This series gets further back on track with its fourth volume (never mind the renaming/renumbering) as Olive Silverlock and her friends dive deeper into the mysteries surrounding the Academy.  Things start off fine with Olive and her friends investigating a cult of witches that has sprung up on campus and the introduction of her new […]

I’ve said before that there are two sides to writer Charles Soule.  The one most commonly on display is the one with his ruthless competence that you see in the majority of his superhero work.  His writing on those titles can be involving and even quite enjoyable, but genuine surprises and cleverness are usually few […]

The big news for this series in the post-”Clone Conspiracy” world is that Stuart Immonen is now its regular artist and — OH DEAR GOD WHAT DID THEY DO TO HIS ART!?!?!? If you’ve ever wondered how important good coloring is to art these days, you’re going to want to check out this volume.  Immonen’s […]

It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these.  Yet the constant flow of new Image collections into my library continues unabated.  Sometimes, however, there’s not much more to say about them than “title is still good,” “title is still average,” or “Rick Remender is back to his old tricks again.”  There’s also the […]

After saying that you should buy this collection over Becky Cloonan’s latest volume of “The Punisher” yesterday, I figured an explanation as to why was in order.  “By Chance or Providence” collects the creator’s three self-published one-shots along with a heaping collection of sketches.  Though they all share the same feudal, nordic setting and feature […]

This volume collects the final pieces of sequential art that Steve Dillon did in his legendary career.  I say “final pieces” and not “full issue” because Dillon was only able to complete a few pages in the beginning, middle, and end of the first issue of this collection.  The rest are filled out by the […]

As far as I’m concerned the third volume of Ewing’s “New Avengers” is still the best Marvel superhero title I’ve read this year.  For all intents and purposes “U.S.Avengers vol. 1:  American Intelligence Mechanics” is the follow-on to that and it retains much of what made that previous run great.  An eclectic group of heroes […]

This series hails from Gerard Way’s “Young Animal” imprint and features what is easily the best title for an ongoing comic in the current market.  Ostensibly, “Cave Carson” is following in the same path as “Doom Patrol” and “Shade the Changing Girl” in freshening up old DC characters for modern sensibilities.  The catch here is […]

I’m not saying that Mark Waid should stop writing stories involving time travel, but it’d be nice if he could try to write one that didn’t thrive on creating as many paradoxes as possible.  Between that one volume of “Hulk” he did and now this first volume of “Avengers:  Unleashed” it doesn’t seem to be […]

It was bound to happen eventually, but I’ve finally encountered a first volume of a new series from Matt Kindt that I’ve enjoyed without reservation.  “Ether” is the story of Boone Dias, a scientist who has dedicated his life to exploring the titular magical realm in order to understand how it works.  See, Boone doesn’t […]