The title to this series (as well as its first volume) is entirely appropriate considering the character’s origins.  Originally an amalgamation of Gwen Stacey and Deadpool who showed up on the variant cover to “Deadpool’s Secret Secret Wars” #2, the character image became quite popular with fans.  But how do you turn such a thing […]

Forget about what to look forward to from Marvel next year.  Here’s what they should do:  Run their events in serial not parallel order.  Right now we’re in the thrall of “Civil War II,” “The Clone Conspiracy,” and “Inhumans vs. X-Men” each with their own assorted tie-ins throughout their respective lines.  Forget about the usual […]

What can we look forward to with Image next year?  Well, I’m still hoping that “World Domination by Way of Comics” is still on their agenda.  They’re consistently putting out the most interesting and diverse set of comics in the western world and there’s only going to be more to look forward to in the […]

What’s there to look forward to from DC in 2017?  Mostly them making good on the plot threads that were set up in the “Rebirth” one-shot from earlier this year.  So if you’ve been waiting for them to explain who Mr. Oz (who is totally not Ozymandias from “Watchmen”) really is or where the “Watchmen” […]

Grant Morrison has a well-deserved reputation as an ideas man.  So I guess it shouldn’t be surprising that he came up with the idea of doing an origin story for Santa Claus that takes the character back to his Germanic and Viking-related origins.  Klaus was a captain in the Grimsvig guard until he was driven […]

…and at the other end of Nick Spencer’s skillset is this new creator-owned crime series with artist Steve Lieber, his partner-in-crime on “Superior Foes of Spider-Man.”  That was one of my favorite Marvel series of recent years and I was really looking forward to seeing what they could do when not working within the constraints […]

Vol. 1 was all about establishing writer Nick Spencer’s take on Sam Wilson as the new Captain America.  A hero who was more about fighting for the little guy and for social change than simply beating up bad guys.  It delivered on that approach, but offered no real surprises.  If you were hoping for more […]

This volume marks the end of year two of the Apocalypse, with the concluding year three to follow in due course.  Does vol. 6 represent a significant ramping up of stakes and excitement in advance of this?  Kinda.  I imagine that the second meeting of nations called by the now-empowered Ezra was meant to herald […]

I was very much looking forward to seeing what writer Si Spurrier would be doing with this series he inherited from Alan Moore.  After all, Spurrier is one of the few writers who has done something interesting with the “Crossed” concept beyond exploit it for purposes of gore-related shock value.  So imagine my disappointment when […]