While this series hasn’t been on the level of writer Brian K. Vaughan’s best work, this penultimate volume actually puts it in a good place ahead of its finale.  The girls, along with along with the Future Tiffany they picked up in the previous volume, have landed in the far future of 2171 and are […]

The solicitations for this latest “Black Hammer” spinoff miniseries made it seem like it was borrowing a lot from James Robinson et. al.’s  classic series “Starman.” Not only was this set to feature a character with “Star” in his name, but it was also set up to revolve around the kind of fractured father/son relationship […]

As the penultimate volume in this series, vol. 8 certainly reads like one that’s getting everything set up for the big finale.  It begins some time after the cataclysmic events of vol. 7 with Grant and his (ex)wife Sara having jumped to a dimension that has dedicated itself to looking after people like them.  By […]

Man, what a run!  After starting as part of the “Brand New Day” writers team in 2008, Dan Slott took over writing “Amazing Spider-Man” solo in 2010 and kept writing it until late last year.  That’s an impressive, almost unimaginable, run by modern superhero comic standards and what makes it even more remarkable is that […]

Who is the Queen of Palm Court and why is she in this volume’s subtitle?  That would be one Annie Chesswick, the “cool mom” of this suburban community who is dedicated to looking as good as she can and isn’t averse to helping the mall cops deal some weed on the side for some extra […]

Donny Cates has certainly proved his worth working on fill-in arcs at Marvel.  “Thanos Wins” and “Doctor Strange:  God of Magic” could’ve come off as dull cash-grabs as the titles marked their time towards cancellation and relaunch, respectively.  Instead, Cates decided to use the fact that neither of his runs were expected to matter in […]

I was at the Comic-Con panel where writer Scott Snyder enthusiastically hyped up (and spoiled parts of) his upcoming run on this series.  It was hard not to get a little excited about it given how he was telling us how this would be the biggest, baddest, and maddest superhero spectacle he had cooked up […]

Simon Spurrier loves his high concepts.  Which is why his new Vertigo miniseries isn’t just about mother and daughter bounty hunters working out their tortured history while on a job.  No, it’s about mother and daughter bounty hunters working out their tortured history while on a job in a futuristic world where people can easily […]

If there was any consensus about “Solo:  A Star Wars Story” it was that Donald Glover’s Lando Calrissian was the best part of the movie.  So it’s only natural that we should get a miniseries that owes a lot to that particular take on this character.  Writer Rodney Barnes and artist Paolo Villanelli do a […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Wicked + The Divine vol. 8:  Old is the New New When an ongoing series produces spin-off miniseries or one-shots one of three things can happen to them:  They won’t be collected. They’ll be collected alongside issues of the regular series. They’ll be collected in their own special volume, which is what […]