The slow-y burn-y approach of “Outcast” continues unabated in this volume as a major new character makes his debut.  Rowland Tusk has just moved to the town of Rome and is dealing with the usual headaches that such a thing entails.  A wife who has to deal with the unpacking, kids who are uneasy about […]

Wizord’s story takes a backseat in this volume so that writer Charles Soule and artist Ryan Browne can focus on two key members of the supporting cast:  Marsupial-loving Margaret and living, breathing French joke Jacques Zaques. The latter becomes less of a joke in this volume (well, insomuch as a Frenchman named Jacques Zaques can […]

It’s time for the culmination of long-running subplots once again.  Over in X-Men:  Blue it’s that title’s first go at it as we finally find out the full scope of the Mothervine business that Miss Sinister has been planning ever since the first volume.  X-Men:  Gold has already had one go at paying off on […]

For those whose “X-Men” fandom can be traced back to following the comics in the 90’s (or watching the animated series from the same era) Rogue and Gambit’s relationship was arguably the defining romance of the time.  She was the strong-willed southern belle whose powers prevented anyone from touching her skin and he was the […]

For around half of its length “Rome West” presents a fascinating alternate history of North America courtesy of co-writers Justin Giampaoli and Brian Wood, and artist Andrea Mutti.  It starts with a just likely enough to be believable development when a Roman fleet is caught in a storm and its survivors wind up landing on […]

At the end of vol. 1, Adrian Padilla looked like he had been freed of the demonic presence that had haunted his past life as cultist Gregory Sutter thanks to a hypnotherapist who knew what she was doing.  Then, before he could turn himself in and let the cops sort things out, he was kidnapped […]

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 […]