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 […]

I don’t think that Garth Ennis has written a war comic that I haven’t enjoyed reading on some level.  However, the more enjoyable ones tend to be where he tells us an actual story as opposed to explaining a specific aspect of combat or history.  “The Hurricane” easily falls into the former category as it’s […]

I wasn’t really keen on picking up this title when it was announced.  At the time, Rick Remender had burned a lot of his goodwill with me with the relentlessly depressing “Low” and the unimaginative downward spiral of “Black Science.”  Then he turned things around on “Black Science” and “Deadly Class” got even better, and […]

Having a miniseries prelude to a big comics crossover event isn’t necessarily a bad thing.  In the case of “Death of X” it allows for people who haven’t been keeping up with one side (such as myself with the Inhumans) to get on the same page with those who have so that they’re properly invested […]

In the realm of single issues the X-Men are getting off to their latest relaunch in the wake of the “Inhumans vs. X-Men” event.  (Though not without some controversy, sadly.)  The idea this time is a back-to-basics approach that emphasizes the characters superhero escapades more than anything else.  Actually, it’s more of a back-to-the-90’s approach […]