Ugh.  If you’ve ever wondered about the boundaries of my love for the work of Garth Ennis, you have them right here.  “Dicks” is his series with artist John McCrea about two nitwits from Belfast, Ivor and Dougie, who get into the most disgusting kind of sexual and scatalogical adventures you can imagine.  This volume […]

With the four issues of the main series collected here, writer Nick Spencer decided to advance each of the core stories being told here in its own issue.  So you have Hyperion leading the assault against the insurgent A.I.M. Island, Falcon meeting up with Chinese superheroes to deal with the Madripoor island dragon, Starbrand waiting […]

To be honest, I’m not sure if I’ll get around to buying another volume of this title.  “Savage Wolverine” is the “Wolverine stories from a rotating cast of creators” and its quality has been all over the place over the course of its run so far.  For all the stories that look interesting — like […]

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. […]