Forget the previous “Batman” series to bear this title.  This time around “All-Star” is the victory lap for Scott Snyder after he, along with Greg Capullo, delivered some of the best “Batman” stories in recent memory with their run on the “New 52” incarnation of the title.  While that series worked because it managed to […]

He’s one of the best and most prolific writers of superhero comics, but not everything he puts out is a home run.  Take Champions vol. 1:  Change the World as an example.  Subsequent to the events of “Civil War II” along with a general disappointment at how adult superheroes tackle their job, Kamala “Ms. Marvel” […]

While the release schedule for DC’s once-celebrated Vertigo imprint continue to thin out with each passing month, it’s still in better shape than Marvel’s was-almost-kinda-sorta-a-contender creator-owned imprint Icon.  It launched with the first issue of the second volume of “Powers” by Bendis and Oeming and in that moment it looked like the imprint could be […]

“Marvel Legacy.”  This is the plan that’s going to return the company to creative and commercial dominance in the industry?  Based on all of the teasers for the initiative Marvel released last Friday, their plan does not inspire confidence.  While some of the plot points teased have promise — just what is Spider-Man going to […]

While I haven’t been actively looking for info on DC’s latest event “Dark Nights,” it’s hard to miss the articles about it which begin with the exclamation that the DCU will be invaded by seven evil alternate-universe Batmen this summer.  Honestly, I think it’s a solid setup for the event.  If our “good” Batman can […]

This latest volume takes the story in two different directions and timelines, which ultimately converge in the end.  With the present-day scenes the focus is on the Carlyle-aligned families assault on Western Europe.  In the past, we see what happened to Forever after she was brought back from her successful but costly battle in Duluth. […]

I’m going to start things off with a plea for you, the reader (and, say, 3,000 of your closest friends) to go pick up this volume if you haven’t already.  Why?  Well it turns out that it’s been selling just well enough for its writer, Alex De Campi, to make exactly nothing from its publication. […]

I was looking forward to this in a “just so crazy it might work” kind of way.  I mean, it was pitched in Dark Horse’s solicitations as the story of two brothers — Tarzan and Caesar — raised together and then torn apart by the war between man and ape.  It sounded ridiculous, but kind […]

Brian Wood and Mack Chater get their new series about an uncompromising woman in a tough situation off to a great start.  Grace Briggs is the matriarch of Briggs Land, the largest secessionist movement in the country, while her husband is incarcerated.  Now that he’s negotiating a deal with the feds to give up his […]