The rabbit hole of depravity and sin that is Hollywood, circa 1948, just gets deeper in this latest volume from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.  How bad are things there?  The best decision in Act Two appears to be former child star/current jazz trumpet player Jack Jones’ statement to screenwriter/very amateur investigator Charlie Parrish that […]

There are three different plot threads in this volume, two of which collide with explosive results by its end.  After vol. 4 left off with robot dissident Dengo escaping with Alanna, Hazel, and Marko’s mother, he figures that his best bet to make the Robot kingdom pay for the death of his son is to […]

Being one of our greatest living comics writers, it shouldn’t be surprising that Alan Moore is one of the few writers to do something interesting with the “Crossed” franchise beyond serving up some shock value with a side of extreme gore.  The writer starts this new series one hundred years after the initial outbreak, where […]

It’s written by Jeff Lemire.  It has art from Dustin Nguyen.  It’s a sci-fi story with an epic scope and with a story that looks to have the fate of the universe at stake.  These are all things that interest me, yet this first volume of “Descender” wasn’t nearly as involving as you’d expect from […]

While we’re on the subject of comedic fantasy action stories (in comic book form), here’s the return of the granddaddy of them all.  Of course, we did get “Groo vs. Conan” earlier this year and that wound up being a bit underwhelming.  Have Sergio Aragones and Mark Evanier lost their touch with the character after […]

So it turns out there WAS a reason behind all of the alternate-universe versions of Rex and Rolf that showed up in the previous volume!  In fact, writer Jim Zub delivers a finale that reveals the series to have had more on its mind than frequently hilarious fantasy-based slapstick violence.  That’s not to say that […]

I went into “Fear the Walking Dead” with all the optimism that the quality of the show and Robert Kirkman’s involvement would allow.  It was not rewarded.  Even if there were some nice moments in seeing civilization slip away, they were outweighed by a cast of characters that were boring at best and actively unlikeable […]

Getting the collection of one-shots in “Empowered Unchained” earlier in the year was nice.  The fact that this latest volume of the main series is excellent even by the title’s normally high standards is better.  Things start off by picking up on the fallout from Emp and Sistah Spooky’s trip to Object 524 as the […]

He’s back from “Spider-Verse” with three issues and an annual to kill.  However, Peter Parker is still trying to get a handle on the whole “running his own business” thing.  Though he’s still committed to having Parker Industries build a super-prison, our hero is constantly being distracted by his other responsibilities as Spider-Man.  His two […]

Inanity about the numbering of this volume aside — it’s the first and ONLY volume in this run — it actually makes for a decent wrap-up to Rick Remender’s run on this title.  In the wake of “Axis” and the revelation that Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch were not Magneto’s kids, the two Avengers head […]