By all rights this story should have been part of Jason Aaron’s current run on “The Mighty Thor.”  I understand why that didn’t happen as it would’ve required the writer to put the ongoing adventures of Jane Foster on hold for five months while we caught up with the Odinson, who we find here to […]

Have you been waiting for current “Spider-Man” Miles Morales and “Spider-Gwen” Gwen Stacy to strike up some kind of inter-dimensional, quasi-romantic relationship?  Then this is the crossover for you!  If you’re like me and you haven’t been waiting for this, then the disjointed crossover that is “Sitting in a Tree” will likely only leave you […]

I was hoping for some kind of redemption regarding the “Abe Sapien” ongoing series with this volume.  That title wound up being consistently mediocre with an ending that didn’t wrap up much of what had come before.  Yet sprinkled throughout the ongoing title’s run were one-off stories featuring work from several different artists both known […]

Grant Morrison was a huge influence on My Chemical Romance frontman/”Umbrella Academy” writer Gerard Way.  So it’s probably not too surprising that Way has decided to put his own spin on Morrison’s groundbreaking “Doom Patrol” run as the inaugural title for his Young Animal imprint.  It also means there’s a lot of hero worship for […]

The first story in this volume contains something I never thought I’d see:  Good art from Felipe Andrade.  In his work on other titles like “Ultimate X-Men” and “Siege:  Battleworld” he usually took “stylistic exaggeration” to mean that he had the freedom to deliver characters that looked like twisted, misshapen lumps of their usual selves. […]

The title of this volume refers to the group of people who have had their lives ruined by the collateral damage from that no-good Batman and his vigilante antics.  What’s their plan for revenge?  Why to become supervillains themselves and cause some collateral damage of their own as they work to take down Batman, and […]

In what was likely an attempt to keep the sales magic of “Fables” going for the increasingly moribund Vertigo imprint, writers Lilah (formerly Matthew) Sturges and Dave Justus have delivered unto us “Everafter.”  I realize that description makes it sound like a cynical cash-in, but Sturges has a long history writing other “Fables” projects both […]

After fifteen volumes, and roughly two and a half years since the start of this title’s publication in English, we were finally going to learn Koro-sensei’s origin with vol. 16.  So yes, I was pretty excited to finally read this volume.  Having read it… I wouldn’t classify my disappointment as “crushing” but I was expecting […]

Hard as it may be to believe now, but there was a time when I actually enjoyed reading Mark Millar’s work.  With regards to his superhero work at Marvel, he had a real knack for coming up with high-concept storylines that got to the heart of the characters he was writing.  Such was the case […]