Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars:  The Battle of Jakku If I’m being honest, this collection deserves this spot simply for being a collection of all three “Battle of Jakku” miniseries.  Though this was clearly meant to be a twelve-issue maxiseries, Marvel published it weekly as three four-part miniseries:  “Insurgency Rising,” “Republic Under Siege,” and “Last Stand.”  […]

The Joker is up to his old tricks again, and more of Gotham’s mob bosses are dead as a result.  While the Clown Prince of Crime thinks that this will clear the way for him and some of his fellow supervillains to rule Gotham once more, they’re not having it.  The likes of Two-Face, the […]

The crew of the Defiant’s bounty hunting days are behind them, and they’re ready to be done with each other after how it all turned out.  All they have to do is deliver their quarries to Starbase 99 and they can go their separate ways.  Once they arrive at the decrepit space station (which is […]

Vol. 2 left off with the promise of a plan just so crazy it might work:  Nathan Bright was going to go undercover as Ian Black – the terrorist he used to be – in order to help the Earth government take out Jenner, the leader of the terrorist organization known as the Sword of […]

As far as supervillain plans go, Brother Eternity’s is a straightforward one:  Establish a religious cult on Earth to give him a power base and then leverage it to stage an expedition to the Saturn moon of Titan.  Once there, speak words of power and unleash the Necrostar into the Solar System.  After that:  Profit.  […]

Hope is the daughter who uses her army-trained sniper skills for drugs.  Greta is the mother who traded away her shot at astronaut glory only to lose her husband instead.  George is the grandfather who has spent a lifetime of killing for his country with little to show for it.  The members of this family […]

It was inevitable that Carnage and his human host, Cletus Kasaday, would cross over into the pages of this run of “Venom” at some point.  The two symbiotes do have a history, after all.  Things start off with Cletus trying to track down Dylan Brock in an effort to get to his dad, a process […]

The year is 2037.  War has reduced humanity to pockets of civilization across the globe, none more ruthless than the Scourge.  In their struggle to stand against this threat, the Central Colonies have sent their best team – Savage Squad – into Pripyat to secure some newly unearthed nuclear fuel rods.  The six members of […]

Ivy is now back in Gotham and with the woman she loves, Harley Quinn.  While things are going great for her, now comes the hard task of settling back into her former hometown.  Which means that she’s going to have to make nice with Batman and find a new place to live.  One of these […]

Well, the day has finally come:  I’m giving Joshua Williamson a second chance.  I’ve not really been impressed with his creator-owned work, nor what I’ve read of what he’s been doing at DC.  The latter has come off as generally formulaic and more willing to play superhero tropes straight than in finding ways to subvert […]