If there is one thing that binds us all, it’s the fact that we all have at least one unfinished Warren Ellis project that we’re waiting for.  “Planetary” was the top choice for many years until artist John Cassaday started uploading images of the final issue to Wildstorm digitally and we all found out that […]

Mike Mignola, you clever bastard you.  This wasn’t what I was expecting, but it wound up being the best kind of surprise. If the “B.P.R.D.” series has any real fault it’s that the series is planned out too well.  What I mean by that is that after reading over twenty volumes of it and its […]

I’ve been looking forward to this title more to see how it fits into the established “Legacy” continuity rather than the expectation that it’ll be any good.  It’s not that I’m averse to seeing this particular bit of “Star Wars” continuity expanded upon, but the fact that it’s not being done by the people who […]

New creator-owned work from Brian Wood!  From Image too!  That should make this story awesome, right?  Yeah, that’s what I thought too.  Though it has those things going for it, along with some very nice art from Ming Doyle, “Mara” ultimately comes off feeling like a warmed-over rehash of the writer’s earlier anti-authoritarian books.  The […]

You know, I’m not sure if there’s anyone in comics who loves doing short stories for their creator-owned works more than Mike Mignola.  Some of the best volumes of “Hellboy” are made up entirely of one-shots, short pieces from anthologies, and miniseries too short to be collected in an individual volume.  “B.P.R.D.” also has a […]

Remember the days when this title brought us some of the boldest widescreen action with thrilling art and compelling streamlined/reinvented versions of Marvel characters?  Yeah, they feel long gone as I read this title now.  Jonathan Hickman managed to capture more of that spirit than I expected with his take on the title, but Sam […]

Yeah, I know.  I just got done gushing over the latest volume of the comic and now I’ve come to talk about the TV show’s midseason finale.  The short version is that it was REALLY good and while this season has had its issues, it’s on track to be even more satisfying than last year […]

Earlier this week one of the greatest comic book writers of all time was interviewed by the British newspaper “The Guardian” where he expressed some pointed thoughts on the success of the “Avengers” movie and superheroes in general.  Moore stated that he found the success of the film “alarming” in the sense that adults were […]

As the title implies, this is the setup to the big “All Out War” storyline of which the first issue is the biggest-selling comic of the year so far.  (Thanks to its fifteen interlocking covers celebrating the comic’s tenth anniversary.)  Seeing Rick forge together a coalition to take on Negan and his Saviors is a […]

So yeah, my expectations for this were not all that high after the “Animal Man” half of the “Rotworld” crossover.  Seeing as how almost half of the content here has been re-printed from that other volume, it would seem that picking up this volume is more of an act of masochism masquerading under whatever duty […]