Vol. 1 made for a pretty great showcase regarding family matriarch Grace Briggs as she took a hardline stance to asserting control over the title land and detoxing her husband’s influence over it.  I was expecting great things from the follow-up, but the problem with vol. 2 is that the focus shifts from Grace to […]

Longtime readers should know that I’m a big fan of James Stokoe’s work.  So when Dark Horse announced that he’d be working on an “Aliens” miniseries for them, I was really excited.  After all, Stokoe had shown that he can do excellent work when it comes to licensed material in his “Godzilla:  The Half-Century War.” […]

This is an odd volume in the series in that it’s as upbeat as this title ever gets.  With the Whisperer War and Savior threat behind them, the residents of Alexandrea and Hilltop set their sights on rebuilding.  There are signs of discontent, Dwight is still angry at Rick for killing his ex in self-defense […]

Meanwhile, at the other end of the “Star Wars” comic quality spectrum we have the latest adventure of Doctor Aphra.  After finding a way to safely reactivate the technopathic presence of ancient Jedi “Immortal” Rur in the wake of the “Screaming Citadel” crossover, Aphra does what comes naturally to her.  She invites a host of […]

It’s a credit to how Marvel has handled the “Star Wars” license that they have yet to release a genuinely bad comic book featuring it.  Some could be called boring and inessential, but this “Mace Windu” miniseries is notable for how it combines these two things. Don’t expect to learn anything about the title character […]

We’re technically on the third volume of this series, as I’m counting the “Weapons of Mutant Destruction” crossover, and pretty much all of it has been focused on the new Weapon X/Weapon H storylines.  That’s a lot of time to devote to one subject in this day and age, but that’s not a bad thing […]

Cave Carson’s cybernetic eye may be part of this series’ title, but the last time we saw the explorer that titular eye was making a break for it.  That leaves Cave in a very bad place as the first issue in this second volume begins with a flashback to the time that he met Superman. […]

An otherwise great vol. 2 of this series was hamstrung by an ending that made me question how much progress the story had actually made.  Vol. 3 doesn’t make that mistake because by the end of it we’ve finally caught up to and gone past the scene Dylan has been flashing back to since the […]

It’s the first crossover of the latest relaunch and the results are… decidedly meh.  Wheeling out Mojo as the bad guy for this event certainly had potential as his evil-TV-producer-from-another-dimension schtick does give the creators a chance to cut loose and come up with some crazy scenarios.  The problem here is that co-writers Marc Guggenheim […]

The next age of “Avengers” starts in a couple months with Jason Aaron and Ed McGuinness’ new series.  In the meantime, the “No Surrender” weekly event is winding down and we’ve got the trade collections for the last couple of “Avengers” titles that I still read.  Those would be vanilla “Avengers” and “U.S.Avengers,” written by […]