You know who we haven’t seen much of during Jason Aaron’s run chronicling the adventures of Marvel’s Thunder God?  Loki.  That might have been down to the fact that the character was already being used, quite well I might add, in the pages of “Young Avengers” and “Loki:  Agent of Asgard.”  Still, Aaron has managed […]

Brubaker and Phillips are at it again.  One of comics’ most reliable writer/artist teams, to the point where even their lesser projects turn out to be pretty readable, is back with a brand new title which tackles an all-new subject for them.  This time around it’s the concept of vigilantism and what makes an average […]

Image’s 25th Anniversary celebration rolls on with these solicitations.  So what can we look forward to along those lines in May?  Well, the issue of “Saga” which kicks off its next arc will only set you back 25 cents.  For those of you who are nostalgic for the time when Todd McFarlane actually drew “Spawn,” […]

Last year brought a big revamp for DC’s licensed Hanna-Barbera comics and characters and now the Looney Tunes characters are getting the same treatment.  Coming out of ComicsPro is word of four “Vs.” titles that will see familiar DC characters pitted against specific Looney Tunes.  One of them is genuinely inspired:  Lobo vs. the Road […]

There has been a not-insignificant talent exodus within Marvel over the past few years.  After the likes of Jonathan Hickman, Rick Remender, Matt Fraction, Kelly Sue DeConnick, and more have told the stories they wanted and achieved a certain amount of fame for doing so, they’ve departed for Image to pursue creator-owned work.  I believe […]

Last time in “Star Wars” Jason Aaron introduced a promising idea — that of a jail run by the Rebellion — only to drown it under conventional, predictable storytelling and see it written out of the series by the end of the arc.  It would be hard for him to do worse after that and […]

Save for a short story in the pages of “Thor:  God of Thunder,” this is the first time Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera have worked together since completing their excellent Native American reservation-set crime series “Scalped.”  That fact alone was enough to get me to give this series a shot.  “The Goddamned” is best described […]

We’ve reached the end of Fred Van Lente’s tenure as writer of “Conan” and the best way to sum it up is by saying this:  It was certainly a thing that happened.  I want to say that his run would’ve been better served by having an arc to it, as was the case with the […]

The late, great Steve Dillon.  That’s what the artist is now and this latest volume of “The Punisher” represents the bulk of his final work, with his last issue set to be collected in the next volume.  Dillon’s work on the character is iconic with his innate ability to perfectly frame a gunfight, creatively render […]