Rich Johnston’s latest bit of speculation about the market is something that I hope he’s wrong about.  According to him, the comics industry seems poised to have comics prices jump to $4.99 an issue sometime this year.  This is due to the fact that most of the industry has transitioned their titles to the $3.99 […]

Brian Wood’s take on the legendary barbarian reaches its second volume and some growing pains along with it.  As was the case with vol. 13, it consists of two three-part arcs which present new challenges for the character as he now shares his life with the pirate queen Belit.  The stories represent a solid read […]

This originally started out as a digression on my review of “Powers:  Bureau” before I realized that it was morphing into its own thing.  As you can probably guess from the title, I’ve finally gotten around to playing the biggest game of 2013 and it’s an incredible technical achievement on many levels.  I’ll be going […]

The most notable female Fables, the “fairest in all the land” if you will, are on a list and being killed off one by one along with whatever unlucky bystander happens to be next to them at the time.  It’s up to Fabletown’s top spy Cinderella to find out who’s behind this, why they’re doing […]

Credit where credit is due, Bendis and Oeming got the issues collected here out in a much faster and consistent manner than I ever expected.   Then you start to consider the actual content of these issues and I’ve honestly read better from this team.  For all of the hoopla about the focus of the title […]

The title of this volume would imply that after nineteen volumes of this excellent series, Snow White is finally getting her time in the spotlight.  That’s not quite true as though the events of this volume center around her past, the character’s profile isn’t any more or less notable than it has been previously.  Even […]

How did Phil Coulson survive being shot in the heart by Loki in “The Avengers?” That’s been the big question with “Agents of “S.H.I.E.L.D.” ever since it was announced that Clark Gregg would be reprising his role from the Marvel movies in the series.  Surprise resurrections are nothing new to anyone who has been reading […]

One would think that the actual logistics of founding a country on the Pacific Garbage Patch would make for a compelling story in and of themselves.  How do you manage sanitation and disease control on a pile of toxic trash?  What kind of people would want to live here?  How do you manage buildings on […]

Out of all the “New 52” launches, Grant Morrison’s “Action Comics” arguably came with the highest expectations.  At least from me it did.  Yes, Geoff Johns and Jim Lee’s “Justice League” was positioned as the flagship of the line, but with Morrison taking on Superman again you have a creator going back to try and […]