While I enjoyed Jason Aaron’s run on this title well enough, it was missing the sense of purpose that Kieron Gillen has brought to his.  Aaron told several mostly entertaining stories that stood on their own with little interconnectedness. Gillen’s previous two volumes told their own stories as well, but also communicated a larger picture […]

Way back when I reviewed the first volume of this series I said that we’d likely have to wait until vol. 2 to find out if it had more to offer than quality references (to Grant Morrison’s signature run), weirdness, and great art.  The answer to that is no, except it doesn’t turn out to […]

Here’s another title from Donny Cates’ pre-fame days.  Not only does it fall into the same “Cancelled Early by Dark Horse” category that “The Paybacks” found itself in, but it’s also an early showcase for the talents of “Extremity’s” Daniel Warren Johnson.  It’s got a great setup too:  After establishing that the Ghost Fleet is […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: War of the Realms #’s 1 & 2 (of 6):   I’d say that Marvel’s big event series of the year has arrived, but the way they’re running things these days you can bet it’s just the first of them.  The odds are even that they’ll launch the next one before this wraps […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Sex vol. 6:  World Hunger:   Hey everyone, more “Sex!”  There’s been a lack of new “Sex” in the marketplace for a while so getting some new “Sex” is great news!  Best of all is that “Sex’s” return is going to be bigger and thicker than before! Better catch up on all the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Cover vol. 1 & Pearl vol. 1:   The former is about a comic book creator who is recruited to be an undercover operative by the CIA.  The latter is about a tattoo artist who is also a Yakuza assassin. Linking the both together is the fact that they’re both written by Brian […]

Brian Wood has turned out some good work on licensed titles, including “Star Wars,” “Conan,” and “Aliens,” over at Dark Horse, so checking out his take on “Robocop” from BOOM! was a no-brainer for me.  “Citizen’s Arrest” takes place thirty years after the events of the first movie with a resurgent Omni Consumer Products that […]

While this series hasn’t been on the level of writer Brian K. Vaughan’s best work, this penultimate volume actually puts it in a good place ahead of its finale.  The girls, along with along with the Future Tiffany they picked up in the previous volume, have landed in the far future of 2171 and are […]

The solicitations for this latest “Black Hammer” spinoff miniseries made it seem like it was borrowing a lot from James Robinson et. al.’s  classic series “Starman.” Not only was this set to feature a character with “Star” in his name, but it was also set up to revolve around the kind of fractured father/son relationship […]