It’s been great to see Miles Morales become a significant part of the Spider-mythos over the years.  Not only has he been embraced by fans, but he’s also found his way into mainstream culture as well — he’s appearing in the “Spider-Man” game coming out next week and has the lead role in the “Into […]

Given how he’s such a pivotal character in the “Hellboy” mythos, you’d think that we’d have received a miniseries spotlighting Rasputin long before now.  Well, despite what this volume says on the cover “The Voice of the Dragon” isn’t really a story about him. Rasputin’s in it, but co-writers Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson should’ve […]

Ever since the final pages of the first volume teased that we’d be getting a racially-charged gender-swapped revisionist take on the “one man cleans up a crooked town” storyline, I’ve been waiting for this series to make good on it.  Volumes one and two did a good job laying the groundwork, but while the individual […]

Doctor Jonathan Shipwright has just survived a shipwreck.  Nevermind the fact that when we first meet him he’s staring up at some birds from his back on a dusty road.  We learn about his situation when he has a conversation at a broken-down diner with a yellow-coated inspector who gives the impression that he knows […]

Aphra’s creator, Kieron Gillen, is credited as a co-writer on this arc, but the story here does feel more like the work of incoming co-writer Si Spurrier.  That’s not a bad thing as Spurrier has done some great work at Marvel and other publishers in the past and here he seems to be focused on […]

It was a fun idea while it lasted.  I’m talking about the idea of Laura Kinney assuming the mantle of Wolverine during the run of this title.  After this volume she’ll be back to being X-23 in a title of the same name from a different creative team. Honestly, that development is more than a […]

After the previous volume my biggest concern with this one was “How is the art going to turn out?”  To my surprise, things are actually better this time around. It appears that artist Salvador Larroca and colorist GURU-eFX have decided to double-down on making the human characters (and those humans who were also in the […]

While I liked the first volume of this title well enough, the second one leaves me feeling that this storyline has a real big problem to it.  It’s not in how Charles Soule handles his large ensemble. He gets the characters more or less right and divides up the action so that no one of […]

In the wake of the “Hydra Cap” storyline and “Secret Empire’s” uh… decidedly mixed reception, it’s safe to say that Marvel felt Captain America’s image could use a little rehabilitation.  But what creative team could be trusted with the task of getting Cap back to his old heroic standard? That would turn out to be […]