The “intervention” Aphra’s friends staged for her at the end of the last volume goes about as well as you’d expect here.  Which is why they’re left floating in space and the Spark-possessed Aphra is off to parts unknown not long after.  Fortunately the real Aphra is still around, trapped in her own mind but […]

We all know the story of Simon Spurrier’s run on “Hellblazer.”  That it was canceled after a year even though the writer still had plans for John Constantine’s further adventures (in America).  While he’s getting a chance to resume that run with the forthcoming “Dead in America” miniseries, the writer wasn’t going to let this […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars:  Doctor Aphra vol. 7 – Dark Droids I wondered if something was up when I saw that this volume was collecting issues #32-40.  That’s nine whole issues, which means that we’d be getting the post-”Spark Eternal” issues in addition to the ones that tie into the “Dark Droids” event.  That seemed […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Feral #1 “Stray Dogs” was an out-of-left-field hit for writer Tony Fleecs and artist Trish Forstner.  It was so successful that, while the miniseries reached a definitive end, they published a two-issue anthology of stories to fill out more (mostly inessential) backstory for its canine cast.  Now the two creators are back with […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Poison Ivy vol. 1:  The Virtuous Cycle “Poison Ivy” by writer G. Willow Wilson and artist Marcio Takara was originally greenlit as a six-issue miniseries and conventional wisdom dictated that you wouldn’t have been wrong to bet against it being just that.  A one-off miniseries by some respected creators who would move on […]

The cover to this volume has a happy-looking Joan in a familiar housewife getup that suggests a veneer of domestic normalcy.  Which doesn’t come through at all because it also shows that she’s poisoned her husband and two sons while saying, “Hello again!  My name is Joan Peterson… and I probably love my family!”  It […]

X-Statix now know what their former leader, Zeitgeist, is up to.  He’s been causing gleeful chaos across the nation all in the name of building up his social media presence.  Why?  For the fortune?  For the fame?  For the lulz?  No, for the followers.  This is because he’s stolen a page from the Book of […]

When we last saw Jerri Bartman, she was settling into her role as Count Crowley, host of the Friday Night Scream Feature show on her family’s local network.  She had also just killed a zombie in her brother’s office and was that much closer to becoming appointed as the new monster hunter around town.  This […]

That subtitle makes this miniseries sound more intimidating than it actually is.  “A Tale of the Shrouded College” gives you the impression that you’re buying into a story that’s larger than the one being told here.  I can tell you that’s not the case as its creator, writer Charles Soule, states at the end of […]

After finally putting Abigail Brand and Orbis Stellaris’ plans for Arakko to rest in the previous volume, you’d think that the cast of this series would be entitled to a little downtime.  “A little” is exactly what they get as Storm is summoned away from a date to discuss Magneto’s last moments with Professor X […]