How does Magneto deal with the Final Incursion that heralds “Secret Wars?”  By pulling lots of strings to become more powerful than he ever has in order to repel the other Earth and ensure that mutants live to see tomorrow.  Despite his good intentions, this is Magneto at his most self-aggrandizing and ruthless.  Oh, he […]

This is an epic miniseries with some appropriately epic flaws as well.  First off:  If you haven’t read Grant Morrison’s previous big event comic, “Final Crisis,” then I suggest you do that now.  Because that’s where Nix Uotan — last of the multiversal Monitors — was introduced along with other sinister story beats that follow […]

Are you ready to overthrow the patriarchy?  Well that’s too damn bad because it’s too rich, clever, and well-entrenched to surrender to any kind of head-on attack.  But what if some very clever women played the men’s game well enough to find themselves in the right place at just the right time to take out […]

My initial thought regarding this volume was that Kieron Gillen had decided to do away with the delicate balance of terror that has defined his series so far.  Much of the drama from “Uber” has come from seeing both sides take shots at each other, with neither ever quite gaining the upper hand.  That changes […]

In case anyone was keeping track from last week’s “Image Previews Picks,” a re-read has confirmed that this is the best thing Warren Ellis has done in quite a while.  This isn’t a complete break from what the writer has been doing.  It’s more like a re-focusing of his strengths which helps remind longtime readers […]

I only lasted one volume on “Low.”  “Black Science” is starting to wear out its welcome.  I’m not sure if I’ll be giving “Tokyo Ghost” and “Devolution” a chance when they’re collected in trades.  Yet I think “Deadly Class” may wind up being the one creator-owned project from Rick Remender that I wind up sticking […]

For those of you keeping track at home, another character’s “mutant” status has now been retconned away.  It started with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch revealed not to be Magneto’s children or mutants in the pages of “Axis” and “Uncanny Avengers.”  Now it turns out that Squirrel Girl has never been a mutant either!  WHERE […]

What to do about lateness?  It’s something that has dogged Image ever since it was founded and continues to be a nagging issue to this day.  Publisher Eric Stephenson rightly acknowledges the short attention span of today’s audiences in that whenever a book misses it shipping date, it makes it easier for the audience to […]

(This was going to be the intro to the January edition of “Image Previews Picks,” but it ran a bit long and things got a bit late.  Sooooooooo…) A little over 13 million people tuned in live to see Glenn get ripped apart by zombies in the latest episode of “The Walking Dead” last Sunday. […]

It’s interesting.  My main concern with the first volume was that the intimate, character-driven horror story was going to clash with the biblical, potentially “end of the world” plot that Robert Kirkman and Paul Azaceta were setting up.  With this second volume, it’s clear that the main plot is on a slow burn and is […]