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 […]

Yes, I did get a lot of “Star Wars” comics in my most recent order of comics.  “Rebels & Rogues” is the last of them, and the best as well. Rather than spend its time telling one story, vol. 13 decides to tell three instead.  As an onslaught of Imperial probe droids scan the galaxy […]

I hate to dash anyone’s hopes but this is not a tie-in to or spinoff of the beloved “Tie Fighter” PC space combat sim from the 90’s.  Instead, it’s a look at “Shadow Wing,” one of the Empire’s elite Tie Fighter squads. Its current members — 2nd Lt. Commander Teso Broosh, Sr. Lt. Jeela Brebtin, […]

With a new numbered “Star Wars” movie due out in a couple weeks, tradition dictates that we’re due another “Journey to” comic ahead of it.  Where “Shattered Empire” showed us what things were like for everyone immediately after “Return of the Jedi” and “Captain Phasma” was a nice character portrait of and continuity fix for […]

A “Star Wars” story inspired by the new themed land of the same name at Disneyland?  I was all but prepared to pass on this because such a premise sounded deeply skippable.  Now that I’ve actually read through it, I can say that it’s a fair bit better than that and actually makes me want […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Weather Man vol. 2 There are the new Image titles that I buy with the expectation that they’ll be good (lookin’ in your direction “Die”) and those that I buy with the expectation that they might be good.  The first volume of “The Weather Man” was firmly in the latter category when […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman:  Creature of the Night HC Around 15 years ago, Kurt Busiek wrote, with Stuart Immonen providing the art, a “Superman” miniseries called “Secret Identity.”  It was set in the real world and followed a young boy with the name of Clark Kent. Mind you, this was a world where “Superman” existed in […]