Aphra’s creator, Kieron Gillen, is credited as a co-writer on this arc, but the story here does feel more like the work of incoming co-writer Si Spurrier.  That’s not a bad thing as Spurrier has done some great work at Marvel and other publishers in the past and here he seems to be focused on […]

It was a fun idea while it lasted.  I’m talking about the idea of Laura Kinney assuming the mantle of Wolverine during the run of this title.  After this volume she’ll be back to being X-23 in a title of the same name from a different creative team. Honestly, that development is more than a […]

After the previous volume my biggest concern with this one was “How is the art going to turn out?”  To my surprise, things are actually better this time around. It appears that artist Salvador Larroca and colorist GURU-eFX have decided to double-down on making the human characters (and those humans who were also in the […]

While I liked the first volume of this title well enough, the second one leaves me feeling that this storyline has a real big problem to it.  It’s not in how Charles Soule handles his large ensemble. He gets the characters more or less right and divides up the action so that no one of […]

In the wake of the “Hydra Cap” storyline and “Secret Empire’s” uh… decidedly mixed reception, it’s safe to say that Marvel felt Captain America’s image could use a little rehabilitation.  But what creative team could be trusted with the task of getting Cap back to his old heroic standard? That would turn out to be […]

Ok, so it turns out that the trans-dimensional crisis involving the monsters streaming from magical portals in the absence of Wakanda’s gods is genuine.  Klaw showing up with a hard-light hologram machine at the end of the previous volume was just his way of trying to cash in on the current crisis to troll his […]

I was primed to enjoy the setup of “Portland Homicide Detective Who Is Also a Witch” as it was coming from the creative team of Greg Rucka and Nicole Scott.  What I got with the first volume was something that ultimately felt a bit too conventional even with its supernatural trappings.  It takes a while […]

When I heard that this new series, co-written and co-illustrated by Pablo Raimondi and Klaus Janson, was going to feature oversized issues I regarded it as a good thing.  With most comics clocking in at 20-22 pages an issue, having one that ranges from 45-66 pages with the bigger ones only costing a dollar more […]

With a title like that you’d figure that you’re in for a real bummer of a read, right?  Well, in order to actually be depressed about the “Fall of the Batmen” depicted here you’d have to have some kind of emotional investment in the characters’ struggle up to this point.  As James Tynion’s run so […]