Above-the-Board Recommendation: Giant-Size X-Men by Jonathan Hickman [and Friends!] For all intents and purposes, this is essentially another volume of Hickman’s “X-Men.”  Call it vol. 2.5 if you want, as it will likely wind up between vols. 2&3 on my shelf.  The main reason for that is because each of the five issues collected here […]

After a short stint as part of a chain gang, Lou Pirlo has finally made it to Rue Le Jour in New Orleans.  It’s here that he meets up again with his paramour Delia, who has reunited with her sisters.  (Or are they her mothers, who can really say?)  Delia has asked them to help […]

If you see the word “Lepus” in the title and are thinking that this volume is going to involve some form of monstrous rabbit, then you’d be right!  The question then becomes which part of the volume will revolve around the threat of a rabbit.  Will it feature into the opening chapter, which is about […]

I’ve liked what I’ve read from writer Christopher Cantwell so far.  The thing is that what he’s written so far has been defined by a fairly aggressive strand of quirkiness.  He loved piling it on over the two volumes of “She Could Fly,” which would’ve suffocated under it without the strong characterizations the writer afforded […]

It only took creators Rick Remender and Wes Craig nine volumes to get around to it, but they’ve finally embraced the most 80’s of film genres with this volume:  The slasher movie.  Remember how Helmut’s dead girlfriend Petra was raised by a murder cult?  They’re who the metalhead, along with Toshawi, is going to kill […]

Two cops walk into a warehouse and it turns out to be a gateway to Hell is the gist of what happened in the first volume of this series from Garth Ennis and Goran Sudzuka.  “A Walk Through Hell” was billed as a horror series, and it was one that I didn’t find all that […]

In case you hadn’t heard, Marvel put out another event relating to their marketable-only-for-nostalgic-purposes “2099” series of comics last year.  “Amazing” writer Nick Spencer wrote the bookend issues and ties the whole thing into this series here.  Not very well if I’m to judge as someone who is just reading the main “Spider-Man” series.  Miguel […]

Even if it wasn’t that great, Gerry Duggan’s “Infinity Wars”  event and tie-ins at least showed me that I didn’t have to fear reading something from the writer.  Not after he drove my interest in reading his further adventures of “Deadpool” into the ground all those years ago.  Now he’s part of the “Dawn of […]

If you’ll recall, I was quite keen on catching up with this series after reading through vol. 3.  I’ve done just that after reading through vol. 4 and seeing the results of the Bowman family’s trip to Mexico.  “Ill-fated” doesn’t really begin to describe it as things kick off with patriarch JV murdering a human […]

…this is just two issues worth of story stretched into a six-issue miniseries. Much of Bendis’ decompressed comics work over at Marvel didn’t bother me the way that it did other fans.  Giving his characters’ dialogue time to breathe made things feel more natural and helped draw me in to their stories that much better.  […]