Maika, Kippa, and Ren have all found themselves back in the known world after their jaunt off to Golga in the previous volume.  You know how these things go, though:  Spend a few days spirit traveling to an ancient planet full of eldritch beings, come back and find out that a whole year has passed […]

I don’t think anyone would doubt that Kevin Eastman has had an interesting life.  Co-creator of the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” he and co-creator Peter Laird took a fringe black-and-white comic based on the hot trends of the time into the comics mainstream.  Then with the animated series and live action movies from the late […]

Captain Benjamin Sisko:  You’ve returned from the Great Beyond to captain Starfleet’s most advanced ship with an all-star roster and to avert a Klingon Civil War!  What are you going to do now?  The answer, as put by Admiral Sato, is “One for Starfleet.”  The Tzenkethi are a race whose appearance can best be described […]

After taking care of the Insomniac and helping sweep his fate under the rug for the Continuum, Frankie “Playtime” Follis is now the new queenpin of Redport.  Working with partner-in-crime (and love) Scalpel and new henchman Backdrop, she’s turning what used to be the worst slum in Twilight City into a place its residents can […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: What’s the Furthest Place From Here? Vol. 4 After three volumes it’s time to answer the biggest mystery of this series:  Why weren’t issues #7-9 collected after vol. 1?  If the solicitation for this volume is any indication, it’s because these were side-stories illustrated by people other than regular artist Tyler Boss.  Now, […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Gotham City:  Year One I guess I feel obligated to pick the softcover edition of this story as I just ordered the hardcover from Amazon in a “Get 3 For the Price of 2” deal.  (What were the others?  “Batman:  Hush” in paperback and “Superman vol. 1:  Supercorp” in hardcover.  All of these […]

Above-the-Board Recommendation: Ultimate Spider-Man by Jonathan Hickman vol. 2:  The Paper Yeah, this feels too easy.  There’s some other stuff I was considering for this spot – first volumes of relaunched X-titles, the climax of Ewing’s “Venom” – but when it came down to it, this is the one I wanted to read the most.  […]

How is Franklin Richards handling being a normal kid these days?  Better than you’d think because he’s not actually any less normal than this future shaper of worlds used to be.  He just hides it better these days so that he can keep being a kid while also keeping an eye out for potential world-ending […]

Lori’s found herself a new foster home and her new parents are promising to get her a cat.  Sounds great, right?  Well, Lori has been through this kind of thing enough to know that the promise of a cat usually doesn’t pan out – and that’s before she wakes up one morning to find out […]