Nick Spencer and Ryan Ottley delivered a solid reason to keep reading “Amazing Spider-Man” in the post-Slott era with the previous volume.  Ottley is off for this volume and veteran Spider-artist Humberto Ramos is on for this volume, but he and Spencer keep the good times rolling here.  He gets on my good side almost […]

“Rogue & Gambit:  Ring of Fire” was one of last year’s most pleasant comic surprises in that it managed to make the title characters’ romance seem interesting again.  To the point that their surprise wedding in the pages of “X-Men: Gold” actually made a certain amount of sense. Now they’ve got their own ongoing series […]

Writers Greg Pak and Fred Van Lente have some interesting ideas about what to do with Sabretooth in these volumes.  They start with having him lead the team on a mission to Russia that has the feral one tangling with none other than Omega Red.  He actually manages to strike up a bond with the […]

Thanks to the magic of (limited) press passes, John, Myron, and myself all made the trip down to WonderCon in Anaheim this year.  We only went down for Saturday but we were still able to cram in a lot of worthwhile sightseeing, shopping, and panels into the trip.  As for the panels, we didn’t get […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Heavy Liquid There are a few reasons I’m completely in the tank for any major project from Paul Pope.  This is one of them. “Heavy Liquid” was originally a five-issue prestige format miniseries from DC/Vertigo in the late 90’s.  It’s about a man known only as S who is hooked on the title […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Miles Morales:  Spider-Man vol. 1 — Straight Out of Brooklyn While Miles Morales has been written by other people in the past, his solo adventures were exclusively handled by co-creator Brian Michael Bendis prior to his departure from Marvel to DC.  This volume represents the first time another creator will be writing Miles’ […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Green Lantern vol. 1:  Intergalactic Lawman I never planned to keep reading “Green Lantern” after Geoff Johns left.  He redefined and expanded the character’s mythos in a way that’s rarely seen in superhero comics.  It was the kind of high water mark that left you feeling sorry for the writer who was […]

I was honestly surprised with how much I liked this story by the time it was over.  This is in spite of the fact that Tom King and Mitch Gerads’ take on the New God who is also the universe’s foremost escape artist starts off in a very depressing place:  A depiction of self-harm that […]

This miniseries effectively represents the end of Marvel’s big “Inhumans” push of the last few years.  The reason for such a thing was rumored to be down to how Marvel owned the film and TV rights to these characters, but didn’t have them for the X-Men, and was looking to push the Inhumans as a […]