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 […]

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 […]