I’ve waxed poetic about Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s “Batman” run enough on this blog that you all should know I think it’s pretty great.  So it should come as no surprise that I was really looking forward to this volume which was billed as their last word on the character — well before the […]

The first volume of the flagship series of the “Dawn of X” era has arrived.  As written by “House of X/Powers of X” mastermind Jonathan Hickman, it’s not unreasonable to expect that the stories being told within this series will be driving the line as a whole.  So the expectation is that we’d be getting […]

The history of the Marvel Universe is a living, breathing thing that changes with each new comic published.  It’ll look different from one year to the next, and possibly even unrecognizable between decades.  So the idea that someone was going to do a comic that was going to outline it all, up to the point […]

I wasn’t sure why we needed another random “Amazing Spider-Man” one-shot when this was solicited, but the creative team attached to it sold me on the idea of picking it up (eventually).  Contributing to this story are (deep breath):  Jonathan Hickman, Chris Bachao, Gerry Duggan, Greg Smallwood, (current Spider-Writer) Nick Spencer, Mike Allred, Kelly Thompson, […]

Aliens are invading!  Los Angeles is doomed!  The world is next, unless its superheroes can convince the one man capable of saving it to do so!  That man:  Peter Cannon, a man who is capable of seeing nine times more than others due to the scrolls of a dead people who were unjustly wiped from […]

In the years since I finished with Eric Powell’s signature series, “The Goon,” he’s returned to it and is two volumes into the latest series.  While I’m not about to see if it’s worth reading again, his Image miniseries with Tim Wiesch, “Big Man Plans,” made it clear that I should still make time for […]

How successful was the launch of this new series from Kieron Gillen and Dan Mora?  So successful that initial orders to comic shops cracked the 50k barrier.  So successful that the first issue went into EIGHT printings.  So successful that what was originally going to be a miniseries, was upgraded to an ongoing series.  That […]

I really liked the first volume of Bendis’ “Superman,” but vol. 2 sees him falling back into some of his bad habits.  Specifically, wanting to enact major plot developments without putting in the work to make them feel earned.  This starts off with the return of a now-teenaged Jonathan Kent, last seen when his  grandfather […]

I wasn’t planning on writing a review of this volume, or any of the other first volumes coming out of the “Dawn of X” relaunch.  No, my original plan was to bring in Myron and Rob (who was supposed to be with us on that podcast but had some last-minute scheduling conflicts) so we could […]

Vol. 1 of Coates’ run reminded me of the most annoying parts of Ed Brubaker’s run.  Vol. 2 gave us a good super-hero-in-a-super-prison story.  Vol. 3 does a bang-up job of threatening to derail my interest in this series.  Part of that’s due to a confusing plot which initially starts off with the return of […]