“Ten Grand” by J. Michael Straczynski and Ben Templesmith has been one of Image’s biggest launches this year, spurred on by the reputations of its creators.  However, a good launch doesn’t guarantee long-term success — one only needs to look at how fast the Kirkman/Liefeld collaboration “The Infinite” sunk in four issues.  While overall quality […]

The big story that “Animal Man” and “Swamp Thing” have been building towards is finally here and… it’s rather underwhelming.  We’ve had nearly a full year of good buildup to this point under Jeff Lemire’s stewardship of this title, so I was expecting to be entertained.  What we wind up getting here is a kind […]

So are we free to call this “Batwoman-gate” now? The latest furor to erupt over at DC (and it’s getting hard to keep track of them all these days) involves the exodus of writers J.H. Williams III and W. Haden Blackman from “Batwoman.”  Essentially it came down to their frustration with the company’s editorial directives […]

Paul Cornell has a quirky sensibility that has served him well in books like “Captain Britain & MI-13,” “Superman:  The Black Ring,” and “Demon Knights.”  He’s demonstrated a great familiarity with the requirements of the superhero genre, but likes to infuse his takes with fun bits of weirdness and wit that enliven the overall experience. […]

The last time I talked about this series, it was regarding how writer John Layman managed to push protagonist Tony Chu’s ongoing bad fortune past the point it could be reasonably tolerated.  It’s been clear that the man is a living shit-magnet, but the abuse he suffered in vol. 5 made the overall experience no […]

This was another Image title that had popped up on my radar a while back.  I got the first volume at WonderCon and I didn’t dislike it.  The series is a fact-based take on American covert intelligence and espionage activities that follows the exploits of a small group of highly trained operatives, known as Team […]

“A new western from Tim Truman with text on the back promising a horror-filled take on the genre?  SOLD!” That’s what I thought when I picked up this at Comic-Con, as the idea that Truman was going in for another take on the kind of material that made “Jonah Hex:  Two-Gun Mojo” one of my […]

While Jonathan Hickman’s “Avengers” is meant to represent the action-oriented superhero side of the franchise, this is something much different.  You see, “New Avengers,” isn’t really about a separate team of Avengers as it was under Bendis’ tenure, it’s about the Illuminati.  To recap:  the Illuminati are a secret cabal of the most prominent minds […]

While Bendis’ accomplishments with the franchise over the past few years are many, there’s no denying that he set a rather low bar for his successor to overcome with his final volume.  Could it have been intentional now that I think about it?  Maybe.  Now Jonathan Hickman has been given the keys to the “Avengers” […]

All of you know around here that I’ve really enjoyed Kieron Gillen’s take on the adventures of Kid Loki in “Journey Into Mystery,” but have found Matt Fraction’s take on the adventures of his big brother in “The Mighty Thor” to be fairly underwhelming.  So when this crossover was announced, I was fully expecting to […]