Listeners with long memories might recall that I mentioned the first four-issue “The Paybacks” miniseries when I talked about the stuff I was reading on my Kindle that one time.  It’s idea of a superhero repo squad that targeted other superheroes who couldn’t afford the payments on their flashy tech was a fun one with […]

The first volume of this series was hamstrung by the fact that it felt like setup for the stories that Grant Morrison really wanted to tell with the character.  With that out of the way, vol. 2 should be a fantastic read. Right? Well it certainly has its charms with the inventive art of Yanick […]

Since its inception Dark Horse Comics has been owned by one person:  Co-founder Mike Richardson. As of last October that’s no longer the case.  Dark Horse received a large investment from Vanguard Visionary Associates, a Hong Kong-based firm.  The stated intent behind this investment is to allow Dark Horse to fund the production of films […]

We were promised answers in this volume.  Along with a sequence that nearly broke creators Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie by the former’s own admission.  The good news is that both of these things are delivered in vol. 7! No, we don’t get ALL the answers. Anyone expecting Gillen to explain everything in this series […]

While the previous volume offered up some satisfyingly tense action, via a hallucinogenic fog that brought back a lot of familiar faces, it left the main story spinning its wheels.  That’s less of a problem here as the men and women of the Expeditionary Corps settle in for a long winter after rebuilding their fort. […]

I’ve always admired Robert Kirkman’s efforts to try and deliver another successful creator-owned series after the successes of “The Walking Dead” and “Invincible.”  That his efforts in that regard, with “The Astounding Wolf-Man” and “Outcast,” have generally been just “okay” hasn’t given me cause to give up hope yet. If this first volume is any […]

Grant Morrison and Dan Mora’s revisionist take on the “Santa Claus” mythos was one of the best comics I read back in 2016.  This follow-up volume, which collects the two extra-sized one-shots the creators have released in its wake isn’t in the same league.  That’s because both are the rare Morrison-written projects where he puts […]

“War Thor?”  More like “Edgelord Thor” as he’s presented here.  This new Thor, brought into existence after a certain person picked up the Mjolnir of the Ultimate Universe, is all about anger, rage, blood raining from the skies, and vengeance to be visited upon the Queen of Cinders for the deaths she’s caused in the […]

It should be immediately obvious to anyone reading this that without Stan Lee’s contributions to superhero comics this site and podcast would look markedly different.  “X-Men,” “Avengers,” “Spider-Man,” “The Fantastic Four,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man,” “Daredevil,” and the list goes on. The characters Stan Lee co-created with artists like Steve Ditko and Jack Kirby […]

At the end of most Marvel events is a series of epilogues setting up the next big event.  DC got into doing that kind of thing with “Metal” which set the stage for this miniseries, which in turn set up the three current “Justice League” titles.  While I understand the need to keep the momentum […]