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 […]

This is not a storyline that needed nine issues to tell.  I can understand why Bendis may have thought that it did, as it’s essentially the climax of his run on this title.  It’s hard to see how he can get much bigger than having Scott team up with his former comrades to take on […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is a story that should have sold gangbusters… about a decade ago.  As it is right now, it’s just one more disappointing signpost on the road to the end of the Ultimate Universe.  The story involves a crossover between the Ultimate and 616 Marvel Universes after the time-stranded X-Men head off to meet a […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Kieron Gillen’s arc of this series comes with two narratives.  The one that takes place 75,000 years ago hinges on the scientific fact that mankind was on the verge of extinction at the time with potentially as few as 2,000 humans alive.  While the eruption of a supervolcano and the resulting climate change it caused […]