What is a grommet?  In the parlance of the place and time – California in the 1980s – it refers to a young, enthusiastic skateboarder which describes new kid in town Rick and his first friend Brian to a T.  Rick’s parents are lame, Brian’s dad is slowly losing his mind, and school is no […]

It’s too good to be true.  That’s what Bruce Wayne thinks when he’s presented with Sangraal, a longevity procedure developed by Scarlett Maria Scott – a brilliant geneticist and one of the last people his mother helped directly.  Scarlett is offering it to those who can afford it, people like Bruce, but Batman thinks that […]

Thor is still persona non grata with the inhabitants of Midgard after he was framed for the death of Dario Agger by the Enchantress and Skurge.  Though he was set up, he’s still the honorable type and returns to that realm to help set everything straight with law enforcement.  Except things don’t go as planned […]

Titans vol. 2:  The Dark-Winged Queen may be listed as a “vol. 2” but it’s actually the third in writer Tom Taylor’s run following vol. 1 and  “Beast World.”  That event series is required reading here as not only are the Titans’ status, and Beast Boy’s in particular, addressed following that event, but the entire […]

Congratulations, Flash Family!  You’ve just saved all of reality from all of the threats facing it!  What’re you going to do now?  If you – the reader – guessed that they were going to take a vacation in the Inner-Earth jungle environment that is Skartaris, then give yourself a gold star.  Wally West felt that […]

Vol. 1 of “The Nice House on the Lake” was great and had one of the best surprises I’ve read in recent history.  Vol. 2 mostly biffed the follow-up by engaging in a soft reset of the events of vol. 1, a dumb subplot about the consequences of playing with firearms, and a failure to […]

Lex Luthor is dying.  After an experiment involving Kryptonite goes horribly wrong, he finds that his cellular structure is burning itself out and he only has days to live.  Which is why he goes to his greatest enemy and asks him to save his life.  Which is fortunate for Luthor as Superman has a lot […]

When Asteroid M crashed through the atmosphere and Magneto breathed his last, he released the largest EMP the world had ever seen.  It fried nearly every electrical device in the world and in order to save hundreds of millions of lives in the western hemisphere, Nick Fury assembles a team to go to Russia and […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Daredevil:  Cold Day in Hell HC New York in the future isn’t a very happy place, but Matt Murdock is still doing the best he can to make it livable for its many citizens.  Even without his powers.  However, when catastrophe strikes the city, leaving many dead or injured, and Murdock with his […]