How big of an event is “Secret Wars?”  So big that they couldn’t fit the story into the solicited eight issues.  It was announced earlier this week that we’re getting an extra — ninth — issue to wrap up Jonathan Hickman and Esad Ribic’s epic storyline.  That said, it’s not clear if we’re actually getting […]

All good stories about ninjas who are also doctors must eventually come to an end.  Such is the case when creator Chris Hastings announced earlier this month that the current arc of this series (currently being serialized at www.drmcninja.com) will be its last.  I’m cool with that.  You can only sustain inspired craziness like this […]

If the previous volume was The One Where Everything Goes Wrong, then this is The One Where Things Start Turning Around.  After nearly losing everything to Julianne — The Eraser, Meru is only able to make it out of Hong Kong thanks to some posthumous help from Dusty and his music.  Making her way to […]

I almost want to call this, “I’m Sorry, I Can’t Hear You Over the Sound of How Awesome I Am:  The Series.”  That’s basically the deal with the title character, everything he does is effortlessly stylish while he also manages to maintain an air of aloof indifference/humility that keeps him from becoming entirely insufferable.  Essentially […]

Mike Richardson, publisher of Dark Horse Comics, went on record to Comic Book Resources about how the company’s sales have been going up over the last few years.  Which is good because an industry without Dark Horse is a lesser one for that.  While he shrugs off the loss of the “Star Wars” license (as […]

“Mad Max:  Fury Road” director George Miller takes on “Man of Steel 2?”  That’s the rumor right now with all of the people who have been reporting it saying that it feels like little more than wishful thinking at this point.  It’s not entirely inconceivable as Miller was associated with a proposed “Justice League” movie […]

This volume starts off as so much fun!  We get a two-parter involving a former *ahem* daredevil known as the Stunt-Master who asks for Matt Murdock’s help in dealing with this new kid who has took his name.  Murdock agrees only after the new kid’s self-aggrandizing tactics drive the former Stunt-Master to suicide  What follows […]

In a realization that makes me feel old more than anything else, it’s been ten years since “Avengers Disassembled” was published.  This was the story that saw Bendis take over writing the “Avengers” and turned them into Marvel’s new best-selling team, bringing them a relevance they hadn’t seen in decades.  Whatever your feelings about that […]

To be honest, there was a lot that fell under the title of this review.  Some of it I still might get to at some point.  For now, I’ve just got a random grab-bag of series I’ve been reading (Thor:  God of Thunder vol. 4,  Loki:  Agent of Asgard vol. 2, Captain America vol. 5) […]

While “Senso” marked Stan Sakai’s return to his signature creation, this latest volume of “Usagi Yojimbo” finally catches the series up to where it stopped before going on hiatus.  It’s also one of the better volumes in recent memory.  Not just another great example of the consistent quality of the title, but featuring some excellent […]