Maybe I should just stop bothering with Garth Ennis’ comedic works.  “Sixpack & Dogwelder” was awful, “Jimmy’s Bastards” best bits didn’t involve comedy, and now “Dastardly & Muttley” looks to have been hamstrung by its association with DC’s “Hanna-Barbera Universe.”  I may be being a bit generous with that assessment because there are parts of […]

For this second volume Charles Soule and Giuseppe Camuncoli set about giving the title character some actual power and showing us the subsequent fallout from that.  Things pick up with Vader asserting his dominance over the Inquisitorius and taking a personal interest in their mission to hunt down the remaining Jedi. One such Jedi, a […]

There’s one great moment in this crossover between “Amazing Spider-Man” and “Venom” where the villain Maniac gets his hands on a symbiote and starts spreading it around to build his own criminal empire.  It comes after Spider-Man is captured by him at one point and winds up getting mind-controlled by a bit of symbiote to […]

No one writes “Punisher” better than Garth Ennis.  His initial run with Steve Dillon brought the character back to basics and showed that he could work in dark comedy situations just as well as straight up action scenarios.  Then the MAX run followed and the shift to a mature readers format allowed Ennis to take […]

With this, Scott Snyder’s “Batman” victory lap comes to a close.  The first two volumes were pretty enjoyable even if they weren’t swinging for the fences in the way that the writer’s work with Greg Capullo on the main series did.  For this third volume, Snyder teams with his “American Vampire” partner Rafael Albuquerque for […]

If you’ve been following this series in trade paperback form like I have then there’s no denying that “Uber” has returned to a time where its subject matter does it no favors.  Kieron Gillen and confirmed regular artist Daniel Gete’s story of how the Nazis discovered the technology to make supermen and turned the tide […]

I really want to say that this is one more reason that collecting comics in the hope that they’ll become valuable one day is for suckers, but… The story goes that after “The Walking Dead” launched back in 2004 a “Museum Edition” (read:  oversized hardcover) of the first issue was created as part of a […]

Who’s representing Marvel at the Eisners this year?  They’ve got “Hawkeye” for Best Ongoing Series, “Black Panther:  World of Wakanda” and “X-Men: Grand Design” for Best Limited Series, “Black Bolt” for Best New Series, Brian Stelfreeze and Julian Totino Tedesco as Best Cover Artists for “Black Panther” and “Hawkeye” (respectively), and Ed Piskor for Best […]

There’s an easy way to tell when a DC event means business.  It’s when they use “Crisis” in its title. The original “Crisis on Infinite Earths” set the standard for being the crossover that really changed everything as it streamlined DC’s continuity in significant fashion.  Subsequent events, such as “Zero Hour: Crisis in Time,” “Infinite […]