The short version is that despite what the title would have you believe, this volume is certainly not that.  It continues the story of former superhero Simon Cooke as he tries to resume life as an ordinary billionaire head of a multinational corporation.  Complicating this is the fact that his former sidekick isn’t ready to […]

After years in seclusion, Matt Murdock emerges to take on Bullseye in a knock-down, drag-out fight in the middle of New York that ends with the death of The Man Without Fear.  Left to pick up the pieces is reporter, and friend to Matt, Ben Urich.  Initially reluctant to take the job, Urich soon finds […]

What does the future hold for everyone’s favorite barbarian?  Brian Wood takes a literal approach to that question in the latest volume of his run on the character’s ongoing series “Nightmare of the Shallows.”  The results are good enough to make up for the half of the volume that doesn’t involve Conan tripping balls with […]

When I heard that Jason Aaron would be coming back to tell a Wolverine solo story as a digital promotion for last year’s movie, I knew I’d have to check it out at some point.  Given that the man wrote the character better than anyone else in recent memory I was a little disappointed to […]

Being the first major “X-Men” crossover event in a while, I was prepared to give this an in-depth review.  However, the more I thought about it I realized that there just wasn’t a whole heck of a lot that really warranted discussion here.  The premise is that a group of X-Men from the future  — […]

With a title like that you’d think that we’d be in for some grade-A foreshadowing and setup for future volumes, right?  Unfortunately, as “B.P.R.D.’s” main failing is that it can sometimes be too preoccupied in setting up stories to come that it forgets to tell interesting stories in the here and now, that appears to […]

It’s only natural that when you have a film like “Star Wars” that spawned an entire industry unto itself, there’s going to be a higher than normal level of interest in its origins.  So when you start hearing apocryphal stories about the original “rough draft” of the very first film and what it contained — […]

When we left off in the battle between Rick’s forces and Negan’s “Saviors,” things were not looking too good for the former’s side.  Things had started off great with the zombie-driven assault on Negan’s fortress, but then the man’s forces rallied and staged a devastating attack on Rick’s home.  In lesser hands, this downward trend […]

“Usagi Yojimbo” creator Stan Sakai lays out the origins of the title characters in his introduction to this collected edition.  For what it’s worth, it sounds like he had a solid plan for it.  The story of wandering rabbit swordsman Nilson Groundthumper and Hermy the guinea pig, his naif traveling companion, was to have been […]

What do you do to follow up a phenomenon like “Scott Pilgrim?” If you’re creator Bryan Lee O’Malley, then the answer is you take several years off to get your bearings and decide what your next move is.  Then you pour all of your energy into creating a 300+-page graphic novel about a chef/restaurant owner […]