This latest volume in the series has a lot of the things that have made it a terrifically entertaining read so far.  You’ve got amazing art from Jamie McKelvie in full-blown spectacle mode as two factions of the Pantheon repeatedly face off against each other here.  While his character work is as good as you’d […]

That we currently have two ongoing series from Warren Ellis after years of miniseries and other short projects from the writer is kind of remarkable.  Unfortunately, it’s clear with this second volume of “Trees” that “Injection” is clearly the stronger of the two.  Fourteen issues into this series and it still has yet to fully […]

Dark Horse’s publication of videogame related artbooks continues apace in this month’s solicitations with The Art of Mass Effect:  Andromeda.  “Andromeda” is the first game in the series after the original trilogy and will take the player out of the known universe to set up a colony in the Andromeda system.  While I’ll definitely be […]

This is what happens when have a creator who clearly loves “Conan” but doesn’t want to actually do an official story featuring the character.  Instead, creator Andrew MacLean gives us a burly, irascible, white-bearded master swordsman who carries around the severed head of Agatha the Blue Witch, and bears the nickname “Head Lopper” for his […]

Brian Wood wrote seven volumes about vikings, Norsemen, and other denizens of Northern Europe in “Northlanders” with only one real dud among them.  (That would be the misguided supernatural fantasy of “Metal.”)  Even if it’s not an official continuation, fans of that series can essentially think of this series as vol. 8.  All of the […]

Yes, I’m just as surprised as you that we’re only getting this now as opposed the Turtles’ heyday in the 90’s.  That may be a good thing.  Can you imagine how this crossover would’ve read during that era where it was style at the expense of all substance?  With veteran Bat-writer (and creator of BOOM!’s […]

As uneven as Bendis’ output has been recently, it’s still nice to know that he can still write a good “Spider-Man” story.  Mostly.  With the Ultimate Universe having come to an end with “Secret Wars,” Miles Morales is now part of the Marvel Universe proper.  He’s still attending Brooklyn Visions Academy and trying to find […]

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” […]