In a rather large oversight, I failed to mention what will likely be the biggest book of the month in my last roundup of Previews Picks for Image.  “The Walking Dead”  hits issue #150 in January with a dramatic cover and title, “BETRAYED,” to mark the occasion.  Who will Rick be betrayed by?  Before we […]

After escaping from his current timeline (again), multiversal special agent Casanova Quinn finds himself in Hollywood without his memory.  Now living as Quentin Cassaday, he works as a majordomo for Amiel Boutique, a man of wealth and influence in the community.  Boutique has a similar problem to Quinn as the old man can’t recall anything […]

(The podcast is running late this week due to some last-minute scheduling issues.  If it’s not up by sometime this weekend, then expect it next Wednesday and a new one to follow a week after.) After delivering the excellent “My Friend Dahmer,” John “Derf” Backderf decided to go mine a (debatably) more pleasant time in […]

So who is writing “The Dark Knight III?”  It was originally solicited as a collaboration between Frank Miller and Brian Azzarello, but the former has made some interesting statements in recent interviews over the past week.  Essentially they’ve given the impression that this second sequel is from Azzarello as opposed to a collaboration with Miller. […]

Readers with long memories might recall that I was very much looking forward to reading this new graphic novel from brothers Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon when it was announced earlier this year.  After titles like “Daytripper” and “B.P.R.D.:  Vampire,” and their work as artists on projects from the likes of Joss Whedon, Gerard Way, […]

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 […]