Who are the Children of the Atom?  They’re a cult led by a man calling himself the Maester who believe that they’re the next step in evolution thanks to their leader’s experiments on them.  In actuality, the Maester is trying to produce mutants for Emperor Sunfire and his enforcer, Viper, is breathing down the head […]

She spent most of the previous volume as a prisoner of the Sovereign, the secret King of America, but then she escaped with the help of her friends (and then tied in to “Absolute Power”).  Now Wonder Woman is free and she’s ready to make her adversary pay. It’s not just for the business of […]

Eel “Plastic Man” O’Brien has always been the irreverent, carefree Id of the Justice League.  Always quick with a quip and never about to take any threat seriously.  Until the day he gets hit with a death ray and his polymeric body structure starts to slowly lose cohesion.  That’s right, Plastic Man is dying and […]

It’s a place where anyone can go in order to get the care they need in order to get better.  Regardless of their race, gender, sex, whether or not they’ve got superpowers, or are some kind of alien, or supernatural creature.  Lou is the latest addition to the Gardens’ staff and she’s really good at […]

Doom may be coming to the Marvel Universe, but its First Family still has plenty of scientific, supernatural, and magic weirdness to occupy them before that happens.  Starting with an array of modified particles that start hitting the Earth like the most violent hailstorm imaginable.  That may not sound too crazy, but the real surprise […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Dracula, Book Two:  The Brides I didn’t think the world needed another take on the “Dracula” mythos, even coming from a team as storied as writer Matt Wagner and artist Kelley Jones.  That first volume managed to surprise me as it gave us a portrait of the Impaler in his pre-vampiric days as […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation Universal Monsters:  The Mummy HC Michael Walsh couldn’t do it.  Dan Watters, Ram V, and Matthew Roberts couldn’t do it.  James Tynion IV and Martin Simonds couldn’t do it, and Tynion won’t be able to do it again when he does it with Dani.  What haven’t these creatives been able to do?  Get […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: The Human Target by Tom King & Greg Smallwood:  The Deluxe Edition I won’t lie, putting this here stings a little.  That’s because I waited for the two volumes of this maxiseries to be reprinted in softcover from their hardcover-first incarnations.  Had I known that DC was eventually going to do an all-in-one […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Marvel Tales by J. Michael Straczynski The famed writer of “Babylon 5,” “Amazing Spider-Man,” and “Midnight Nation” has been doing a series of one-shots for the publisher featuring a number of unlikely team-ups.  Captain America and Volstagg.  Nick Fury and Fing Fang Foom.  Hulk and Doctor Strange.  Ghost Rider and Galactus (well, that […]

Kitty Pryde is done being an X-Man.  After everything that went down towards the end of the Krakoan Era, and what she became during that time, she just wants to live a normal life free of mutant drama.  Which is why she’s currently slinging drinks in a Chicago bar.  The problem is that mutans are […]