After reading a comic, it either passes on to my “to review” pile or straight onto a shelf.  Looking at the size of my “to review” pile, it’s clear to me that I have to start burning through some of these things quicker if I want to get this thing down to a manageable level. […]

Lord Henry Baltimore’s quest to rid the world of the Red King kicks off with the building of his party to do the job.  That’s the thread which binds these two stories, starting with “The Witch of Harju” and the introduction of the title’s new regular artist Peter Bergting.  In it, Baltimore and company find […]

Much to my surprise, this second volume manages to be a better read than the first simply by sticking to its guns and continuing on from what was established before.  No, the secret underground assassin school of Kings Dominion isn’t developed much more here, but I’m more in tune with what writer Rick Remender is […]

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 […]