Grant Morrison and Dan Mora’s revisionist take on the “Santa Claus” mythos was one of the best comics I read back in 2016.  This follow-up volume, which collects the two extra-sized one-shots the creators have released in its wake isn’t in the same league.  That’s because both are the rare Morrison-written projects where he puts […]

“War Thor?”  More like “Edgelord Thor” as he’s presented here.  This new Thor, brought into existence after a certain person picked up the Mjolnir of the Ultimate Universe, is all about anger, rage, blood raining from the skies, and vengeance to be visited upon the Queen of Cinders for the deaths she’s caused in the […]

It should be immediately obvious to anyone reading this that without Stan Lee’s contributions to superhero comics this site and podcast would look markedly different.  “X-Men,” “Avengers,” “Spider-Man,” “The Fantastic Four,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man,” “Daredevil,” and the list goes on. The characters Stan Lee co-created with artists like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby […]

At the end of most Marvel events is a series of epilogues setting up the next big event.  DC got into doing that kind of thing with “Metal” which set the stage for this miniseries, which in turn set up the three current “Justice League” titles.  While I understand the need to keep the momentum […]

I’ve written before about the long and mutually beneficial series of crossovers between “Usagi Yojimbo” and the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.”  In fact, you should go back and read my review of their last crossover since my thoughts on it haven’t changed in the intervening year.  Though the story wasn’t all that great, it did […]

Ah, it’s a new creator-owned series from Rick Remender.  Will it be the kind that relentlessly grinds down its protagonists to the point where it starts being fun (“Deadly Class”), to where you start sympathizing with the antagonist (“Seven to Eternity”), or just plain grinds them down (“Black Science”).  If nothing else the answer is […]

Aaron has been working within the Marvel Universe for long enough that seeing him finally get the chance to write the “Avengers” feels right.  The good news is that his willingness to embrace the casual craziness of this particular universe serves this opening story well. What does it involve?  Nothing less than the extermination of […]

“Deadpool” miniseries have been so prolific over the past few years that you could probably walk into a comic shop and hit one simply by swinging a dead dog around.  Now would be the perfect place for me to ask a rhetorical question like, “How do you know what one to read?” except that the […]

An original graphic novella from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips?  Yes, please take my money! This is a thing that I absolutely want to read.  I’ve said it time and time again (quite recently, in fact) that these two are one of the best creative teams in comics and it’s honestly a relief that between […]

(What, no podcast tonight?  The past week turned out to be unexpectedly busy for me, so we’re running behind a bit right now.  Expect it to go up on Friday or over the weekend at the latest.) This volume of the series should’ve been a real heartbreaker to read.  For several reasons, which I’ll concede […]