Billed as the start of “The Apocalypse:  Year Two,” this latest volume of Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s thoroughly entertaining sci-fi western shows us that the son of Death and PRA leader Xiaolian is going to be a major factor in this next leg of the story.  He was raised with the name Babalon to […]

The first volume of this series was great fun and the second one continues the trend.  With the focus firmly established on the title character and his partner, Dawn Greenwood, experiencing the many wonders the cosmos has to offer, writer Dan Slott has a simple but effective formula to tell stories regarding this cosmically intrepid […]

It wasn’t expected to be a mini-phenomenon which got DC Comics to broaden its scope in what titles it sold to reach a new audience, but that’s what this latest revamp of “Batgirl” by writer/breakdown artist Cameron Stewart, co-writer Brenden Fletcher, and artist Babs Tarr did.  What I really don’t know is why they decided […]

The delicate balance of terror in this series continues to be maintained through this volume.  After it was revealed in vol. 3 that the Nazis have Uber spies with their own special abilities, the issue of ferreting out the one in Bletchley Park becomes an issue here.  Not the key issue as writer Kieron Gillen […]

I guess I stuck to my guns through sheer force of inertia.  Yeah, I would’ve bought this volume in hardcover if I had found it on sale, but that didn’t happen.  So nearly a year after I read the previous volume, the final act of Rick Remender’s epic storyline finally arrived at my door.  Was […]

There’s no denying that Marvel has a lot of interesting creative teams lined up for their post-”Secret Wars” relaunch:  Bendis/Marquez on “Invincible Iron Man,” Soule/Garney on “Daredevil,” Lemire/Ramos on “Extraordinary X-Men.”  I could go on, but what gets me about this whole event is how many of these titles are simply relaunches of ones that […]

Even if I’ve yet to be blown away by something that Charles Soule has written, I appreciate the fact that he keeps his comics going at a brisk pace and never stops throwing new things at the reader.  While this approach can get ridiculous, as seen in his crazy-train creator-owned comic “Letter 44,” his work […]

Even though Bendis has been setting up a lot of things in his run so far — Mystique kidnapping and replacing Dazzler, the sentinel attacks from unknown sources, tension between Scott’s team and S.H.I.E.L.D. — I wasn’t sure if he was actually going to pay off on any of that or if things would have […]

Despite having died in his first storyline, original “Grendel” Hunter Rose has had quite a prolific publishing afterlife.  Among the miniseries and anthologies chronicling his exploits, the character even found the time to take on Batman in a two-part story from original creator Matt Wagner.  I mention “Batman/Grendel” because without that precedent, this miniseries pitting […]

With the final issue of Matt Fraction and Howard Chaykin’s “Satellite Sam” due out any day now, the setting for the second series has already been announced.  It’ll be jumping coasts to L.A. and instead of focusing on the making of a sci-fi TV show, the action will be centered around a western.  I’m honestly […]