If this series sticks to the estimated number of issues the story was planned to run from creators Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta, then it should be wrapping up in the next two volumes.  You’d expect the series to start ramping up the tension and action as its many players start to converge and make […]

I was prepared to start this review with an “I think I’m done with this series.”  Then I read my review of the previous volume and realized that I should be done with it.  In buying physical copies at least. I may follow this in digital form via ComiXology sales just to see how it […]

Sometimes a character in a corporate-owned superhero comic book can change.  More often than not they don’t and even when they do change, they’ll usually revert back to type in a couple years.  Writer Matthew Rosenberg has found a way to turn this trait to his advantage in this miniseries which, going by its title […]

I don’t think that the world was crying out for a third color-coded core “X-Men” title, but here we are.  Fortunately the title has a real advantage in that it’s coming to us from writer Tom Taylor after he delivered a very good six-volume run on “All-New Wolverine.”  Does Taylor’s first shot at the brass […]

I said in my review of the first volume that, “I’m hard-pressed to see how the second volume improves from here.”  Well, I don’t think that vol. 2 is an actual improvement, but the destruction of my expectations after reading vol. 1 at least let me enjoy this one more.  Not that it does anything […]

The cliffhanger delivered at the end of vol. 6 was amazing for a few reasons, but mainly because of how it inverted my expectations of the kind of ending I usually expect from Rick Remender’s work.  So, do he and artist Wes Craig fully deliver on the promise of the tables being turned on everyone […]

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 […]