Call it a twenty-issue victory lap.  After Peter David managed a 100-plus issue run on the latest incarnation of “X-Factor,” he leapt right into the next one with a substantially different cast and setup.  It’s been fun, assuming you’re a fan of David’s style, but nothing all that special.  You get  the feeling that after […]

Now this is more like it.  I threw around a lot of comparisons to Dan Slott’s “She-Hulk” run in my previous review, but the work of Charles Soule and Javier Pulido does more to set itself apart in this volume.  Things kick off with a fun superhero team-up as She-Hulk and Hellcat work together with […]

Adam Warren has been publishing assorted one-offs relating to his bondage-prone, self-esteem challenged superheroine over the years.  Not only do they serve as a stopgap for providing Emp-related content in the years that we’re not graced with a new volume, but we also get to see his world and characters interpreted by a series of […]

Right now the plan is to catch “Age of Ultron” on Sunday with John and at least one other friend.  So no real thoughts on the movie yet.  However, its 75% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes tells me that I should have a good time if I keep my expectations tempered.  Maybe I’ll have something […]

Writing the first issue of a new comic is one of the most difficult things a writer can do in this industry.  There’s the establishment of the core cast, setting up and then upending the established status quo, and providing a compelling hook that has the reader coming back for the second issue.  A good […]

It’s been rumored for a while now, but the third “Dark Knight” series is officially a reality.  Subtitled “The Master Race,” it will be serialized as an eight-issue miniseries, bi-weekly starting later this year.  Frank Miller will again be writing and illustrating this series and that by itself doesn’t really bode well for it.  Following […]

Kieron Gillen so flawlessly defined this latest incarnation of the title character over the course of “Journey Into Mystery” and “Young Avengers,” that the idea of another writer chronicling his solo adventures sounded like a recipe for disaster.  In one of those instances where I’m quite happy to be wrong, Al Ewing effortlessly picks up […]

Arriving just in time for the new “Avengers” movie is Marvel’s latest original graphic novel.  Its title isn’t just a pun on the movie’s, it’s a key part of the book’s plot as it deals with the tortured familial relationship between Hank Pym and his creation, Ultron, with some angst from Vision thrown in as […]

Wait, didn’t I just do a roundup of my Image backlog yesterday?  Yes I did, but this title is a special case.  Though I’ve enjoyed a lot of comics that Rick Remender has written over the years, he’s also managed to write one that I gave up on after following it for a little while: […]