Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rumble #16 Wait, WHAT!? That’s right, #15 isn’t the last issue of this series.  I keep expecting the hammer to come down with each arc, but I’m glad to be proven wrong here.  There’s a catch with this latest issue, however. It’s the start of an anthology arc featuring short stories about the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man:  Life Story When Spider-Man debuted in 1962, Peter Parker was 15 years old.  57 years later and he’s… what, twenty-something in his comics right now?  Yes, aging does work kind of funny in superhero comics that have been published continuously for that long.  But what if Spider-Man had aged in real time […]

The first volume of this series made a good case for following the ongoing adventures of Eddie Brock and his symbiote even though I’ve never really bothered with that before.  This second volume furthers that case in a way that pushes the series into some dark and disturbing territory. It starts off with Eddie in […]

Despite what the title to this collection may imply, it wasn’t part of the Great Color Cull of “X-Men” titles from last year.  “X-Men: Black” was the branding for a series of five one-shots which spotlighted various X-Men antagonists.  Or villains, depending on your perspective. Whichever way you think of these individuals and their motivations, […]

Here’s another title that you can add to the ranks of volumes where I started reading them before I went to bed and wasn’t able to stop until I had reached the end.  I had my doubts about the setup for this volume, coming so close on the heels of “Return of the Purple Man.” […]

A writer and artist will team up for each issue to take Jack Kirby’s “Last Boy on Earth” on an adventure that will end in a cliffhanger for the next creative team to solve.  That’s “The Kamandi Challenge.” If that doesn’t sound like a recipe for a good story, then you’d be correct. Most of […]

Hope may have died in the previous volume, but Luke, Leia, Han, R2, and Threepio are still alive and kicking.  Unfortunately, even help from ace smuggler Sana Staros isn’t enough to get them through Imperial space undetected.  Now they’re stuck on the isolationist moon of Hubin home to Clan Markona. They’re an easygoing bunch of […]

Nathan Bright doesn’t quite have it all, but what he does have is pretty good.  He’s the most popular weatherman on Mars thanks to his wacky personality and crazy on-air antics.  So while fame and fortune are his, he’s got a personality that doesn’t really encourage the ladies to call back for second dates.  This […]

Well, Wizord and Ruby Stitch had a good run in our world but it looks like it’s coming to a very violent end.  It’s all down to the return of vengeance-seeking Frenchman — now with magic of his own — Jacques Zaques. While his initial attack doesn’t go quite the way he was expecting, Jacques […]