Above-the-Board Recommendation: Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.:  The Seven Wives Club I’ll be honest, not much stood out to me in this round of solicitations.  Most of the trade paperbacks on offer either had some kind of issue holding them back or just seemed outright mediocre.  There were some promising-sounding miniseries coming from unknown (to me) […]

Going back to yesterday’s first volume of “Miles Morales,” if his latest adventures felt fun yet predictable, this new “Superior Spider-Man” is a more self-aware version of that.  Picking up from the “post-credits scene” of “Amazing Spider-Man #800,” Otto Octavius has a new body and identity. That of the newest professor at Horizon University in […]

This is the first volume of Miles Morales’ solo adventures not to be written by Bendis!  Those of you hoping for a dramatic departure from the kind of stories we got with the character before, however, should check their expectations.  New writer Saladin Ahmed does a good enough job of putting the title character through […]

My last order of graphic novels was held up for two weeks because I didn’t realize this particular volume was on backorder when I put it into my cart.  Cue two weeks of annoyed website checking as I waited for my order to finally ship. This wasn’t doing “Outer Darkness” any favors since as this […]

It’s the weekend of Comic Fest and Jacob Kurtz has a miserable task ahead of him.  He’s been asked to watch over legendary comics artist Hal Crane. Just to make sure that the man gets to his panels and doesn’t get into too much trouble before he accepts his lifetime achievement award.  That would be […]

Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca tackled the character as he worked his way out of disgrace in the wake of the Death Star’s destruction.  Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli showed us the character as he was just starting out and unknown to the galaxy at large.  Good “Darth Vader” stories like these have one thing […]

Vol. 1 ended somewhat incongruously with our happily married couple strung up over a tank filled with alligators.  Rather than handwave it away as “The kind of thing that happens in superhero comics,” writer Kelly Thompson has it tie into the main story as Gambit and Rogue find themselves in the Mojoverse.  The writer uses […]

The pun in the title of this Hope Nicholson-edited anthology from Dark Horse is that while “Pros” relates to the many professionals who contributed to it, it’s also full of prose as well.  It’s basically a fifty-fifty split between essays and comics about the convention experience.  So on one hand we’ve got shorts like “Only […]

Man, what is it about these “Black Hammer” spinoffs?  I like the main series well enough, but the miniseries that have been spun out of it, “Sherlock Frankenstein,” “Doctor Star,” and now this, have all been disappointingly conventional.  This is even though they’ve all been written by series creator Jeff Lemire.  I think the main […]

Jonathan Hickman’s “House of X” and “Powers of X” are halfway done and the response has been pretty good so far.  Critical acclaim, good word of mouth, strong sales — it sounds both are going to be great reads when I pick up the edition collecting them both in December.  However, out here in the […]