Above-the-Board Recommendation: X-Men:  Grand Design Omnibus The first three hundred issues of “X-Men” are unique among Marvel comics of that length in the sense that the majority of them were written by one person:  Chris Claremont. Even then there’s a lot of sprawl in his run and that’s even before you try to reconcile it […]

The last time I reviewed a volume of this title, I mentioned that Andrea Sorrentino’s art was what really made this series.  That continues to be true here in vol. 3 as we follow a couple of different plot threads there.  The first and longest of them involves one of the posse who went to […]

In case you were thinking that the appearance of Galactus on Earth, and Doom’s proclamation that he would be the one to save Earth from the Devourer this time, was some kind of cute interruption for the Thing’s wedding that would be quickly handwaved away, you were wrong.  “Herald of Doom” indeed has two of […]

Some people think that Spider-Man works best as a teen hero and that letting him grow up in the Marvel Universe was a mistake.  Writer Chip Zdarsky may or may not be one of them, but he’s the only writer who thought to ask, “What if Spider-Man grew up along with us over the years?”  […]

Waid has been writing superhero comics long enough that he knows their fans always need to see something new in their series.  So when this story implies with its title that he’s going to start working as the latest Herald of Galactus, I was willing to see where the writer would be going with this.  […]

“Hunted” is done and now it’s back to the fun stuff.  Or, relatively fun stuff in any event. There’s plenty of good times to be had in this volume.  Your enjoyment of them, however, will depend on how willing you are to put up with overly cryptic teases for this title’s future. Such as the […]

Bendis’ other “Superman” title got off to a strong start with its first volume.  Does his first go at “Action Comics” fare the same? Yes.  Yes it does. “Invisible Mafia” makes one thing clear almost from the start:  This is going to be the street-level “Superman” book. Where we’re more likely to see Clark Kent […]

Rankin used to be the best assassin in the world.  Then he got out of the game by taking over a crime syndicate.  Now his Pizda Ryu are the number two gang in the world and someone’s gunning for their leader.  So what’s the assassin formerly known as “Chekhov’s Gun” going to do about it? […]

We’re all familiar with some version of the story of “Snow White.”  A young princess is sent away to be murdered at the behest of her wicked stepmother, only to escape her fate, hang out with some dwarves for a while, eat an apple poisoned by said stepmother, fall into a deep sleep as a […]

G. Willow Wilson got her start doing creator-owned work on titles like the “Cairo” OGN and “Air” at Vertigo before she jumped ship to Marvel and hit it big creating Kamala “Ms. Marvel” Khan.  She’s now back at DC writing “Wonder Woman” and preparing to take over “The Dreaming,” but has still found time for […]