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Dark Horse Previews Picks: July 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Empowered vol. 11 Hey, it’s about goddamn ti–  I mean, it’s great to see another volume of Adam Warren’s consistently great superhero parody/actual superhero series.  Yes, he’s been putting out spinoff miniseries like “Soldier of Love” and “Sistah Spooky’s High School Hell” with different artists, but there’s no replacing the feeling that you […]

Marvel Previews Picks: July 2019

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 1:  The Final Gauntlet There were a few things that I was considering for this spot.  However, I’d either just mentioned them a few months ago or was planning on issuing a backhanded recommendation, which would defeat the purpose of the whole thing.  So I settled on this […]

Hey Kids! Comics

In the afterword to Howard Chaykin’s roman a clef about the comics industry, he does his best to explain why he didn’t make it more obvious who the characters were based on — Stan Lee and Jack Kirby excluded.  He essentially says that the point of the story wasn’t to have it be a game […]

Black Hammer vol. 3: Age of Doom, Part 1

There’s a moment early on in this volume that portends the worst for this series.  It involves Lucy Weber, who picked up her father’s hammer at the end of the previous volume to become the new Black Hammer, and how she’s finally remembered everything and is going to tell the cast how they can finally […]

Extermination

When Bendis brought the original five X-Men — Cyclops, Beast, Iceman, Angel, and Jean Grey — to the present day in “All-New X-Men” there was only one way their story was going to end.  That would be with them going back to their original time. This is something that the writer never demonstrated that he […]

Mr. & Mrs. X vol. 1: Love & Marriage

“Rogue & Gambit:  Ring of Fire” was one of last year’s most pleasant comic surprises in that it managed to make the title characters’ romance seem interesting again.  To the point that their surprise wedding in the pages of “X-Men: Gold” actually made a certain amount of sense. Now they’ve got their own ongoing series […]