Contrary to what the title implies, there will be no escaping to “the badger state” in this volume.  What does happen is Dana Cypress, police officer and related either directly or tangentially to pretty much every plot thread and conspiracy in this series, is headhunted by the FBI for a trip to New York as […]

There really isn’t anything that I won’t buy from Garth Ennis.  When you’ve been writing good comics for as long as he has, the expectation that I’ll be disappointed by one of them is close to nil.  I’d even read “Spawn” if he were to become the next writer on it.  (Which is to say […]

Not yet, anyway.  I say this because news recently broke that Robert Downey Jr. would be reprising his role as Tony Stark in “Captain America 3,” which would serve as the start of the “Civil War” arc in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  It’s not quite a done deal, as the report says that he’s on […]

What do you do with a kid who has spent all of his life (and twenty-eight volumes of manga) witnessing his dad cut down everyone he challenged, and who challenged him?  If you’re Satsuma samurai Togo Shigekata, you start training the boy to become a warrior worthy of his father.  Given the circumstances, it actually […]

I wasn’t expecting much from this spinoff of the Paul Pope graphic novel it shares part of its name with.  After all, it’s only co-written by him with a couple of people I’ve never heard of providing additional writing and the art.  JT Petty and David Rubin, as co-writer and artist (respectively), actually do wind […]

As Jason Aaron’s returned to creator-owned work after the excellent “Scalped,” I should’ve been really excited about this title.  However, in all of the solicitation text and previews I read about “Southern Bastards” I never really got a good sense of what it was about.  Yes, I was planning on  buying it because of Aaron’s […]

If you go into this expecting a particularly brutal kind of slasher movie, then I guess you’ll be satisfied.  Mike Wolfer takes over full scripting duties from Garth Ennis with this second volume, and tries expanding on the mythos and reach of the title creatures.  This is done through the machinations of an unsavory trader […]

While a new volume of “B.P.R.D.” is always a reason to get excited, this one promised to be something special.  Not only was it going to involve the organization taking the fight to ZinCo after all these years along with this latest incarnation of the Black Flame, but the setup for this was handled expertly […]

The first volume of “FBP” wound up being a comic that I wanted to like.  This second one pretty much misses the mark.  As the latest round of cutbacks hit the organization, Adam, Rosa, and Cicero head up to Nakeet, Alaska, to assist in the shutting down of research facility.  Said facility happens to be […]

Even as I become more disillusioned with the college-otaku core of this title, the characters keep me coming back for more.  Take the last volume:  It ended on an interesting cliffhanger as hardcore otaku (and series mainstay) Madarame found himself in the Genshiken club room again with Saki, the girl he’s had a crush on […]