Bartlett Bowman is a man who appreciates the simple things in life.  Like sitting on the porch of his family house in the cool of an evening in a small Texas town sipping a blood beer.  Blood beer? That’s right, because like the other members of the Bowman clan, Bartlett is a vampire. They’ve been […]

While much of “Batman #50” have largely remained unspoiled for me, two details have emerged regarding it.  The most relevant one to this volume being that Batman and Catwoman did not wind up getting married. Which is too bad for a couple of reasons.  The first being that I was already looking forward to writer […]

“Sherlock Frankenstein” is a great name.  It’s an unlikely mash-up of two of the most famous characters in fiction that grabs your attention right away with its promise of weirdness and horror tempered by rationality.  He’s also a character who fits perfectly within the superhero pastiche of the “Black Hammer” world, of which this is […]

The slow-y burn-y approach of “Outcast” continues unabated in this volume as a major new character makes his debut.  Rowland Tusk has just moved to the town of Rome and is dealing with the usual headaches that such a thing entails.  A wife who has to deal with the unpacking, kids who are uneasy about […]

Wizord’s story takes a backseat in this volume so that writer Charles Soule and artist Ryan Browne can focus on two key members of the supporting cast:  Marsupial-loving Margaret and living, breathing French joke Jacques Zaques. The latter becomes less of a joke in this volume (well, insomuch as a Frenchman named Jacques Zaques can […]

It’s time for the culmination of long-running subplots once again.  Over in X-Men:  Blue it’s that title’s first go at it as we finally find out the full scope of the Mothervine business that Miss Sinister has been planning ever since the first volume.  X-Men:  Gold has already had one go at paying off on […]

For those whose “X-Men” fandom can be traced back to following the comics in the 90’s (or watching the animated series from the same era) Rogue and Gambit’s relationship was arguably the defining romance of the time.  She was the strong-willed southern belle whose powers prevented anyone from touching her skin and he was the […]

For around half of its length “Rome West” presents a fascinating alternate history of North America courtesy of co-writers Justin Giampaoli and Brian Wood, and artist Andrea Mutti.  It starts with a just likely enough to be believable development when a Roman fleet is caught in a storm and its survivors wind up landing on […]

At the end of vol. 1, Adrian Padilla looked like he had been freed of the demonic presence that had haunted his past life as cultist Gregory Sutter thanks to a hypnotherapist who knew what she was doing.  Then, before he could turn himself in and let the cops sort things out, he was kidnapped […]