For me, “Battle of the Atom” was the most underwhelming “X-Men” crossover in recent memory.  Even though it had some interesting ideas, there weren’t enough to sustain what was basically a fourteen-issue fight scene.  There was plenty of nice art, however.  So the idea that Bendis is revisiting the characters he created for that arc […]

Who here remembers the good old days when “Civil War” was being serialized?  Specifically, the delays between issues that caused corresponding tie-in issues to be delayed themselves in order to not spoil the events of the main series.  Like the Punisher’s dramatic return to the Marvel Universe after spending some time away in MAX-land with […]

I forgot to mention it in yesterday’s rundown of September’s solicitations, but this title is wrapping up its run with issue #24.  That makes this the next-to-last volume and you can see the rush to wrap things up in the main story.  First, we get a flashback illustrated by the title’s cover artist, Nathan Fox, […]

Something to consider:  “Batman” by Snyder and Capullo has been one of the best-selling titles in the industry since the start of their run with all forty issues selling over 100K each.  Yet Snyder has made more money with his creator-owned Image title “Wytches.”  That being the case, it’s not hard to imagine a future […]

Between the first volume of this and “The Fade Out,” Ed Brubaker has made his way back into my good graces after his lacklustre end years at Marvel and the never-quite-as-good-as-it-should-have-been “Fatale.”  That’s still the case in this second volume of the adventures of spy-on-the-run Velvet Templeton, even though there’s a plot twist towards the […]

This series has been on the cusp of being really good for a while now.  Holding it back has been the supernatural mystery of the revivers and some storytelling that doesn’t surprise as often as it should given the subject matter.  With vol. 5, writer Tim Seely makes some big strides towards addressing these issues. […]

Jonathan Hickman’s penchant for planning out his storylines is well known.  I mention this now because this is the first time I felt that he may have bitten off a little more than he can chew.  This would normally be a really bad thing, except that there are plenty of positives to make this volume […]

Hey, so it turns out that I was mistaken and Earl Tubb, protagonist of the previous volume, really was beaten to death in the street by Coach Euless Boss.  That does make him seem more threatening, but Jason Aaron wants you to feel something different for this particular bastard here:  sympathy.  “Gridiron” is all about […]

For all the noise I made about Si Spurrier’s “X-Men:  Legacy” run being likely to crash and burn within a year, it turns out that it was his take on “X-Force” which turned out to be commerically disappointing.  After a defining run from Rick Remender and a “not bad, but not particularly great” effort from […]