I’m not done with Brubaker yet this week.  To be honest, after the writer decamped to Image along with Sean Phillips to do “Fatale” and their subsequent creator-owned titles, I didn’t think we’d ever see another volume of “Criminal.”  It had a very good six-volume run over at Marvel, but no ongoing storyline that needed […]

I hope everyone enjoyed Batgirl’s time in Burnside because it ends with this volume.  It was a fun detour and while the stories from writers Cameron Stewart and Brenden Fletcher, along with Babs Tarr’s art (along with many other talented artists) didn’t prove to be as revolutionary as their buzz would indicate, they still put […]

For all intents and purposes this is the grand finale to Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo’s run on “Batman.”  Yes, there’s still another volume with their names on it arriving in december, but in addition to collecting their final issue together it’s also called “Epilogue.”  Which kind of hits the nail on the head.  “Bloom” […]

T’Challa is having a really good year so far.  After Chadwick Boseman made a striking debut as the Black Panther in “Captain America:  Civil War,” the character’s latest ongoing series debuted to over 300k in sales.  It’s not the biggest debut of the year, but I don’t think that anyone was expecting a new “Black […]

I mentioned Joe Keatinge and Leila Del Luca’s “Shutter” for possibly the first time in these solicitations a few months back.  That’s because the final arc for their series was being hyped by advertising that the collection of the final issues wouldn’t be arriving for quite some time afterward.  No word on if that has […]

With DC dominating its distinguished competition in terms of marketshare for August, was there any good news for the company’s comic sales last month?  Actually, yes.  Even though Marvel lost considerable marketshare here, its sales were still 40% more than they were in August of last year when “Secret Wars” was still in full swing. […]

To say that DC had a good August would be understating things by quite a bit.  The fact that they  utterly trounced Marvel in overall marketshare for dollars and comics sold is impressive in itself.  What’s really shocking is that the company managed this feat by shipping a third less books than its main competitor. […]

Strig Feleedus is a genetic engineer who is working on a big project for Muroid Inc.  It’s a super gene-splicer formula that could have a huge impact on the world as we know it.  The bad news is that his boss, Dr. Muroid, is actually a half-rat shapeshifter who wants to use the formula to […]

“Vader Down” notwithstanding, I’ve generally enjoyed Jason Aaron’s work on “Star Wars” so far.  The second volume even indicated that we could expect stronger work from him when he’s not bent on bringing in big-gun guest stars like Darth Vader and Boba Fett.  With “Rebel Jail” he has an even bigger opportunity to add something […]