Congratulations Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo!  You’ve just managed to pull off your own take on Batman’s earliest days of crimefighting and effectively write Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli’s “Year One” out of continuity in the New 52.  More importantly, your take actually works on its own terms and doesn’t re-tread the same ground that […]

It’s been something I’ve wondered about for a while, and I finally got an answer this past Sunday.  Less than three years after Dale was killed off in “The Walking Dead,” it turns out that lovestruck recovering alcoholic Bob is the TV show’s “tainted meat.”  It was fairly obvious from the end of the second […]

I have certain expectations when it comes to this series.  Most of what’s on display in this volume is along those lines.  Dwarven snow swimmers, Rex attempting dwarvish ventriloquism, the means by which Rolf is “purified” and absolved of all crimes, and the way he’s poured in order to obtain the singular title object all […]

In case you haven’t heard, time is currently broken in the Marvel Universe and everyone in it is lucky that they’re still living in a linear timeline.  Most creators have stayed the hell away from this particular development, content to leave Bendis and Hickman to work it out for themselves in their titles.  Mark Waid, […]

The mystery surrounding DC’s two-month event that will cover their move from New York to Burbank continues to deepen.  Right now the word is that it will consist of twenty two-part series and one weekly title to tie them all together.  As to what it’s actually going to involve, that’s up in the air at […]

I can appreciate Neil Gaiman obtaining ownership of Angela, a character he created for “Spawn,” and then subsequently selling that ownership to Marvel as a means of trolling Todd McFarlane.  But what about her actual merit as a character?  That remains to be seen here as Bendis, with Gaiman on board as a consultant, does […]

Warren Ellis best work at Marvel has come when he does two things.  One is when he gets to work with obscure characters who nobody remembers or really cares about.  The other is when he focuses on telling one or two-issue stories.  Both of these traits were present in “Nextwave:  Agents of H.A.T.E.” and the […]

I figured this would be worth mentioning this while “Fables” is still fresh around here for now.  Though I haven’t gotten to reading the “Cinderella” spin-off titles, as they were not written by series creator Bill Willingham, this story by Marc Andreyko actually makes me want to go and give them a shot.  For those […]

Well, here we are with the next-to-last volume of this series.  Bill Willingham’s “fairytale characters in the modern world” title has proven to be a remarkably durable and consistently entertaining one over the past decade.  Now all he, regular artist Mark Buckingham, and artistic collaborators like Russ Braun, Barry Kitson, and Steve Leialoha is stick […]