The latest volume of the title character’s early years with the organization features a three-issue miniseries advancing its running plots bookended by two one-off issues, courtesy of regular writers Mike Mignola and Chris Roberson.  “Secret Nature” comes first and features the slick art of “Thief of Thieves” Shawn Martinbrough who shows that he can handle […]

It’s the penultimate volume of Dan Slott’s run on “Amazing Spider-Man” and how does it start?  With a bit of filler in “Annual #42” as Peter Parker helps Betty Brant investigate an old case that her deceased flame, Ned Leeds, was working on.  It involves a statue in the middle of town memorializing a battle […]

Another year, another Comic-Con.  While it’s still an insanely crowded experience where you have to line up incredibly early if you want to have a chance of getting into the biggest panels, there’s still plenty of fun to be had with the smaller panels on offer.  Which were most of the ones that I wound […]

Even if vol. 3 didn’t quite end on a cliffhanger, it ended on a real downer note for the series.  It was even more of a bummer for the fact that I was expecting it to be the final volume given that the sales of “Rumble” have never been all that great.  So when it […]

The cold war between the organizations which watch over Earth and Space is starting to heat up.  International Operations thinks that Skywatch is making a move on them because the tech used by Jacob Marlow’s Wild Covert Action Team is suspiciously like that group’s.  Never mind the fact that Angela Spica, who is now with […]

One thing that never ceases to annoy me in comics is when we get an extended sequence where people are talking in a foreign (or even made-up) language without a translation.  Yes, O great writer, we see that you’re proficient enough in this language to write in it for an extended period, but it doesn’t […]

No, this isn’t “Thanos vol. 3:  Thanos Wins.” So successful were these six issues from new writer Cates, and his “God Country” collaborator Geoff Shaw, that this volume was rebranded (on the copyright pages at least) with his name.  Deservedly so, if the sales of this arc were any indication. This latest “Thanos” series was […]

The quality has been going back and forth on the two “X-Men” flagship titles.  While I thought the first volume of “Gold” offered some welcome nostalgia to the ho-hum drama of “Blue,” things quickly reversed themselves.  “Blue” found its groove in its subsequent two volumes while the nostalgic fun of “Gold” grew more rickety in […]

Now that they’re no longer on the trail of the Hulkverine, what’s a random assemblage of morally flexible and violent mutants to do?  How about head south of the border to Santo Marco where the government is violently suppressing mutants through use of a suborned Nuke platoon.  Warpath is all for it and takes point […]

I’ve mentioned before how this series has felt hamstrung by its inability to really get out there and explore the state of the “Star Wars” universe prior to “The Force Awakens.”  Now imagine a comic that has to limit itself further by placing itself within the confines of the “Poe Dameron” series itself. That’s the […]