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 […]

Yeah, writing up all of the Previews Picks in one column didn’t turn out to be shorter or more fun.  So we’re back to the old way for the foreseeable future. Well, with one minor change… Above-the-Board Recommendation: S.H.I.E.L.D. by Hickman and Weaver — The Human Machine Unlike certain other comics series, it’s easy to […]

There’s no Terex in this volume. Seeing the First Order’s craftiest, liveliest (when he’s not being mind-controlled by their implants) operative one more time was the one thing I wanted to see from this final volume of “Poe Dameron.”  Instead I got the one volume of the series which has the closest ties to the […]

There’s still one more volume of “X-Men:  Gold” to go, but I feel confident in calling “X-Men:  Blue” the more successful of the two flagship X-titles.  Yes, “Poison-X” was utterly dire and derailed this title’s momentum, but “Blue” was still the more forward-facing of the flagship titles and it even managed to turn out a […]