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 […]

500K+ orders for the first issue of “Secret Wars” in the direct market alone.  It’s no “Star Wars,” but those are “Amazing Spider-Man #1” numbers from last year, and that had the benefit of whatever momentum the film brought to that launch.  So it would appear that the Marvel Hype Machine has pulled off an […]

Here is a miniseries that very much wants to be like one of those movies with a sprawling cast of characters whose lives start to interconnect over the course of its running time.  It’s the death of a woman that gets the plot in motion after she falls to her death from a building onto […]

In the pantheon of late comics, “Nonplayer” is a special case.  There have been many series where there was a big fuss about the first issue, and then disappeared completely after delays destroyed its moment and/or people realized that what they had bought was total crap.  (This happened most often with a lot of Image […]

His runs on “X-Men:  Legacy” and “X-Force” aren’t writer Si Spurrier’s only excursions into the oddball fringe of the X-Men franchise.  This miniseries pre-dates both of them and it has Spurrier indulging his love of outlandish superhero sci-fi concepts to the hilt.  It involves the title group, the X-Men’s “science team,” made up of Dr. […]

With “Convergence” behind them in these solicitations, the company (presumably safely ensconced in its new Burbank headquarters) moves on to the business of the mini-relaunch of its superhero universe.  Though DC is leaving the “New 52” branding behind, as they haven’t published 52 monthly comics for a while now, the continuity of that relaunch will […]

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 […]