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 […]

Someone at Marvel is clearly determined to find this character a series that sticks.  This is in spite of substantial evidence to the contrary that it may be a lost cause.  To that end, let’s recap the recent history of the character’s publications: In 2006, after years out of circulation, the character got a high […]

On one hand, this series continues to showcase plenty of cool ideas and images that make it well worth reading.  Harry Daghlian’s transformation from man to irradiated skeleton.  Enrico Fermi winding up on the business end of Albert Einstein’s chainsaw.  JFK as a paranoid anti-communist coke fiend.  The war of the Infinite Oppenheimers.  Between the […]

So the word on the street this week is that the latest issue of Matt Fraction and Chip Zdarsky’s “Sex Criminals” is worth picking up now as opposed to waiting for the trade.  The short version is that the two were planning on doing a “musical” sequence in this issue set to “Fat Bottom Girls” […]

For this title, having its latest storyline revolve around an “evil school for mutants” is certainly more crazy than fighting Wolverine’s brother in the Savage Land, but less so than having the school face off against FRANKENSTEIN’S MURDER CIRCUS.  So we’ve reached a nice middle ground of insanity here.  The important thing is that with […]

There was an article in the Business section of the L.A. Times today speculating on the future of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” in the wake of the ratings slide it has experienced since its premiere.  Every episode since then has earned progressively lower ratings, though the fact that this most recent one is said to tie […]

When I reviewed “The Last of Us:  American Dreams,” my main gripe was that it felt pretty slight with the story not having too much relevance to the game itself.  I also said that I was hoping/expecting the comic to tell the story behind Ellie’s final monologue to Joel, about how she found out she […]

The last time I talked about Scott Snyder’s “Batman,” I said that I was expecting nothing but the best from this latest Joker-centric storyline.  Did I get that?  No.  For all of its hype and the flash of its storytelling, this is still a story that covers a lot of familiar ground with Batman and […]