Now this is more like it. Judging by the reviews and word-of-mouth online, I was one of the only people who didn’t think that “Fatale” was another stunning addition to the existing canon of works from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips.  It was a solidly constructed supernatural tale, but the stories it told never grabbed […]

Jon and Suzie have a problem.  Contrary to what the back cover of this volume says, it doesn’t involve their orgasmic time-stopping abilities.  No, their problem is that they’re the stars of a winning comedy/romance/fantasy series that’s being dragged down by an actively unlikeable antagonist.  The kind of villain who it’s impossible to have sympathy […]

When I talked about how I hoped that “Trees” represented a return to form for Warren Ellis, I was selling him short in that regard.  As I was reminded while reading the first volume of that series, there are a lot of things I like about his comics even if he tends to play up […]

What keeps me reading this series?  Three volumes in and I can say that it’s the delicate balance of terror Kieron Gillen maintains in the struggle between the Allied and Axis powers.  At the start I was worried that a series about how the Nazis developed superhumans to fight as soldiers in WWII would mean […]

Even if I did enjoy Warren Ellis’ brief run on “Moon Knight,” there was little doubt that his style was starting to wear on me.  Years after they first captivated me in “Transmetropolitan,” the rhythms of his dialogue were starting to irritate with their familiarity in that project and even more so in “Avengers:  Endless […]

Brian Wood’s run on “Conan” comes to a close with this volume, as does the title character’s romance with the pirate queen.  These last four volumes have been interesting in comparison to the rest of the ongoing series published by Dark Horse in the sense that they’ve been bound together by Conan and Belit’s tempestuous […]

Given the amount of titles that Bendis writes at any given time in the Marvel Universe, it’s honestly pretty surprising that we haven’t had a full-fledged crossover between them until now.  This team-up between the “Guardians” and “All-New X-Men” comes with a pretty interesting hook as the young Jean Grey is kidnapped by the Shi’ar […]

While it’s nice to see someone like Garth Ennis, who has been around a while in this industry, explore other genres the results of his most recent projects have been decidedly mixed.  “Rover Red Charlie” had some good parts, but the “talking animals” part of it was awkwardly executed.  Now we have this riff on […]

The era of fill-ins is over!  What we get with this final volume are six issues of delightfully mean-spirited entertainment from writer Nick Spencer and artist Steve Lieber (with Rich Ellis pitching in on one issue).  Thanks to the Owl, Boomerang is now back to working with some of his former partners — Beetle, Overdrive, […]