Here’s a follow-up where its ceiling and floor are closer together in terms of quality.  Where vol. 1’s strength was in its portrayal of protagonist Luna Brewster’s mental issues, vol. 2 loses a little bit in that regard.  It’s been a year since the conspiracy-fueled bloodshed at her house, and Luna is now back at […]

It still sucks to be Nathan Bright.  After escaping the pay-per-view VR murder marathon from the previous volume, he now finds himself heading back to Earth with (former?) government operative Amanda Cross and her mercenary pals.  Why are they doing this after Earth was hit with a virus that has killed 18 billion of its […]

“Snowpiercer” didn’t actually need to be a trilogy of graphic novels.  The first one told a good self-contained story, the second expanded on it to diminishing returns and a hauntingly nihilistic ending, while the third actually managed to deliver a satisfying wrap-up to it all.  So when I heard that there was going to be […]

Warren Ellis has said in his newsletter that this will be the last volume of “Trees” for a while, if ever.  That’s because he’s got a number of other projects (mostly TV) in the offing and artist Jason Howard has his own thing that he’s been working on.  Unlike Ellis’ other ongoing series at Image, […]

We all expected Bendis was going to write a “Batman” story when he moved over to DC.  I just don’t think this was the story any of us expected him to write.  Originally serialized in twelve parts over the course of twelve of the Walmart-exclusive “Batman Giant” issues, before being repackaged as a standard six-part […]

…which is a good thing because after the events of the previous volume Dr. Banner and his friends/comrades/willing accomplices have found themselves in command of Shadow Base and all its resources.  Resources which will now be turned to furthering his and the Hulk’s ultimate goal: The destruction of the human world. Now, they’re not looking […]

It’s the end of an era.  This is the final volume of “Star Wars”… in the post-”A New Hope” era.  The next series will transition to the post-”Empire Strikes Back” period as Charles Soule and Jesus Saiz take over from the time-marking team of Greg Pak and Phil Noto.  As I mentioned last time, I […]

Guess what?  I did sell my copies of James Tynion IV’s run on “Detective Comics” and picked up this volume on a digital sale.  I’m only reviewing it now because morbid curiosity and $4 will only get you a place in my digital library.  If you want me to actually read the concluding volume of […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Chu #1: Writer John Layman spent a week teasing this spin-off to his and Rob Guillory’s signature series.  I say “spin-off” and not “sequel” because this looks to take place concurrently with “Chew,” albeit with a very different main character and focus.  Saffron Chu wasn’t talked about a whole lot in the series, […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Dreaming vol. 3:  One Magical Movement Vol. 1 was basically everything I wanted to see in a return to the world and characters created by Neil Gaiman.  Vol. 2 showed us what had been going on with Daniel and gave us an enchanting journey through the realms of fantasy while establishing the […]