After three volumes the biggest mystery in this series is about to be answered:  Why were some issues left out from the previous collections?  It turns out that the issues in question were side stories that were written by series creators Matthew Rosenberg and Tyler Boss that weren’t illustrated by Boss.  Instead we have Joshua […]

Levi Coen may have been the reigning “Paperboy” champion at his local bowling alley, but he left that behind years ago because bowling and his champion dad were terminally uncool.  Now he lives the high life on the seas, smoking up and saving whales for Greenpeace.  Until he gets word that his dad is and […]

Before he met Virginia, the inflatable love of his life, Edwyn was just your average diner worker taking life a day at a time.  Which also included taking the lives of people who he felt deserved it – like the guy who tried to play cat soccer – by sawing off their heads with his […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Godzilla vs. The Marvel Universe Now see, the miniseries being solicited now is “Godzilla Destroys the Marvel Universe.”  It’s completely different from this collection of one-shots from several creators here.  I’m actually not being sarcastic here because the one-shots collected here are a bunch of era-specific tales that have the Big G taking […]

[Just a FYI: No podcast this week for multiple reasons. Primarily the fact that I chose something rather lengthy to talk about and Fanime threw a wrench in our plans to record. Expect it next week. As for what it is… it’s something I should’ve done last year but didn’t and will likely fall under […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Metamorpho:  The Element Man Rex “Metamorpho” Mason has the ability to turn into any element he wants to, and he’s been the star of some of the kookiest stories of DC’s Silver Age, while remaining a cult favorite to this day.  So cult that this is his first starring miniseries role in… I […]

I enjoyed writer Simon Spurrier’s run on “Hellblazer.”  Up until its end.  At which point the writer, and regular artist Aaron Campbell showed us just how dark a story involving John Constantine had to be to keep the reader from enjoying it.  It’s worth noting that this wasn’t supposed to be the end as the […]

Five hundred years ago, Grendel Prime was given a mission to find a replacement Earth to re-establish the Grendel name.  The short version is that he failed and has now returned to his homeworld, only to find it far more hostile to his kind.  Anything relating to or bearing the mark of Grendel has been […]

We’re all familiar with Dracula, the vampire, but who was he before he became the bloodsucking Prince of the Night?  Writer Matt Wagner and artist Kelly Jones take a page from the character’s alleged real-life inspiration and imagine him as a warlord from Wallacia in the 1400’s  One best known for the brutal way he […]