Above-the-Board Recommendation: Infinity Wars by Gerry Duggan:  The Complete Collection The main reason I’m putting this collection here is because it got me to stop buying something.  Specifically, the two “Infinity Wars” collections (the prelude and the main event) that are currently in the wild right now.  As one of Marvel’s big events last year […]

Dark Horse Comics started publishing Stan Sakai’s “Usagi Yojimbo” series way back in 1995.  This was “Usagi’s” third official publisher following a 38-issue run at Fantagraphics and a 16-issue run at Mirage.  “Usagi’s” run at Dark Horse handily eclipsed its previous ones with the series lasting for 165 issues, a graphic novel, a couple of […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Batman:  Last Knight on Earth You know how it is.  One day you’re Batman, Dark Knight protector of Gotham City, key member of the superhero community, with lots of friends and supporters to help you fight your war on crime.  Then one day you wake up in an asylum to find out that […]

There’s a scene towards the end of this volume where one of the main characters wakes up in a hospital following a pretty disturbing hallucination (Or was it!?) and a lot of plot points from the previous issues are reiterated at a fast clip.  When asked to make sense of this, Jedidiah Jenkins responds with […]

After you’ve written “Amazing Spider-Man” for the past decade, what do you do next?  You start working your way through the rest of Marvel’s A-list characters, beginning with Tony Stark.  Dan Slott’s take on the character isn’t that different than what we’ve seen in previous runs. He’s still the charismatic, fast-talking futurist whose proclivity for […]

I thought I had a pretty good idea of what to expect going into this volume.  You see, whenever a series does a big “Death of [Insert Character Here]” arc, there’s usually a pretty good chance that we’re talking about death in a metaphorical sense.  The character won’t actually die, but instead come through the […]

“Cave Carson’s” first volume was a surprisingly entertaining adventure that displayed an impressive balance of humor, quirk, and action.  Its second volume disrupted that balance by bringing in a bit too much psychedelia and surrealism into the narrative.  This third (and sadly final) volume manages to strike a welcome middle ground by having the psychedelia […]

After Dan Slott’s epic decade-long run on “Amazing Spider-Man” who did Marvel get to follow in his stead as the writer on that title?  None other than Nick Spencer! Yes, that’s right. The writer who previously had a run on “Captain America” that can best be characterized as really controversial and followed it up with […]

In case you hadn’t heard, Alex “Havok” Summers is no longer a villain.  The former X-Factor and Uncanny Avengers team leader got his moral compass flipped around during the “Axis” event and has been a villain ever since.  It wasn’t until vol. 4 of “X-Men:  Blue” that his personality was restored and now he’s back […]