In one corner we have “Mouse Guard:  Legends of the Guard vol. 2.”  Part of the excellent “Mouse Guard” series with a host of great creators both known and unknown to me.  The first volume also won an Eisner for being the best anthology in the year that it was released.  In the other we […]

This wasn’t on my “must buy” list but I decided to give it a shot anyway.  It’s just that the idea of a science fiction story that was part “Star Trek,” part “C.S.I.” sounded appealing to me and it had that “unknown new title from Image” vibe to it so that was a plus too. […]

Rather than revel in my arrested adolescence and continue to make more jokes about the book’s title I’m just going to cut to the chase.  There’s plenty of the title act in “Sex,” and it runs the gamut from straight, gay, lesbian, and with a number of fetishes attached it throughout the story.  It’s not […]

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 […]