As you all know, Bendis unleashed a flurry of creator-owned projects when he arrived at DC.  “Pearl,” the story of a young tattoo artist who gets a crash course in her connections to the San Francisco Yakuza, is the only one of them to receive a follow-up at this point.  While I liked the first […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Joker 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1 Yes, I know what I said about DC needing an intervention regarding these anniversary issues.  This isn’t even the only one arriving this month: Catwoman is also celebrating her 80th anniversary in similar fashion in these solicitations.  Still… a Joker-centric anniversary issue feels like more […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Ludocrats #1 (of 5) This will have been in the pipeline for around five years before it finally hits print in April.  It’s hard to say that it’s something I’ve been eagerly anticipating beyond the fact that it’s a new miniseries written by Kieron Gillen.  Co-written, actually. Gillen’s former games journalist buddy […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: How to Read Comics the Marvel Way #1 (of 4) Reading (superhero) comics can be harder than it looks.  Sometimes that’s because the creators have created complex works that demand more from the reader than simply reading left-to-right in straight lines.  Other times that’s because the creators are so hopped up on fame, […]

I don’t think anyone expected “Avengers” to not have any tie-ins to the big crossover event that was “War of the Realms.”  Especially when its current writer was also busy writing the main event.  What we could expect was that it would have greater relevance to the inter-title fracas.  As these issues show, it does […]

It took only two volumes to get there, but it looks like “The Green Lantern” is going to be one of those rare Grant Morrison projects that don’t quite click.  These kinds of projects are where the writer gets so focused on conjuring up as many crazy ideas as he can that he forgets to […]

(Huh… I was looking for the link to this review to add to my review of the second volume of this series and couldn’t find it.  That’s a first for me. So if you’re wondering what I thought of vol. 2 after reading my thoughts here, come on back tomorrow.) After Geoff Johns gave us […]

There’s really only one question to ask regarding this miniseries.  Is it any good once you take Batman’s penis out of it? The flagship title for DC’s Black Label imprint sparked immediate infamy when it launched and the Caped Crusader’s batawang was visible in one scene.  In addition to spiking demand for this issue, it […]

I’ll say this right off the bat:  The first volume was not a fluke.  Vol. 2 of “Outer Darkness” cements its status as the best Image launch I’ve read this year.  Writer John Layman and artist Afu Chan serve up some more inspired stories in the series’ vein of “Star Trek” by way of “Ghostbusters” […]