Reading this event series tie-in was an interesting experience for me.  Not only did it arrive before my copy of the “Original Sin” collection, but it also serves as the finale for Mark Waid and Kieron Gillen’s runs on “Hulk” and “Iron Man,” respectively, both of which I’m waiting to catch up with in paperback. […]

The first time Scott Snyder and Sean Murphy teamed up, the results were decidedly very silly.  “American Vampire:  Survival of the Fittest” was an over-the-top “NAZI VAMPIRES!” story that didn’t really mesh very well with the tone of the regular series.  Murphy drew the hell out of it, though, and proved that he’s one of […]

After starting out as one of the “New 52’s” most distinctive titles, Jeff Lemire’s take on the adventures of Buddy Baker and his family cratered with the destructively unimaginative “Rotworld” crossover.  It was an event that played out exactly as you’d think a storyline that took the “Age of Apocalypse” as its inspiration would and […]

For the last several years Dan Slott has been cranking out more than one issue of “Spider-Man” every month.  It represented pretty much his entire comic output during that time.  Now, as he winds down his run on “Amazing Spider-Man,” the writer has dialed back his prolificacy on that title to allow him to take […]

Normal service has been resumed in the life of Peter Parker.  After six volumes of “Superior Spider-Man,” Peter’s mind is finally back in control of his body and the title character is back to being the fun-loving, wisecracking wall-crawler that we all know and love.  More specifically, the title is back to reading like it […]

Yesterday, I talked about a comic that did an awful job of managing the transition between story arcs.  When you’ve been working on one story for as long as “Girl Genius” has, there needs to be some time to step back, decompress, and take stock of things or else you wind up burning the audience […]

The good news:  After six years and seven volumes, the “Mechanicsburg” arc of this series has finally wrapped up.  Though utterly interminable in the length of its serialization, the arc was not without its moments of wild imagination and smashing humor.  Now for the bad news:  Nothing seems to have been accomplished with its end. […]

There’s a good piece over at “Comics Alliance” by Juliet Kahn about how Sam Wilson’s tenure as the new “Captain America” and Female Thor are essentially gimmicks that only represent the illusion of progress and will likely be reversed in two years or so.  Go ahead and read it, her piece is very well thought […]

Brian Azzarello has taken Wonder Woman on a unique journey over the course of his tenure as the writer of her ongoing series.  Eschewing nearly all connections to the DC Universe at large, he’s embraced the character’s mythological side and given us a modern tale of the wrath and pettiness of the Greek gods pitted […]

An issue of “The Walking Dead” topped the sales charts in October, the first time it has done that this year.  However, unlike the previous times issues of this title hit #1, it wasn’t due to an anniversary issue or mass of variant covers.  No, this time it was all thanks to Loot Crate and […]