Last time was all the setup for the latest “Hellfire Gala” and “Fall of X,” and I mentioned that it didn’t exactly get me excited for the idea of Marvel’s Merry Mutants losing to a secret science organization that hates them.  Again.  So I guess it’s appropriate that the five issues collected here are… perfectly […]

Keanu Reeves’ first comic series “BRZRKR,” co-written with Matt Kindt and illustrated by Ron Garney, was something of a misfire.  The story of an immortal berserker named Unute was very self-serious and more concerned with dishing up bloody action than an interesting story.  I liked the parts where the story threatened to get weird in […]

I don’t know why this one-shot wasn’t collected with “Ultimate Invasion.”  Maybe it’s because Bryan Hitch didn’t draw it, but this still features very capable work from Stefano Caselli.  I wonder because it contains some story beats that flow directly from that miniseries and directly set up events for the first three “Ultimate” titles.  The […]

Saying “around the turn of the millennium” is something that makes me feel old, but it was when Marvel unleashed their one imprint that genuinely resonated with me:  Ultimate Marvel.  The concept was “What if the Marvel Universe had started today?” and the results took the industry by storm.  “Ultimate X-Men” was a blockbuster right […]

The first volume of this revival of the venerable British series “Battle Action” was an anthology spotlighting a wide swath of characters that featured in it over the years.  All of the stories were written by Garth Ennis who also provided commentary on why each of them mattered to the magazine.  To him as well […]

Not too long ago, Poison Ivy and Metallo showed up in Metropolis and led to a team-up between Superman and Batman (and Robin).  Then Superman got hit with a Red Kryptonite cocktail, causing him to hallucinate and lose control of his powers.  That’s when Niles Caulder and his Doom Patrol had to be called in […]

“Choose.” That’s what the robot at the heart of Radiant Black told Marshall and Nathan at the end of vol. 4 after they tried to figure out what was going wrong with their power.  It turns out that only one of them can be the hero in this story after all and it’s up to […]

WonderCon was dealt a bad hand this weekend as it coincided with the latest storm system to hit Southern California.  Rain?  In SoCal?  I’m as shocked as you are, but storms have been hitting pretty regularly for these past few weekends.  We’ll likely be back to our regularly scheduled drought season next year, though. Bad […]

Hitwoman Jagger Rose and Made Man Valentine Gallo have been through some stuff over the previous volumes.  From being on the run from the Bonavese Family – the Family they were originally a part of – to Valentine finding out he was born to be a snitch for the FBI, to Jagger taking out the […]