The word around town is that Marvel’s latest revamp is not a revamp.  Confused?  Well, the idea is that the company wants to get back-to-basics with a lot of their characters much in the same way that DC did to much success with “Rebirth.”  Not only can you expect to see more classic iterations of […]

There are plenty of new collections in this month’s batch of solicitations from DC.  But why concern yourself with them now when we have word about collections that will arrive even later this year!  Some of these are particularly long-in-the-coming, such as “The Atlantis Chronicles” from Peter David and Esteban Maroto, which details the pre-Aquaman […]

This volume took a while to arrive, but it was ultimately worth the wait.  I thought that the first volume of “The Autumnlands” from writer Kurt Busiek and artist Benjamin Dewey was the best new Image title to debut in 2015 thanks to its impressive worldbuilding, clever twist on the “legendary hero” story, and amazing […]

The previous volume left off in a way that suggested big things were going to happen here.  Kyle Barnes had been captured by Sidney and his crew of possessed humans and was completely at their mercy regarding their plans for the Great Merge.  Those of you (myself included) expecting this to be a climax point […]

With his track record, any new Image series from Jonathan Hickman is a reason to get excited about.  I was particularly looking forward to seeing how the full volume of “The Black Monday Murders” would read after I checked out the first issue several months back.  Now that the final volume is here, it still […]

I didn’t have the best impression of the first volume of Matt Kindt’s previous creator-owned series at Dark Horse, “Mind MGMT,” but I eventually grew to appreciate what it was offering in subsequent volumes.  The creator’s latest series at the publisher may have a punny title, but everything about it is played straight in this […]

So this is it?  After five volumes of Abe’s ongoing series that, while it certainly had its moments, was mostly a dull slog more than anything else this is the ending we get!?  While the series certainly has significant relevance to the Mignolaverse, it’s easily the runt of the litter quality-wise when compared to the […]

The quality of “Aliens” comics over the years from Dark Horse has fluctuated wildly.  While the initial miniseries from writer Mark Verheiden and artist Mike Nelson still holds up well today, a quick read through any of the Omnibus volumes will reveal some pretty misguided endeavors as well.  “Defiance” is not only the first ongoing […]

It’s a dark and stormy night in this latest adaptation of a Neil Gaiman short story from Dark Horse, both in the life of the Writer at the heart of it and in the tale he’s trying to tell.  You see, the Writer is trying to tell a serious literary tale that reflects the truth […]