Mike Mignola’s “Hellboy” is home to lots of random bits of weirdness.  The series was designed accommodate this, but there’s one bit that has always felt more out of place than others.  That would be the alien spirit Hellboy met back in vol. 5, “Conqueror Worm.”  It’s one thing to have the character encounter all […]

Huh. Looking back on my review of the first volume of this series I was surprised to see how negative I was towards it.  There’s no denying that much of it fell in line with the depressing grind I’ve come to expect from Rick Remender’s creator-owned works.  Yet, when vol. 2 came up on the […]

I’ve mentioned before that writer Dennis Hopeless’ run on “All-New X-Men” was the most pleasant surprise of the previous round of “X-Men” relaunches.  It’s why I decided to pick up his latest series the “Jean Grey” solo title.  Now, I don’t think the comics-reading world was really clamoring for a solo series about the time-displaced […]

While Mike Mignola is best known for the supernatural action and strangeness he has delivered to great effect in his many Mignolaverse titles and other projects, he’s not a stranger to humor.  Hellboy has been known to punctuate just about all of his fights with a good deadpan quip and some of the short stories […]

Even if the previous volume was called “The Whisperer War” it was basically the first half of a two-volume story.  Where that volume focused on the actual threat presented by the Whisperers themselves, this one addresses the “Zombie A-Bomb” they left behind.  Oh, and the impending threat of whatever the Saviors have planned for Alexandrea. […]

Simon Moore spends his days as a detective in the Seattle of 2085 dwelling on the failure of his marriage and taking pills to combat the pain of getting shot four times by his ex-wife’s new husband.  So when an old friend tells Simon that said husband, Edward, is now dead and that his company […]

This was a series that grabbed my attention because of its cover for the first issue (which was a full wraparound that I only saw the right half of on solicitation).  It was indicative of violence and loss against the backdrop of an unfamiliar world and I wanted to know more about it.  Creator Daniel […]

They just keep piling up around my place.  New volumes from all of the Image titles I read.  Being several, and in one case seven, volumes deep into them I’ve got a pretty good idea of what to expect from them at this point.  So even if there’s not as much to talk about these […]

Talk about things that I never expected to see happen anytime soon.  After well over a decade of working exclusively at Marvel, Brian Michael Bendis has signed an exclusive deal to write comics for DC.  This is shocking not just because of how long the writer has spent working for Marvel but because whenever he’s […]

Andronika the Scythian, “Andy” to her friends, has been a soldier of fortune for a very, very long time now.  She’s not immortal, she just hasn’t found the right time to die yet.  Same goes for her comrades Booker, who lived through Napoleon’s march into Russia, Joe and Nicky, both veterans on opposite sides of […]