As the penultimate volume in this series, vol. 8 certainly reads like one that’s getting everything set up for the big finale.  It begins some time after the cataclysmic events of vol. 7 with Grant and his (ex)wife Sara having jumped to a dimension that has dedicated itself to looking after people like them.  By […]

Man, what a run!  After starting as part of the “Brand New Day” writers team in 2008, Dan Slott took over writing “Amazing Spider-Man” solo in 2010 and kept writing it until late last year.  That’s an impressive, almost unimaginable, run by modern superhero comic standards and what makes it even more remarkable is that […]

Who is the Queen of Palm Court and why is she in this volume’s subtitle?  That would be one Annie Chesswick, the “cool mom” of this suburban community who is dedicated to looking as good as she can and isn’t averse to helping the mall cops deal some weed on the side for some extra […]

Donny Cates has certainly proved his worth working on fill-in arcs at Marvel.  “Thanos Wins” and “Doctor Strange:  God of Magic” could’ve come off as dull cash-grabs as the titles marked their time towards cancellation and relaunch, respectively.  Instead, Cates decided to use the fact that neither of his runs were expected to matter in […]

I was at the Comic-Con panel where writer Scott Snyder enthusiastically hyped up (and spoiled parts of) his upcoming run on this series.  It was hard not to get a little excited about it given how he was telling us how this would be the biggest, baddest, and maddest superhero spectacle he had cooked up […]

Simon Spurrier loves his high concepts.  Which is why his new Vertigo miniseries isn’t just about mother and daughter bounty hunters working out their tortured history while on a job.  No, it’s about mother and daughter bounty hunters working out their tortured history while on a job in a futuristic world where people can easily […]

If there was any consensus about “Solo:  A Star Wars Story” it was that Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian was the best part of the movie.  So it’s only natural that we should get a miniseries that owes a lot to that particular take on this character.  Writer Rodney Barnes and artist Paolo Villanelli do a […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Wicked + The Divine vol. 8:  Old is the New New When an ongoing series produces spin-off miniseries or one-shots one of three things can happen to them:  They won’t be collected. They’ll be collected alongside issues of the regular series. They’ll be collected in their own special volume, which is what […]

This makes two straight volumes of this series that haven’t managed to disturb or shock me with their plot developments.  Could this mean that “Murcielago” is finally starting to trade on storytelling skill rather than shock value?  Only if your tastes trend towards psychopathic badass women facing off against equally bad opponents in over-the-top matches […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Fortune and Glory:  A True Hollywood Story Yes, this is the third edition of this particular comic after it was originally published by Oni, and reprinted by Marvel in a colorized hardcover edition.  It’s still one of the best things Bendis has ever done and deserving of a spot in everyone’s library even […]