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 […]

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 […]