In what will no doubt come as a complete and utter surprise to people who have been following my reviews of this particular “Avengers/New Avengers” run, I wound up really liking this latest volume!  Essentially the “beginning of the end” for Hickman’s run, it very much lives up to the title sentiment as things go […]

“The Secret Origin of Tony Stark’s” big twists were these:  Tony was actually adopted, and he has a brother.  Arno, who has spent most of his life in an iron lung and hidden away in case the android 451 ever came back to find him.  Now that they’re together, the sky’s the limit as they […]

Even though there have been some interesting plot threads developed over the course of the writer’s first two volumes — less so with the “Battle of the Atom” crossover — there really hasn’t been a sense of momentum to this title.  While it’s ostensibly meant to show us Cyclops’ team and his “revolutionary” mindset towards […]

The first volume of this series had the verve of real adventure and discovery to it and wound up being very entertaining as a result.  I come bearing good news regarding the second as those traits are maintained quite well here.  After surviving the plant zombie outbreak, Lewis and Clark’s crew continue their journey westward […]

You know the deal with anthologies:  The most you can hope for with any of them is that the “hit to miss” ratio is somewhere north of fifty percent.  A lot of anthologies have shown that minimum requirement is a rather difficult one to hit.  However, over the course of four volumes (so far) “Batman […]

This long-running European series has been on my radar for a while now.  Every time I’ve heard someone talk about it, they’ve mentioned how good it is and what a shame it hasn’t been brought over here properly yet.  Now that it’s here, I’m thinking it might be a while before its appeal becomes apparent […]

Yesterday, I talked about the latest volume in a series that comes out on an irregular basis because it appears that its creators can’t get their act together.  Meanwhile, writer Scott Snyder and artist Rafael Albuquerque put “American Vampire” on hiatus for a year so that they could work on other projects and eventually bring […]

(For those of you who have noticed a trend with my Monday evening posts, the reason for this one is that I’m actually all caught up on the manga I’ve been reading.  Instead, have some Bendis!) Credit where credit is due, Bendis and Oeming managed to get the final issue of this volume (and series) […]

I realize that my reviews of the past couple of volumes of this series have harped on one particular issue.  That the series, entertaining as it is, didn’t seem to have a direction or gameplan for what it wants to do besides showcasing the questionable decisions made by great scientists and men of power.  Until […]

If you came here for all the preludes to the title event you could want, then you’re not going to be disappointed!  Really, with the exception of the two issues of “Amazing” collected here, all of the stories work to set up a different aspect of “Spider-Verse.”  Most of them introduce us to new characters […]