Apparently Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso decided not to take a mulligan with this series and returned for a second volume.  I wasn’t really inclined to give it a shot after how the first volume turned out, but this one was on sale for 50% off so I figured I’d give it a shot.  It […]

The last time we saw the good Doctor things had become real dark.  Like, mindwiping her girlfriend to believe that she had killed her in order to escape Darth Vader dark.  In the end, Aprha’s efforts only served to get her out of the frying pan when it was revealed that her new alien friend […]

Vol. 1 of Waid’s run left off on an incredible cliffhanger which suggested that the Strange we had been following wasn’t actually the real one.  The writer wastes no time in resolving this setup for the first arc of this volume and it turns out I had it wrong. In fact, what’s really going on […]

Even if Slott doesn’t reinvent the wheel with these two volumes, there’s still fun to be had.  Vol. 1, “Fourever,” does the dirty work of getting the family back together after years of corporate-mandated separation.  Reed, Sue, Valeria, Franklin, and the Future Foundation’s efforts to rebuild the multiverse come to an abrupt, and needlessly harsh, […]

Two volumes in and there are certainly things I like about Scott Snyder (and James Tynion IV’s) run on “Justice League” so far.  Chief among them is the fact that each volume is a smaller part of a much larger story that’s being told. We can see that in the opening issue which follows Luthor’s […]

Sadly, this isn’t the volume where we get to see Hulk punch Mephisto in the face.  The “hell” that Hulk and the rest of the cast were pulled into at the end of the previous volume is a more desolate place which is filled with the talking shells of the dead people closest to them.  […]

While I have yet to read the actual issue where Peter Parker revealed that he was Spider-Man to longtime antagonist J. Jonah Jameson, I have to admit that this development has worked out really well in the “Spider-Man” series I do read.  Rather than broadcast this secret to the world, Jameson has since become the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Harleen #1 I was very tempted to pick something else for this spot, until I realized that I’d rather wait to read that in softcover.  Even though I’ll be waiting to read this new Black Label miniseries when it’s collected I’ll be buying it when it comes out.  Regardless of whether it’s in […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rumble #16 Wait, WHAT!? That’s right, #15 isn’t the last issue of this series.  I keep expecting the hammer to come down with each arc, but I’m glad to be proven wrong here.  There’s a catch with this latest issue, however. It’s the start of an anthology arc featuring short stories about the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man:  Life Story When Spider-Man debuted in 1962, Peter Parker was 15 years old.  57 years later and he’s… what, twenty-something in his comics right now?  Yes, aging does work kind of funny in superhero comics that have been published continuously for that long.  But what if Spider-Man had aged in real time […]