What does it take to join the Justice League?  Being a well-known superhero with powers that can take on global-scale threats is one way.  Being really rich, really smart, and having a really unshakeable moral code is another.  For others, it’s proving that they can take on giant threats when they come – or are […]

At the end of vol. 10, Alana, Hazel, and Squire’s treehouse ship was set on fire, stranding them on their current planet and rendering them homeless as well.  That would make things pretty bad for them… if the ongoing conflict between Wreath and Landfall hadn’t come to this planet as well.  So now they’re dealing […]

Sully and Ethan are former army veterans who served their country and paid the price for it.  In Sully’s case that means he was left with a traumatic brain injury and the mental instability that comes with it.  Ethan, on the other hand, lost his leg and now experiences near-constant pain as a result of […]

When Richard Corben passed away in December 2020, I was aware he was considered to be a legend in the comics industry.  That said, my appreciation of him came from his latter-day work with DC (“Hellblazer:  Hard Time”), Marvel (“Startling Stories:  Banner,” “Cage”), and, of course, Dark Horse (“Hellboy:  Makoma, The Crooked Man, and House […]

Vol. 7 in this series did something no other volume had before:  End on a cliffhanger.  Kippa had forced her way into Maika’s mind, while the latter’s awakened body was inflicting all sorts of chaos in the real world, in order to repair the damage done there.  That was a hopeful note to end on […]

The Joker is running amok in Gotham and Batman is chasing after him.  Sounds like your average Tuesday night in the city, right?  Well, when the Caped Crusader catches up with him, he finds a feral, super-strong creature with sharp teeth that bears only a superficial resemblance to the Clown Prince of Crime.  What’s going […]

Christopher Chance makes a living by impersonating people who’ve been targeted for murder.  His latest job has him taking the identity of someone who a lot of people in the DC Universe would like to see dead:  Lex Luthor.  While he has no problem foiling the main assassination plot, the backup plan to get Luthor […]

The “intervention” Aphra’s friends staged for her at the end of the last volume goes about as well as you’d expect here.  Which is why they’re left floating in space and the Spark-possessed Aphra is off to parts unknown not long after.  Fortunately the real Aphra is still around, trapped in her own mind but […]

We all know the story of Simon Spurrier’s run on “Hellblazer.”  That it was canceled after a year even though the writer still had plans for John Constantine’s further adventures (in America).  While he’s getting a chance to resume that run with the forthcoming “Dead in America” miniseries, the writer wasn’t going to let this […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Star Wars:  Doctor Aphra vol. 7 – Dark Droids I wondered if something was up when I saw that this volume was collecting issues #32-40.  That’s nine whole issues, which means that we’d be getting the post-”Spark Eternal” issues in addition to the ones that tie into the “Dark Droids” event.  That seemed […]