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Marvel Previews Picks: March 2016

I don’t think “Civil War” needed a sequel, but it looks like we’re getting one anyway.  After all, there’s a new “Captain America” movie using the title of that event coming out in May.  Marvel also needs any sales boost they can get in light of the fact that most of their new relaunches are […]

Image Previews Picks: March 2016

I noticed that James Stokoe is providing variant covers for the new issues of “Birthright” and “Head Lopper” that are being solicited here.  It also got me thinking that, aside from these variants, and other variant covers for Marvel, we haven’t seen a lot of new sequential work from this immensely talented creator.  After the […]

DC Previews Picks: March 2016

It’s been a long, hard, weird road from the start of the “New 52,” but come this March several of the surviving titles from that initiative will have hit a significant milestone:  Their 50th issues!  Of the 52 titles that launched, “Batman,” “Batman & Robin,” “Detective Comics,” “Superman,” “Action Comics,” “Batgirl,” “Catwoman,” “The Flash,” “Green […]

Dark Horse Previews Picks: March 2016

Renowned and best-selling novelist Margaret Atwood’s first comics project will be arriving courtesy of Dark Horse in 2016.  “Angel Catbird” is described as a humorous, action-driven, pulp-inspired story about a human whose genes wind up getting spliced with those of a cat and owl.  Will Eisner’s “The Spirit,” the Grant Morrison/Chas Truog run of “Animal […]

Old Man Logan vol. 0: Warzones!

The Wolverine we know is still dead, but it’s really hard to miss him when we have X-23 taking his place in the “Wolverine” series and the title character here joining the X-Men and getting his own ongoing series as well.  In fact, Old Man Logan is functionally identical to his younger counterpart, save for […]

The Sandman: Overture

Save for the “Endless Nights” graphic novel in the early aughts, Neil Gaiman has been away from “The Sandman” for quite some time.  When a creator is away from their signature creation/character/series for an extended period of time, some people always start to worry about how any kind of revisitation of that material is going […]

Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 4: Original Sin

There have been a couple questions hanging over Bendis’ incarnation of this team ever since it was formed.  Namely, “How did Starlord, Drax, and Thanos survive the destruction of the Cancerverse?” and “Why did they make it back when Richard ‘Nova’ Rider didn’t?”  These are questions that needed to be answered since these character were […]

Morning Glories vol. 9: Assembly

Now here’s the kind of volume I like to see from this series.  It offers several stories that are entertaining on their own merits while also furthering the title’s long-term storytelling.  Things get off to a great start with Ian snarkily waking up from a nightmare and proceeding to troll Casey for her presumably doomed […]