So I looked at the titles in my “to review” stack and realized that some of them have been there for quite some time.  In fact, it’s been over a month since I made a bulk order of new comics. Time to fix that, but what to do about the stuff I’ve been wanting to […]

The series that ranked as my “Best of 2018” comes around for its latest volume and things couldn’t be better, right?  Not quite. Things start off promisingly enough with a flashback to better, but still very murderous, days for Kretchmeyer back home and in Baltimore before segueing into the team-up from hell.  That’d be the […]

I talked about the first volume of this series in the “On Horror” podcast.  The short version is that while this horror-infused “Hulk” title isn’t scary, writer Al Ewing and artist Joe Bennett are still doing great, creative work best evidenced by one of its key revelations towards the end.  That would be the fact […]

As the latest volume in Tom King’s “Batman” run, there’s not a whole lot of the title character written by the writer in it.  Three issues from the main series and a four-page short from the “Secret Files.” That’s it. In fact, this is the first volume where a writer other than King, Tom Taylor, […]

Kelly Thompson writing both Hawkeyes again with Gwenpool, Quentin Quire, and America Chavez in tow, and Stefano Caselli providing the art!  SOLD! …aaand it’s gone.  That’s right, this latest incarnation of “West Coast Avengers” is a lame duck with its first volume after having been given the axe with issue #10.  Which is TERRIBLE since […]

Alright, so that first volume of “Domino” left some room for improvement as it shifted between intense character drama and freewheeling action-comedy less-than-gracefully.  This volume is an improvement in that regard as it focuses more on the latter than the former and the experience is a lot more enjoyable for it.  It opens up with […]

Here’s what I’m pretty sure is the last collected edition featured in the “Great Color Cull” of “X-Men” titles from last year.  It also makes a better case for itself this time around as the talk of changing the world takes a backseat to some well-crafted superhero action courtesy of writer Tom Taylor and artists […]

The first volume of “Oblivion Song” was disappointing in that it didn’t offer me anything I hadn’t seen before, let alone any real surprises.  This second volume actually does offer up one real surprise in that it wraps up the main story thread a lot sooner than I was expecting.  I figured we’d be dealing […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Criminal:  Bad Weekend HC When I was talking about the two-issue “The Orville” miniseries in the Dark Horse Previews Picks, I mentioned that you could make a collection out of a two-issue miniseries.  It’s effectively price-gouging your audience, especially if you put it in a hardcover, but you could do it. Now, guess […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Wild Storm vol. 4 Warren Ellis and Jon Davis-Hunt’s reimagining of the Wildstorm Universe has been light-years away from how it was originally conceptualized and is all the better for it.  The WU’s initial success was driven by the hype it had from the Image launch along with the fact that it […]