Fran Miller authored what is widely regarded as the definitive run on “Daredevil.”  He also wrote what’s widely regarded as the definitive story about a superhero coming out of retirement for one last go in “The Dark Knight Returns.”  How no one has thought to do a riff on the latter story with the former […]

Dante Alderman is also known as The Vitruvian, a member of La Coterie de Sept, an organization that finds its plans for world domination at odds with those of V.E.I.L.  As Dante explains it to his daughter, Annalise, V.E.I.L. exists to keep brilliant minds like his down in the name of maintaining the status quo.  […]

Surprise, Etienne is alive!  Despite the best efforts of “Jacky Magus” and Eliza Hellbound, the Apex Telepath survived his assassination attempt at the end of the previous volume.  You would think that, having proved their untrustworthiness, his fellow Superpowers’ days would be numbered.  Except that Etienne is a man who’s lived his life by doing […]

Wow.  Who remembers “Mouse Guard?”  When it started back in the aughts, David Petersen’s feudal fantasy series – with mice – looked like it could be the next big thing with all of the acclaim and positive word of mouth the first three volumes garnered.  These volumes weren’t easy to produce, however, as the third […]

New mutants Melee, Bronze, and Axo are all cool with being trained by Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, and Bobby Drake to hone their mutant gifts.  That won’t always pay the bills, however, so when a group internship opens up at Verate, the home of the social media app that uses people’s personal information to help […]

The circus has come to town and snared everyone in its diabolical grasp.  Everyone except Spring Seasons (and her gloomy sister Winter) who sees the clowns running it for the malevolent spirits they are.  Unfortunately for her, they’re busy offering up everyone the chance to get lost in their heart’s desires by reflecting them in […]

Eva is a psychiatrist with bipolar disorder who’s currently being evaluated by another shrink before her license can be reinstated.  So it probably doesn’t help her case when she lets him know that she was around when a murder took place at her friend Penelope Montruous’ estate.  The Montruoses are a dynasty of wine producers […]

Batman may have stopped the secret organization known as Elixir’s plans for Gotham, but they have a thing about loose ends.  So when former GCPD detective turned private eye Harvey Bullock starts looking into them, they make sure he’s taken out of the picture – by taking him out of the country.  Unfortunately for them, […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Spider-Man:  Long Way Home #1 (of 5) So, you may have heard that we’re getting a new “Spider-Man” movie in July.  Marvel, always chasing the synergistic movie-to-comic tie-in, is putting out this new mini-series that takes place early on in Spidey’s career.  So early that the Hulk and Punisher, the other featured characters […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Detective Comics by Tom Taylor vol. 3:  The Courage That Kills Fear has always been one of Batman’s greatest weapons when it comes to his never-ending war on crime.  However, what if everyone in Gotham City woke up one day without the ability to feel it?  Would this turn it into a modern […]