Growing up in the 80’s I don’t think there was a TV show that I loved more than “MacGyver.”  Like everyone else, I loved seeing all of the crazy inventions he’d come up with each week to get himself out of impossible situations.  His antics also instilled in me a love for on-the-spot ingenuity, for […]

Marvel doesn’t do a whole lot of original graphic novels.  Their last one was the (quite good) “Halo” one from several years back, and I imagine that was down to the licensing directives of Microsoft and Bungie more than anything else.  However, the company constantly gets its ass handed to it each year when the […]

Though Dark Horse’s tenure with the “Star Wars” license kicked off with probably the most significant comic-based story in the franchise, “Dark Empire,” they’ve since spent a lot of time exploring new characters, scenarios and timelines.  The end result has produced a lot of worthy entertainment, particularly between two “Johns” — Ostrander and Jackson Miller […]

Hickman’s record with me has been rock-solid, and his creator-owned titles have been a cut above his superhero work so picking this up was, once again, “a no-brainer.”  This is in spite of the fact that “East of West” represents a bit of a departure for the writer as he’s addressing a very specific American […]

Apparently Jason Aaron felt the need after having the students and staff of the Jean Grey School take on FRANKENSTEIN’S MURDER CIRCUS to dial things back a bit.  So this volume has Wolverine taking certain trouble members of the school on a field trip… to the Savage Land!  Being the teacher he is, Idie, Quentin […]

The thought of this series taking another detour from the story of Jedi Dass Jennir and the crew of the Uhumele didn’t really strike me as a promising start for this story.  Such detours haven’t worked out all that well for “B.P.R.D.” after all.  Yet the more I read into this volume, the focus on […]

Otherwise known as, “The Series That’s Holding Up the Third Volume of ‘Phonogram.’”  That being said, this is still a new work from one of comics’ most reliably entertaining and inventive teams, Kieron Gillen and Jaime McKelvie.  They knocked it out of the park on the first two volumes of “Phonogram,” the the issues of […]

Okay, after this one I’m thinking that they can give these “dated” flashback miniseries a rest.  The two previous ones annoyed me (yes, even the one with art from Gabriel Ba and Fabio Moon) because they felt like diversions that were keeping us from the more interesting main plot of the series.  I was more […]

…off to a pretty good start.  Last night’s premiere wasn’t mind-blowingly awesome, but it was suitably entertaining for a series that aims to give us a more grounded view of the Marvel Universe on a weekly basis.  It’s not going to be all-superheroes all the time, as the pilot makes clear.  The focus is on […]

When we last left Garth Ennis’ MAX incarnation of Nick Fury he was fighting for French interests in the country everyone would later come to know as Vietnam and escaping Cuba after a botched attempt on Fidel Castro’s life.  Not only is this the story of one man who lusts for combat and the means […]