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 […]

This series came off of a high point with “Ring of Fire” only to head into the merely okay “Temple of OD” flashback/sidestory.  Where does “The Specter of Tomorrow” fit in? Right between those two, closer to the upper end than the lower. After saving the world, Robo and the rest of the scientists at […]

“The Neil Gaiman Library” at Dark Horse gets another inspired addition with this adaptation of a story that blends the mythos of Sherlock Holmes and Cthulhu.  We begin with London’s greatest criminal investigator and his war veteran roommate finding themselves challenged with solving the murder of a Bohemian Prince. What did this prince do to […]

Steve Ditko passed away early in July.  His legacy in the comics medium would’ve been secure if he had only co-created “Spider-Man,” but he also worked to give us “Doctor Strange,” “Captain Atom,” and “Hawk and Dove” as well.  While his modern legacy has seen him characterized as the J.D. Salinger of comics, thanks to […]