The previous volume was my pick for best comic of 2016 for these reasons:  It took a storyline that I wasn’t quite sure about — Negan escaping and falling in with the Whisperers — and managed to get some quality material out of it.  Then it served up a final-page twist that I did not […]

For the first major Bat-crossover of the “Rebirth” era the creators involved are going all Kaiju Big Battle on us.  While the entire Bat-team is getting ready to provide emergency assistance to Gotham as a hurricane bears down on the city things take a turn for the crazy when a giant monster starts barrelling down […]

Greg Rucka’s consistently entertaining, consistently overpriced shaggy-dog P.I. reaches its fourth volume.  This time around, Dexedrine Parios’ life takes a turn for the absurd but not ridiculous.  She’s hired by Mr. Weeks, a rich coffee enthusiast and maker, to deliver the first pound of his inaugural batch of Wild Thai Civet coffee to him after […]

I’ve mentioned before that the best thing Rob Liefeld has done as a comic creator is to let other talented individuals like Brandon Graham and Alan Moore play around with the characters he’s made.  However, he’s also responsible for giving a lot of creators and industry people their big break when he co-founded Image back […]

So… Marvel has had kind of a terrible month in terms of PR, haven’t they?  From the contents of David Gabriel’s summit with retailers, to the Anti-Semitic, Anti-Christian messages hidden in “X-Men Gold” #1, to the ongoing controversies surrounding “Secret Empire,” the comics side of the company is currently going through one of those phases […]

The “Dark Days” prelude continues with “The Casting” in this month’s solicitations, though the main event will kick off next month with “Dark Nights:  Metal” courtesy of Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo.  That expectations for this are sky-high after the success of their “Batman” run, but they managed to thrive on going bigger with each […]

We’re going outside Dark Horse’s solicitations for the above-board talk this month.  That’s because IDW will be publishing (co-publishing?) a crossover between the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Usagi Yojimbo.”  If that team-up sounds like such a natural fit that you’re wondering why they haven’t done this before, then you’re either not old enough or […]

James Tynion IV has been working on assorted Bat-titles over the past few years and either co-writing or doing various fill-in issues during Scott Snyder’s run on “Batman.”  Now he’s being given his shot at the brass ring as the new writer for “Detective Comics” and has come up with a novel approach for the […]

What do you do when your title has a three-issue tie-in with the latest big comic event and is heading for a relaunch shortly thereafter?  If you’re Mark Waid then your answer comes in three parts:  Tell a story setting up a future story, tell a story setting up a new series (with its co-writer), […]

Here’s another series where if I had known this was going to be the last volume of it, I’d have saved doing the podcast on it until now.  Anyhow, writer Matz and artist Luc Jacamon’s long-running series about a professional killer reaches an ambiguous end despite the global ambitions portended at the end of the […]