I went in to Comic-Con (yes, I’m still talking about it — expect it to keep happening for quite some time) with an agenda for buying certain single issues.  These were the ones that either weren’t collected in the edition I bought the rest of their parent series in, or were going to be collected […]

I wouldn’t say that Ostrander was singlehandedly responsible for getting me to read “Star Wars” comics again, but the man has produced the best ones I’ve read in recent memory.  As all things must, his time with the franchise seems to be winding down with these two titles.  Though a third volume of “Dawn of […]

I’ve generally enjoyed everything I’ve read from Aaron, and while “Scalped” is likely the title he will and should be remembered for, the man has also done an admirable job of steering Wolverine and his half of the X-Men over the past few years.  Yet I held off on checking out his run on the […]

Is this a good volume of “B.P.R.D.?”  Ask me again after a few more have materialized and I may have a solid answer for you.  As it is, this one feels like it was designed more to set up future stories than tell good ones right now. “The Pickens County Horror” involves backwoods vampires, mushrooms, […]

After the first volume was pretty much as good as its hype, I was very much looking forward to getting the same enjoyment out of this one.  Unfortunately that didn’t quite happen here.  While “Hawkeye” remains a solid example of how good a title featuring a B-list hero as its lead has to be in […]

Finding out whether or not this second volume of Brandon Graham’s re-imagining of the old Rob Liefeld character is for you is easy.  Did you enjoy the concentrated sci-fi weirdness of the first volume?  If you did, then pick this up right away because things only get stranger from here.  Now that Old Man Prophet […]

The last “Assassin’s Creed” graphic novel I read, “The Fall,” rose above the usual licensed videogame comic tie-in standard and managed to be a great read that offered new insight into its source material.  I was planning on picking up its sequel, “The Chain,” before hopefully finding it at Comic-Con, yet that didn’t turn out […]

When it was announced that Brian Wood would be taking over the “adjectiveless” X-Men title, my reaction was along the lines of, “Now I’ll finally have a reason to read this!”  The whole “Vampires vs. Mutants” storyline that kicked off the title didn’t have any appeal to me at all, while the writer at its […]

If he were a lucky man Lord Henry Baltimore would’ve spent the rest of his life trying to live down the trauma of his active duty in World War I.  However, upon encountering a very old vampire named Haigus on the field of battle and scarring the monster for life, Baltimore doomed not only his […]

Regardless of its status as one of this summers many high-profile financial disappointments, I loved “Pacific Rim” and would recommend that everyone check it out on the big screen because a lot of its appeal is going to be lost when it comes to the home market.  Hell, if you can see it in IMAX […]