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.  […]

How does the better of Bendis’ two “Superman” titles follow up a pretty great first volume?  By putting almost everything it started there on the back burner in order to build hype for “Event Leviathan.”  It’s why this volume starts off with Jimmy Olsen infiltrating the Kobra cult only to become a firsthand witness to […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Lois Lane:  Enemy of the People You tell me that this maxiseries is about the title character uncovering a secret that could threaten her husband’s life and disrupt the balance of power in the DCU and I’d say that I’m interested.  Then you tell me that it’s coming from writer Greg Rucka and […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Scumbag #1 Rick Remender is at it again. With “Low,” his series with artist Greg Tocchini, wrapping up in these solicitations the writer is starting a new one with artist Lewis LaRosa.  As the title implies, the protagonist for this new series is a real piece of work.  Ernie Ray Clementine is […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Alien:  The Original Screenplay HC I’m mentioning this hardcover here less for my expectations of its overall quality than what it represents.  As with all collected editions solicited from Dark Horse, “Alien:  The Original Screenplay” is advance-solicited by two months.  Which means it will come out in December — an “under the wire” […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Warhammer 40,000:  Marneus Calgar #1 (of 5) I’ve heard of “Warhammer” over the years, of which “40,000” is its future sci-fi version, yet I’ve never really had a reason to really take an interest in it.  Until now, as you may have guessed.  That’s because in acquiring the “Warhammer” license from Games Workshop, […]

Volume one was no fluke and vol. 2 of “Hillbilly” brings more of the same “Backwoods Appalachian ‘Conan’” charm to its table.  This time wanderer Rondel and his Devil Cleaver mix it up with an actual legendary creature, the Tailypo, in a cautionary tale about the dangers of eating tail meat.  There are also stories […]