer.  His runs on “Invincible Iron Man,” “Uncanny X-Men,” and “Sex Criminals” were marked by parts that were really good, and parts that were really terrible.  The one series […]

David Bowie was a one-of-a-kind artist with an unmistakable style.  So it’s fitting that this biography of his life up through his time as Ziggy Stardust is illustrated and co-written by another one-of-a-kind artist with an unmistakable style:  Mike Allred.  I’ve made no secret of how much I love his work, and he really knocks […]

The Banks family has a long criminal history in the city of Chicago.  From Clara and her husband Melvin in the 70’s & 80’s, to her daughter Cora in the 90’s and 00’s, and her daughter Celia in the present day, they’ve all made money by being smart about who they steal from and never […]