Saying “around the turn of the millennium” is something that makes me feel old, but it was when Marvel unleashed their one imprint that genuinely resonated with me:  Ultimate Marvel.  The concept was “What if the Marvel Universe had started today?” and the results took the industry by storm.  “Ultimate X-Men” was a blockbuster right […]

The first volume of this revival of the venerable British series “Battle Action” was an anthology spotlighting a wide swath of characters that featured in it over the years.  All of the stories were written by Garth Ennis who also provided commentary on why each of them mattered to the magazine.  To him as well […]

Not too long ago, Poison Ivy and Metallo showed up in Metropolis and led to a team-up between Superman and Batman (and Robin).  Then Superman got hit with a Red Kryptonite cocktail, causing him to hallucinate and lose control of his powers.  That’s when Niles Caulder and his Doom Patrol had to be called in […]

“Choose.” That’s what the robot at the heart of Radiant Black told Marshall and Nathan at the end of vol. 4 after they tried to figure out what was going wrong with their power.  It turns out that only one of them can be the hero in this story after all and it’s up to […]

WonderCon was dealt a bad hand this weekend as it coincided with the latest storm system to hit Southern California.  Rain?  In SoCal?  I’m as shocked as you are, but storms have been hitting pretty regularly for these past few weekends.  We’ll likely be back to our regularly scheduled drought season next year, though. Bad […]

Hitwoman Jagger Rose and Made Man Valentine Gallo have been through some stuff over the previous volumes.  From being on the run from the Bonavese Family – the Family they were originally a part of – to Valentine finding out he was born to be a snitch for the FBI, to Jagger taking out the […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: G.O.D.S. What happens when The Powers That Be meet The Natural Order Of Things?  They get a much-hyped lead-in across multiple titles from an A-List creative team whose series only lasts eight issues before it gets canned.  “G.O.D.S.” represented writer Jonathan Hickman’s efforts to redefine the magical corner of the Marvel Universe and […]

Vol. 16 left off with Nene and Niko descending into the mindspace shared by Clarion and Phobos after their battle shifted from the physical plane to cyberspace.  We don’t catch up with them right away as we’ve also got to check in with Robert as he tells us about his situation in a big ol’ […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Rock Candy Mountain Complete This series passed me right by when it came out because its creator wasn’t on my radar at all.  Seven years later and I now look forward to whatever writer/artist Kyle Starks does next.  Looking at the solicitation for this collection of the entire eight-issue series, it’s clear that […]