It feels like damning with faint praise to say that writer James Tynion IV has turned in a better volume of “Detective Comics” this time around by simply not attacking the underpinnings of the superhero genre.  Tynion instead delivers a story that, as you’d probably expect given the volume’s title, pays off on all the […]

Readers with long memories (or the ability to click on this link) may recall that I’ve had my eye on this series ever since it was first solicited.  It’s got a setup that’s just wrong enough to get me interested:  Edwyn used to be a serial killer.  He retired after he met Virginia online as […]

Netflix bought Millarworld last month and the “Kick-Ass” comics are coming to Image until the streaming company figures out this whole “publishing comics” thing.  There’s going to be a new “Kick-Ass” series featuring an African-American mother of two who is also a veteran of the Afghanistan war.  While having a minority protagonist for the next […]

I’m not sure if we’ll ever get an official statement from Bendis as to why he decided to leave Marvel or DC.  There are plausible-sounding rumors as to why, though.  He had pretty much accomplished everything he wanted at the company, from writing all of his favorite characters to creating several new ones.  At this […]

Is there anything we can learn from Berganza-gate over at DC?  Based on what has happened it would appear that the only way sexual harassers can be dealt with at a comic book company is if their notoriety reaches the mainstream.  Superman group editor Eddie Berganza’s behavior was well-known within the industry but he wound […]

Another month without any manga solicitations, and no the Zelda Encyclopedia doesn’t count.  We do have word of some manga-adjacent announcements from the company in the past month, however.  “Berserk”-related ones, even.  The “Berserk Official Guidebook” will be published next March and will set you back $15 for 200 pages about the world of the […]

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 […]