Speaking of “time running out,” here we are with the next volume of the series that heralds the end of the Ultimate Universe.  The previous volume did an excellent job transitioning Hickman’s narrative eight months into the future and this latest one keeps most of the momentum from it intact.  It’s an impressive feat considering […]

There’s this anime my friend Steve watched years ago called “E’s Otherwise” that he likes to harp on from time to time.  Not because it was particularly good or terrible, but because it was so average at everything it did.  It was just there, existing as an example of anime and nothing more.  That’s what […]

After “The Reign of the Black Flame” brought the ongoing story of this series to its latest climax point, it should be expected that these stories which followed it would be of a more low-key variety.  So we have the title story, a three-issue arc where Kate Corrigan winds up getting possessed by a necromancer […]

Charles Soule has made a name for himself for being able to put out three-to-four superhero comics a month for Marvel and DC over the past few years.  I’ve only read his work on ”Swamp Thing” and “She-Hulk,” which have been enjoyable though not entirely compelling reasons for the writer’s prolificacy.  Now we have his […]

I picked this up fully expecting to enjoy the art more than the story.  After all, Geof Darrow is one of those artists who draws EVERYTHING in his work.  Every pebble on the ground, every drop of sweat from a body, every crease of a person’s skin — all of it!  That kind of attention […]

I’ll give it this:  “Original Sin” at least offered a very flexible setup for allowing other titles to tie into this particular event.  Having characters suddenly remember forgotten memories works really well in the context of what is effectively “Retcon:  The Event!”  Mark Waid already got a decent story out of it with Kieron Gillen […]

After his latest face-off against Dr. Dinosaur (who didn’t actually have a savage sword) EVERYTHING CHANGED for Robo and his buddies at Tesladyne as they were hassled by Majestic 12.  How do you follow up on something like that?  By telling a story that stops the series’ momentum cold.  While it was clear for the […]

The saga of the Avengers’ horrible, no-good, very bad day comes to a close here as Nick Spencer wraps up his run in a tidy fashion with this volume.  Looking back on things, it becomes clear that even though the book was pitched as the “global” Avengers book that picked up on some of Hickman’s […]

Unlike the last volume, “Indestructible Hulk vol. 4:  Humanity Bomb” actually tells a coherent story.  More remarkable is the fact that Mark Waid manages to tell an interesting story in spite of the deeply uninteresting “Inhumanity” setup he’s saddled with.  With the terrigen mists transforming transforming random people throughout the country into Inhumans,  Bruce Banner […]

I’m going to miss this series when it’s gone.  That time is coming up soon as we’re now three-quarters of the way through its planned 60-issue run — the panel of Older Applebee telling Older Chu how much he hates him in the final issue is starting to feel tangible at this point.  It’s because […]