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 […]

The first volume of this series made a good case for following the ongoing adventures of Eddie Brock and his symbiote even though I’ve never really bothered with that before.  This second volume furthers that case in a way that pushes the series into some dark and disturbing territory. It starts off with Eddie in […]

Despite what the title to this collection may imply, it wasn’t part of the Great Color Cull of “X-Men” titles from last year.  “X-Men: Black” was the branding for a series of five one-shots which spotlighted various X-Men antagonists.  Or villains, depending on your perspective. Whichever way you think of these individuals and their motivations, […]

Here’s another title that you can add to the ranks of volumes where I started reading them before I went to bed and wasn’t able to stop until I had reached the end.  I had my doubts about the setup for this volume, coming so close on the heels of “Return of the Purple Man.” […]