I was planning on skipping this volume because I thought it was just a tie-in to the event.  Then I noticed it was labeled “vol. 3” and actually contained a proper issue of the series.  That being said, the two-issue tie-in from writer Gail Simone and artist Paolo Villanelli is the best part of this […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman:  City of Bane Complete Collection First of all, I am expecting this to be good.  Writer Tom King has been grinding Batman down for the past few volumes so that Bane’s takeover of Gotham will look convincing.  While it’s always hard to see the Dark Knight on the losing end of a […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Crossover #1 You know the story:  Donny Cates and Geoff Shaw first hit it big at Image with “God Country” before moving onto bigger things at Marvel.  Now they’re re-teaming at Image for a series that borrows a bit from their breakout title, and then goes much bigger with it.  While the solicitation […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation(s): I’m taking a mulligan on this month’s recommendations as Dark Horse is still getting their house in order post-shutdown.  What that means is not one, but TWO previous Above-the-Board Recommendations are being re-solicited here.  One of them is the “Harrow County Omnibus vol. 1” by writer Cullen Bunn, artist Tyler Crook, and more.  […]

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 […]