Stop me if this sounds familiar to you:  A blowhard businessman decides to run for president and wins the hearts of millions with his straight talk while offending even more with his rhetoric and poor temperament.  That’s the setup for “Citizen Jack,” but its protagonist, Jack Northworthy, has one thing in his corner that Trump […]

For the freshman finals at King’s Dominion Atelier of the Deadly Arts, all of the rats must die.  This includes series protagonist Marcus, his goth girlfriend Petra, and former friend turned current ally Billy.  Their race to survive all the teen assassins coming for their heads stands as some of the most thrilling storytelling that […]

The best part about the first two volumes (we’re not counting “Vader Down” here) of Kieron Gillen and Salvador Larroca’s “Darth Vader” title is how it presents the title character in a diminished state with a struggle before him, and still presents this Dark Lord of the Sith as an uncompromising badass who is not […]

Bond’s film status has seen better days recently, with the relative creative disappointment of “Spectre” and the ongoing drama of whether or not Daniel Craig will return to the role.  (If Idris Elba doesn’t want to do it, then the oft-rumored Tom Hiddleston would be a good second choice.)  Fortunately, Warren Ellis is on hand, […]

All good things must come to an end, and this represents the last of writer Tim Truman and artist Tomas Giorello’s work on “Conan.”  This being comics, that could change in a couple years, but the way Truman thanks everyone he’s worked with on the character over the years in his afterword really makes it […]

It took them a while, but Marvel has finally gotten around to delivering a miniseries set in the prequel era.  A lot of people think that mining the era of the much-derided “Prequel Trilogy” is a bad idea given how it automatically invokes (bad) memories of these films.  I disagree.  The very best “Star Wars” […]

The Logan we knew and loved for years is still dead.  I imagine he’ll stay that way for a few more years until people really start to miss him (and he’s burned off all that bad karma from killing all of his bastard children towards the end).  In the meantime, Marvel doesn’t have just one […]

I know it’s getting old at this point, but there are a lot of Image titles that I follow.  To the point where the trade paperbacks I get start to pile up in my review queue after a while.  I have things that I want to say about them, but there’s always something newer or […]

I was originally going to write up “Star Wars:  Obi-Wan and Anakin” tonight because I wanted something easy.  Then I was distracted by this second collection of Ennis & McCrea’s run on “The Demon.”  I figured I’d read a little bit of it and then get down to work.  Then I read a little more, […]

Hrm…  When it was teased that Batman killed for the custom-human-trafficker known as “Mother” because he wanted a Robin more suited for the job than Dick Grayson, I knew it was all a fake-out.  As should anyone else who has been reading “Batman,” and superhero comics in general, for a reasonable amount of time.  My […]