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DC Previews Picks: August 2016

Originally this was going to be about Geoff Johns’ ascent in the Warner Bros/DC Films hierarchy.  The short version was that I generally saw this as a good thing, particularly if it allows for Johns to put his foot down if he didn’t like something that filmmakers were doing with Superman.  He has done some […]

Image Previews Picks: August 2016

It turns out that the third volume of “Rat Queens” did represent the beginning of the end for that series.  Just not in the way that I thought it would.  While issue #16 came out a couple weeks ago, word came out from artist Tess Fowler a couple weeks ago that she was being pushed […]

ElfQuest: The Final Quest vol. 2

Two volumes in and I’m not feeling as nearly involved as I should be for what’s effectively being billed as the last “ElfQuest” story.  Part of that’s due to the large sense of disconnect that comes with jumping into this without being caught up on the saga’s history beforehand.  That may change when Dark Horse […]

The Fuse vol. 3: Perihelion

Well, the first two volumes had their endings derailed by the old “talking killer” trope.  Did writer Antony Johnston go for the hat trick with this third volume of his and artist Justin Greenwood’s sci-fi police series?  No he did not, and that just one reason why this is the best volume of “The Fuse” […]

Amazing Spider-Man: Worldwide vol. 1

Parker Industries has gone global!  What was once a struggling startup has now become the hottest new name in cutting-edge consumer technology.  After all these years Peter Parker has finally managed to not only have a new business venture that didn’t immediately blow up in his face, but become a worldwide success as well.  Also, […]

A Few New Titles From Image

Yeah, it’s been an Image-centric weekend over here.  My backlog of their titles just keeps piling up for some reason.  I still have the third volume of “The Fuse” to tackle at some point, and I swear I’ll get around to doing either a podcast or a review of the third volume of “The Fade […]

Paper Girls vol. 1

Brian K. Vaughan has said that he tries to work out all of his issues with the world through his comics.  So if “Y:  The Last Man” represents his thoughts on gender politics, “Ex Machina” is general politics, “Pride of Baghdad” is the Second Iraq War, and “Saga” is parenthood, then what is he dealing […]

Star Wars: Vader Down

In all the years that Dark Horse published “Star Wars” comics, they only ever did one crossover.  That was “Vector,” during the time that they were publishing four ongoing titles.  It’s actually one of the better crossovers I’ve read if only for the fact that it prompted major advancements to the plots of “Knights of […]