Everyone likes Howards, right?  In case you’ve forgotten, he’s the B.P.R.D. member who fell into a coma after touching an ancient sword and started living out the life of a Stone Age warrior fighting against the forces of darkness.  When he woke up, Howards wasn’t the same man anymore but he brought enough fighting skill […]

Throwing unprepared teenagers into horrible, life-threatening situations has been a reliable source of entertainment for at least a couple centuries now.  Writer Alex De Campi and artist Carla Speed McNeil’s take on this concept has a group of privileged American teens fighting for survival in the fictitious south-of-the-border country of Mataguey.  I was worried that […]

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 […]