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 […]

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 […]