For everyone who enjoyed the Fraction/Aja run on this series, new writer Jeff Lemire and artist Ramon Perez are here to let you know that the party is now over.  The new guys are smart enough to know that they have to take things in a different direction than the previous creative team.  Problem is […]

After enjoying his work so much on “Sunstone,” as well as the fill-in issues of “Rat Queens,” I’ve been interested in picking up more work from its writer/artist Stjepan Sejic.  Problem is that he’s had a very long and still ongoing working relationship with Top Cow and their “Witchblade” series in particular.  I can’t be […]

I hope everyone reading this had a good Thanksgiving.  In addition to hanging out with family and catching up with a cousin I haven’t seen in YEARS, I also discovered the merciless satire of Illuminating Comics.  Aside from providing some well-deserved skewering of Marvel’s editorial direction and relaunch frenzy, it has provided the only take […]

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 […]