Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.:  The Return of Effie Kolb #1 (of 2) I like “Hellboy” stories as much as the next person, but do you know what they usually aren’t?  Scary. For whatever reason most comics pegged as horror don’t usually scare me. That includes the vast majority of “Hellboy” and Mignolaverse stories.  […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: King Thor (or Thor by Jason Aaron vol. 18) Seven years.  That’s how long Jason Aaron has been writing “Thor.”  It’s a virtual eternity in this comics marketplace where a creative team is kicked to the curb if their series doesn’t hit the ground running.  Aaron’s work on “Thor” has been consistently good […]

Here’s the second half of Matthew Rosenberg’s story and it doesn’t quite nail the same entertainingly downbeat vibe that the first one had.  That’s mainly because the story goes off in a lot of different directions in vol. 2. From funerals for friends, to finding out what Emma Frost has been scheming, to fighting forgotten […]

…write about the comic that it got me to buy.  I wasn’t planning on buying any of the other “Age of X-Man” series since “Marvelous X-Men” made for a pretty self-contained spine of the story.  It’s just that seeing Apocalypse in the role of someone who wants to let love live is so utterly bizarre […]

Out of the ashes of “Uncanny X-Men:  Disassembled” comes… something really strange.  By either regular “X-Men” standards or even their alternate universe stories.  “The Marvelous X-Men” collection makes up the spine of the “Age of X-Man” event as it collects the title miniseries, as well as the “Alpha” and “Omega” issues that kick it off […]

With “Invincible” and “The Walking Dead” no longer with us, the chances of me winding up with two Robert Kirkman-written books on my shelf to review is going to be an increasingly rare occurrence.  It’ll become even more so when one of the series I’m writing about here wraps up with its next volume. So […]

“The Man of Steel” was a decent enough start to Bendis’ run on “Superman” and “Action Comics.”  It showed he had a good handle on the character, even if the stories being set up didn’t really grab me.  “Phantom Earth,” however, is a big step in the right direction. It’s got a great setup for […]

That guy in the center of the cover for this volume certainly looks sinister, doesn’t he?  Like he’s just sitting there advertising to everyone who cares to look that he’s the new villain of this series.  That’s not an incorrect assumption to make. The thing is that The Doctor has a very personal connection to […]

When word broke a couple months ago that Brian Wood had been accused of sexual misconduct, again, I figured that his career was over.  Turns out that I was right because Dark Horse, who have been publishing the majority of his work over the past five years, stated that they would not be pursuing any […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars:  Doctor Aphra vol. 7 — A Rogue’s End So it turns out that this is the final volume of Doctor Chelli Aphra’s adventures.  The return of her deadliest adversary/employer makes a certain amount of sense (even if it was a dick move on Marvel’s part to spoil it in the solicitations), […]