It would seem to appear that Marvel thinks that comic shop owners aren’t able to properly gauge demand for their titles.  After all, why would they put out an ad specifically telling retailers that they haven’t ordered enough copies of the latest “She Hulk” series?  The last time I remember them doing something like this […]

In this volume we get a lot of answers.  Were you wondering what happened to the evil Invincibles that Angstrom Levy brought over back in vol. 12?  That’s explained here and it isn’t pretty.  Do you have any curiosity regarding what Robot has been up to ever since he and Monster Girl returned from the […]

We’ve got another late addition to the previous month’s Image’s solicitations after “Stray Bullets” declassified its solicitations.  This time it’s a new series called “Trees” from Warren Ellis and artist Jason Howard.  Information about it is scarce at the moment, as all we know is that it’s about giant aliens that have landed on Earth […]

What’s the best way to get me to pick up a title in single issue form?  Don’t collect the issues in a trade paperback.  That way I’ll have no alternative but to buy the title in its first-run form.  Unless the title was mediocre, that is.  Such is the fate that awaits DC’s “The Green […]

If you’ll recall, I was quite bitter about where writer Jeff Lemire left Buddy Baker in the wake of the “Rotworld” crossover.  I felt that the climax of the story had broken the fundamental appeal of the character as the “family man” superhero and that any kind of “journey back to the status quo” was […]

I don’t know if co-writers Robert Kirkman and Andy Diggle realized that master thief Conrad Paulson’s son Augustus was the biggest drag on the proceedings of the last volume, but it sure reads like they’re trying to make amends for it here.  After an opening where cartel ringleader Lola tells Conrad that he wants ten […]

After twelve volumes of sometimes wildly varying quality, Matt Fraction has ceded control of Tony Stark to a writer who has yet to disappoint me with anything that he has written:  Kieron Gillen.  With that in mind, I came into his first volume of “Iron Man” fully expecting to be quite entertained even though Greg […]

There’s not a whole lot to say about this, save for the fact that it was exactly what I was expecting and just as good as that too.  Rick raises his army, pulls up to Negan’s pad and unleashes hell — in the form of an army of zombies.  From there, the conflict evolves with […]

If there’s one thing to take away from “Infinity,” it’s that if you’re going to tell the story of an epic war you really need the space in order to do it.  Hickman had eighteen issues to work with, some of which were extra-sized, and the story benefitted immensely from having room to breathe.  In […]

Last night we got our first major superhero guest star as Lady Sif teamed up with the Agents to track down the villainous Lorelei.  This was the most entertained I’ve been by the show since the pilot.  Though the story wasn’t anything special — Lorelei seeks to raise an army to take over Midgard, brings […]