“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 […]

There were a lot of great moments in “Hellboy:  The Storm and The Fury,” and one of my favorites was a brief bit near the end of the second half.  It was all of two panels, as we saw images of Abe, Liz and Roger with narration indicating that it was going to be up […]

After nineteen volumes, it’s over at last. Except for occasional bits of cleverness, Brubaker’s run on “Captain America” has been on a steady downward slide since “No Escape.”  In that volume, Baron Zemo notched a win over on Bucky and the villains in this series have basically been doing that to the heroes ever since. […]

I was surprised to hear this when the news broke last night, but it didn’t upset me.  After his career melted down in a tabloid bonfire post-”Gigli” in 2003 and appeared to receive its final nail in 2004 with “Surviving Christmas,” Affleck knew he had to reinvent himself.  Switching to directing with “Gone Baby Gone” […]

Some interesting bits from the Alpha Male of Marvel editor Tom Brevoort courtesy of “Bleeding Cool” (naturally…): When posting an image of the new “Mighty Avengers” series from Greg Land on Twitter, T-Voort got some flack from one individual who said that he was going to pass on it due to the artist’s trace-heavy style. […]

I’m going to break with the format for these things because I want to talk about “Sex.” Joe Casey and Piotr Kowalski have been giving us “Sex” for months now and the time has come for them to give us lots of “Sex” at once.  Up until now you had to go down to your […]