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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Over the course of “The Wicked + The Divine’s” run a series of six specials were released.  They were loved. They were hated. They were finally collected into one volume before the series wrapped up.  All of them, save for one story in the last were written by series writer Kieron Gillen and featured art […]