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 […]

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 […]

Doctor Chelli Aphra is the “Star Wars” equivalent of Indiana Jones with more flexible moral standards.  When given such a character to write you’d think that most writers would settle for having her find a lead on an old Jedi/Sith/Republic artifact and come up with some clever moral/physical complications for her to overcome in pursuing […]

The Odinson may be back on the job as Thor, but he’s still without a Mjolnir.  Good thing that he’s got his friends in the League of Realms to make him all the hammers he needs.  He’s going to need them too after Loki shows up with an offer to send him right where he […]

Nick Spencer and Ryan Ottley delivered a solid reason to keep reading “Amazing Spider-Man” in the post-Slott era with the previous volume.  Ottley is off for this volume and veteran Spider-artist Humberto Ramos is on for this volume, but he and Spencer keep the good times rolling here.  He gets on my good side almost […]

“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 […]

Writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente have some interesting ideas about what to do with Sabretooth in these volumes.  They start with having him lead the team on a mission to Russia that has the feral one tangling with none other than Omega Red.  He actually manages to strike up a bond with the […]

Thanks to the magic of (limited) press passes, John, Myron, and myself all made the trip down to WonderCon in Anaheim this year.  We only went down for Saturday but we were still able to cram in a lot of worthwhile sightseeing, shopping, and panels into the trip.  As for the panels, we didn’t get […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Heavy Liquid There are a few reasons I’m completely in the tank for any major project from Paul Pope.  This is one of them. “Heavy Liquid” was originally a five-issue prestige format miniseries from DC/Vertigo in the late 90’s.  It’s about a man known only as S who is hooked on the title […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Miles Morales:  Spider-Man vol. 1 — Straight Out of Brooklyn While Miles Morales has been written by other people in the past, his solo adventures were exclusively handled by co-creator Brian Michael Bendis prior to his departure from Marvel to DC.  This volume represents the first time another creator will be writing Miles’ […]