The previous volume of this series was kind of a wash, containing only three proper issues while reprinting two more (that I’d already read) from “Indestructible Hulk.”  However, those three issues were thoroughly entertaining as they showed Matt Murdock defending the bully who gave him the nickname “Daredevil,” dealt with the Sons of the Serpent’s […]

My impression of the prolific Charles Soule so far is that he’s definitely a competent writer with occasional flashes of genuine cleverness.  Yet there’s something about his writing that tends to feel just a bit too calculated at times.  Like he’s sticking as close as he can to the prescribed notions of how the story […]

This arrived back on New Year’s Eve when I was setting things up for a party at my place.  After all of the setup had been taken care of and people had yet to arrive, I started reading this to occupy myself until people arrived.  I wasn’t expecting to be that involved with it, as […]

First off, apologies are in order. When writer Greg Rucka left this series after five issues, I assumed the usual bit of behind-the-scenes drama that involved him having another falling out with Marvel.  It was surprising enough to see Rucka back at the company after he gave an interview detailing how bitter he was with […]

If you thought Cap was due for a break after Rick Remender stranded him for two volumes in the wilds of Dimension Z, then you thought wrong.  Not only does the title character have to deal with all of the traumatic events of the decade he was stranded there, but Nuke — the crazed super-soldier […]

“Thor:  The Dark World” had its virtues, but its plot certain wasn’t amongst them.  A bunch of incoherent gibberish about the evil plans of the Dark Elves that didn’t give Christopher Eccleston anything to work with as their leader, Malekith, it actively worked against my enjoyment of the film.  As these things go, Malekith was […]

For all of the fantastic stylistic tricks and uses of the form that creator Matt Kindt employs with this volume, its content can be summed up rather succinctly.  That said, this is the volume where everything goes wrong for our protagonists.  Now working with Harry Lyme and his crew again, as well as calling the […]

The thinking here is that whatever plans Cornell had for Wolverine’s death were subject to a fair degree of re-writing after the “Death of Wolverine” miniseries was announced.  It was speculated that after Marvel offered retailers a special incentive for the final issue of his current ongoing series, promising a big event in the process, […]

First it was “Young Avengers.”  Then came the announcement of this title.  At first, all those titles meant to me was that we were going to have to wait that much longer for the promised third volume of Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie’s “Phonogram.”  Yet, “Young Avengers” turned out to be a very clever and […]

I’m going to start things off on a down note:  Based on sales of the single issues, it would appear that the forthcoming third volume of this title is going to be its last one.  That’s a shame because writer Ian Edginton and artist Francisco Trifogli’s story about how creatures of fantasy and myth came […]