The first volume of Jason Aaron and Esad Ribic’s “Thor:  God of Thunder” was a very welcome surprise.  It kicked off an epic story taking place over three different eras as the Thors of those times fought Gorr, the God Butcher.  Not only did Aaron make Young Thor and Old Thor as interesting to read […]

If I had my way, I would’ve talked about this series when I did my podcast on James Stokoe last year.  Fortunately Oni Press has decided to reprint his two-volume sci-fi space foodie series in a nice one-volume omnibus.  Johnny Boyo is a space trucker travelling the spacelanes of the Milky Way with his pal […]

As any veteran of Ed Brubaker’s “Captain America” run can tell you, the man really likes grounded espionage stories.  Using the Star-Spangled Avenger and his resurrected sidekick as a means to tell these kinds of stories in the Marvel Universe worked really well for a while.  The problem is that the moral ambiguity of the […]

“JONATHAN HICKMAN’S ‘AVENGERS’ RUN SO EPIC THAT IT COULDN’T BE CONTAINED IN TWO BOOKS OR EVEN BE WRITTEN ENTIRELY BY HIM!” This is what should’ve been at the top of the press release announcing this new “Avengers” title in the wake of “Infinity.”  I can’t think of a better way to describe this title’s existence […]

After reading this volume I am utterly convinced that Lord Henry Baltimore’s wallet also has the inscription “BAD MOTHERFUCKER” on it. I mean, if his monster hunting exploits in the previous volumes didn’t establish this then there’s plenty more evidence here.  Going toe-to-toe with the mad Inquisitor Duvic.  Taking out vampires with a large-caliber handcannon. […]

Writer John Ostrander and artist Jan Duursema first collaborated on “Star Wars:  Twilight” well over a decade ago.  It seems unlikely that either of them would’ve thought that they’d still be working together on “Star Wars”comics after all that time, or that their partnership would prove to be the longest-running and most creatively successful in […]

After saving New York from the new mind-controlling Red Skull, what’s next for the Avengers “Unity” squad?  The answer involves the buildup for an epic storyline that draws a lot from writer Rick Remender’s excellent “The Dark Angel Saga” as well as one that makes the theme of racial tolerance a central part of its […]

Let me digress from tonight’s subject for a start:  Podbean unveiled their “enhanced statistics” package last night.  So if you’ve noticed that the “site visitor” tally is now replaced by a “plays” stat on the right side of the page, that’s the main enhancement they’ve unleashed.  Instead of tracking both podcast hits and traffic, now […]

Back when the Penny Arcade Report was active I always enjoyed reading their articles about EVE Online.  While I had some familiarity with this online space mining/combat game, I hadn’t realized that it had developed its own ecosystem with real-life economic implications and various collectives and factions staking claim to parts of space and going […]

It may seem crazy, at first glance, to take elements of “Peter Pan” and retell the story in a WWII setting.  However, writer Kurtis Wiebe actually manages to pull it off incredibly well.  The problem is that while he does a good job of selling the core idea, its execution is a little more problematic. […]