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 […]

Carrying on from last month, vol. 14 of “Eden!  It’s an Endless World” is now available for pre-order on Amazon.  I’ve got my copy and even if you don’t get your comics from them, I’d say now’s the time to pre-order yours. As for stuff relevant to this month’s solicitations, there’s some curious management going […]

DC Comics is… MOVING!  To the East Coast!  That was the big news that broke two weeks ago, though I can’t imagine that the announcement itself is going to have too much impact on the comics they publish.  At least, that’s until we find out which staff members and editorial persons will actually be making […]

The initial trailers for this latest Marvel movie didn’t really do a whole lot to get me excited about it.  Lots of flash, some new characters, a few old ones, and no real indication about just what the story was going to be about.  “Yup.  It’s a ‘Thor’ movie all right,” was the impression they […]

I have yet to play “Bioshock Infinite,” “Saints Row IV,” “GTA V,” or “Assassin’s Creed IV,” but if I had to pick my game of the year right now it would be “The Last of Us.”  Not only was it a beautifully rendered post-pandemic world where the new brutality required to survive was brilliantly integrated […]

I’ve enjoyed Bryan Talbot’s previous two volumes a great deal, but there was always something holding them back in the end.  Where the first one was a tightly plotted, intelligent thriller, it wound up tossing those attributes with a climax that has more in common with the films of Schwarzenegger’s 80’s heyday.  The second volume […]

The characters of the Marvel Universe are a diverse and flexible bunch.  This is to the point where if a writer wanted to, they could tell a pretty straightforward genre story with the right one.  Garth Ennis has told war stories with Nick Fury, Bendis and Brubaker have done legal thrillers with Daredevil, the latter […]

I have a pretty good idea of how this new original graphic novel came about.  Either Mike Mignola or someone at Dark Horse realized that with the current schedule of “Hellboy in Hell” there wasn’t going to be a new “Hellboy” collection coming out this year.  So Mignola calls up Duncan Fegredo and now we’ve […]

The reason this is coming so late is because I somehow missed this when it showed up on Diamond’s weekly shipping lists.  There was this nagging thought on my head, “When is this volume going to come out in paperback?” that I didn’t get around to checking out until this week.  Imagine my surprise when […]

At this point there’s very little to say about this series beyond the familiar refrain that it continues to provide a great example of the minimum standard of quality a superhero title needs to have in order to survive in this market.  Waid and artist Chris Samnee (with guest artist Michael Allred in this volume) […]