Doom may be coming to the Marvel Universe, but its First Family still has plenty of scientific, supernatural, and magic weirdness to occupy them before that happens.  Starting with an array of modified particles that start hitting the Earth like the most violent hailstorm imaginable.  That may not sound too crazy, but the real surprise […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dracula, Book Two:  The Brides I didn’t think the world needed another take on the “Dracula” mythos, even coming from a team as storied as writer Matt Wagner and artist Kelley Jones.  That first volume managed to surprise me as it gave us a portrait of the Impaler in his pre-vampiric days as […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation Universal Monsters:  The Mummy HC Michael Walsh couldn’t do it.  Dan Watters, Ram V, and Matthew Roberts couldn’t do it.  James Tynion IV and Martin Simonds couldn’t do it, and Tynion won’t be able to do it again when he does it with Dani.  What haven’t these creatives been able to do?  Get […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Human Target by Tom King & Greg Smallwood:  The Deluxe Edition I won’t lie, putting this here stings a little.  That’s because I waited for the two volumes of this maxiseries to be reprinted in softcover from their hardcover-first incarnations.  Had I known that DC was eventually going to do an all-in-one […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel Tales by J. Michael Straczynski The famed writer of “Babylon 5,” “Amazing Spider-Man,” and “Midnight Nation” has been doing a series of one-shots for the publisher featuring a number of unlikely team-ups.  Captain America and Volstagg.  Nick Fury and Fing Fang Foom.  Hulk and Doctor Strange.  Ghost Rider and Galactus (well, that […]

Kitty Pryde is done being an X-Man.  After everything that went down towards the end of the Krakoan Era, and what she became during that time, she just wants to live a normal life free of mutant drama.  Which is why she’s currently slinging drinks in a Chicago bar.  The problem is that mutans are […]

Penny was living a good life with her loving parents, Samantha and Duncan, until she fell asleep one night and didn’t wake up.  Doctors and modern science weren’t able to provide an explanation, so when a man named Tash Severin glides into their lives with his flock of owls and promises that he can help […]

The Minstrel and his daughter Karli are wandering from town to town singing about the exploits of the man named Groo.  And there are so many to choose from!  Such as the time he tried to help out some towns by converting them into scenic ruins.  Or when he accidentally consigned a bunch of kids […]

While Cyclops and his band of X-Men are busy getting back to the business of being public-facing superheroes, another group is still trying to figure out what their next step will be.  That would be Rogue, Gambit, Wolverine, and Jubilee (with a visit from Nightcrawler) as they head down to Louisiana to crash with another […]

It may be early in Batman’s career, but he feels he’s got a handle on how to handle the human thugs and freaks he encounters in Gotham City.  Then a mob from the East End hires an alien for protection who manages to clean his clock and the Dark Knight realizes he has a lot […]