Milton Shaw is a pilot who headed off to war to fight the fascists.  He promised his wife that he’d be back as soon as his tour – twenty bombing runs – was over.  However, on his twenty-eighth run he finds himself on the most crucial mission of his career:  The destruction of the enemy’s […]

It’s the middle of the Great Depression and the town of New Hope, Oklahoma, isn’t living up to its name.  Stricken by drought, plagued by enormous dust storms, more people are leaving each day in the hope of finding a better place to live.  Sheriff Meadows isn’t one of them as he does his best […]

It’s a new day in Gotham, and… things are actually kind of different.  Jim Gordon is now a beat cop.  Vandal Savage is running the Gotham Police Department.  There’s a new villain known as the Minotaur controlling the city’s criminal underworld with an algorithm of crime.  An assassin known as Lady Death Man (or Ojo) […]

Ricky Lawless has a problem.  He’s seventy-five grand in the hole to a bookie named Karl, who wants him to pull off a simple job to make up for that.  Go to a hotel, wait for a high-stakes poker player to come back to his room, and then rob him.  It sounds straightforward, but whenever […]

Liddy is a rancher living on the Texas/Mexico border who’s determined to keep her land regardless of what threats she may be getting from local drug cartels.  Oscar is from Honduras and is heading north to escape a life that has been filled with heartbreak and terror.  Chance is going to bring them together in […]

The Killer is still working for the French Government at the start of this volume, alongside his handler Barbara to take out whoever’s needed.  For a man with a history and level of cynicism as him, this kind of work is just like punching the clock.  Then two things happen that change things.  The first […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: White Sky vol. 1 Five years ago the sky went white and everything changed.  Now, in the ruins of the world that was, Violet tries to make it on her own after she was separated from her father in the aftermath.  Now, in order to find out what happened to him, she’ll have […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Doom:  All-on-One #1 Expect lots more comics featuring the good/bad Doctor as we get closer to the release of “Avengers:  Doomsday.”  While “Written by Al Ewing” is certainly a way for any such project to get my attention, this also looks like it’s going to have a lot of visual style to back […]

“Die,” written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Stephanie Hans, has been the writer’s Least Good series.  For me, at least.  His titles are usually marked by clever plotting, strong characterization, imaginative twists, and a charming wittiness.  That series, about six teens who were brought to a fantasy role-playing game inspired realm, escaped and then […]