The first volume of this title was entertaining enough, even if its lasting contribution was underlining just how much Warren Ellis’ dialogue is starting to irritate me with its familiarity.  That’s not an issue I have with new writer Brian Wood’s style.  Granted, his dialogue is not that distinct at all, but I don’t read […]

(Yeah, about that trend I have going for Monday’s posts:  I just got back from Fanime and am completely wiped out.  This is the last post I have in the bank, so it’s going up now.  Expect a review of “Black Lagoon vol. 10” to make up for this oversight later in the week.) I’ve […]

It turns out that Image will be doing away with retailer-exclusive variants for single issues of their comics.  Apparently they don’t do much for a title’s long-term health and only serve to feed the speculator market.  Instead, they’ll be offering retailer-exclusive trade paperback editions instead. This may seem like it’d be more up my alley, […]

So, “Age of Ultron:”  Thoroughly entertaining and a worthy sequel to “Avengers.”  No, the story itself and the title villain’s scheme weren’t all that impressive, but the film was filled with plenty of entertaining details and situations to compensate.  The featured-in-previews scene where everyone had a go at picking up Thor’s hammer played great on […]

Jason Aaron and Ron Garney have given us a lot of good stories together at Marvel over the years.  Most of them involving Wolverine.  For a writer and artist who like working together so much, it was only a matter of time before they decided to work on something creator-owned to show what they could […]

When does Remender’s penchant for breaking his protagonists down work best in a story?  That would be when the protagonist in question is getting ready to be replaced.  So even though Steve Rogers feels like a tired man out of time who is also one step behind the bad guys in his fight against the […]

It’s the crossover we never knew we needed!  That’s what I’d like to be able to tell everyone about this long-awaited team up between the legendary barbarian and the cheese-dip wanderer.  While it’s great to have more Groo comics — and see his creator, Sergio Aragones, back in action — after a lengthy hiatus, this […]

This is the volume that made me miss the talking chainsaw. It was a minor detail from the initial volume, collecting the self-published issues of “The Goon” before creator Eric Powell brought it to Dark Horse.  This was a thing that could be described as  crazy, weird, and at odds with everything else in the […]