After that encounter with the “Fables” crew, Tom Taylor takes the long way back to reality at the start of this volume.  It involves him travelling through archetypal stories like “The Ugly Duckling” through “Alice in Wonderland” and even “The Chronicles of Narnia.”  These scenes initially come off as confusing, leaving you to wonder just […]

Garth Ennis makes his annual return to the series he created with artist Jacen Burrows and then turned over to generally less capable hands.  I don’t know why it seems that most other creators want to relish in the goriest parts of “Crossed’s” premise, but that’s usually how it turns out.  Only Ennis, and Si […]

This volume of Jonathan Hickman and Nick Dragotta’s sci-fi western features a lot of things going from bad to worse.  Xiaolan seeks to stir things up at a meeting of the heads of nations, and two people wind up dead by treachery not of her own design.  Meanwhile, her (ex?) husband Death takes it to […]

Well, it turns out that I was wrong and we did get a new volume of this series this year.  It’s also a pleasant surprise to see that the stories collected here skew more towards comedy than drama.  After all, where else are you going to see a zombie with dynamite stuffed inside, living department […]

After the first volume presented a whole lot to take in, this latest one finds the series settling into a fairly decent groove with its warts-and-all look at the early days of television.  This is mainly because it does a better job of making the main plot as interesting as its many subplots.  You’d think […]

The last “She-Hulk” series we got was over decade ago and is still fondly remembered.  One of Dan Slott’s earliest gigs at Marvel, it showed him to be a writer who could channel the classic vibe of the company in a fun way that still felt modern.  We also got some great stories about the […]

I may not have liked “Maximum Minimum Wage” as much as Robert Kirkman, but I thought it was a fun character study about struggling cartoonist Rob Hoffman’s day-to-day life with work, friends, and his girlfriend Sylvia.  Now, creator Bob Fingerman has brought us a new series that picks up not too long after the original […]

Only keeping up with “Uncanny X-Men” in paperback form means that I’m not aware of the circumstances which have led to the title character splitting off from Cyclops’ group.  This development is not surprising, however, given Magneto’s uncompromising mindset and it makes for an engaging read in this new series from writer Cullen Bunn and […]

Sooooooo…  Marvel sure announced a whole lot of movies this week, didn’t they? Unlike the recently revealed slate of DC Comics films, I’m actually more optimistic about what we’re getting from Marvel.  After all, they’ve done a remarkably good job of keeping the quality consistent across all of their films so far as well as […]

Congratulations Scott Snyder and Greg Capullo!  You’ve just managed to pull off your own take on Batman’s earliest days of crimefighting and effectively write Frank Miller and David Mazzuchelli’s “Year One” out of continuity in the New 52.  More importantly, your take actually works on its own terms and doesn’t re-tread the same ground that […]