Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars:  Dark Droids & Star Wars:  Darth Vader by Greg Pak vol. 8 – Dark Droids Wherein a corrupting force known as the Scourge infects the droids across the known galaxy, causing them to rise up against their meatbag masters in revolt.  It’s not a bad setup for a “Star Wars” event, […]

I’ve been enjoying Simon Spurrier’s take on the adventures of Nightcrawler and Legion as they’ve carved out their own brand of hopeful existence on Krakoa.  I’ve also wondered if I’ve been in the minority here as this tale has been told in piecemeal through three different titles:  One volume of “Way of X,” two volumes […]

How’s this for a setup:  Imagine a world where the air is poisonous and everyone has to wear a special mask in order to breathe while they’re outdoors.  It’s all due to some vaguely explained accident decades ago and nobody’s been able to find a cure for it yet.  In the meantime, people have adjusted […]

Jack Xavier had it all as Crossjack.  A superhero with the power to be skilled with whatever weapon he uses (except bows) he had fame and fortune as a member of the superhero team known as Third Gen.  Until it all came crashing down and he was kicked off the team.  Without anywhere else to […]

…really quickly, in fact.  That vol. 6 took really long to come in stock, along with my own reading backlog means you get to find out how things pick up from the potentially game-changing previous volume.  The answer is “pretty well,” but may not for the reasons you’d normally expect.  This is because “Unbound Force” […]

Pak’s run on this title has been uneven, to say the least.  While the first volume didn’t impress, the second one did, and the quality has been seesawing back and forth between these posts ever since.  Never quite good enough to stand alongside previous “Darth Vader” series, yet never bad enough to get me to […]

Vol. 5 left off with the team of Luke, Leia, Lando, Amilyn Holdo, and Lobot stuck in the region of No-Space after the Nihil Drive they hooked up to their ship took them there.  They did manage to make contact with the survivors of the lost Kezarat Fleet, but now their only way home appears […]

Vol. 5 ended with the revelation that Doctor Doom was now going to have a role to play in this storyline about Thanos fighting Odin’s father Bor in the past.  What were they fighting over?  The power of the mysterious Black Infinity Stone.  Doom wants this power for himself, of course, as he’s now looking […]

Charles Soule and Ryan Browne have been working independently and together in the comics industry for a while now.  They’ve produced some good comics together and independently over the years, but neither has had what you would call a breakout success.  By that I mean a series that everyone starts talking about, that generates multiple […]