This month’s round of solicitations contains a couple of “Classified” advance-solicits for January.  Apparently Marvel thinks that “Avengers” #675 and “Guardians of the Galaxy” #150 are going to be so big that the company not only has to get the word out about their existence a month in advance, but price them at $5 each. […]

Every so often Marvel and DC will go through a period where they give a push to adding brand new superheroes to their respective universes.  What this usually amounts to is an enormous amount of crap being thrown at the wall with one or two characters sticking around to achieve some measure of cult/mainstream success. […]

This volume is a little closer to what I want to see in a “Superman” story as co-writers Peter Tomasi and Patrick Gleason attempt something few writers do these days:  Follow up on a concept laid down by Grant Morrison.  In this case, that would be his epic “Multiversity” series as Superman teams up with […]

This wraps up the main story for Greg Rucka’s run on the title and he does bring the narrative into much sharper focus here.  Even though Diana of Themyscira is struggling with a mental breakdown for the first half, she overcomes it through her own strength and with a little help from some of her […]

When I opened up this volume to its first story page and saw one of its protagonists being smacked in the head by some rotten fruit, my first thought was, “Which one is she again?”  Reading further in I was reminded that she was KJ, the paper girl who was sent to a different time […]

“Mother Panic” co-creator Gerard Way says in his afterword that the idea for this series was basically what would Bruce Wayne, and by extension Batman, be like if he grew up in today’s celebrity-obsessed environment.  Way also states that the series started as a creator-owned title before he got the chance to bring its protagonist, […]

This second volume of Brubaker and Phillips’ vigilante contains two more issues than the first one.  More does not always mean better, but in this case it does as it means we see more of its protagonist’s, Dylan’s, struggles as killing starts to get a lot more complicated for him.  It starts when some cops […]

Thanks to how I buy comics, when I buy comics, and the supply of where I buy comics from (more Cheap Graphic Novels than Amazon these days) I’ve wound up with a small backlog of “Star Wars” comics to write about.  Given the generally good quality of the line from Marvel so far, there are […]

To his credit, it does appear with this volume that writer Jeff Lemire does have a story he wants to tell about the title character.  Specifically involving the tortured (to put it mildly…) relationship he has with his son, Thane.  You see, Thanos the Younger has assembled a group of people — Nebula, Starfox, and […]

Brian Azzarello and Eduardo Risso’s work together on the excellent and long-running “100 Bullets” cemented them as one of the best writer/artist teams in the industry.  Their concurrent/subsequent work on “Batman” also bore this out even though Azzarello’s overwrough vernacular derailed their subsequent creator-owned collaboration “Spaceman.”  The Prohibition-set “Moonshine” is their latest work and I […]