Dark Horse is apparently committed to making this latest “Conan” series a fresh start for the character’s ongoing adventures at the publisher.  I say this because in addition to a new subtitle, “The Slayer,” they’ve abandoned the standard trade dress and numbering the series has had since its very first volume.  While that’s a little […]

Abraham Slam!  Golden Gail!  Barbalien, Warlord From Mars!  Col. Weird and Talky-Walky!  Madame Dragonfly!  They were some of the greatest heroes that Spiral City had ever known and they gave their lives in its defense from the overwhelming multiversal threat of the Anti-God.  At least, that’s what everyone believes.  What actually happened was that these […]

Mike Mignola and (usually) John Arcudi have done their best over the years to build up the Black Flame as one of the key “big bads” of the Mignolaverse.  Unfortunately their best hasn’t been good enough in this case.  Sure, the Black Flame was big, fearsome, and had those all-important Nazi connections, but he was […]

With the return to old-school single-issue goofiness of “Friends and Foes” over with, Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier get back to the business of mixing topical social commentary with the dumb antics of the title character.  While they’ve tried this approach to great effect in previous miniseries, particularly with their take on the banking crisis […]

Image’s own magazine “Image+” gets its second volume in these solicitations.  Normally that wouldn’t be newsworthy, except they’re continuing the trend started in the previous volume of offering exclusive comics with each issue.  The first volume had “Here’s Negan!” spotlighting the origins of the character from “The Walking Dead” courtesy of creators Robert Kirkman and […]

I got the feeling while reading this graphic novella that the main reason it exists is because Mike Mignola wanted to work with Gary Gianni more than anything else.  The story itself is fairly slight as it involves Hellboy sailing off the island at the end of “Strange Places” and finding himself prisoner on a […]

The integration of characters from “Watchmen” with the DC Universe is going to take another large step later this year with “Doomsday Clock.”  This four issue miniseries from writer Geoff Johns, his first full writing gig since the DC “Rebirth” special, and artist Gary Frank will have the superman of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ […]

The first batch of “Generations” one-shots, specials that feature legacy Marvel heroes teaming up with the originals, rolls out this month.  Whether or not it’ll help bring back lapsed fans into the fold is anyone’s guess, but current fans should come away satisfied.  That’s because you’ve got the likes of Jason Aaron writing current and […]

This is actually the first arc of “Saga” to have a proper name.  “The War for Phang” is described on the back cover as being “an epic, self-contained ‘Saga’ event.”  If you’re going to hype up a story to that event then you’d better deliver.  On that level, this volume of “Saga” is a genuine […]